FFWD Photo Exclusive – NASS 2010 By Ross Penny

Big thanks to Ross Penny for hitting up FFWD with soem exclusive photos from the Relentless NASS 2010. You’ve more than likely already seen some dope videos, so check out some decent pictures and a quick right up right here:

‘NASS 2010

NASS 2010, well is there much else to say?
This was my first time taking pictures for a major comp other than the
Worlds 2009 when I took a couple of the Braun Pro Spine, but they weren’t
great. So really I didn’t know what to expect, and after getting a Press
Pass through ffwdbmx, I was stoked just to set up my gear, snap and hope.
But the reason you’re reading this (if you are actually bothering) is
probably not to hear about my highs and lows of shooting a comp, or even
to hear anything about taking some shots. The reason you probably are
reading this is to read about NASS 2010, that is if you weren’t there to
witness the crazyness.

So what was there? Well, there was some crazy shit going down, there was
some ‘heavy tunes’, there was a lot of drunk times, hectic nights and
hungover mornings and there was Basingstokes own ‘theLAB’ hitting it off
in the trade area.

Friday was like any other starting day of a festival, people slowly
started to turn up, while whoever had already turned up in the morning or
the night before got used to the course. But mostly Friday was about
settling in, setting up your tent, and cracking out the first beer…this
is where it got fun. From people wandering around not knowing what was
going on, and random people coming up to you asking you if you wanted and
weed. Watching everyone have a good time and not caring about the
qualifiers the next day which they will most likely be hungover to the max
for.
That’s enough said for Friday, mainly because passed about 10/11pm I can’t
remember much more.

Saturday morning was not a delighful state to wake up to, burning hot sun
making your tent feel like a sauna, had hardly any sleep and still feeling
a bit drunk. Slowly you see everyone clambering out of their tents, and I
see James ‘Bruza’ Ivett staggering across the field in boxers and a towel
with blood all down his arm, he tells me he woke up in a river, and the
police took his Athelete’s Band away, you can always count on either of
the Bruza’s to provide the story of the festival.
But once everyone had got up and showered there was the Qualifiers to take
place where Dan ‘Chunky’ Harris shut the park down for a final trick,
hitting up the Goliath, the Street Course and theLAB stand to witness
girls getting their tits out for a free t-shirt, the day couldnt get much
better, or so I thought…
This is when the evening came and we realise its the last night we are
staying, so we down the rest of the alcohol everyone has and head to the
Atheletes Lounge, which was crazy. I saw the Guildford lot, including
Ollie Burston and Mike King (ffwdbmx main man) throw down some crazy
moves, then I remember pole dancing with the Bruza’s, Paul Miller and Matt
Worthington, and other than that, the night was a bit of a blur mixed with
a horrible circumstance with a broken glow stick, but I don’t like to
remember that. Then taking about 2 hours to walk a 10 min journey back to
camp with Matt Worthington and Jason Phelan, with eventful points like,
how many people can you fit into a phone box? and the bumper cars, then
getting thrown out of the girls toilets with some random girl, I still
have no idea how we ended up in there. Then a sudden downpour causing me
to pass out in my tent in soaking wet clothes, just to wake up the next
morning feeling even worse than I did before.

So Sunday comes around, the day of talking to everyone you remember the
night before, trying to figure out what went down, and no one knowing. So
everyone started packing everything up so we didnt have to do it later
after the Finals.
I’m going to be honest, I didn’t do much that day other than sit at theLAB
stand, extremely sunburnt and try drink as many non-alcoholic fluids as I
could until the BMX Park Finals came around.
The Finals did not disappoint, thats for sure. Seeing some stupid Gaps,
Flip combinations, some Gnarly stacks and just general madness. But I’ll
leave that for the Video’s to show, words can’t even describe. Then after
that it was the horrible, tired, exhausted, still a bit hungover drive
home, just to reflect on how good NASS was this year.

All in all, the mixture of booze, BMX, wicked weather and good times was
awesome, and I really hope it’s as good last year.
Here are the Final Results and some pictures I managed to get over the
weekend.

 BMX STREET
 1st Mark Webb (UK)
 2nd Alex Coleborn (UK)
 3rd Ben Hennon (UK)
 4th Ben Wallace (UK)
 5th Dean Ceuson (UK)
 6th Kelly Bolton (USA)
 7th Aaron Nicholson (UK)
 8th Todd Mayne (AUS)
 9th Josh Perry (USA)
 10th Tobias Wicke (GER)

 BMX DIRT
 1st Matt Priest
 2nd Jack Marchant
 3rd Matt Burton
 4th Dan McGeary
 5th Bob Manchester

 BMX RELENTLESS GOLIATH
 1st Aaron Nicholson
 2nd Sam Ward
 3rd Scott Hamlin
 4th Ben Snowden
 5th Jack Marchant
 6th Ben Manual
 7th Ben Wallace
 8th Isaac Lesser
 9th Kelly Bolton
 10th Ryan Taylor’