Nathan Williams

What the hell? Ridiculous.

Saturday Video Frenzy!

That's right - Saturday Video Frenzy time.

Tom Dugan is now riding for Fit. Joe Rich is cool with this. Mike Aitken is cool with this. Ergo, you should also be cool with this. Here's a sort of 'see you later alligator' edit Joe Rich did featuring Tom, Joe and Ruben Alcantara riding some crazy setups in Malaga, at the time for T-1.



Double header from the Etnies/DansComp tour - first up, this edit of the whole trip. Features Chase Dehart, Nathan Williams, Corey Martinez, Tony Hamlin and some other people here and there. That ender is sweet.



The Bakery also have a little edit from when that trip rolled through - I'm assuming I won't be able to embed it, so click here to watch it with the date over-laid over part of the video.

Randy Taylor footage is always good to see, especially after the past 12 months where he's been MIA for one reason or other. This edit is his getting back into things vid for Mutiny.



Dennis Enarson is ridiculous, as this video I saw over on the Props site shows. Just sayin'.



Lastly, another Defgrip exclusive, another cool video. Pretty much on a 100% record there - those guys rule. This time it's a Bobby Simmons video which features some good stuff. Manuals for miles - Link!

Riding time...

Comparison...

A commenter on TheComeUp described the second part as "kinda berrics-ish" which is sort of the same as saying that Bill Gates is "kinda rich-ish", but in spite of that it's still a pretty cool video.



This got posted up yesterday, but still - Jeff Koscis is really, really good. This is some relatively old footage (from Don't Quit Your Day Job 2), but it still seems pretty modern just 'cos of the techedy tech-ness of it. The world needs more up to date Jeff Koscis footage.

Infoburst.

Clash of the shoe companies? Two 10 minute (ish) videos, two sunny locations in Europe, two teams with awesome riders, two totally different budgets/setups/ideas. All good though...



Almond...



Etnies...

Pat King is amazing. This is from Banned 4 and... well... you just need to watch it. Now.



I'm sure there's more, but I'm completely burnt out. If I can function properly tomorrow I'll attempt to resurrect things... Bye for now.

Reason.

Almost a week off? Er... yeah... about that...

Whilst I didn't really do much in the space of a week apart from ride quite a lot and watch rugby matches in freezing stadiums in Cardiff, Rich Forne managed to show how the productive people of the world do things by going to Israel and managing to get a billion clips despite both riders taking themselves out of the equation mid-way through the trip. Skills. A different take on things to most BMX videos which is cool to see.



That was for Mutiny in case you hadn't guessed.

Keeping it more local (Although knowing Bow, probably about as dangerous as being in Israel), Tim Lewis is now hooked up good 'n' proper and has this video to celebrate that fact. I knew Tim pretty well from the 3 years of riding around London we shared together, but getting to hit up London again recently to say hi again was a treat. Rad dude, and no video will ever really give you the full Tim experience.



Tim's style always sort of reminded me of Brad Simms, and as if to just give me the evidence to try and prove that, The Set put up this video of him a day or two ago. Simply ridiculous. Going uuuup...



Lastly, Cinema put this up today. Awesome team, soon to have some good product flowing out the door too if rumours are to be believed? Anyways, here she blows.

Eve.

Cool, so it's basically Christmas (somehow - doesn't feel like it?!), so hope you all have a good one.

As a potentially last post of the year (depending on how things go), here's a couple of recent video highlights.

Etnies team is really good, and in this video (click the link to view it) it really shows. Some awesome lines at some awesome spots with some awesome weather. Jealous.

Speaking of teams - Seamus McKeon is now on Subrosa's Skeleton Crew. Definitely deserves it, good to see innovative people getting rewarded (even if the song isn't as innovative as the riding (oh yeah, made a song-stealing reference (went there (brackets)))...



Whilst we're still mentioning teams, to make up for it seeming like they haven't had a new web-edit from their team riders in a while, Federal have put up a 'best of' Derek Strickland video.



