Controversy.

So, it's X-Games weekend and we've already had the standard controversy about results. What seems strange is that it seems everyone's complaining about Daniel "Styleless" Dhers beating Dennis "Knows how to ride a bowl" Ennarson in Superpark, yet when Jamie "Knows how to ride a vert ramp super well" Bestwick beats trick ferrets people seem to complain about him winning 'yet again' just for going big, fast and smooth but not necessarily doing the most ground-breaking tricks. I don't really get that, but hey ho - here's a fairly boring video of people doing a lot of the same stuff on vert (as well as Jamie Bestwick going super high and super smooth), and some slightly more interesting stuff in the Superpark finals. You can theoretically watch the Street finals at midnight tonight here, but I'm not 100% sure that'll work...





Interesting how the most talked-about banger in the Vert category was that no-handed 900, last seen not that far off 10 years ago by a certain Mr. Hoffman. Progression...

For the record, I'm all about the lines and transfers Chase Hawk bangs out.

Garrett Reynolds and Dennis Enarson on TV?

Nike are spending big on their advertising over the coming months... their new action sports commercial will be playing from the 1st July in cinemas and TV.

Now you can point out who Dennis Enarson and Garrett Reynolds are to your granny when the adverts start rolling during Coronation Street. :)

The Pool.

Been waiting for a couple of days for a video to post of this instead of just putting results up, and here it is courtesy of Ride US.



Chase Hawk certainly got the point!

EDIT: Belm. Full results here.

All I'm saying is...

...click here, add to basket, hit up GoogleCheckout, wait for it to arrive (usually pretty rapid, cheers dudes!), put it in your DVD player, get blown away. The new WTP DVD is that good. Andrew Jackson's opening section is awesome then it just continues to escalate from there. I'd sort of forgotten how good a lot of WTP's more under the radar team is (e.g. Max Gaertig, Mike Brennan and Chester Blacksmith - all of whom you don't really see much new footage of a lot of the time), so it was a treat to see a load of bangers from them. Go buy it! Here's the trailer to whet your appetite:



Moving on to free stuff from people you do see a lot of, here's a mix of Garrett Reynolds, JJ Palmiere, Hoang Tran, Dennis Enarson, Ty Morrow and a couple of others. Some pretty rad moves in this. Ty Morrow = next level? Also features one of the nicest pulled toothy hangers I've ever seen courtesy of the freshly-brakeless Dennis Enarson.

Continued...

Yet more Almond news.

Brad Simms is absolutely ridiculous.



Nike aren't shy of sending people around the world.



...and that's about it, really.

Missed opportunity.

If I'd have checked it out earlier, I could've done a Matty Lambert triple header. What a tool. Anyway, here is the third part of that trilogy of Matty L content, this time featuring Mark Webb and a painful reminder of just how many balls rolling your ankle sucks.



I just re-invented what the term 'screwface' really means with how much I cringed watching this video. I'm not even going to link to the competition purely because this video is that bad. Sufficed to say, you too could win some unpleasant meat-based snack if you entered it, but... well... you'll have to find your own way there. Bearing in mind how shamelessly corporate this whole thing is, it shouldn't be too hard to work out which website it comes from - not even mentioning the massive logos on the player...



Lastly, in the on-going saga of "How good can completes keep getting?!", Fit have waded in with their 2011 completes. I mean really, the spec 3 Eddie C bike. Damn!

Video overload!

Coupla bits.

3rd in the Nike comp went to the USA:



2nd went to the UK.



No pressure on the winners to justify it then, haha.

Shadow have gone on a trip recently.



United's video is going to be rad:



Vinyl have put up a cool edit of Timmy Theus:



ESPN have also put up a cool edit, but this one's of Trey Jones.



Think that's about it. 4 minute blog explosion!

Generic one word title goes here.

So, yeah... bearing in mind this is all 'scrap' footage, think of how I-should-probably-swear-here good this video is going to be? I mean, just check out that loading bay session?





Week after ankle merkage: back on it.



Tom Bright is a rad dude, and I'm not just saying that because of the high likelyhood of me riding with him tomorrow. This is part 2 of Dry Spell - I posted Scotty T's part a few days ago. Bear in mind that Tom split his time between racking himself on those hippy hops and filming and editing the video - multi-tasking: it's not just for girls.

Hello again.

Yeah, been a while. This weekend was full of riding, fun times and general merriment, none of which involved online things, so not much blog activitititititity.

A quick look at the BMX fashion forecast: Headbands are still in, and ETs are most definitely on their way in. Couple cut-off skinny jeans, a headband and an ET and you're set for this summer's look. Unrelated to that but related to the video - I've been so tempted to grab a hang-5er's rear peg before, but I knew that would happen. I'm too nice.



