30 Dec Video Round Up: 2023
In a world of 15-second Instagram clips and constant social media churn, here’s a silver platter of Canadian BMX videos from 2023. This is the Northern Embassy’s Video Round Up. Happy New Year!
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22 Feb Video Round Up (2022.2)
In a world of 15-second Instagram clips and constant social media churn, here’s a silver platter of Canadian BMX videos from recent months. This is the Northern Embassy’s Video Round Up.
15 Dec Greg Flag Atlantis BMX Vancouver Battle of the Birds
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Christmas came early for all you blockheads who didn’t grab a copy of Atlantis‘ Battle of the Birds dvd. For the rest of us, as if we needed any excuse to re-watch Greg Flag footage. Love you Gergy
03 Nov #TBT MacNeil Northwest
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Today we feature a special TBT which had been lost from the world wide web recently. Dating back to Summer 2010, the Macneil team started in Vancouver, and headed as far south as Portland, making the most of a week in the Northwest. Featuring Jaumell Campbell, Dillon Lloyd, Greg Flag, Chris Silva, Chris Martindale, Harrison Boyce and Travis Collier, this productive trip definitely looked and felt longer than a week. Besides the riding there were a ton of antics along the way, Silva ended up messing up his ankle really badly but kept in high spirits, a young Dillon Lloyd kept everyone laughing along the way. Just remember, dogs don’t tell
Peep a photo gallery from the trip on defgrip here
04 May MacNeil Spring Mix
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MacNeil’s back at it with a glitchy take on spring. Some solid riding from Amos Franke, Chris Silva, Shawn Franz, Greg Flag and Gabe Truax.
25 Jan Downward Spiral
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Cache purge of footage from the PNW including Vancouver, Victoria and Portland.
Amos Franke, Zach Rampen, Thomas Arden, Colin Fried, Adam Piatek, Brandon Van Dulken, Orlando, Slade Scherer, Matt Desson, Barrett Skylerchuk, James Dean, Jordan Fair, Taylor Elvy, Duke Thompson-Kurz, Swerve, Jeff Jeglum, Andy Roode, Nik Lindstrom, Braden Barnard, Owen Dawson, Nigel Sapriken, Andrew Gobbo, Greg Flag, Kris Conn and Sean Cooke
By Oh So Visual
Audio by Eh Roy and MOSFETT
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11 Jan RIP Bowie
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It’s a sad day as we awake to the news of legendary David Bowie passing. Bowie’s music was and still is undoubtedly enjoyed by many BMXers in the world and paved the way to some legendary parts including Kevin Kiraly in Deadline, Greg Flag’s Presence part, Shawn Franz’ welcome to MacNeil section below and so many more. RIP Ziggy
30 Dec DVD Review: Atlantis Vancouver “Battle of the Birds”
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Atlantis Vancouver have had a busy year; from opening the brick and mortar, stacking the team, hosting jams/ TAIFs, a team trip to Victoria and now dropping a dvd: ‘Battle of the Birds‘.
Although he’s humble about it, Orlando is the man behind Atlantis and he’s the reason all of this has happened. If you also didn’t know, Orlando owns and operates The Make, in between holding the shop down 7 days a week and riding as much as possible. Orlando is truly making a difference in the Vancouver scene.
Battle of the Birds is a film which anyone who has ever rode street should enjoy. It is also a film which should motivate anyone who hasn’t rode Vancouver before to make the trip. The overall vibe of the film makes you feel as if you are out cruising with the sip city crew, but don’t be fooled, it’s not too mellow by any means. With guys like Hango, Carl, Greg Flag, Andrew Schubert, Matt Desson, Luke Santucci, in the mix, you know it’s banging.
Hango starts off and shuts the DVD down in typical Hango fashion. The expression “dude has no chill” likely started based on Hango riding a bike. Without spoiling it, Hango’s ender is something which I truthfully don’t know if anyone but Hango could do, and in casual Hango fashion. The world has needed more Greg Flag footage for some time now and Battle of the Birds comes through with a good amount. Greg makes everything look too easy in Greg fashion. Carl Arnett also has some insane high speed stuff and an eye for different stunts on new and old spots. There’s also a ton of other Vancouver shredders who really come through with some awesome clips (Jeff Evans, Dave Scott, Ryan Hiebert, Orlando, Brad Hill, Andy Roode and more). One of my personal favorite clips of the film is Dave Scott’s bar to manual downtown that is filmed flawlessly and really screams Vancouver.
Although Vancouver has been criticized for “blown out” spots over the years, “Battle of the Birds” proves that to be wrong with lots of new and old spots used in different ways. These guys are searching and finding.
The only negative aspect of this dvd that I can think of is the fact that it is limited to 200 copies. If you don’t have a copy yet, there’s a good chance there’s not many left to cop so don’t sleep on it!! Atlantis are selling the dvd for $0.01 (or free if you spend $19.99 in the web store), cop one here and grab a couple other items while your at it to support a dude who is truly making a difference for BMX in Vancouver/ Canada.
While waiting for the mail to arrive, re-watch Atlantis’ Lost City:
27 Nov Atlantis Battle of the Birds DVD Hype
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“The first Atlantis Vancouver DVD is done entitled “Battle of the Birds”
Featuring:
Jordan Hango, Greg Flag, Carl Arnett, Owen Dawson, Andrew Schubert, Matt Desson, Luke Santucci & Brad Hill
Plus many more.
23 mins long filmed entirely in BC Canada
Premiere at Atlantis Vancouver Saturday 12th December, 7-10pm
200 limited edition DVDs available from 12th December. Free with any purchase of $20 or more in store or online.
See you all on the 12th” Atlantis