You know when you and your friends are riding and filming the topic of “we should make a video” has probably come up at some point or another. Most of the time, it is all talk and never happens, then a lot of the time the video doesn’t turn out all that good and nothing happens, and then theres what happens with this, the video turns out good and it is all fun and real relaxed.

I got the chance to review the No Bikes DVD Four Corners. I am really glad I had a chance to see it, I have been hearing stuff about it through Bikeguide’s forum for a while. I was real excited to see Matt Dessons part too since hes a pretty frequent poster on there and his riding is always pretty good.

What I was most shocked to find out is that this vide is their 6th video, so they have been getting stuff done for a long time now. This video is real cool too because there is riding in Alaska, Florida, Tiawan, and British Columbia. This means there is a lot of different spots.

So here are my notes right below here.

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The video’s intro starts out and I immediately got a good vibe from the video, I knew it was going to bring a relaxed feel to it that was just people having fun.

The riders in this video shocked me, I seriously only have heard about Matt Desson and that was about it but a few other guys really stood out. Desson is on 1664.
The first person who stood out was Travis Sexsmith the dude goes so big, and is real smooth. Im surprised that kid is not more heard of. Travis is on Macneil flow.

There was a guy with big hub gaurds who had a bunch of really interesting he had a style that stood out to me for a fair share of the video.

Throughout the video there was clips of something you never see, they built a box jump out of plywood and snow, I mean this wasn’t a huge shock to me since I have experienced winter, but they have some random clips of it throughout the video, real good.
The video starts with a mix of a lot of different riders doing their thing, the riding is pretty solid too. A lot of the mixed sections, I kept thinking they were going to be a persons part with the big name, but I guess not haha.

There is a dude named Gooch in this video. This guy rides real good, and has the coolest name ever. I think there needs to be more gooches in this world. well, at least the name wise an riding wise.

The first part is Mat Ridgeway and Ryan Hiebert- Opposites attract to make good parts. Mat is more of a flow style guy who throws the occasional barspin, whip, and flip. He mostly just goes fast and big. Ryan is the kind of more tech, a lot of barspins and whips, real street and park dog. Had really clean tricks that were very consistant.

Aaron Gates is the dude who made the dvd, he made the video, is going to probably get a lot of hate from the “anonymous” crew since he rides with a helmet most of the time. I have a lot of respect for him for wearing a helmet I wish I was smart enough to do that. He had some good riding and also made the video real good.

Brian Prince- He had a lot of bad crashs getting footage for his part, shows, but he has a lot of good riding that mixes between slower street tricks and then had some real big tricks, real good tuck no handers.

Wayne Anasogak, spelled his name real wrong is my notes.. This dude has some real clean 3’s and pretty solid style. The street guys will like this part.
Marlo Karjala- Has a real good slam in the beginning doing a 180 over a rail, and also does one of the fastest whips I have seen over a tiny hip.
Matt Desson- This kid has tricks after tricks, real good, flips, whips, barspins
and is capable of doing them on street, dirt, and park, so he is an all around good… I thought he was on Seshin?

The video ends with David Clay, this dude is wild. This kid has all the tricks, did a big 180 barspin over a bench, front flips, 3 backflips?, all sorts of wild tricks. This guy scares the crap out of me, why? Because he rides brakeless. Scary!

The bonus part is good, a Alaska mix, Dvx mix, Crash section, slide show, and a bunch of other good stuff, theres about 25 minutes of bonus stuff. I really liked that. There was a clip of one dude riding on the shoulders of another dude on a bike, while holding his bike.. yeah try and imagine that one. He then gets closelined by a tree which was real funny haha.

The riding overall was good, they have a lot of fun. The guys all must push each other to ride better because they all are capable of some big, and difficult riding. Real stoked on how a bunch of guys who are stuck in a not so rideable place make it work for them.

