All photos and captions by Josh McElwee
This bank-to-bank setup is a lot more difficult to ride than it looks. James Harvey managed to overcome the slippery and steep surface with a dipped toboggan.
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Over the weekend, Odyssey opened up the doors to their private ramp setup for a good cause. They did their own Toys for Tots drive to help get donations for local kids in need of a little Christmas cheer. A bunch of people turned out, tons of toys were raised and some real good riding went down. Check the video!
“The nice people at Odyssey held a little jam where the only rule is that you had to bring a toy for their Toys For Tots bin. Bunnyhop contests, raffles, and random good times throughout the day. Here’s some highlights featuring Broc Raiford, Kevin Kiraly, Kyle Hart, Hoang Tran, and plenty more.” – Ride BMX
Photo: Matt Coplon
If you caught the Dillon Leeper interview we dropped yesterday, you would know we have a bit of a Leeper week going on up in here! After years of hearing stories about the two brothers, we finally decided it was time to get ahold of these guys to find out all about what they are about! This time around we caught up with the big brother, Shane, to get his side of the story! Check out what he had to say!
Name: Shane Leeper
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Photo: Shane Leeper
One of the biggest and best things about doing this site is being able to introduce you guys to people you might not know much about or even I know about. Over the years I’ve probably heard about the Leeper brothers dozens of times and been asked if I had ever met them just as often. Honestly, all I knew is that they were brothers and they both rip on their bikes from different videos and photos that have surfaced over the years. Otherwise, I really didn’t know a whole lot more, but was definitely interested in finding out.
Recently Matt Coplon sent through a few photos of the two and the curiosity got to me and I knew I had to get ahold of these guys to find out just what they were about. So I’m stoked that today is part one of a two parter featuring interviews with both Dillon and Shane. Below you can find out all about Dillon, so let’s get into this!
Name: Dillon Leeper
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Biz, Rooftop and Jason Enns do some rad old school tricks while bringing up a issue with the youth that should have been addressed long ago: kids not having a clue about the proper name of tricks. It started with the wave of young guns calling bunnyhops “J-hops” and has only gotten worse from there.
During Texas Toast, Freegun threw a bunnyhop contest to see who had the most pop. It was open to everyone, but as you can imagine, Broc Raiford wasn’t quite ready to give up his title. Take a look at what went down!
“Freegun BMX Bunnyhop Contest at Texas Toast 2013!!
Odyssey BMX’s Texas Toast Jam is the most hardcore BMX contest out there, and this year Freegun Underwear was proud to present the highest bunnyhop competition. In between the dirt and street finals on Sunday thousands of riders and fans lined the sides of the custom Freegun height meter to see who would get the highest hop of the day and win the $500 prize. When the dust settled, Odyssey’s very own Broc Raiford scored the win for the third year in a row with a monstrous 50″ hop! Congrats, Broc!“
This past weekend, Effraim Catlow brought the legendary U.K contest, The King of Concrete, back to the Southsea skatepark! It sounds like it was a big success and based on what we’ve seen from footage that has surfaced over the course of the week, it was loaded with good times and real good riding. Take a peek at the official press release below and then check out the entire list of results right here!
“King Of Concrete – The RESULTS
Presented by EXTREME and Flatmatters
Southsea Skatepark relaunched the legendary King of Concrete BMX Competition over the August bank holiday weekend pulling in competitors from all over the world.
The legendary skatepark contest was scheduled for the traditional date, August Bank Holiday weekend. The King of Concrete competition utilises all areas of the skatepark. Classic Bowls, Fun box Challenge, Highest Air in Keyhole, Flatland, Spine Mini, Vert, Highest Bunnyhop, and Street over the course of the August Bank Holiday weekend. Stack up the most points in all events, in the Pro and Amateur classes to win the King of Concrete, and Prince of Concrete titles.
Winners:
King of Concrete (Pro class) – Ronnie Surridge for a record 4th time!
Prince of Concrete (amateur class) – Troy Hayward
There were over 60 entries across the weekend – £2300 cash prize money and over £3000 worth of prizes given away.
Sponsors: Flatmatters, Extreme, Elephant Distribution, Tempest, Flatland Fuel, Scoop BMX, The Source, Autum Bike Co, Hybition, Flatware, IMG Distribution, Proper Bike Co, The Lab, Emer, Stance, Seventies, Four Down Distribution, Federal, Jay Gear, DK Bicycle Co, Total BMX, United Bike Co, S&M, Deluxe BMX, Park Clothing, Trainerspotter, Animal Bikes, Community Fusion, Profile Racing, Signature Clothing, Wedgewood Rooms, Southsea Skatepark.
Donations towards Prize Money: £1000 from Flatmatters, £700 Extreme, £200 from The Lab, £100 Total BMX, £100 Southsea Skatepark Cafe, £100 The Sandwich Bar.
Thanks:
Craig Stevens and Al Gosling at EXTREME, title sponsors of King of Concrete 2013!
Southsea Skatepark Company, all the staff at the park especially Ben Smith, James Weetch, and Matt Davis for their hard work throughout the weekend!
Deke, Emily and Jimmy C at the Honest Politician.
Tanya, Matt and Geoff at the Wedgewood Rooms for the sound system and Edge of Wedge Saturday night.
My parents for their support with the event, before hand and during the weekend.
Sohayla Esmaili and Jenna Boyson for their hard work all weekend running the contest behind the scenes.
Community Fusion and their volunteers.
Caroline and Steve at Pit Stop (the Skatepark café), Michael at the Sandwich Bar, Ronnie Remo and Mark Webb at Total BMX and Mike O’Connell for the awesome throwback soundtrack.
The judges, TTL Hank, Rob, Mike O’Connell, Screetch, Matti Hemmings, Chris Carter, James Smith, Johann Chan (shouts to Johann for the awesome flyer / t-shirt design), Matthew Maber for the photo for this year.
Everyone that promoted the event beforehand.
My girlfriend, Alex for putting up with a house full of flatlanders.
To everyone that came and supported King of Concrete 2013, it was a blast! We will be announcing dates for King of Concrete 2014 soon. We are starting work to improve the event, this year was a good start to the direction we want to go!”