Simone Barraco is the Italian flagship in the bmx world. You surely know how he rocks, that’s why you have to watch, support and share all his super sick edits. Here’s the last one shot in BCN, with a short story behind.

Last winter, Simone spent a month in Barcelona, chilling with friends, partying, and occasionally riding. When he got back from his trip, he made a quick edit of himself with the footage he collected. In his eyes, these are all scraps and shouldn’t be watched. But when we watched it on our recent European tour, we knew these were clips that had to be seen! With a train ride and a quick cleanup of the editing, we present to you Simone Scrappin’. Enjoy!

Edited by Ryan Chadwick and Simone Barraco
Filmed by Joris, Arnaud, Borja, Vincent, and Cesco

Two years already passed since we started working on the Candiesmag project! Our page is still here and it’s growing day by day. We’re pretty happy with the result and – of course – we’ll work even harder in the future!

Have you ever thought about what it takes to run Candiesmagazine?

- 730 days up online
– more than 1’000 articles published
– something like 500 GB of pictures in our hdisks
– endless nights on photoshop, illustrator and wordpress
– 24/7 glued to all freestyle news worldwide
– about 60 EXCLUSIVE pro interviews, featuring the Helgasons, Andreu Lacondeguy, Alex Barbero, Manuel Pietropoli, Hana Beaman, Simone Kid Barraco, The Hatebreed, Camila Harambour, Joni Malmi,Dean “Blotto” Gray.
– Dozens of major events covered live with exclusive footages, like Winter X Games, Vans Off The Wall Spring Classic, Un Tranquillo Weekend di Paura, Torino Street Style and many more
– a view over the most important – not only European – spots and resorts for freestyle sports such as Barcelona, Whistler,Les 2 Alpes, Venice Beach, Berlin and more
– more than 350 video reviews!
– daily updated Facebook, Twitter, Google+ pages!

And do you want to know what is the most important thing? We’re still HAVING FUN!!!!!

We made a short 1:30 clip that resumes all the best moments we had in these last 2 years, in pictures! Enjoy it!

We also would like to thank: all the skaters, snowboarders, surfers, bikers, and all the crews we met and rode with us, all the bands and artists, all the crazy photographers that contributed in the last years – men, love for you all Nicola Debernardi and Doberman Production, Yanis Ourabah, Alessio Scaccabarozzi Photography, and also those who helped us in the past – we’ll never forget, kids! All last but not least our fans, friends, supporters, Candiesmag enthusiastics, you’re the only reason that keep us doing! HAPPY BIRTHDAY CANDIESMAG!

<3

Silvia & Carlo.

The city of Turin goes in the street again for the third, terrific, episode of the “Torino Street Style” – a mixture of different freestyle sports such as flying disc, bike polo, fixed bikes, mtb, free-climbing, street acrobats, and of course BMX and skateboarding (I had the chance to shoot a bit also in the wonderful Skate Plaza Valdo Fusi, what an incredible place! A sport report will be published in next days).

Travelling 3 hrs by train (Italian trains, if you know what I mean) in a hot a sunny Sunday could have been discouraging but to be honest I was hyped foreseeing the event!

Main location for the event was the beautiful Piazza Castello in the city center, where the 365bmx crew built an amazing park featuring two quarterpipes, a pyramid box, a funbox, and a wallride!

Riders compete for the final on Saturday, and after elimination rounds, only fifteen of them gained a place for Sunday finals. We had there the most talentuos Italian bmx riders: Simone Barraco, Stefan Lantschner,Davide Altobelli,Alessandro Froio,Emanuel Bettassa,Dario Loconte,Mirko Andreani,Stefano Giusiano,Stefano Nicastro,Leonardo Longato,Jan Balugani,Mattia Rocchi,Ludovico Watson,Edoardo Botti, Federico Tralongo (in qualification order).

Competition format was 20 min run and then 10 minutes for the “best trick” for each battery. Riders were already hot (well, maybe also cause the temperature was near 30°C ), but in my opinion they were more focused to perform a good riding than to “win the competition”, and that’s an amazing, less stressing, feeling!

