Back in the game?

Well, sort of. Long distance trips each weekend are taking their toll. I do, however, still get a chance to watch BMX videos once in a while...

I hadn't seen any footage of Josh Harrington for pretty much forever until just now - his "April 2011" video's been pretty popular it seems, and with good reason. Brakes are off, over-pegs are on.



How come our security guards don't look like this? I mean, I could take or leave the gun aspect of things, but still...



That was shot by Rich Forne for Props - just a behind the scenes thing, so it'll be interesting to see the result...

Nike have money, and they aren't afraid to spend that money. This is how we end up with trailers like this one, for The Pool.



This is getting on a bit now, but Steve Churchill is a beast as this Demolition vid proves.



Shane Weston is one creative dude, which I highly approve of.



After a bit of a chat with Hman on Facebook the other night I had a lurk on Streetphire, where I saw this Unit 23 'spot check' by Dave Sowerby. The man can do no wrong, best edits! I mean I'm no fan of park edits, but this is awesome.



Kink put up this edit of the 'Best of' the Kink House as well as some unseen clips. The whole Kink team rule, so even though this is slightly older, largely re-used footage it's still boss.



Garrett Reeves is a beast. This is just 60secs of his riding - I'd urge you to check out his Football section (click his tag) to check that out too. So good.



Lastly - Fit put up this Trippin' edit to show they're bouncing back from that whole Cult thing. Some radness in this. Van Homan is still one burly dude even after bonking his head.



That video was documented in photographic form by Banners for the Albion (which has by now sold out. I snooze, I lose.). You can check out a little interview with Stew "Anthem" Johnson here about it too.

Informative.

Well, basically there's a reason that I'm doing a 9-5 in an office in Preston and Nuno is working for awesome companies and doing cool stuff - for example, Nuno knows how to make easily embeddable videos embed when 'tards like me can't fathom it. As a result, here's that Eric L video:



In similar awesome/Odyssey news, Terry Adams:



The official Nike 6.0/BSD jam vid is now up, and it's pretty beltin' as locals here would say:



Could pretty much watch Geoff Slattery rinse bowls all day (in a strictly riding, not dish-washing sense), but unfortunately real life gets in the way such as now...

Screamer!

Yeah yeah, I know a lot of you don't like football, but damn - from yesterday's semi between the Netherlands and Uruguay. Top corner? You betcha.



Speaking of "top corner", if the spots in this video had to be described in a footballing analogy, I'd classify them as pretty top corner too. Van Homan and Scotty Cranmer doing things for Duo, which I spotted on the G-Sport site (which still has that awesome edit up from yesterday).



In that I don't really think that entirely copying a block of text a writer has created and then poaching the video too (in much the same way that if I did a website purely devoted to scanning pages of Dig and putting them online I'd imagine it'd ruffle a few feathers), I'm just going to link to the ESPN site where you can check out Tunney's write-up and Larry Rhodes' video yourself. It's Big Daddy - why wouldn't you (Answer: Because it was up a few days ago and I didn't spot it first time round, but you've already seen it)?

Gary Young is rad, as are the Tuesdays with Miles videos. Combo.



Lastly - the 2011 Deluxe Tech 2 frames are now in the UK, in a warehouse not too far from the shop as it happens. Deluxe do some good stuff, and if you're after a shiny new trails frame then you'd have to be somewhat of a tool not to check the Tech 2 out.

G-Sport Edit

G-Sport Welcome Edit.

That first link is about as functional and direct as G-Sport products and the G-Sport website. Link-up! Anyways, Randy Brown, Dave Thompson, Dakota Roche, Van Homan and Andrew Jackson - pretty much a "Favourite riders of mine" compilation video, and it's awesome.

Just a quickie...

Got a bit more work to do, so stealing some time!

First up, Mark Noble has interviewed BuildTheWoods creator Homer for ESPN. Unsurprisingly, it's a pretty good interview - check it out ESPN now!

There's an article on a trip to Malta in the new Ride, and now have an accompanying video with it:



Orchid have put up a cool little video of some dudes riding an outdoor park, and in related Orchid news, Van Homan's epic interview is now in it's third stage.

Albert Mercado, plus more!

First up is a video by Justin Kosman that I saw on Kink of Albert Mercado. Pretty weird, but kinda cool.


Go to bmxwonderland.com for more videos.


As the 'other', here's the 'other' part of Van Homan's interview on LeastMost. Makes for interesting reading.

