Precision!

Jeez, this ender's pretty damn precise! Doing those brakeless is literally all good.



First person to do one on a backrail on a quarter wins life.

Jason Owens, aka "That dude from Safety First", has a pretty cool webvid up on the Kink site.



In total contrast, X-Games is going on at the moment. Gary Young won the prelims/eliminator/whatever the hell the thing is that isn't the final of the Park comp. Haven't really seen/heard who's done what else over there, and until I see the highlights video I'm not that fussed...





Those two vids are from ESPN and Ride US. If you want to see Tunney do some sports writing, click here. Would've been fairly unimaginable about 5-6 years ago...

Lastly - Mat Hoffman is rad. This video contains Mat Hoffman and is also therefore rad.

So good...

This is a bit old now, but it's still absolutely awesome.

Totally forgot to put this in when I first put the post live.

The whole "Lil _____" nickname thing has irritated me in what's a fairly irrational way for a while now, so almost purely down to that I hadn't really checked out this video until just now. I'm glad I did though, because the riding is out of hand. There's something about the 180 point of a well-thrown truck that just looks absolutely amazing. It's hard to explain what I mean, but hopefully to those of you who understand you'll appreciate it too...



No doubt all the tools who complain about sponsorship changes (e.g. "Oh, Dakota Roche left Fit when he had a signature frame and then left Lotek when he got a signature shoe too") are going to be all over this, but Dan Lacey is now off Lotek. Inside knowledge: I usually fully manually type everything when I'm doing a link like that - the whole a href biz, the bold tags, the name, then the closing tags. As a result, it gives me a little time to think absentmindedly as I type them, and I was so uninterested in that snippet of news that I almost stopped typing mid-way through it. Either way, apparently Dan's using Vans at the moment which is both pleasant in a rhyming sense but is also an indicator of good taste as Vans shoes are absolutely awesome. The TNT4s have been keeping my feet intact and dry for the past few months (taking over duty from the Half Cab), and they're pretty much the best shoe out there. Assuming of course you buy shoes based on their performance advantages and a preference for understated style rather than purchasing requirements being "Gigantic" and "Gawdy".

If you, like me, can't believe that a paragraph about shoes was just spawned from a snippet of news that even I didn't care about, well... there we go. Maybe watch this to take your mind off things.



Check that full circle out too re: the first and last rider names. Editing prowess, yo!

Mix...

In random "People I know in videos" news, Vince Mayne and Duncan Lloyd have both had videos out in the past few days. Vinnie's video is for Coalition, and Duncan's is just for fun. Federal must've hooked him up with a fresh setup recently though, seems weird seeing him on anything other than an all-purple chav-attracter setup! I'd also like to take this opportunity to point out that Duncan's one of the soundest people I've ever met in BMX, and also possesses the key to infinite 1-time manual 180s. Experience shows, and I'd wager that pretty much everything in this video was pulled first go...





Incidentally, Duncan's video is full of pretty much all my favourite spots in London. I'd very much like to ride them again. Exploration for the win and all that.

In sort of related news, Aversion also have a new video out.



In... well... not related news (in pretty much any way), there's an interesting video of Chase Hawk booting around the X-Games park course. This is what all park courses should be like.



Lastly, the next bit of the Golden State Of Mind tour is now up!



Apparently Mutiny have decided to put Let's Get Mystical online. Seems strange, but there we are I guess - if you decide this is your kind of thing and you appreciate high quality footage, then give the shop a call and grab yourself a copy on DVD and check it out on the screen for which it was intended...

Brad Simms

Monster. Might as well keep your mouse handy - you'll be wanting to rewind some of this.

Brad Simms - Call it Scrapin' - More BMX Videos

You'll probably also be wanting to mute it too...

Anyway - if you haven't noticed, there's a lot of super cheap Eclat/WeThePeople/more stuff on sale at the shop. Might as well get some shiny new stuff to make the most of the rest of summer...

Potential...

When I saw this rad Jason Phelan edit I thought he was trying to no-foot can over a rail. This needs to be done. No-foot cans are one of the few style tricks that haven't been assimilated and raped by the masses (less E.T.s, more cans!): this needs to begin. Anyway, enough of my opinions:



As a form of public service announcement, Ben Green has edited together this Coalition edit of Dan Paley to inform you he can do awesome, flowy lines, but that he can also never be your woman.



It's now sunny, work is over, I'm going riding. Bye...

X-Games Park w/Gary Young

This setup looks amazing, and bearing in mind that's me (fairly well documented loathing of skateparks), that's saying something...

The Kevin Bacon game

You should have heard of the Kevin Bacon game before, and if not, Google it. This is like the Kevin Bacon game, but this time it's about Chase Hawk, and cool stuff that was posted by others today.

Chase Hawk interview.

Fox Golden State of Mind Tour (also feat. Chase Hawk).



The Empire Trailer.

A Mutiny/Villij/Robbo edit by Rich Forne, with riding from Robbo who rides a lot like Chase Hawk.

Although it got glossed over earlier in this post, that over-to-pegs-to-over on the kinked rail that Danny Hickerson does is awesome.

Forgot to say...

...the new Ride To Glory DVD is really good, and well worth getting hold of via the usual beg/borrow/steal methods. Although preferably not stealing.

Unintented speech.

Even though I know he didn't mean it like that, I still like to imagine Van Homan talking about himself in the 3rd person where he says "He always brought the jokes to The Van on any Fit trip." in the Fit/Edwin retrospective. Tom White is also off Fit, but didn't get a big photo feature thing. Controversial...