The filming was pretty smooth and quality, they used a dvx to film so it isn’t some cheap consumer camera getting the clips. The colors were good too. On the editing side, it is aparent Aaron has made a few videos in his day, he makes it flow together real good, no clips that didn’t get cut right or anything. High five on that one.

The music is good because of a big reason I have, it was right in the middle. There wasn’t any heavy metal raaaaw! type stuff where you can’t even understand the dude singing, and there was no main stream rap music, it was all more unheard of and lower key bands and artists. I really liked that, and it was something that I think takes talent. That is finding music and not just going for whats hot.

Overall I think the DVD was good stuff, it has a great vibe and worth checking out.
If you are interested you can get more info on the DVD at NoBikes.com

For even more information on the DVD check out the interview I did with Aaron to get more info going on the dvd for you kids..

and here is the trailers..

Four Corners Trailer from no bikes on Vimeo.
(original trailer)

four corners, out now from no bikes on Vimeo.
(Newer Trailer)

The Come Up is on the top of the BMX websites, and when there was word of a dvd coming out, I couldn’t believe all the different reactions people had. I really don’t see why so many people hate on new things, people they don’t know, and everything. However, there was also A LOT of really excited people who wanted to see this DVD, including me. When Adam asked if I wanted a copy I was stoked, so I am doing this review.

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Now if your on the message boards and everything, I am sure you saw a few days ago somebody uploaded the video to google, which sucked, but I peeped it for a few minutes to get a feel for it and couldn’t wait for mine to come. It is down now so you gotta buy a copy to see it.

The DVD is 46 minutes long and like 23 minutes of bonus stuff. So when I was watching this I wrote stuff down to remind me what I wanted to say.

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To start the DVD out, it shows a little of what to come, and then a big 3 crash on some stairs where the dude walked away, but I guess he messed up his spleen or something? Alex Platt is real good, to be honest I never knew who he was until this dvd came out and I have a feeling people will see a lot more of him. He has the first part.

Then it is followed up by the DOTC trip, which is Adam and his friends, JJ Palmere, Hoang Tran. Hoang does the slowest, longest curved wall I have ever seen. Some dude does a Berringer style backflip out of a grass bank, and the riding in general is just good a lot of bangers.

Ben Hittle is good, his style is great and he rides really fast. His last clip is of a backwards manual, which I think is probably the longest I have ever seen without a freecoaster.

The Sputnic section is good, a lot of good stuff from Tony Malouf and Tony Neyer, they even have a lot from Casey Strong who was just added to the team.

The Bonedeth guys are wild, I’m assuming you have to have a big sprocket to be in their group, but thats not a bad thing.. Pretty gnarly drop off a U-Haul into a grass bank.

Nicky B is a guy I have never heard of, has a interesting style but good, Joof is another unknown who has clips in it, he rips! I want to see more of him.

MassBMX part was cool they seem to be a pretty tight crew a lot of different styles.

Shadow part, Seth Kimbrough and Karl Poynter, enough said, well actually, Karl does the longest tire slide in the history of tire slides. I laughed a lot everytime I saw the guy filming in the roller blades.

Steve Croteau..I don’t know about this guy. Could have had a better part from somebody else, luckily there was a mix with Lino Gonzales and some others in it.

Shitluck is awesome, they have a lot of fun. There was a lot of random clips of people, like the fatest cop (or security gaurd probably) in the world. Good riding of course.

JJ Palmere…You know this is good… He hopped over a sleeping dude on a bench, didn’t he do that in his props bio?

Yeah Savage trip, Ben Hittle rides trails like a champ, and Alex Platt takes slams like Kachinsky, you will like this.

Credits were good, funny clips of ghetto girls and other things.

Bonus- Adam has a short part at the end, he rides better than 99% of the Annonymous shit talkers on his site. A bunch of companys have parts which are good, and then Spam has a part, double pedal grind? awesome.
Crashes, Slideshow, and Baltimore DC trip all have good stuff worth checking out, the slide show really shows what the BMX lifestyle is like.

