Brandon Webster with a new video for Odyssey with nothing but outdoor footage. Last line was smooooth.
All stoner jokes aside, here are a couple edits from 420 jams that occurred just 10 days ago in different parts of the country. Above is a quick edit from a jam that happened in Edmonton, AB at the Callingwood Skatepark, filmed by Richard Harding and edited by Jared Chilko. Below is a video from the annual BMXFU 420 Jam, held in Niagara Falls, ON with a crazy roof drop at the end. Rastafarian colours and smoke clips abound.
Spring is finally here, and for many people across the country that also means pool season. This is your short window in the year to find, drain, clean, and ride a pool. Whenever I think of riding pools I think back to the spring of 2009 when I lived in Ottawa and a small group of dedicated friends (with Jeff Bedard leading the charge) were on a quest to ride as many pools as they could. This blue number in particular was one of the few missions I was lucky enough to tag along on. While we are talking about pools, go back and visit the Green Acres Pool Party video and story that Riley did last June.
Whenever I go through some of our older videos, I always end up on this edit from Jared Chilko we brought you in 2012. At the time, a lot of people’s idea of Jared’s riding was rooted in a handful of Edmonton area skateparks, clicked lookbacks, and big airs out of quarters (as did I). When he approached us about releasing this video he made for his at-the-time sponsor we enthusiastically said yes, and it was hugely different. Short and sweet, full of interesting set ups, pedal ices (the shot of the long one on the flat ledge is fantastic), strong filming, well edited, and good music. You can’t go wrong.
I was emailing with Justin Schwanke recently about some ideas, and he briefly mentioned suffering a collapsed lung. I certainly hadn’t expected to hear that, and asked him to elaborate on this experience. Everyone gets injured at some point, and sometimes it isn’t the result of anything to do with your bike, but the frustration of not being able to ride (or do much of anything) is all the same. He eloquently typed up the details of his spontaneous collapsed lung, how he coped with it, and some realizations he made about his BMX pursuits, so we thought we’d share it with you. You can read the full thing after the link, and look for some more stuff with Justin Schwanke on here in the near future. Take care of your body folks.
Kyle Smail brings us the fourth instalment of his Smay Vision video series. He released this DVD in 2013 and has now uploaded it in its entirety for the internet to see. Last year when we posted SV3 there was a lot of riding that we were blown away by, and this video is no different. Pour yourself a cup of coffee, clear your next 36 minutes, enjoy it, and look for SV5 to come late this year.
Smay Vision 4 is a crew video filmed over the summer of 2013 featuring the personalities of Andrew Coulas, Jordan Demetroff, Jason Kearnan, Smay, Josh Corner, Jason Kearnan, Spencer Ryan and a bunch of fellow friends. Filmed entirely between Peterborough to Toronto, everybody in this video put in alot of work to make sure they pumped out a great section. Thanks a ton to everyone that hucked, helped and bought a DVD in order to support this project! SV5 filming in progress, DVD’s still available of SV4 featuring loads of bonus goodies.
– Kyle Smail
Some light viewing material for you on this Saturday morning. Two very different videos. Justin Schwanke (above) from Alberta with some interesting freecoaster moves in a tight garage ramp that he rode over the winter. Nasty Boys (below after the link) riding Toronto’s Ashbridges plaza on a nice warm day. Oh glory, spring is here.
Could it be? This short video of Steve Moxley just surfaced. You be the judge…
Some heat out of Montreal from the Imported crew. It’s Quebec in the winter time, so as to be expected it’s all indoor footage from Le Taz, but there’s a big mix of riders in this including: Jordane Dubois, Dillon Lloyd, Justin Hughes, Vlad Poloukhine, Turik Koulaev, Dave Dodier, Max Dumais, Graham Bird, Nick B, Kevin Girard, Carlos, Deleon, Camilo and Joel Marchand.