Thick dense smoke produced by exhausts and burning tires filled the ice hockey arena in Plzeň for almost three hours on Saturday evening. But there were no time penalties administered this time. The stands of the local ice hockey stadium were full once again. However, the reason this time was not any final game of the Czech Premier Ice Hockey League, but a freestyle moto-cross and trial "rendezvous" of top Czech and European representatives of this adrenaline and literally breathtaking discipline. The chief sponsor of the event was one of the largest partners of the Buggyra Super Truck Racing Team, Karel Holoubek a.s., which was why both Buggyra racing trucks and their pilot David Vršecký were invited to add to the excitement and fun even before the spectators entered the arena.
The players of the night first made their personal introductions, often in a very unique and conspicuous fashion. The best Czech freestyler now, Petr Kuchař, a.k.a. "Kuchta", succeeded to win the 8,000-strong crowd right from the start. Massimo Bianconcini, an excellent freestyle rider and a showman to the boot, was by no means eclipsed. The introduction of the two youngest participants of the evening, Petr Pilát, just 12, or the only representative of the fair sex, 13 years old Jana Bártová, came as a bit of surprise, but their performance belied their age. In the trial part, one could not overlook Pavel Balage, a top Czech trial rider and (as we learned) also a "stepsister" of the singer and composer Ota Balage.
Nothing then could prevent the show to run at full speed. The program was divided into three trial and freestyle rounds. The crowd applauded mainly to freestylers, whose tricks performed 20 meters above the ground literally made the spectators jump from their seats and gasp for breath. Moreover, the tricks were getting hairier and hairier with every round, and by the third round no one could even guess what might follow. The final "bomb" was thus dropped by Czech No. 1, Petr Kuchař, whose last jump in the final series was the riskiest trick of the evening, aptly named "The Kiss of the Death".
Petr Kuchař was also responsible for yet another interesting event. Actually, he was only indirectly responsible, as he threw his team’s jersey into the crowd and the spectators were fighting for the precious souvenir long time after the show had been over.











