{"id":189712,"date":"2021-05-21T19:32:37","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T17:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/?p=102894"},"modified":"2021-05-21T19:32:37","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T17:32:37","slug":"ike-klaassen-giant-backflip-darkfest-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/ike-klaassen-giant-backflip-darkfest-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Ike Klaassen, Giant Backflip, DarkFEST 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Ike Klaassen, Giant Backflip, DarkFEST 2021.<\/b><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"apple-converted-space\"><span class>Stellenbosch, May 2021 \u2013 The world\u2019s best Freeride mountain bikers are back in town to take part in the annual DarkFEST event. The elite MTB media week only invites the top riders that are capable of riding the colossal course and representing nations from all over the world.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"apple-converted-space\"><span class>&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class>DarkFEST is designed and run by the riders, highlighting the world\u2019s best freeriders riding the biggest jumps, not seen anywhere else on the planet. The rider-voted awards are handed out following a week of jam-format riding and is always the most anticipated and engaging event in the Freeride calendar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class>Young Stellenbosch rider and current downhill SA Junior Champ Ike Klaassen was on the track, testing some of the huge and notoriously scary jumps.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class>Ike attempts a backflip off the Rocket Launcher at the Hellsend Compound.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class>\u00a9 Ryan Franklin<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mypr.co.za\/save-with-myprs-monthly-flat-fee\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" class=\"size-large aligncenter wp-image-102895 lazyload\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ike-klaassen-giant-backflip-darkfest-2021.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large aligncenter wp-image-102895\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ike-klaassen-giant-backflip-darkfest-2021.jpg\" alt width=\"1000\" height=\"667\"><br \/><em>Ike Klaassen in Action. Photographer: Ryan Franklin<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Video:<\/strong> Ike Klaassen, Giant Backflip, DarkFEST 2021<\/p>\n<p><strong>More Info on Ike Klaassen, Giant Backflip, DarkFEST 2021 here:<\/strong><br \/><strong>Twitter<\/strong>:<br \/><strong>Facebook<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mypr.co.za\/save-with-myprs-monthly-flat-fee\/\">CLICK HERE to submit your press release to MyPR.co.za<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-pagination pagination\">Pages: <span class=\"post-page-numbers current\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Page <\/span>1<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/ike-klaassen-giant-backflip-darkfest-2021\/2\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Page <\/span>2<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\">Source: MyPR.co.za<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ike Klaassen, Giant Backflip, DarkFEST 2021. Stellenbosch, May 2021 \u2013 The world\u2019s best Freeride mountain bikers are back in town to take part in the annual DarkFEST event. The elite MTB media week only invites the top riders that are capable of riding the colossal course and representing nations from all over the world. &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":189713,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584,3331,9021,3330,1],"tags":[3257],"class_list":{"0":"post-189712","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-africa-news-2","8":"category-cape-town","9":"category-mypr","10":"category-port-elizabeth","11":"category-south-africa","12":"tag-mypr","13":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ike-klaassen-giant-backflip-darkfest-2021.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}