THE ROCKET BLOG #2: IXS DIRT MASTERS, WINTERBERG - GERMANY
Winning the crowd is never easy. Photo: Hanna Retz THE ROCKET BLOG #2: IXS DIRT MASTERS, WINTERBERG - GERMANY IXS Dirtmasters in Winterberg, the biggest MTB gravity event in Europe, has become a classic venue for many different Mountainbike athletes. Is it the crazy cheering crowd? The after parties? The community? I’m not sure but, if you live in central Europe and you don’t show up at this festival, you get this feeling of missing out. I was invited to take part at this year’s women’s Whip-off Contest and I was thrilled, because at this particular event, only invited riders may take part and the invited-riders-list is usually filled with big names and A-pros from the European MTB scene. F irst rows of fans filled with kids, reaching their hands to touch their favourite heroes. Photo: Hanna Retz The Whip-off contest was scheduled for Friday and there was supposed to be an hour of practice 2 hours before the big show and 30 minutes warm-up before the actual contest. The problem w