Tweak!

One of the things I like seeing most in videos is people going really fast over hips and doing those little tweaks. I don't know what it is about them, but they're awesome, and there's one to demonstrate in this Bicycle Union video. Lots of other rad riding too, give it a peep.



I don't really know much about the LeastMost apart from 3 things: They're now in BMXFeed, the term "Shreditorial" made me cringe so hard I almost inverted my face, and they have a Van Homan interview on their site with this accompanying Props Bio.



There have been more rumours of indoor parks near or in Southampton than the number of flat tyres I got last year. However, this one looks a little more serious - click over to Ride's site for the info! £1.4m...

Past, present and future?

Timing! New Van Homan interview - another Defgrip feature. They've been firing them out recently!

Forgot to put this down earlier, but Ride have put up their new cover and contents.

Speaking of magazines - videos in print magazines? Imagine how fully awesome it'd be having videos built in to Ride or Dig. The future!

Bang. Ers.

No joke, if there was some kind of internationally acreddited BMX dictionary, alongside "Bangers" would be these two video parts. First up is Van Homan's part from the 2x4 video, followed by Rickey Bate's's's's's section from the Banned 3 vid.

Too. Good.

New Superstar cassette

The latest in the line of companies trying to compete with the G-Sport Ratchet and create a strong female-axle rear hub is Superstar, although, like many others, they appear to have gone for the weaker 3/8" female axle, rather than a 14mm female axle. It can't be that hard to make one with a 14mm female axle, surely? At least it'd be more reassuring for peg use then...



In ooooother news:

Fit are keeping up the exercise regime and are still trying to Stay Fit:



And The Source took a trip to Paris and made this hefty web-edit. Rob Castle footage!

Riding for silver...

Seriously, everyone else really is riding for silver. Garrett Reynolds, gold #7 in X-Games Street. Whaaaaat?

A post.

Man, it feels like forever since I posted last, yet in reality it really isn't. Time flies when you're having fun.

Anyways, new videos!

Josh Eilken always does some rad stuff, generally backwards and at speed, and it's no different in this Madera edit. He also was involved in this:

PLUSH Tattour Trailer from Tony Malouf on Vimeo.

Speaking of backwards, here's Ian Schwartz doing a 'dece' half-cab:

Ian Schwartz' monster half-cab drop. from Jim Cielencki on Vimeo.

Spotted these two nuggets of awesomeness over on Dig - firstly, The Works have now made it so that it's free to enter over the summer for under 18s, and £2 for over 18s. Gotta try and survive the summer somehow! Secondly, they put up Van Homan's interview (Which created one of the best covers Dig's had - it's also funny how a portrait of someone can be considered a 'risky' cover, but that's the media world we live in I guess) - click here for that.

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.

Best WebVideo In Forever.

Bold claim, but whatever. The freshly signed to Federal Ty Morrow, and a video part destined for a previous sponsor. I love the way at the start his bike kinda rolls off in a "See you later..." kinda way...


Go to BNQT for more videos.


In other webvid news, the site that first seemed to really pump out quality BMX vids online, MidwestBMX, are back.


MidwestBMX.net is Back from jeff on Vimeo.

Crazy Germans.


Zwanzig Zoll Riders Mag Nr. 26 from Bommel on Vimeo.

The Making Of Stay Fit #23 with Homan, the New Era wearing alter-ego of Chase Dehart and Dakota Roche:



Lastly, the new frames from S&M for Randy Brown, Cardona and Cam Wood. 3/8" making a comeback? Rejoice, Profile Mini users. (Man, I hope these resize right (EDIT: Hell yeah!))

The Curse Of The Auto-Play Video

Damn. I thought I'd just done enough to bump that auto-playing Mpora vid off the bottom of the page, and I go and mess it up with that Ride video below. Sorry. Hopefully this cool little indoor edit from Van Homan and Chase Dehart courtesy of 2x4 won't. Fingers crossed...

All in good time...

Man, I've got so much more to say but I'm super tired. It involves Randy Brown, who features in this rad little Orchid ad (See Fit? These 'ads' are better than not-so-good photos with product photo 'ads'!) with Van Homan, who also will feature in the post I'm gonna make possibly tomorrow.

But yeah, w00t:


Van Homan and Randy Brown 2009. from Orchid Footwear on Vimeo.

Randy's sig shoe is gonna look like thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis:



Swish. Function low-top.