In July Ten Pack swung by D-Structure shop in Ste-Julie, Quebec with Chijioke Okafo, Greg Henry, Chris Silva and Jordane Dubois for their annual Block Party Jam. Phil and everyone at D-Structure put on a dope parking lot jam.
If you’ve been paying attention to BMX in Canada, or BMX anywhere for that matter, you’ve likely heard of Andrew Schubert and John Alden in the past couple years. It’s pretty easy to detect how much fun these guys have riding their bikes on whatever they happen to be riding any given day. We hit up these two humble Calgary boys to get to know them a bit better and see what they’ve been up to as of late.
One of Toronto’s finest, Chijo Okafo, getting shit done in this new summer Volume edit. Filmed and edited by Peter Almeida.
This is one way to start your Monday morning. Autumn brings changes like the drop in temperature and colour of the leaves, and young groms from the skatepark to the streets it seems. Rayden Wickdrop filmed and edited this solid new video of Nathan Hines. That last move doe.
Essential listening for your weekend.
We are stoked to bring you this Mason Gray edit from the DWOK crew. Starts off with a chopped and screwed version of our intro in to some smooth soul. Filmed and edited by Jack Leonard. Mixtape out soon, kid.
Calgary’s BMX Gallery 4130 wrapped up their Ride To Glory contest earlier this summer, and we finally got our act together to put together an announcement of the winning videos and challenges. If you aren’t familiar with it, you can read the event details here and a copy of the task sheet here. It sounds like the contest got a lot of riders and crews involved from across the country, and hopefully next year will be even bigger. Check out the breakdown of the top seven winners with their videos, and some of the contest challenges after the jump, and you can check out a lot of videos and photos from during the filming of the contest with the #bg4130r2g hashtag. Big thank you to BMX Gallery 4130 for putting on a fun contest like this and opening it up to riders all across the country.
Ryan Antle sent over this trailer for the upcoming St. John’s scene video The Stranded Video, and I’m a sucker for a strong local scene production. This is the first full length video from their area since Hiatus in 2005, and it’s great to see such a range of ages and talent in this trailer alone. The video will be premiering at Turndown this fall and then online shortly after. We’ll post more details about the premiere party when we have them.
I will disclose that I was on this trip and did the bulk of the filming (aim your comments about shakey camera work towards me), but will say that the few days we spent on the road were extremely productive, frustrating, and fun. We were constantly avoiding the rain, spent a day at a shop jam at D-Structure (that video is coming soon), and spent just about an entire day at the hospital after Dillon Lloyd crashed hard on what was the scariest attempt that I have ever witnessed. Despite all of that, our crew of Greg Henry, Chris Silva, and Chijioke Okafo were incredibly motivated to ride just about anything and I had a blast cruising around Montreal again and showing spots in my hometown (Ottawa). We drove, we searched, we rode, we partied, and we swam. Everything that a good trip should have. You can find a few photos from the trip here too.