I’ve been impressed by the variation of tricks, each rider rided the park in his own way drawing new lines in each run. I’ve been stoked especially by Mirko Andreani’s 360 out of bound off the kicker, landing in the street…

…Stefan Lantschner’s HUGE kicker to kicker transfer, gapping the quarter…

…Davide “Dadda” Altobelli’s sick 540 over the box, he won the best trick competition with this one…

…and almost any trics by Simone Barraco

After the finals, here’s the result:

- Best Trick: 540 Over the funbox Davide Altobelli

- 1st Simone Barraco
– 2nd Stefan Lantschner
– 3rd Davide Altobelli
– 4th Alessandro Froio
– 5th/6th ex aequo Stefano Nicastro and Stefano Giusiani
– 7th Mirko Andreani
– 8th Jan Balugani
– 9th Emanuel Bettassa
– 10 Ludovico Watson

After some random occurrence (like losing my train ticket and finding it half an hour of desperate research), I had a nice, warm, trip back home with Federico “The Engineer” Tralongo and Simone “The Creative Guy” Barraco. Too bad I haven’t kept the beautiful piece of art the guys created during the travel

Torino Street Style 2012 – 365BMX Contest powered by: 365BMX – Frontocean – Monster Energy – 45Strada.
Thanks to Umbo, Cocis, Fede and Kid,il Butta, Ale and all the guys that made my day there. Pros kids!

More pictures to be published later on Facebook page

Guys i’m sure you already checked out tons of last X Games videos these days, but well, here we have a previously unreleased footage straight from LA. Check it out – Filmed and edited by Nick Pescetto.

“We went down to LA for the X GAMES. It was a blast. Our man Simone Barraco got 5th at the bmx street park, his first x games, so stoked. X was so fun, lots of partying, crazy people, hots chicks, some surfing, sun and stoke. Cp Gang x Frontocean”

…and don’t miss the full recap from X Games 2012 Los Angeles

Day 1 Day 2  Day 3 Day 4

Party On!

Day two of X Games 18th was unbelievable! There have been so many events that was rather difficult to follow all the competitions without losing highlights and best moves from the different contests that took place in the hot Los Angeles nite.

Bob Burnquist won the fourth gold medal in skateboard Big Air with a run of his own, including a jaw dropping switch backside 180 ollie over the channel and indy grab 720 on the 27-foot quarter pipe. Even more amazing if considering Bob was injuried after slamming hard on Tuesday practice.

The kids in the competition pushed the limit givin’ everthing they got – Brusco, 15years old, took silver with a 720 and a 900, Nolan Munroe, 17, got bronze with an HUGE McTwist 540. But was not enough to defeat the well, 35 years old, skateboarding legend. This was a cool demonstration that still a good, super stilish switch back 100 can still be better than any other doped rotation

Tom Schaar, attended for his 1080, failed to land and got 6th with “just” a 900. Man, pretty sick contest, isn’t it?

RANK BEST SCORE
1 Bob Burnquist  94.33
2 Mitchie Brusco 93.00
3 Nolan Munroe  91.00
4 Jake Brown      90.00
5 Rony Gomes     90.00
6 Tom Schaar     89.33

On Bmx Street Garrett Reynolds took gold with a smooth overall 85.0, but this time the shout out is for Simone Barraco, at his first X Games experience, gaining a good 5th position! Props Kid!

RANK BEST SCORE
1 Garrett Reynolds 85.00
2 Chad Kerley         83.00
3 Dakota Roche      69.00
4 Jeremiah Smith 69.00
5 Simone Barraco  68.00
6 Bruno Hoffmann 62.00

Alex Sablone got gold in Women Skateboarding Street Finals with a super 85.66 score, amazing result considering she’s the only skateboarder to have finished in the top two each of the last four years, winning in 2010 and finishing second last year and in 2009.

RANK BEST SCORE
1 Alexis Sablone     85.66
2 Leticia Bufoni      81.00
3 Rachel Reinhard 80.33
4 Marisa Dal Santo 76.66
5 Lacey Baker         68.33
6 Elissa Steamer    62.00

Day two ended with the Finals for FMX – Step Up and Best Trick competition – seeing Ronnie Renner setting a new high (literally!) with a 47 feet clean jump!

RANK MAX HEIGHT (FT)
1 Ronnie Renner 47.00
2 Matt Buyten    46.00
3 Brian Deegan  39.00
4 Myles Richmond 36.00
5 Max Bianconcini 32.00
6 Todd Potter        32.00

On FMX Best Trick, unbelievable gold medal by Jackson “Jacko” Strong with the “Jack,” a variation of the Special Flip body varial backflip invented by BMX rider “Special” Greg Powell. The word “Stono” on Strong’s front race plate was a tribute to rider Luke “Stono” Stojanovic, still in coma after suffering a serious FMX injury.

RANK BEST SCORE
1 Jackson Strong 91.00
2 Taka Higashino 90.33
3 Cameron Sinclair 89.33
4 Thomas Pages 88.66
5 Clinton Moore 86.66

To be mentioned the crash occurred to Finnish rally driver Toomas “Topi” Heikkinen during rally practice, broking his left ankle and suffering abdominal injuries. Man, can be funny and stuffs but don’t forget, the kids are risking it all for the show! Big Ups tp Topi and all the riders of this CRAZY X Games Edition!

