Seriously, watch watch watch! This video is awesome. Chase Hawk is too good, and Ruben's the boy. Bonus G. Byrnes footage too. But yeah, slow-mo, well-ridden trails is always a treat. Probably has the best 'riding trails' vibe out of any video I've seen recently, can sorta get a sense for what it'd be like especially seeing Chase pumping through it in ultra slow-mo. Those twists too, hot damn. That 3 one foot can was sweeeet. WATCH THIS VIDEO. I'm pretty sure this was filmed and edited by Joe Rich, so massive tip of the hat to him 'cos the whole Andalucia series has been awesome. Click the 'Fox' tag below to check the rest out.
Saw this up on Ride, where apparently someone disagreed with Ride saying they "Quite rightly" had posted it first, whereas Streetphire and Seventies had done it first? I knew this whole "More exclusive than thou" thing would probably go in this direction, and as I've said before, what's "Exclusive" about posting something first that's easily embeddable elsewhere? You Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V'd it before someone else? Who honestly cares? Being able to copy and paste it is nothing compared to the effort required to actually make it, so why not give credit where credit's due and congratulate the people out there making the content instead of everyone patting themselves on the back for being able to get the blog posts up first? Yet another case of the BMX media industry giving itself precedence over the photographers and filmers who generate the content that means that they can exist themselves. How incredibly surprising.
In case you were wondering, yes, I'm in a bad mood.
Anyway, here's the Let It Ride video. Ashley Charles messed his arm up before going on this trip, meaning that the only people left in it are people I don't really want to invest 5 minutes of my life watching ride right now. Some of you might, so again, get amongst it.
Nooo waaay! You know that Subrosa advert with Greg Smee hopping over a line of bikes off a kicker? They made that advert happen by making a kicker, lining up some bikes, Greg Smee jumping over it, taking the bikes away and dismantling the kicker! That's incredible, and certainly not how I thought it would work! I mean, I didn't think for a second that to shoot a photo of someone jumping over a line of bikes, you'd have to set up a line of bikes, then get someone to jump over them! I'm so glad that Subrosa took the time out of their schedule to edit this video to show us how it was made.
Just spotted this on Bikeguide - a boat trip by the Italian Nike riders (So, essentially, Stefan Lantschner and 2 dudes you probably haven't heard of). It's a full-on video production, and in all honesty it's not really 'BMXy', so to speak, but there's some amazing looking spots/scenery in there, some cool tricks, and Stefan Frickin' Lantschner, so that's all good. It also features Stefan racing his motocross bike, which he rides pretty similarly to how he rides his BMX. It's gotta feel slow as hell getting on a BMX after a motox bike, but you can't have it all.
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...
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!)
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!
The song used in this edit was one used for an old Dig (Which was where I saw this vid first!) ad in something like Props 50 - love the bassline in it, aaaaall good. If anyone knows the name of the song, comment away!
I'm aware that the Nike6.0 blog is written in a Xtreme Marketing Friendly™ manner that's supposed to Engage With The Target Audience, and that therefore it's going to sound a bit more "YEAH GNAR DUDE!" than is really necessary, but saying stuff like "Europe is known for culture, sophistication and decorum. Thanks to the Nike 6.0 BMX team, it's now known as a place to drop hammers and do work on two wheels." seems a bit rich. Nothing quite like completely devalueing part of your market by pretty much denying it's existence, or indeed ability and impact on their chosen sport? It's not like there's been no awesome riders from Europe? AAAAnyway, they're also doing some "Beat Gas" (Which I usually do by trying to not move around too much, and to not sit at an awkward angle or anything, then let it out in one big go) thing that Mr. Bighouse (When it's translated to English from French, anyway) noted earlier.
It's a pretty good endeavour I suppose, but I don't quite get why they're aiming the "Ride your bike around the city!" message at people who do ride their bikes "around the city" anyway. Ah well, maybe one day marketing and ad hype will begin to make sense?
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.
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.
James Coxis UK street. There's just something about the hop tables, proper barspins and suicide no-handers, I guess. The fact he's also riding better than ever and dropping multiple hammers helps? Either way, always keen to see what he's up to of late, and now it appears to be that he's on DC? Weird fit, bearing in mind the rest of their team (And the relatively recent James Cox/Farren Downes "Welcome to Nike" vid?), but hey, if it's a good deal for him, why not? This is his welcome vid anyway, good stuff:
And this is the web-edit that the Fortes did of the recent DC trip to the Continent, featuring a fairly hefty ender from Lima and some cool lines from all the other dudes involved.
Blogging might be a little erratic for the next few days, 'cos I've just moved to Newcastle so life's a bit everywhere at the moment, hence this update being posted at 5:15am on a Sunday morning. C'est la vie!
