I miss the diversity of personalities, bikes and style in BMX that were so prevalent in the mid era. If you looked at a riders styles, their bike set up and how they presented themselves, it was easily recognisable that they from the East/West Coast, Nor-Cal, Florida, Vegas, Mid West, Arizona, Utah, Texas, New York etc. It was so cool that BMX gave everyone from hugley different backgrounds the opportunity to coexist. The nick-names were goofy as hell, but kinda fun at the same time. It was cool that they had their own unique title that everyone knew them by. Even the nicknames that werent really nicknames EG. How many Michael's have been in BMX over the years, heaps, but when you say "Mikey" everyone knew it was Aitken. The pro rider/metal parallel was a cool angle for the vid. I even called a couple band/rider combo, before you said it, so we're on the same level. The bit you said about Jay and Dave, was on point. Jay was such a badass and threw down some of the heaviest tricks, but also did a bunch of set up airs or sat on the deck getting his breath back. Dave did fuckin awesome tricks too, but he was so dialed (and fit) that he did it on every wall of the vert ramp and used up every second of his run. Dave made the judges life simple, he was a clear winner. The TV execs and brand managers loved it and ate that shit up Daves contest runs were next level, and forced riders to adapt or fall behind, and thats why he was so dominant for such a long time. Then Bestwick took it to another level again. I really love what you're doing with the channel, keep it up man.
as a new school kid who loves mid/old school stuff and metal music i completely agree with the statement about bmx lacking personality for the most part. the transition riding scene nowadays is what's keeping that somewhat alive. every single transition rider i've seen has had a different style to each other which makes the riders more memorable and they all do sick shit dress cool and listen to heavy ass shit. this is what gravitated me towards the transition riding scene. i've never saw someone's bike and thought "damn i want my bike to look like that". i don't think bmx nowadays is totally boring because you can see cool shit if you look in the right places. watch the 1030D full length video or any fast and loose video/video part and you'll see why i love the transition riding scene.
This might sound like a very ignorant thing to say to some people, but anytime, four nations invest money in training people to do a sport that is for profit, the love of the sport is not in that culture, and they will never truly appreciate the reasons why people are drawn to it organically. I’m gonna say I’m psyched to see some of the Japanese riders, especially the flatland guys. I thought this year’s xgames was fantastic and those guys have my respect, however, a lot of these other guys that started riding, started doing it on their own as children and it progressed from there, they didn’t have their parents push them into a sport I think culturally, it’s just different, people where I’m from ride, BMX bikes and skateboard because they want to do it. Essentially it cost them money to do so where is a lot of other people look at this is something to be made money from. People that love the sport will give to it people who practice it for profit or just looking to take and take. Realistically, all of the legends of the sport and the personalities that people in the sport who love it just for the sport itself end up being legends and all the guys that do it for money end up, fading away when they get a little bit younger and slower. Honestly, I don’t give a shit about X games or any other large sporting event. The same way I don’t care about organize mixed martial arts, if a spontaneous fistfight occurs in a parking lot I will be very interested and I will enjoy it however, I’m not paying for the pleasure of a manufactured event.
Thanks for watching and sharing your thoughts, I definitely agree with you on several points. For a lot of us that got into BMX in the early 90's we did it because we had no interest in organized sports or being part of a team or being "coached". BMX was counter-culture and more about the creative freedom than the competitive aspect.
Bro you r say what I've been thinking for years 👏👏👏
I miss the diversity of personalities, bikes and style in BMX that were so prevalent in the mid era.
If you looked at a riders styles, their bike set up and how they presented themselves, it was easily recognisable that they from the East/West Coast, Nor-Cal, Florida, Vegas, Mid West, Arizona, Utah, Texas, New York etc.
It was so cool that BMX gave everyone from hugley different backgrounds the opportunity to coexist.
The nick-names were goofy as hell, but kinda fun at the same time. It was cool that they had their own unique title that everyone knew them by. Even the nicknames that werent really nicknames EG. How many Michael's have been in BMX over the years, heaps, but when you say "Mikey" everyone knew it was Aitken.
The pro rider/metal parallel was a cool angle for the vid.
I even called a couple band/rider combo, before you said it, so we're on the same level.
The bit you said about Jay and Dave, was on point. Jay was such a badass and threw down some of the heaviest tricks, but also did a bunch of set up airs or sat on the deck getting his breath back.
Dave did fuckin awesome tricks too, but he was so dialed (and fit) that he did it on every wall of the vert ramp and used up every second of his run. Dave made the judges life simple, he was a clear winner. The TV execs and brand managers loved it and ate that shit up
Daves contest runs were next level, and forced riders to adapt or fall behind, and thats why he was so dominant for such a long time. Then Bestwick took it to another level again.
I really love what you're doing with the channel, keep it up man.
Don't know why Brian Castillo and Jason Enns didn't make this list. They road everything, fast and technical.
as a new school kid who loves mid/old school stuff and metal music i completely agree with the statement about bmx lacking personality for the most part. the transition riding scene nowadays is what's keeping that somewhat alive. every single transition rider i've seen has had a different style to each other which makes the riders more memorable and they all do sick shit dress cool and listen to heavy ass shit. this is what gravitated me towards the transition riding scene. i've never saw someone's bike and thought "damn i want my bike to look like that". i don't think bmx nowadays is totally boring because you can see cool shit if you look in the right places. watch the 1030D full length video or any fast and loose video/video part and you'll see why i love the transition riding scene.
awesome video man, keep up the good bmx content
As soon as I saw the title of this video I was like "Oh a video about Nasty" 🤣 good stuff, bro
Pretty sad ending to Dave Mirras life. The man is a legend
This might sound like a very ignorant thing to say to some people, but anytime, four nations invest money in training people to do a sport that is for profit, the love of the sport is not in that culture, and they will never truly appreciate the reasons why people are drawn to it organically.
I’m gonna say I’m psyched to see some of the Japanese riders, especially the flatland guys. I thought this year’s xgames was fantastic and those guys have my respect, however, a lot of these other guys that started riding, started doing it on their own as children and it progressed from there, they didn’t have their parents push them into a sport
I think culturally, it’s just different, people where I’m from ride, BMX bikes and skateboard because they want to do it. Essentially it cost them money to do so where is a lot of other people look at this is something to be made money from. People that love the sport will give to it people who practice it for profit or just looking to take and take.
Realistically, all of the legends of the sport and the personalities that people in the sport who love it just for the sport itself end up being legends and all the guys that do it for money end up, fading away when they get a little bit younger and slower.
Honestly, I don’t give a shit about X games or any other large sporting event. The same way I don’t care about organize mixed martial arts, if a spontaneous fistfight occurs in a parking lot I will be very interested and I will enjoy it however, I’m not paying for the pleasure of a manufactured event.
Thanks for watching and sharing your thoughts, I definitely agree with you on several points. For a lot of us that got into BMX in the early 90's we did it because we had no interest in organized sports or being part of a team or being "coached". BMX was counter-culture and more about the creative freedom than the competitive aspect.
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7 minutes in and we have really gotten nowhere I’m out dude lol good topic tho
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