BMX? Fun?

What's up with this recently? How come people have started banging out cool, interesting, fun edits again? I thought we were lost in a sea of mediocre hip-hop and cloned riding. Fortunately, Matty Lambert, Paul Ryan, Paul Horan and TheMake are around. Enjoy - I know I did!

Season's Greetings...

Some pretty good Christmas treats came out yesterday from Sunday, Fly, and Subrosa. Sunday decided to get a whole load of Santa suits and everyone on their Pro and Flow teams (and even their company members) to get rad. As Jim C says:

“That’s right Santa gets rad! Well, maybe just everyone over here at Sunday gets rad in Santa suits. The whole main team, flow team and employees can be seen shredding in this video. This was such a fun video to make. People really love Santa. Numerous times random people stopped to get there photos taken with Santa, snap photos of Santa riding or just got a smile on there face because they got to see Santa. There was even a 4 year old boy who was so stoked to ride with Santa, who was played by Gary Young at the time. Everyone here at Sunday would like to wish you a merry Christmas and happy holiday!”



Fly's past few videos have been dece, and Tres is no different. Some great riding from a pretty wide selection of riders, you're almost guaranteed to find something you'll like (even some streety grindy-grindy action).



Just like she said, it's a lengthy beast so you might wanna grab some left-overs from yesterday, something to drink and full screen that beaut...

As an additional thing - after a bit of a lurk on the Fly site, I spotted this interview with Stefan Lantschner. Love watching him ride, and it's cool to get a bit more of a background. Some sweet videos on that page too, so go have an explore even if you're got the reading attention span of a foetus. As a side note - Stefan and Kevin Kalkoff had pretty much my 2 favourite sections in the whole video. Stefan's one of the only people I've ever seen hit Wapping wallride anywhere near as good as Joe Fox (who's got a cool interview in RideUK)), high praise indeed! Kevin K has also come on a lot in the past few videos I've seen of him. It's interesting how Fly's team have spread out/branched out now so they've got such a wide range of riders. All good.

Lahsaan Kobza has both a pretty amazing name, and now a contract for the Subrosa Pro team. All good. Defgrip have the exclusive.

Not from Christmas, but I fully forgot to post it before - Lloyd and The Artist Formerly Known As Bombhead doing things at Seventies.

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!

Acer laptop lunchtime edit.

This whole "Flipcam edit" thing that people keep doing has been mildly irritating me for a while, simply in terms of me not caring what people film it on, and it not mattering what they filmed it on (If someone puts a photo up online, they don't generally go "Here's a new Canon edit"...). You don't need to justify why your video's low quality. Regardless, Ride have stepped the pointless title game up a little bit by making an "iPhone 4 brakeless edit". I wonder how specific, in months to come, video titles are going to be? Maybe include temperature and humidity to really convey the difficult conditions both rider and filmer had to include? "Sony VX-1000, fisheye lens, brakeless, 24°C, 85% humidity, slightly dehydrated, partially hungry" edit, maybe? Who knows. Anyway, here's the video I initially mentioned.



Filmed on a shiny new iPhone, don'tchaknow.

In other news, Federal/FocalPoint rider Troy Jackson has an edit up. I don't really know what it was filmed with so you're going to have to sit through the video under the heavy cloud of mystery about what they used, but he is brakeless in case you couldn't work it out from simply watching the video and needed to be told in the title of it.



Jeff K has done some interesting things on his bike that were filmed somehow and edited using some editing programme then uploaded to the Etnies website to view with whatever you're looking at this on to be seen by your eyes.

Paul Ryan is really good and is currently being slowly cooked under the warm Spanish sun. This is him getting some lines in before the BCN Pro comp.



I was going to call the "Dove for men" pre-roll ad on this video flagrantly gay, but "fragrantly gay" would be a far better pun, so there we are. Once you get past the 'fragrantly' gay Dove pre-roll, there are good things to be seen.



This soup's not going to eat itself, so bye bye.

Memories!

Man, the flat-out best part of this video is seeing Chris McArdle in "On a trip" mode. So good. Edit by Phelan featuring loads of different riders.



I heard the music on this video described as "Porn music", which seems like a kinda weird - if accurate - description. Anyways, Vans riders at Vans:



(Mpora ads need to get out of my life)

Very much lastly, a little edit from Matty Long:

Debatable.

First up is a video by Miles Rogoish of the Worlds. Can see how it'd be annoying for someone to not wear a helmet after being told, but getting "The Heavies" out to try and lay down the law seems ridiculous. Otherwise, some awesome riding!


Go to BNQT for more videos.


Seeeeecondly, this features the best skater snake I've seen in some time, and bearing in mind I live right next to a busy skatepark now, that's saying something. I like to think of that as being part of the justice I still need to hand out to the skaters at a certain concrete skatepark in London. Snaked 4 times riding the bowl once. Do one!



Thirdly, this is Day 4 of the Range Of Motion videos. Posted up about this before, here's the continuation.

Standards are slipping...

First off, I'd just like to start this with a big thanks to Liam from over on Bikeguide for the help with the song from the last post - for anyone else who cares, it's The Redneck Manifesto - The Dillon Family Dancers. Top stuff. Thanks again dude!

Spotted this little video over on InTheGnar, but a quick interwebs search shows that it's been on virtually every BMX media site. PijinBlog - delivering you the best BMX stuff on the web just after you've seen it before.



Wore my Shitluck T today for the first time in forever, and it just so happens that a Shitluck put a webvid out today. For one horrifying moment I thought Cameron Wood had done a hang 5 in this video, but then realised it wasn't him and he got elevated back to being in my Top 5 Favourite Riders list...

SHITLUCK "COLD TOUR" from LELAND THURMAN on Vimeo.

It seems the more I ride, the shorter my attention span gets for web videos. I mean, apart from that Shitluck vid I've been struggling to really pay much attention to a lot of videos I've tried watching today, which is why - in the interest of honesty - I haven't even bothered looking at this video yet. I don't usually like to post videos I haven't watched because, unlike some BMX blogging types, I only want to post stuff I'm into. This blog is representing the best BMX shop in the UK, so I'd like to make sure the stuff I put on here is the best too. Anyway, without further ado, the 17 minute long "Re-Session Tour" video. Like I said - didn't watch it, but I can't really imagine it'd be that bad, so if you've got some time to kill, get amongst it! I've got pictures of Profile products to cut out in Photoshop, so I'm outta here! (You'll get 'em tomorrow, Carlos!)

Ten Pack Re-Session Tour Eastern Canada Stops from Presence Bmx on Vimeo.

Actually - before I go - think I missed this earlier. The Artist Formerly Known As Bombhead now has an exclusive video up on Ride. Ch-ch-ch-ch-check it!

Late late late.

Man, Newcastle is awesome. I mean really, really good. Cheers to everyone for everything, it was amazing! Special thanks definitely go to H-Man for the lift and Tom Kirkby for the sofa provision...

Anyways, stuff has happened in the non-Mark BMX world, up to and including:

This amazing Josh Betley video. Too good.


Josh Betley / Felt Bikes from kyle carlson on Vimeo.

This Bombhead (aka Paul Ryan) video from Rampworx.



I'm pretty sure there was other stuff, but I've got some work to do so this'll do for now...