Update 27-01-2012
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Last weekend was the first race of the year (not the season) in Belgium, before I left I heart alot of rumors that the track wasnt going to be great.. well they were right the track wasnt good at all it was very soft on most of the track. (have to give thumps upp for the track builders who tried to do everything what was possible to make it better)! Saturday racing wasnt a good day for me I felt very slow and didnt had the pull I'd liked to on sunday it was a little better and made it to the semi final with alot of drama happend in that race, I should have made it into the final but thanks to 1 official who isnt following his rulebook for the first time in life so I didnt make it! now I have a easy week of training and will leave to Florida on monday!
 
 
 Update 07-01-2012
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Here a small update.. As you might saw on twitter or on facebook I (and the team) changed bike sponsor for the upcomming season and will be rocking on the Chase bmx, very happy with that and hope it all turns out good! Thanks to Jan Schippers, PeteD and Christophe Leveque!
 
On monday I am leaving to France to visit and train with Thomas Hamon for a couple days, to get some more track time in before Euro round 5/6 in Belgium and before leaving to the USA we're ill be staying for 2 months and wil race in oldsmar and wil stay till after the supercross in Chula Vista!
 
 
 
 Weekend update 01-12-2011
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Last weekend I had a busy weekend with on saturday a no chain race in Kampen which was a really nice day it was only blowing a hard wind but for a no chain race it was'nt to bad we did 3 moto's followed by a semi and a main I qualified first for the main event and took the holeshot but I got passed on the 2nd straight but kept following the #1 close and passed him again on the first straight so I took the win in the no chain race.. On sunday I went to a nightclub (disco) (never went that early to a club before) but it was a day I would try something new and I dont even think it has
 done anywhere else in the World before we had a race in the nightclub (discodown) organized by fellow BMX-er and 4-Cross rider Joost Wichman. Well havent to say much about this event it was just great and cant wait to do it again.. We started on a little bmx ramp with a drop out off the gate(like in the X-games) followed by some slippery turns, bar jump and some stairs to go down or up! I finished 3rd overal but I had a lot of fun and want to thanks everybody who was involved by organizing this event.. good job guys!
 
 
 
 Weekend update 14-11-2011
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Had a good/busy weekend! on saturday morning I had a training which was really good finished later then I expected went to straight to the "sinterklaas optocht" in Arnhem with my friend Jaymio Brink and Fam. on sunday Dorus Jaymio and I went to watch some Motocross (cornfield race) with a few BMX guys who are riding there but it was to cold to be there for a long time so we left quiet early and went to ride some trails which was really nice to do.. hope the weather will stay dry for a few more weeks so we can ride some more track/trails in the next weeks!
 
 
 
 News: Back online 10-11-2011
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Hey Guys, Welcome back to my site i'll try to pick up the website where I left it a view months/years ago! As you all know I am riding for the Intense Europe team since July this year which works out really good I am glad Jan Schippers gives me the upportunatly to ride for him and give me all the help I need! thanks.. I havent changed to much on my website yet but I'll work on that in the future!
 
 Injury Update 15-05-2010
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Hey guys, here is an update on my Injury. I crashed 2 weeks ago in Perugia Italy in my first moto. I can't tell you what happened cause I can't remember anymore I remember waking up in the hospital with a broken kidney, bleeding spleen, broken jaw and a broken hand.. The first few days in the hospital I was in a critical condition but after a few days I felt better and went out off bed as well.. after 10 days I finally went home and have to take a lot of rest now and some more checks in the hospital next week.. but I feel oke!!
 
 UCI Supercross World Cup Madrid Live 25-03-2010
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 ABA Winter Nationals Phoenix Arizona 08-03-2010
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Last weekend I did my first race of the 2010 season didn't expect much of this race, because I just started training on the track about 3 weeks ago and the last 2 weeks we only have been training on a Supercross track in Chula Vista. Day 1 everything went pretty good. I qualified out of the motos and made it also to the semi. In the semi I had lane 8 and had no where to go was in 5th place and tried to set up a plan to pass Stumpy but while I did that I got past by another rider and lost all my speed.. Day 2 was a mud fest and you couldn't really call that racing or bmx anymore everybody was crashing they even slide out on the first straight cause they got a little bit sideways.. Well I made it again to the semi crashed in the first turn with some other riders and was stil in 4th place but some rider was really close on me and i heart that so took the inside in the last corner slide out a bit and then he pushed me and passed me.. still busy with cleaning everything. Cant wait till Madrid in 2 weeks (luckily that race is indoor).
 
 Update 04-03-2010
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Being now for almost 2 weeks over here in San Diego everything is going well and I am getting the feeling off my bike back.. gates and pull feels like before again!! This afternoon we are heading to Phoenix for a race in the weekend pretty excited to go.. (they don't show it live on Go211.com) After Phoenix we will come back to San Diego (Chula Vista) for 1 more week off hard training..
Yesterday we did a Photo shoot with the team for Redline. The guy who took the Photos is pretty good involved in BMX he is running a lot of websites like Vintagebmx.com, bmxnow.com, bmxactiononline.com etc. Some pictures of the photo shoot.

