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So it really happened, Red Bull brought their X-Fighters over to my home town – Maribor.

I have to say, i was really looking forward to the event from the moment they announced it. You have to know that usually, this kind of Exhibitions are held in our capital city Ljubljana.

So, it was about 16:30 when i left work to run home and grab my camera, then i made myself off the the exhibition scene at around 17:20 and boooooy I was happy i went so “early”. As soon as i came close to the Main Square in Maribor i was introduced to chaos! It looked like the whole city is going to watch this freaks. Seriously, just finding a parking space was a hard task. I finally manged to “get rid” of my car and i went straight to the square.

I went around the whole thing one time to scout for a good spot to take the shots. Since i only had a Nikkor 18-70mm with me, i decided I’ll position myself very close to the landing ramp, that way I’d have enough zoom to capture them in mid air without anything else. So there i was, just about 10min before kickoff. I was ready too “attack” the 5 maniacs. To be honest, i was a little amazed, because i thought that the US people were dominating this sport type, but none of the riders actually came from the US – looks to me like the Euros are making a “takeover” .

All the riders, have shown some really cool and hard tricks, it was a really awesome, but seeing a Slovene rider amongst the pros was absolutely superb! At first, only 4 riders were announced but it seems like that our Slovene rider Primož Pavšič somehow impressed the Red Bull X-Fighters Exhibition tour organizers and they invited him to join. I bet they didn’t have to ask twice . More ’bout the whole X-Fighters Tour can be found here: Red Bull X-Fighters

Check out the gallery below, that’s what came out of standing on a fence for 45mins!