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Brian Tunney has a new one to check out!

There aren’t too many things as consistent as Brian Tunney releasing a new video on the first of every month. Today is September 1st, and that means we get a look at what Brian got into during his garage flatland sessions over the course of August! As always, Brian delivers with the riding and song selection, along with a full break down of the tricks in the description below. Take a look!

“We’ll skip straight to the song: As I was filming the last trick in this, the song “Nightswimming” from REM came on and it weirdly came together in sync with the song, so much so that I decided to use it as this month’s song. It’s a pretty soothing song and I’d recommend that everyone go listen to the entire album, which came out almost thirty years ago (right as I was entering my third week of classes at Rutgers.) So we’re both old. Now onto the riding.

I really wanted to keep August mellow because July was a serious trial, and too many serious trials makes riding unfun. It worked for a time.

First trick is a half-hiker to one-handed hitch, something I’ve done before and just had a natural inclination to try again. The whip to grab feels really nice. The ride out, not so much. The shorts, they are my dog’s favorite thing to lay on.

Second trick is a brakeless gerator to backyard to rolling overtaker exit. I didn’t think these were possible in the garage (cause I usually roll them straight) but it worked out. I’ve also depended way too much on back brakes going from peg wheelie to gerator so it’s nice to know that it’s not really an issue anymore.

Third trick is a silly half-hiker/invisible hand/hitch link. Just something I had written down that only took a few minutes to do, as opposed to the three hour marathon sessions from July…

Fourth trick is a one-handed (very briefly) double tailwhip to undertaker. It’s stupid.

Fifth trick is a straight up footjam to backwards hitch to complicated ride out of a corner. No notes.

Sixth trick is dave duster to backwards hitch. This seems like something I’ve done in the past but I couldn’t remember when or where.

Seventh trick is a stalled undertaker. No notes.

Eighth trick is where I started to want complication again: barspin undertaker to gerator to rolling overtaker. I wanted to do this last month but it took a few hours to land and my mental fortitude wasn’t having it. This month though, it happened in 15 minutes. It’s sketchy, but I’ll take it.

Ninth trick is I don’t know why, a power mower to step-over decade boomerankle. I am terrible at decades, this feels a weird void from time to time.

Tenth trick is a barspin undertaker windshield wiper. I couldn’t do these a few months ago (kept bashing my privates.) Scott Powell assured me that I could, and an hour later, it happened. The ride out here is stinky. I would like to get to a point where I can stall it on both sides and just hop back and forth but we shall see.

Eleventh trick is why you’re hearing this song. I was trying this barspin forward rope-a-roni to rolling overtaker for an hour and coming close. Then this song came on and it happened. It’s basically inspiration from Nick Watts and me liking rolling overtakers this month.

And with that, August is done. It started out mellow, got hectic by the end, and kept me balanced between riding with brakes and riding without. No witty ending, thanks for watching and reading.” – Brian Tunney