If your in the Vancouver/Surrey surroundings this week be sure to head out to the MacNeil/Ten Pack Jam at Chuck bailey park (13458-107A Ave, Surrey) on Wednesday from 5pm-8pm. Weather is looking good (which is rare for January) and there’s going to be a BBQ, music, Animal’s new QSS4 DVD premiere and a good ass time. MacNeil/Ten Pack homies Andy Roode, Greg Flag, Jeff Evans, Luke Santucci, Adam Piatek, Ryan Hiebert and more homies will be in attendance.
The second amazing edits to get your weekend started right. Jason Enns still killing it and doing Canada proud. We’re jealous of your Cali weather Jason, but thanks for this amazing edit. It gets us even more stoked for spring.
This is as awesome as awesome gets, Surrey Steve just posted up this legendary part of Chris Smith and Rob Parsons from crazy shit 3 in the Hevil Premiere event on facebook. Chris and Rob are legendary Canadian shredders and this edit shows just that, killing shit for so long now and still shredding today. Check back soon for a feature on the Hevil dvd and mark your calendar for the Canadian Hevil premiere on Jan. 25th at the Astoria in Vancouver.
Quick one from Trevor Angelucci: “What to do when there is almost two and a half feet of snow out your door step? We’ll driving an hour from town to town don’t seem too bad an idea…”
Today is a sad day in Canadian BMX, legendary Canadian rider Chris Silva has decided to put an end to 3 years of Sour Fever. Chris accomplished alot with Sour Fever. It’s quite amazing for a small Canadian clothing company to put out countless web edits, print over 700 pieces of clothing, hook up a stacked team of Canadian shredders, sponsor Canadian events/contests (including our Summer of Fun contest) and even put out full length DVD. It’s safe to say Chris did things right and gave back as much as he could to Canadian BMX. For all the info and for Chris’ top 10 Sour Fever blog posts click here.
To an outsider, the Maritimes have always had an awesome scene. Back in the day, one of the highlights of that scene was a series of videos created by Chris Nicholas. Chris was an awesome rider – he bombed huge rails, rode impossible pools, and in Deadline (2003?) he did a 5050 to second stage over crooked – maybe the first one. Chris was also one of the first videographers I knew of who used a DVX100 for bmx, and he was always doing interesting things with still cameras. Production wise, Hiatus was far ahead of its time. The motion graphics were dialed, the filming was on point, and the whole thing had a polished look that was unique and just really cool. All this was happening in 2005, in Newfoundland, for a local scene video.
The St. John’s BMX series introduced many of us to two big names in Canadian BMX – Jeff Evans and Phil Bartlett. In Deadline, Phil looked like he was ten years old. Two years later, in Hiatus, Phil had grown two feet taller and it was unclear that he was even the same guy. Jeff was also pretty young in these videos; he brought East Coast street style reminiscent of riders far to the south of him and totally owned the opposite grind variations of the time.
Chris has a long and detailed post on the history of their video series (including all of the videos in full) here: The St. John’s BMX Tetrology. He also took the time to answer a few questions about their scene of ten years ago and what it was like growing up riding in Canada’s most isolated province. Check that out after the link.
A bunch of us were back in Kelowna over the holidays and it was too cold to ride, so we went skateboarding. Only a couple of us know how to skate; it was fun though. Big thanks to The Bakery for hooking up the session.
We hit up Brodie for some info on his Bad 4 Life release: Let’s Get Fistical. Read on for what went into the film and how to get a copy/ support Canadian bmx!
Pretty much all across the country people are dealing with terrible weather, so I dug up this photo of Sean Cooke doing a smith grind last year in Spain to remind us that it’s not so icy everywhere and it will always get better. There is light at the end of the tunnel.