And laaaastly, a secret session with Ben Murphy.



Bueno.

Things.

TheMake are adding more riders to their line-up, and this time's it's Paul Horan. A pretty cool vid, no-footed cans are always good to see!



Josh Betley continues to improve:



Tom Blyth does likewise:



And lastly - grip wars! Eclat's Ashley Charles (plus bars (that are 10° backsweep according to Ashley, 11.5° according to Eclat, and 10° according to the graphics) vs. United's Nathan Williams...

"Wah wah"

If you're not a fan of videos that aren't a total, back-to-back string of massive bangers, you are not going to be a fan of this post. Some slightly 'different' videos today, starting with the video I watched every day for about a month after I first got it, the Train Trip video that appeared on a copy of Dig (Issue 79 out now!) I got ages ago. There's actually a cool little write-up on Mike O's Blog about it, so check that out while you wait for the video to load!



While we're talking Joe Rich, he currently has a bike-check up on T-1's site.

Continuing the cool videos theme, This Is United is ridonkulous, and if you haven't seen it yet you're letting yourself down spectacularly. Call the shop and get amongst it. James Cox was the man at the helm, and he's got a pretty lengthy video interview up courtesy of BMXMDB. I rode with James just after he'd first quit his job to work for 4Down, and it's amazing to see how he's gone from what his situation was back then to what he's doing these days. Anyone who gives you a load of sweets 'for the road' is a rad dude in my book, and James fully qualifies for that.



While James was pretty awake and alert for that video, Nathan Williams isn't for this fairly weird interview with Dakota Roche.



Continuing the weird video vibe, TheKinkHouse have this edit of Aaron Smith showing his room setup, then a bit of riding at the end as a bonus.



Totally different, and more focussed on the riding is the last of SkullCandy and their "3 days in the desert" video. Some really good stuff in this, interesting to see people making the most of some pretty unusual (but pretty awesome!) spots.



...and with that, I'm off to put a new air filter in my car. Head torches = the best.

Cough cough.

Just been using some tinted lacquer in the next room, and that + a cold = bad times in a respiratory sense. Not cool.

What is cool is going online and finding a Cinema promo up. Chase Dehart, Garrett Reynolds, Corey Martinez, Sean Sexton, Nathan Williams? Mm-hmm.



Now - if someone named their contest and had the phrase "Street" in there, you'd expect some street, wouldn't you? Well, apparently not...

Questions...

Russia have their own Adidas team?



Why are Mumford & Sons so popular despite all their songs being totally identical and frighteningly bland? It's the musical equivalent of every frame coming out exclusively in beige... Anyway, Joris Coulomb is really good, although the auto-refresh that page seems to do meant I had to watch that video twice to see it all. Not cool.

How is David Grant physically possible?



What does Josh Shaw say at the beginning of this Mix section from Safety First?



Is Nathan Williams suicidal?



How awesomely well made do these ramps look? Compare that to any indoor in the UK...

For the sake of the blog?

This is George Boyd's section from For The Sake Of The Video. Looks pretty good, eh?



In related good video news, Nathan Williams had this video out today too.



Ben Hucke has a new frame out, you can hear about it here:



Lotek have some new shoes out. Fruity colours...

And with that, I'm off. Hungry hungry hippo.

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!

Brief.

If you wanna check out the new Sunday Third Wave frame, click around below:


View this at SundayBikes.com!


Nathan Williams is ridiculously good. The music in this video is ridiculously bad. Regardless, he does some rad tricks in it so it's definitely worth a watch, just maybe on mute? Saw this on Ride UK.



George Ramirez has been getting progressively better and better, and here's his latest vid - a Props ad for Fit.



Defgrip have been running a Nike 6.0 comp, and some entries are in. Some good stuff in there, go here to check out some cool artwork.

