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Subject : Alessandro 'Tyson' Tisoni
Interview and Questions : At the moment he wrote his own ...
Photography : tbc
Additional comments [ ] :

Location : Belluno, Italy
Date : November 2004

[Ed. Note: First a few words from Alex]

I'm Alessandro Tisoni, I'm 21 years old, I come from the middle of the Alps in Belluno (ITALY) I ride BMX from 5/6 years. I ride with a WeThePeople Omen and my favorite ground is dirt jumping just because I've started ride BMX in a little trail near my home. Now I've built a new trail (Alps Trail) near my home where abitually I ride when I don't work if isn't raining!!!!
My dream is to have a big trail in a forest in my town built from me and my friend and that the guy of my town wake up and come to ride with me!
My 2nd dream (but very important too) is travel around the world with my bike and my friends (and maybe also my girlfriend) and know all the people that I meet!
I like doing contests but not like ride in training becose contest make me nervous...
In my free-time I like surfing (but I must drive 2 hours to find the sea), meet my friends and girlfriend, snowbording and build some chopper bike.....
I don't know what I can write any more!
Thanks a lot
Take care Taison

[Ed. Note: Interview with this great guy now sorted, read on :: Location : Belluno, Italy :: Date : January 2005]

Location : Belluno, Italy
Date : November 2004

{NAME:}
Alessandro 'Taison' Tisoni

{BIRTH DATE:}
07-02-'83

{YEARS RIDING:}
I ride BMX from 5/6 years

{FIRST BIKE:}
Sunn

{SPONSORS:}
Oakley, wethepeople and W.U.P. distribution
{WHERE DO YOU LIVE:}
I come from the middle of the Alps in Belluno (ITALY)

{WHAT ARE YOU DOING WHEN YOUR NOT RIDING:}
I like use the computer, surfing, snowboard, party and meet my friends and girlfriend

{WHAT DO YOU RIDE:}
My favorite ground is dirt jumping just because I've started ride BMX in a little trail near my home. Now I've built a new trail (Alps Trail) near my home where abitually I ride when I don't work if isn't raining!!!! My dream is to have a big trail in a forest in my town built from me and my friend and that the guy of my town wake up and come to ride with me!

{WHO ARE YOUR FAVORITE RIDERS:}I like very much Cory Bohan, Taj, Gary Young, Mike Aitken...

{TELL ME A LITTLE ABOUT HOW YOU LIKE TO SET YOUR BIKE UP:}
Frame:WTP Omen 2003
Bar: WTP Cologne bar
Fork: WTP Excalibur
Front hub: Twenty
Rear hub: Demolition cassette
Front and rear rims: Demolition
Seat: Shadow slim
Front tire: Primo V-monster
Rear tire: Primo wall
Grips: Shadow
Brake lever: Primo
Cable: Odissey
Brake: Generix U-brake
Crank: WTP 3P
Spoket: FlyBikes 36T
Freewheel: Demolition
Pedals: Tioga
Stem: WTP
Seat tube: Haro
Chain: I don't know
Pegs: TerribleOne

{DESCRIBE YOUR RIDING SCENE:}
Unluckily my riding scene is not so good, because we are not so many riders in my city, but I go often to ride in some cool spot with some good riders like Stevan Lantchner or Alessandro Barbero and many more.
{WHAT GOT YOU INTO RIDING:}
When ride my BMX I don't at nothing, my mind is free!

{WHAT DO YOU LIKE RIDING THE MOST:}
Dirt, of course!

{FAVOURITE BIKE VID:}
Etnies Forward and the Road Fools

{HAVE YOU A FAVOURITE TRICK :}
In dirt I like doing opposite 360 lookback an x-ups but more ride with style! In park I like very much doing 540 hurricane!
{WHAT FRAME DO YOU RIDE NOW, WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO RIDE NEXT:}
Omen WTP and I would love have still the new Omen in the future, I like very much this frame.

{WHY DO YOU RIDE AND WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM IT:}
I don't know, I like so much riding and stop, and I expect from it a lot of good times like now.

{BEST MOMENT IN BMX:}
I don't know, they are so much, maybe this year at the Worlds in Cologne

{AND CONTRARY WORST MOMENT IN BMX:}
Ummmmmhh..... When I hurt myself and when in 2001 at a contest in Italy was death a guy...respect for him!

{WHAT'S YOUR FAVOURITE PARK OR RIDING SPOT:}
I like Grabels trail (near Montpellier), Lohof park in Munich and the new concrete pool in Milan!

{WHAT MUSIC HAVE YOU BEEN LISTENING TO LATELY:}
I listen Rock music like props soundtrack and something of hip-hop and idiot music!

{DO YOU RIDE WITH MUSIC:}
No actually!

{WHAT IS YOUR ROUTINE LEADING UP TO A DAY FILMING AND SHOOTING PHOTOS OR A BIG CONTEST :}
Actually I wake up quite early like 9 o'clock I get a big and healthy breakfast, then I like to listen to a bit of good music or watch TV and then I start riding often until night with some pause but abitually I don't have a lunch because I forget the time when ride in a contest or when I shooting pictures or because the food that I find around at the contest (out of Italy) isn't so good. I like eat good food... The night I have a good lunch with my friends talking about the riding day, I'm doing a shower and than a moment of relax! And at the end GO PARTY!!!
{WHAT RIDERS HAVE INFLUENCED YOU THE MOST:}
Nasty in the first time and also Taj and Ruben.

