Oppo...

With John doing an awesome job of holding down the local news/product news side of things, here's some inspiration from further afield...

Dyno was someone who I enjoyed riding with back in my Newcastle days, and even back then he wasn't scared of doing some pretty wild moves. With a filmer more readily available, a bike not cobbled together out of swap-meet bits from Exi skatepark and another year or two of progression and development, here's his Spring 2011 edit for KIS. Moves!



After starting with a bit of a banger, it's time to get a bit serious - Niki Croft is well-known throughout the UK (and the world, to be fair). He's a sound dude with some serious skills to boot, but he got taken down by a savage crash at the Cycle Show a while back. Rich Forne documented some of Niki's return to action, and that became the basis of one of the series of Relentless Short Stories that have been popping up over the past year or so. Here it is - it's a bit full-on, but definitely worth watching through.



Lightening the mood again - I'd seen bits here and there online in the run-up to the Texas Toast jam that Odyssey put on over in Austin, but it wasn't until today I actually saw anything of it. Pretty amazing! Gauntlet of Death is awesome. Comps like this are the future - you can take your massive box jumps and pentuple whips, this looks like more fun to me...



As a result of a 4-day event the company I work for put on last weekend I didn't get a chance to post this when it was 'fresh', but here's a cool video of Seamus McKeon. Really like watching him ride, so more footage is always a treat.



I'm fully in need of some sleep so that'll have to do for now...

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.

Rapidfire.

No time!

Triple angled ender = you know it's legit:



Lotek

Stijn Staal = you know it's legit:



Cult

Curved wallrides on axle height walls = you know it's legit:



Clicked

Amazing mid-ice body compression = you know it's legit:



Tempered