There I just summed up all of the parts from my notes.

Filming and editing: The filming was smooth and easy to watch, and the editing was chill, no special effects or anything really like that.

Music: I was reading other peoples responses to the music and I think people are too opinionated and stuck to their favorite music. I really liked it, it had a little of everything and it went with the riding. I figured it was going to be bad from all the e-thugs talking bad, they were wrong.

Overall: This video is good, Adam has a lot of people he can get to be apart of a video, and that was just it.. a BIG variety of riders that makes it super fun to watch. I am not a big street dude, however, I still was into the video, I think it was just a good feel for everyone that was apart of it. That makes the video have a good feel to watch. One of those videos you want to go ride after watching.

I think this video has been a long time coming and finally it is out. I guess this is where I should say buy it or don’t? .. Seriously, there are a lot of people out there who hate the come up because it is “the come up,” and I think people should change their attitude at least so they can check out a pretty solid video. $15 bucks isn’t a lot of money for a something you will watch more than once for sure. Buy it, you will not be disappointed.

You can pick a copy up at:
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I was thinking about something I use all the time that I could give an honest review on today, and then I thought about my Ipod and how I always have it with me. Then I got thinking about my headphones. I have been rocking these JVC gumy headphones since my Ipod ones that came with it died out on me. I am on my 3rd pair as of this week and I am not really sure why I bought them again.

The good- These headphones are great! I am not going to lie, they are cheap ($10 at best buy), comfortable, good quality comes out of them, and they come in a bunch of really cool colors that stand out. I have been rocking the green ones until I got the blue ones earlier this week. People noticed I changed colors too( I usually have my buds hanging out of my shirt all day if I am not listening to them) so they do stand out a lot. Alfredo better be stoked because it gets a lot of girls attentions too.

The Bad- Theres a reason why I have bought 3 pairs, the cables shit out. On my first pair one headphone wasnt working because the wire got cut a little bit by the bud, and its annoying only being able to hear one 1 side. My second pair, I think from my ipod being dropped pulled the cables from the plug in out a little, so once again one headphone died out on me.

So in reality, if you dont drop your ipod or get the wires cut up, they are pretty solid and pretty cool. Plus for $10 you dont feel so bad replacing them if they break after 2 months, I mean I have seen parts on bikes worth 10 times as much die out faster than that. If I had to rate them out of 10.. I would give them a 7.5/10 just because I wish they didn’t break on me like that.

So while I am trying to come up with some more interviews (Mike Saavedra one soon!) I figured I will give you something worth while to read, maybe?
So I am currently going to college so when I was getting ready to go back this year I needed to get a bag. I remembered seeing stuff on Nyquist’s bag from OGIO. So I looked into it and I really liked what I saw so I got it. I appologize if this review sucks, I have never done one so I am kind of winging it?

What you get:
The bag seriously is great, tons of room for anythng you need, I can fit 3 books and a laptop in the main compartment, with plenty of room to spare, then the front pocket.
In the front compartment there is places for pencils, tools, smaller items like keys, cell phone, and all of that good stuff.
The big compartment has a pocket for your laptop to keep it in place and not moving around to get roughed up. With plenty of the space for books, pads, whatever. In the top of the main compartment there is an mp3 pocket with a headphone hole to come through, it s real good stuff.
The bag its self is very study and strong, good materials are put into it for sure. The shoulder straps are really comfy and I guess they are specially designed? so you know it works out. The bag stays in place real well too when its on your back it doesnt slip or bounce around much which is great esspecially if your riding with it on your back..
I have only had the bag about 2 months and I really haven’t found any cons which probably makes this review a little weird but yeah.

so check out the bag on OGIO’s website!

Plus if you search around on the net you can get it for a good price, I got mine around $65, but I see you could get it some places for $40 on amazon? I dont know you should look into it if your looking for a bag.
Oh it also comes in Black/gold (the one I got),a green, and white..