Monday, October 31, 2011

Selfies

I crashed the other day and my hip is a bit jacked up so I'm resting in hopes that i'll be good enough to ride street next week in Down Town Paris with my Boy Pierre. Having said that I literally have nothing to report riding wise at the moment.

In the mean time please enjoy this photo of a lovely Asian couple taking selfies to a whole new level. As practical as this may be, deep down you're still lame haha





Saturday, October 22, 2011

Hungary for spots...ahhhh


Hungary was by far my favorite part of Eastern Europe. I managed to meet some locals and they showed me around which was awesome. The guy on the far right of the picture below is Kevin, he's bullshit good at bikes. Here is an older edit of his which doesn't really do his riding justice but anyway:


This rail was fun but both the run up and landing were pretty shit.


Gnarly axel/frame breakage on an up rail attempt...

Downtown street plaza made for fun hangouts and a good place to meet

I also attended a jam which was fun and I competed too which I never normally do and for good reason haha Even though this was relaxed as fuck I think i'll stick to filming on the streets.


Bad ass ledge...
As far as non riding activities go we went to a thermal bath, these are pretty rad and I ran into a girl I went to high school with here too. Pretty crazy.

We also stayed on a boat for a week, it was a 3 star hotel that happened to be cheaper than some backpacking hostels places we looked at.


Thanks to all the locals who took care of me especially Viktor Bako, the dude is the man in Budapest he knows everyone an he's super nice too. Below is and edit featuring him and some other dudes. Personally it's a bit corporate for my taste but it gives you an idea of what Viktor's capable of on a bike.


We're now in Salzburg and damn it's cold, and it's not even officially winter yet.

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Czech yourself before you wreck yourself

We stayed in Prague, Czech Republic for 4 days and to be honest the city was cool but the people were not. I've seriously never met people so uninterested in everything, I even got pretty majorly champ attacked on a flat rail by some local kids, what's depressing is that one of them was actually really good. I've seen champing take place more times than I care to remember on transitions but to see it come from one of my fellow street brothers was a bit of a reality Czech. Never the less we Czeched out Mystic Skatepark which I'd seen in videos before and it really is as fun to ride as it looks.


This place is almost completely dominated by skaters, nearly all of them are super good too. It's really fun to watch, I have the upmost respect for good skaters who give respect back to the bmx community. I really don't see why we can't all peacefully coexist, not everybody shares my view, but, all this skater vs bmxer shit needs to stop in my opinion. Most local skaters here were pretty chilled out, you really just have to Czech before you roll out onto the course.


Concrete jersey barrier down ledge, Czech!


Czech out that spilt level.


That's all for now, remember to Czech back every couple of days for more Euro goodness. Sorry I know this post was terrible.

Friday, October 7, 2011

Vocko comes through!

I would just like to say a quick congratulations to my boys Mike Vockenson and Stephen Joseph (photographer) for scoring the cover of issue 41 of 2020 bmx magazine. For those of you who don't personally know Mike let me assure you he is one of the most down to earth, laid back and talented dudes in the Australian BMX scene right now. For some of you younger kids out there (not all), but some, let me school you on a few things. Many of you are 'fully sik' at doing tail whips but you fail miserably at being a pleasant person to be around. As well as being extremely talented, friendly and approachable Mike has, perhaps most importantly, respect for other people. He is a walking example of just how far you can get in life with such qualities. So take note and expect to see even more big things from Mike in the future. I'm stoked to call Michael my friend, congrats again mate!



Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Germany


We left Germany yesterday and to be honest It was pretty cool! I didn't quite know what to expect but all in all we had a good time. I would like to thank everybody who helped us out along the way, you guys know who you all are. Below are a few photos from our time there.

I know it's cliche as fuck but Oktoberfest was a whole mess of fun, despite us spending most of time sinking piss with Australian and English back packers...


This was upsetting...


Berlin Skate Hall proved to be a fun session despite my 'old mate' lower back pain paying me a visit the next day. I hate it when that cunt shows up...



Built to be ridden?

And lastly a picture of me and my special lady that no BMXers are interested in except me haha

We're now in Prague, Czech Republic, which is proving to be a quite under rated city. More posts coming soon.

Monday, October 3, 2011

Slack

I know I've been slacking on posting lately, but things are about to get back to normal.
Here's a Iphone edit we made at our amazing south of france prefab parks...not



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