FORMAT AND CONTEST RULES
Skateboarding qualifications
- Organized jam format with 4 skaters and 8 minutes on the clock.
- Each skater gets two 1-minute runs and both runs count.
- Overall impression matters, so keep the skating different.
Men’s BMX qualifications
- Organized jam format with 4 riders and 8 minutes on the clock.
- Each rider gets two 1-minute runs and both runs count.
- Overall impression matters, so keep the runs different.
Finals
Men’s BMX street finals
- 15 best riders from the qualifications
- Each rider has 2 individual 1-minute runs (best run counts).
Skateboarding finals
- 15 best skaters from the qualifications
- Each skater has 2 individual 1-minute runs (best run counts).
Judging criteria
and judges
The riders and skaters will be judged on:
- flow
- style
- creativity
- use of course
- amplitude/height
- number of tricks shown in their run
- originality
- difficulty of tricks
- NBD’s
- consistency
- variety of tricks
- control of tricks
- bike/skateboard control
- landings
- execution
- crashes/foot-downs/perfect runs
The Skateboarding and BMX jury will both consist of five international experts in the disciplines.
BMX:
Markus Wilke GER
Bart De Jong NLD
Toms Silins LVA
Skateboarding:
Dan Cates GBR
Pat Duffy USA
Vesa Ikola FIN
Kristjan Prik EST
Rudolfs Hencels LVA
Prize Purse
Prize purse of the Simple Session 2021 is 24.000 USD