{WHAT AND WHO INFLUENCES YOUR RIDING AND YOUR LIFESTYLE:}
About my riding Biz, Bohan Wiz... For my lifestyle still Biz, Axel Jurgens and all my friends!!!

{HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE THE FREESTYLE BMX INDUSTRY IN FIVE YEARS:}
I think that I would see a big development around all the world, expecially in my Country becose in many Places the people don't understand this sport and they consider us bad guys just for our wear style and I hate this...

{WOULD YOU CHANGE ANYTHING ABOUT BMX NOW:}
No, it's perfect so!

{WHAT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT LESSON YOU HAVE LEARNED SO FAR IN LIFE:)
That if you want succeed in something you must have much patience...

{DESCRIBE AN IDEAL DAY:}
I wake up about at the 10 o'clock (and not to work) in a sunny day in the middle of the summer and doing brackfast with the TV in relax. Than I would like doing a little walk in center of my little and sweet city. At 13:00 p.m. eat food doing in the grill and go to some my friend . Than I go to swim in some lake near my home to refrash me and around the 17:30 go riding in my trail with my friend untill at sunset. Than I eat pizza in the "pizzeria" with my friend and girlfriend and in the end I would like or go out for parying (in italian BURDELLO) or stay with my girl, it depend..

{WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE DOING IN TEN YEARS:}
I would like have a good family, a good work, ride still my bike and travel around the world.

{DOES YOUR CURRENT WORK CROSS OVER WELL WITH RIDING:}
My current work unluckily cross a lot over my riding in particular in winter that the night arrive very early... So in winter I can ride only in the weekends.

{GIVE ME A RANDOM STORY FROM YOUR PAST:)
I have doing untill 2 years ago at the Technical Institute for the Industry than I've start to work at the tool machines. At 6 years I've started to play football for about a year, than I've leave this sport because it's don't make me happy.
Than I've started to doin nordic ski just because I live in the middle of the mountains, 7 years after, when I was 16, I have found the sport that give me all... And that's all!

{WHAT EVENT HAS CHANGED YOU MOST:}
Start to work, the world in Cologne and this interview

{DO YOU LOVE CONTESTS:}
Not so much, they make me nervouse

{WHAT DO YOU CONSIDER SUCCESS TO BE:}
To be happy for ever and live in armony with everybody!

{DO YOU RIDE MUCH ALONE:}
Some time append so, but I hate ride alone

{HAS YOUR RIDING EVER CHANGED DIRECTION, MORE THAN JUST DEVELOPED OR IMPROVED:}{ARE YOU A BIKE THROWER:}{DOES RIDING WITH FRIENDS HELP YOU TO PROGRESS:}
Yeah, of course, when I see some my friends that doing something of more than me, I start to try that too untill I don't close the trick, but don't ever this append!

{WHAT ROLE DO YOU THINK THAT MAGAZINES PLAY? DO YOU THINK THAT THEY HAVE A ROLE AT ALL OR PERHAPS THAT WE'D STILL BE HERE WITHOUT THEM:}
I think that the magazine's role is really important about all the news of the BMX world. With it the news arrive all aroiund the world so everybody can know what append in the other side of the planet and for me is also thanks the magazines that the BMX scene is so right now.

{HAVE YOU GOT SOME KIND OF ROUTINE AS TO WHEN YOU GO TO RIDE:}
No, it depend, I ride like I want, like I feel to ride!

{DOES GETTING FLOW FROM COMPANIES ACTUALLY HELP YOUR RIDING OR IS IT MORE ABOUT YOUR RIDING BEING APPRECIATED BY OTHERS:}
Help my riding of course, but also a little bit to be appreciated, I'm sincere, I think that's normal. Ah and it help me to spare a lot of money too...

{WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST INJURY:}
In my life I'm broken a finger with the MTB but in BMX I've broken my pulse about 3 years ago and than, 2 years ago, again!
{WHAT THINGS INSPIRE YOU:}
SteVan..............

{IS THERE A PLACE YOU WOULD WANT TO LIVE IF IT HAD TO BE SOMEWHERE ELSE:}
Sure, I like living in some hot place like Australia, California and HAWAII, in some place where the life is peaceful..

{IS RIDING REALLY A LIFESTYLE:}
Yeah, if somebody take the BMX riding like one of the must important things of the life its became a lifestyle...

{WHEN YOU PACK A BAG TO GO SOMEWHERE, WHAT'S THE FIRST ITEM:}
My videocamera and my boxer

{SHOUT OUTS:}

{TELL OFFS:}
Please don't joke me for my interview but my English isn't so good, I hope that it's all right!!!!!!:-)

{ANY THANKS :}
Thanks first af all to Rob to give me a chance to enter in 20inchers.com, to Manlio of W.U.P. Distribution and Giovanni of Oakley to support my riding, my parents, Stevan that inspire my riding, all the Koolt Mafia crew, Olaf for the pictures and all the guys that abitually ride with me.

[Ed. Note: 20inchers, and rob want to thank Alex, He's a really sound guy and anyone who is willing to write ina foreign language for the benefit of others has our respect]







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