We had to wait a bit for this first edit of Simone Barraco with the Subrosa pro team, but now it’s done and it’s really worth watching – just like every other clip with Simone. Filmed over a few trips to Atlanta and Denver on a recent trip to the U.S.
Filmed and Edited by Ryan Chadwick

Featuring Simone Barraco, Ben Hucke, and Eric Bahlman.
Filmed and Edited by Ryan Chadwick

Two of the most progressive and stylish street riders in the game, Alex Kennedy (UK) and Simone Barraco (Italy), spent twelve days on the streets in and around Tel Aviv, Israel with the ever-creative filmmaker Richard Forne behind the lens. One of the best clips I’ve seen lately. Props!

Highlights from the Simple Session 12 BMX Finals LIVE webcast and from the final runs of the champion Drew Bezanson.

The first video features Drew Bezanson, Brett Banasiewicz, Harry Main, Pat Casey, Sergio Layos, Bruno Hoffman, Chad Kerley, Simone Barraco and Daniel Sandoval.

The second clip features the insane maneuvers that made Drew Bezanson three-time Simple Session Champion for third consecutive year.

The worlds most anticipated skateboarding and BMX contest Simple Session is done for 2012!

Prizes were handed out last night at Saku Arena in Tallinn, Estonia to some of the most remarklable riders: Simple Session 12 BMX champion is once again the two-time winner Drew Bezanson (CAN), followed by two-time runner-up Brett “Maddog” Banasiewicz (USA) and Harry Main (GBR).

 
Simple Session 12 BMX final results:

1 Drew Bezanson CAN
2 Brett Banasiewicz USA
3 Harry Main GBR
4 Daniel Sandoval USA
5 Pat Casey USA
6 Michael Beran CZE
7 Bruno Hoffman GER
8 Alex Kennedy GBR
9 Kevin Peraza MEX
10 Josh Harrington USA
11 Jack Clark GBR
12 Chad Kerley USA
13 Simone Barraco ITA
14 Maxime Charveron FRA
15 Dan Foley 21
16 Aj Anaya USA
17 Sebastian Keep GBR
18 Rob Armour USA
19 Sean Ricany USA
20 Sergio Layos ESP
21 Daniel Tünte GER
22 Paul Ryan GBR
23 Gary Young USA
24 Ben Hennon GBR

The amazing World Cup Skateboarding listed skateboarding contest peaked with Austin Seaholm (USA) taking the gold, followed by Axel Cruysberghs (BEL) and Simon Stricker (SUI).

SS12 SKATEBOARDING FULL RESULTS:

 
 
1 Austen Seaholm USA
2 Axel Cruysberghs BEL
3 Simon Stricker SUI
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4 Thaynan Costa POR
5 Phil Zwijsen BEL
6 Jonathan Thijs BEL
7 Tomas Vintr CZE
8 Didrik Galasso NOR
9 Gosha Konishev RUS
10 Tim Zom NED
 
11 Bastien Salabanzi FRA
12 Ruben Rodrigues POR
13 Ross McGouran GBR
14 Max Kruglov RUS
15 Egor Golybev RUS

The first ever girls BMX contest Sister Session top 3 were Camila Harambour (CHI), Angie Marino (USA) and Chiara Felder (GER).

Sister Session 2012 girls BMX results:

1 Camila Harambour CHI
2 Angie Marino USA
3 Chiara Felder GER
4 Saki Sawada JPN
5 Katherine Diaz VEN
6 Rebecca Berg GER
7 Zandile Mkwanazi GER
8 Flavia Santos BRA

Vans Best Trick winner was Jaakko Ojanen (FIN) for an ollie to crooked grind nollie flip out on the big flatbar, the toughest rail on the course. Runner up was Bastien Salabanzi (FRA) with his 360flip to frontside boardslide on the big rail. Third was Dan Wileman (GBR) and his 360 flip to 5-0 grind on the hubba ledge.

Chad Kerley (USA) broke last years Ty Morrow’s Red Bull Bunnyhop contest record with 45.5 in / 115.6 cm. Gabe Brooks (USA) hopped even over 49 inch / 124,5 cm bar, but since this was after he had failed two tries on a lower bar, then it didn’t count as a win.

Street Best Trick contest was won by Tony Neyer (USA), for his toothpick hangover to opposite toothy down the rail.

A special prize (500 EUR) presented by Swedbank was awarded to the best Estonian riders: skater Tim Prozorov, who finished 25th in the semi-finals, and BMX rider Andres Lainevool, who placed 25th as well and was the first person not too make the cut to the finals.

A total of 111 BMX riders and 72 skateboarders from around the world participated in the contest. The prize purse of Simple Session 12 contests was 13,000 EUR.

Pictures: (c)Simple Session by MatsKahlstrom, Jaanus Ree, Fat Tony