Profession BMX ramp riders, Ben Snowden and Ricardo Laguna as well as Pro-flatlander, Martti Kuoppa have all touched down in T&T ahead of the Trevlon Hall Monster Exams School tour, Professional Demo and local competition which will take place this week. The three riders will perform and give motivational speeches to students of the Toco Secondary School, Cumuto Lower Government Secondary and Primary Schools, International School of Port of Spain and Maple Leaf International from Wednesday and finish the week with a local flatland competition and demo on Saturday at the Woodbrook Youth Facility, Mucurapo. "It feels great to be back in Trinidad," said Snowden, who featured in Thriller, the first BMX Professional demo and local competition held earlier this year by Hall.
Snowden explained that he is looking forward to sharing his knowledge with the local riders as well as doing a few shows for his fans in T&T. "We're going to be here for seven days and we will do a lot of riding and hanging out with local riders to help push them and give a few pointers." Snowden said that he was very impressed with what he saw when he was here in April for Thrilla, and is excited to see how much the riders have progressed since then. "It' amazing considering the amount of riders I saw and how excited they were. What's really awesome as well is that there are not a lot of skate parks in Trinidad like in the US, so for them to learn so much in the streets is really inspiring."
The X-Games silver medalist said that he was happy to see programmes similar to what are run in the US in the Caribbean. "It's a really good idea to give the kids something to see, and we just have a really positive message for them to stay focused and be productive." Echoing Snowden's sentiments was Laguna who is in T&T for the first time on the invitation of Hall. "We came out to motivate and teach kids as much as we can about action sports." Laguna promised to thrill his audience at the show on Saturday, "You can look out for tricks that people have never seen on Saturday."