Dakota Bratt hit us with a link to his latest video that’s filled with some footage from a few morning sessions at Sheldon Skatepark! Dakota has a deep bag of tricks from technical grinds to big lofty backflips and he puts that bag of tricks to good use! Check out what he stacked up for the video!
Big Boy Brake Challenge
We don’t see too many riders running brakes these days, but there’s still plenty of guys out there that do shred them still! Big Boy decided he wanted to give the whole brake thing a go, so he dialed in his bike and had a few guys with some experience with brakes give him some advice on different brake tricks. Hit play to watch Big Boy give a bunch of different brake tricks a go with Scotty Cranmer, Brooklyn and Cory Berglar all giving him advice and examples on how to knock the tricks off the list. Can he do it? Hit play and find out!
… We would be totally okay if more people started riding brakes again.
FloriDeah – Jetski Slip N’ Slide
This has nothing to do with riding, but Trey Jones, Jabe Jones, Colt Fake and Alex Lomelli decided to set up a crazy kicker ramp at the end of a slip and slide and tow each other off the ramp with a jetski! This is as crazy as it might sound, but would you expect anything less from this crew? It is hilarious and looks like a super good time! Check out how it all went down! It looks like nobody got hurt and it was a full day of good times to us!
“1 jetski + 1 slip n slide. Nothing else to be said here, this day was awesome. @treyjonesucks @jabejones @alex_lomelli @coltfake”
Kink BMX – Jorge “Kazique” Ceballos In Ecuador
Kink just sent through a raw batch of clips featuring Jorge “Kazique” Ceballos getting loose on a skatepark down in Ecuador. The footage is a little rough around the edges, but Kazique goes big and sends some tricks that you won’t want to miss. Check it out!
“Kink World Team Rider Jorge “Kazique” Ceballos sent through some raw footy from a recent trip to Ecuador. Kazique is a lot of fun to watch ride; always going in 100%!
Shot by Jairo Cave ”
“Great Lakes State of Mind” – Full Video
The Great Lakes State Crew out in Michigan coming through with their first full-length video under their new name (formerly 989 Crew, “Great Lakes State of Mind” that is just shy of 30 minutes of pure goodness.
“The 989Crew has rebranded as the “Great Lakes State Crew”
Our first full length web video “Great Lakes State of Mind” is the stepping stone for what we plan to evolve into.
“For this film I set out capture how beautiful our Great State is. While touching lightly on our decaying auto industry cities and our states hard drug problem. Every clip in this video was filmed in Michigan. The GLS crew brings a “run what ya brung” attitude. We see almost 200 days of precipitation. Compared to the Cali scene which is under 50 days of annul precip.. Rain or snow you’ll find us out enjoying what we love! Whether its bmx,mtb, skiing, or snowboarding we embrace our Michigan lifestyle and live it to the fullest extent. From Detroit to Houghton. L.P. to the U.P. Grab a cold one, que the video up on a flat screen and enjoy this video half as much as we did creating it!”
-Alex McTaggart
Filmed / Edited: Alex McTaggart
Animated logos: BradyKenniston.com
GLS would like introduce new crew rider Jesse Vasquez. Jesse is one of the most down to earth people we know and he is obviously a natural killer on his bike. The decision was made effortlessly and were excited to work more with him in the coming years.
Songs used:
Visuals – Transcend by Audionautix (http://audionautix.com) is part of the YouTube Audio Library (https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/…) and it’s licensed under a Creative Commons license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/…)
Intro- “No Quarter” Led Zeppelin
Jesse- “Half Full Glass Of Wine” Tame Impala
Nick- “Street God Part 4” Project Pat
Bob & Gage- “Telephone Calls” A$AP Rocky
Friends- “Deira City Centre” Night Lovell
Alex- “Cross Eyed Mary” Jethro Tull
Trent & Grant-“The Unholy Behemoth” Ruby The Hatchet
Outro- “Boys Are Back In Town” Thin Lizzy“
Mongoose En Costa Rica – Part 1
It’s been awesome seeing all the moves Mongoose have been doing. Here’s a video from a full team trip down to Costa Rica where the crew soaked up the sunshine and, what appears to be, an endless supply of dialed setups to ride from skateparks to street spots and more. Here’s part one giving you a look at what the team got into during their visit on and off their bikes!
“The Mongoose BMX team was getting sick of riding in the cold, winter weather so they decided to head to someplace warm. The chosen spot was Costa Rica! It was sunny, warm and was exactly what we needed! With tour guide Kenneth Tencio in tow Kevin Peraza, Pat Casey, Paul Ryan, Ben Wallace, Greg Illingworth and Tom Isted got to check out the lovely Costa Rica and the amazing riding spots it had to offer! This is Part 1 of 2.”
Ahmet Samet Erdem – Winter Park Sessions
Winters is getting close to done… We hope! Here’s a couple of clips that Ahmet Samet Erdem filmed during a few sessions at his local skatepark. Not enough snow to keep Ahmet from putting in work on his bike. Check out what he stacked for clips.
Matty Cranmer Tells The Story of How He Broke His Leg
Nobody said riding BMX was safe, but if you didn’t ride and only watched Scotty Cranmer‘s Youtube channel, you would assume people breaking things is way too common. The other night Matty Cranmer broke his leg and is down for the count for 6-8 weeks. Here’s a video where Matty talks a little bit about how it all went down and tells you all the very tough details. However, now that Scotty and Matty are BOTH down, they decided they might as well be productive and teach Big Boy how to Rocket Manual. So, get the story from Matty, then watch Big Boy try and figure this classic trick out!
“OUR BAD LUCK JUST CONTINUES! MY LITTLE BROTHER MATTY JUST BROKE HIS LEG RIDING AT MY SKATEPARK ONLY FOUR DAYS BEFORE HE WAS SUPPOSED TO LEAVE FOR AUSTRALIA FOR A BMX COMPETITION THAT HE HAD BEEN LOOKING FORWARD TO FOR MONTHS NOW. With Cory coming off a broken ankle, Vinny coming off two broken feet, and myself coming off a broken neck we are dwindling down. When it comes to people riding for the channel but there is one man left that loves to ride his bike and he starts today, the big boy! With me and Matty being hurt, we figured it would be an awesome opportunity to teach big boy a new trick! This time we are teaching him a rocket manual behind our bike shop! Also break down the crash footage of Matty breaking his leg!”