No Xmas Xcess

I didn't actually eat til I died over the past three/four days, so I consider that to be a personal victory. Anyway, in the new Ride UK (Which is really good, and well worth purchasing) there's a pretty hefty 14-page long interview with Nathan Williams. They filmed a bunch of the stuff that ended up in the interview itself, then put an edit up on their site. And here it is.



Coalition seem to be trying to piece together a new team, and one of the new team riders is Little Tammy (I refuse to use the word 'lil', or any derivative of it).



Not a long update today, and apologies for that, but it's late, I'm tired, and in "It's my birthday tomorrow" news, it's my birthday tomorrow.

Videodrome.

Few more hits on search engines with that title?

Anyway:

T-Nez has taken his Etnies-clad feet out for a pedal around, and here are the results - courtesy of Jeff K:



This Staff video has some cool stuff, but Big Daddy shuts it down.



Nathan Williams is smoother than you:

Levi's® Clip of the Week - Nathan Williams Mix - More BMX Videos

If you saw Carlos's bike a while back, you may have noticed his kink-cross-barred bars - from a company called Country Bikes. They've been around for a while now, and they've got a bunch of new stuff coming out (Including this frame and seat/post combo). BMXUnion did an interview with Country's main dude Torsten Pullich. Click here to read it.

History repeating?

I sincerely hope not. Please tell me the cringe-worthy scripts that used to plague BMX videos (I'm looking at you, Glenn P.P. Milligan - although notable mention goes to Dave Mirra in Sentenced To Life) aren't making a comeback? This Road Fools trailer would've worked pretty much with the opening clip of Big Daddy, that gigantic wallride, and Tony Hamlin chainsawing Nathan Williams' pedal...



Day 2 of that Frenchys tour is up. Click here for that, and some more surreal French music in a BMX video, and click the "Frenchys" tag to see Day 1. I'm not usually a fan of hang 5s in pretty much any form, but this video's worth watching purely for Randy Taylor's so-long-it's-measured-in-time-not-distance 3 and a half hour long hang 5.

Another week, another Tomorrow We Work section - this time, it's Marv:



I saw this link floating around some other BMX sites, but then I saw it pop up Deluxe so I assumed it'd be worth the watch. Sure was. Flip-whip crashes look scaaaaary.

Yet more Nathan Williams...

Might remember the Nathan Williams bikecheck I linked to before? Well, Dig have now made it official, so if you want to see a slightly expanded spec list with the same photo, go there...

No thanks!

Nope, I'll take my standard bike please, not the quick-released foldable version...
(Video from Ride)


Fair play to Shaun for utterly ruining himself with that floor, then getting up straight away. This isn't football.



In other news...

Making friends with the homeless:



Not making friends with your landlord. (Via Defgrip)

Making the most of old footage:


People answering questions:

Levi's® Clip of the Week: Nathan Williams Bio... - More BMX Videos

A man shows the world the Worlds:



Another man got a new bike:



And I rode an amazing skatepark and hit my heels. Again.

The end!

So yeah... Pt. 2

But in other news...

Lightsinthewoods have a new video out that I saw over on Deluxe:





DansComp have a new site up, Dans360 - on it, they have bios for their (loose term) 'Team', including Nathan Williams, who has a photo of his bike. He calls his frame the "United Mothership" - signature frame ahoy!



Nice to see a taller frame, especially from a "new school" rider. Just as a reminder of how and indeed why Nathan's awesome:



While we're talking American shops, Staff have a little video out featuring Garrett Reynolds, J.J. Palmiere and Ty "So hot right now" Morrow:

24hrs in Ohio

Just spotted this on ESPN, definitely worth a look!



Also, the second Coxie On Tour video's up. Didn't post the first 'cos I refuse to post videos of people hitting jumpboxes the whole time (Yeah yeah, bad weather, I k now...), but this one fully delivers:


More BMX >>


This was up on Dig, and although it wasn't the Chicken I was hoping it'd be, the intro and pre-ender-ender make it worth a watch...