Tim tells me I've been overly harsh recently, so I'll try and tone it down.

Anyways, Luke Peeters (With 3 E's) is now on United, as is Boiski. However, Boiski didn't get a 'Welcome to the Team' edit - favouritism!



Apparently they have bios and stuff on the United site, but I didn't really care enough to find out. I'm sure 90% of the Internet's word is true enough.

Shadow have some new clothing out, go check it on their site in some flip-book somewhere (They're still not good - even Russ agrees!).

FBM inform me that Mickey Marshall is no longer riding for them, they have a new Exodus prototype (Ironically named - fair play for that!), and that people around the world are still willing to put the time in to make awesome birthday cakes:



For those of you who can't imagine what a crinkly tube looks like inside (Kinda like the outside, but inside), Sunday have the answer!

Shola have some proto fork photos up (In conjunction with Brucey/KHE? Who knows) - that logo's dangerously close to the edge of the bottom of the steerer tube bit? (Tech term.)



Dig have been utterly pounding the Facebook News Feed today, which happened to include this gem - the Tom Blyth Sturdy Wrists. Old Dig is rad, film is rad, Tom B is rad. Rad^3!

Dennis Enarson has a Day In The Life Of video up somewhere, but I have almost no idea where I watched it or even what player it was on. All I can remember is he lives pretty close to the Mexican border, enjoys eating Mexican food, had a shoulder surgery the day after the riding was filmed, and looks exactly like both of his parents. I suppose in a way that's all you need to know?

On my 'Quick last check!' BMX news scour, happened to stumble upon this video of Mark Mulville - always a pleasure, never a chore.

Anyone seen the point?

You can clearly see that the guys who run the Dew Tour obviously realised that street was pretty popular. As people who are constantly after increased ratings and more exposure for sponsors and logos and all that jazz, so they appeared to think that trying to appeal to street riders would be beneficial. No doubt they also noticed that street web-edits were pretty popular and received a hell of a lot of views - especially if they contain the 'big names' - so, what better way to attract street riders than have the biggest names ride street, and make a street web-edit? Well, that kinda makes sense (Apart from missing the non-competitive point of street riding, and the no pressure, do-what-you-want point of it too), but when that 'street' is actually a pretty linear park format, and the riding is limited to just doing back and forth runs on that particular setup, it's not really the same thing. At all. Although the riding's pretty insane in these videos, there's no real connection to street whatsoever. Must be pretty stressful for the filmers too, having to try and make uniformly painted ramps with sponsors logos all over the place actually look good, and try and get different angles in. No fun at all. Ah well, I'm sure they'll get some £££'s from it, but it does seem to be a return of the 'big' competitions just trying to milk BMX for all it's worth. After some of the people running those biggers comps had turned it around and actually seemed to be more concerned with the way that they interacted with and represented BMX, it's pretty disappointing to see organisers doing stuff like this...

Anyway, the videos are pretty cool I guess (Although nowhere near as cool as it would be with the different backgrounds and cool environment that street brings with it, as well as unique setups that allow riders to be more creative (The point!)), it still seems like they could've done so much more, and so much better.

Bunch o' stuff.

Wellity wellity. Having been relatively quiet on the news front recently, suddenly everything's on the go?

Kink have their 2010 completes up on their site. They've made some sweet completes in the past, seems like that's a trend that's going to continue. Click here to see 'em all.

Adam Grandmaison has a surprisingly good "Legends" things up on Ride UK. Some good video parts from 5 different riders, worth checking out definitely. Click.

Also on Ride, I saw this video of Aaron Ross talking about his new shoe/doing some riding. If you want to hear Aaron say "Shoe" a bunch of times, click play...



In other Aaron Ross news, Up, Up & Away's 'scraps' edit is now online. Not many scraps for a big video? Good teaser either way.




Dennis Enarson's also popped up with a rad web-vid for Demolition, got some cool tricks in there.



For all you media types out there, the Nike Media Apprentice results are going to be up in the next few days.

Whooooa...

The new Ride site might not be the best looking thing in the world, but content wise they're certainly doing alright. For example, this ridiculous video from Federal flow rider Shayn Steels (Reminds me of Joel's riding a lot?). What the hell?! Federal's flow team are nuts...


Federal Bikes - Shayn Steels from Slack BMX from Federal BMX on Vimeo.

Here's the overspill photos from the 3 Tom's Malaga trip (Video's posted below somewhere...), and here's Garrett Reynolds, Dennis Enarson and Gary Young's runs from the Simpel Session, as well as their Finals vid. BMX is being taken to the next level - how do you do tricks that hard, that consistently, and that well?




Jammin' Simpel Session - Finals Highlights! >>