 
 Update 28-02-2010
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Didn’t had much to talk about last few months couldn’t train or do a lot with my shoulder but it feels way better now and I am back in training, but you guys could still follow me on Twitter which is on the left side of my website... I am in California at the moment for a trainings camp.. staying at Chula Vista and we are training with the whole team to prepare for the 2010 season which will start at the end of march. The training and everything is going well haven’t been on the bike a lot after my surgery. I went to France 1 time for 10 days but my first day I ended up crashing and couldn’t walk/train for a few days but at the end of the week I did some riding which felt good again, here in San Diego it started off bad as well but this time I had a few problems with my bike and didn’t take the risk.. the day after we all got our new bikes and they look pretty cool!! We are staying in California till march 14th and comeback just before Madrid.

PS. I am trying to do more updates from now on (season is starting again)
 
 Update 10-11-09
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Hey guys, my shoulder is going good don't have any pain at all anymore. I am only not aloud to move my arm more then a several degrees in the air/sideways and twisting.. the physio is happy as well, cause the movement is feeling good so everything on my shoulder is going good :). For the rest I already started training again in the gym (only my legs) and doing a bit of cycling on a spinner as well.. Living in papendal (OTC) at the moment which is so much better then traveling everyday back home etc.. We also have 2 new team mates in our team Jellie and Twan..
 Update 16-10-09
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Finally an update haha..!! In the main time I have been to Chula Vista for a World cup which didn't go as planned crashed in the warm-up before time-trails and used a injection for racing. I still qualified for racing but at the day of the race it hurted way more and the injection didn't work this time so wasn't able to race.. I also have been to France for the last World cup nothing much to say about, went out in the quarter finals and dropped to the 8th place in the ranking.. For now I have holiday till next week thursday (Oct 22) because then I have my surgery on my shoulder and it will take about 4 months for recovery so I will keep you guys posted how my recovery will go (will have a boring 4 months) the last few days I have done alot of motocrossing which is really fun, will go aswell tomorrow and try to make some pictures/videos..
 
 Live webcast Frejus France 07-10-09
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 Live webcast Chula Vista USA 17-09-09
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 Results World Cup South Africa 22-08-09
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1. Sam Willoughby AUS
2. Donny Robinson USA
3. Rob van den Wildenberg NED
4. Quentin Caleyron FRA
5. Raymon van der Biezen NED
6. Nic Long USA
7. Ramiro Marino ARG
8. Martijn Scherpen NED    
 
 Live webcast South Africa 18-08-09
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 Update 13-08-09
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Haven't Updated in a while but quit busy with some things at the moment.. I am working on some little changes in my Website picture and I added Twitter on my website, it is just below the links page (I can update that from my I phone so keep checking out my twitter and you find out what I am doing..) Last week there was a big article in a Dutch newspaper I had Swine flu but luckily I didn't have that :) some riders must have brought it back home from Adelaide, well talking about Adelaide I haven't done a update yet from that, I was feeling really good all day long and had the feeling I was able to do good but in the semi finale I hit the gate a little bit and missed my 2nd/3rd pedal what pushed me to the back and after that everything went wrong so I ended up in the semi.
 
Leaving Sunday to  South Africa cant wait cause I've never been in Africa before so really looking forward to that :)
 
Swatch sended me the picture today from the Photoshoot in Copenhagen..
 
 World Championships live webcast 20-07-09
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Live webcast of the World Championships starting Saturday  morning at 5.30 or you can watch it on tv on eurosport 2 live at 7.30  
 
  
 
 World Championships 18-07-09
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Today there is an article about the BMX world Championships in Holland's biggest newspaper "De Telegraaf". Click on the picture to view it.
 
 European Champion 13-07-09
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Just back home from Denmark round 15 & 16 of the European championships coming into the event I was leading by just 3 points in front of Arnoud Dubois. On Saturday I won all my motos and so did he we both didn't lose a point until the final, in the final I had a pretty bad gate and got shut down by Hamon straight out of the gate but managed to finish in 5th but Arnoud finished in 3rd so that made the points tie.. Sunday we both didn't lose a point again and in the main I picked lane 1 with Arnoud on 2 and I got the best gate of the weekend had a little bit of trouble coming over the 2nd jump and slipped a little in the first turn which messed up my 2nd straight but I couldn't find Arnoud in front of me and thought he must be some where close to me but he wasn't cause in the last turn I found out he crashed on the first straight.. Roy van den Berg won again.
 
After this weekend I finally can call myself the new 2009 European Champion..
 
Top 3 in the overall ranking:
1. Martijn Scherpen NED
2. Arnoud Dubois BEL
3. Roy van den Berg NED
 
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