Here’s some GoPro front brake magic from Tree‘s Bobbie Altiser. Always good to see fresh footage from Bobbie.
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Chris Doyle on Empire
After Action Village shit the bed earlier this year, Chris Doyle was available for a new shop sponsor. Defgrip just dropped the news that he’s now on Empire which seems like a real good fit. Here’s some words from Tom about the news…
“It’s funny how things can work some days. A casual conversation about an unrelated issue ends up leading to a totally unexpected event, which is exactly what happened here. Like anyone who has a love for BMX, all of us at Empire have admired Chris Doyle’s riding over the years. If you go big, we are fans. If you’re stylish, we are fans. If you go big with style, you might as well give us a parking spot in front of your house, because we’re gonna be all up on you like the FBI. The stars aligned in a special way earlier this summer, and our admiration of Chris turned into an invitation. Everyone in the crew is special to us, and we are honored to have Chris as a part of our family. I wonder if asking Parrick to edit another section into the video in less than a month would be dangerous to his sanity?” – Tom Williams
Check out a few words from the team about the news over on Defgrip
Simpel Summer Session in Helsinki – Official Edit
“On 20th of August, tens of thousands of passing spectators on Helsinki main square witnessed the second Stadi Summer Session, summertime edition of Simpel Session, going down to the history books as the biggest BMX contest ever thrown in Finland. The open-air contest brought together 67 top riders from 20 countries, with Gary Young (USA) stealing the show, Alex Coleborn (UK) coming second and Daniel Tünte (GER) taking the third place.
“The event was a big success – the line-up was better than ever before at the Simpel Session’s summer contests, the weather was great despite the worrisome forecasts, and the course was constantly surrounded by a cheering crowd. With BMX legends Darryl Nau and Andy Zeiss as announcers, the whole Helsinki main square was filled with energy, firing up one of the most amazing and inspiring Simpel Session contests so far,” said Risto Kalmre, founder and main organizer of Simpel Session.
A total of 67 riders competed in the contest, with close to half of them from Scandinavian and Baltic countries, to whom the contest serves as a qualification for the Simpel Session main contest, Europe’s biggest BMX- and skateboarding wintertime event taking place in February 2012 in Tallinn, Estonia (to be announced). The prize for Best Scandinavian performance went to the 21-year-old Adrian Malmberg from Sweden, placing 21st in the qualifications. The only Nordic rider who qualified to the finals was the Estonian shredder Andres Lainevool, who in the end did not ride the finals because of an injury, but was still recognized with the Best Baltic Rider award.
Three-time Simpel Session silver medalist Gary Young blazed his way around the course in his usual fashion, firing out all sorts of jumping variations, doing gaps to rails and finding lines that no one else could, keeping his flow and fluidity of lines at an unmatched level and earning the gold medal.
Silver medalist Alex Coleborn proved that he’s a trick machine and sessioned the huge boxjump with a barrelroll whip and other variations. The British rider also fired out moves like triple whip from the huge quarter bank set-up and ended the contest with a bang – a massive flair to footjam out of the 8-foot quarter to the top of the 7-foot bank.
Daniel Tünte secured his bronze medal by impressing the judges with pulling all his hard tricks on the first try. He had both the street moves and impressive ramp tricks, both pulled with an effortless style.
Other notable contestants included several top names from the Etnies and Sunday Bikes USA teams, and members of Fly Bikes, Vans and Nike European teams: among them Alessandro Barbero (ITA), Tommy Dugan (USA), Daniel Wedemejier (NL), Markus Reuss (GER), Corey Martinez (USA), Nathan Williams (USA), Kevin Kalkoff (FRA), Sergio Layos (SPA), Stefan Lantschner (ITA), Paul Ryan (GBR), Daniel Penafiel (SPA) and other athletes such as Greg Illingworth (ZA), Ondra Zlez (CZE) and many others.
The contest bikepark was once again designed by Nate Wessel, responsible for many historic action sports courses of X-Games, Woodward Camps and beyond. It was built by Simpel Sessions own dedicated crew.
More info on the contest, photos and videos can be found at Session.fi or simpelsession.com and on Facebook page Facebook.com/SimpelSession
Full results of the contest can be found here at Final Results”
BMX Street Station 2011 Photogallery
The 2011 BMX Street Station contest went down this past weekend. If you head over the the Frenchy’s site, you can check out some rad photos by Loic Benoit. I’d imagine a few edits will be popping up from the event soon as well.
SE – Kris Fox Edit
Kris Fox talks a little bit about why he rides along with some damn good riding for this new SE edit. So fast. So smooth.
Filmed and edited by Dylan Pfohl
Hellride – Gypsy Trip
“Dozen of riders – Pasha Vishneviy, Gosha Alex, Anton Astah, Sasha Kucher, Artyom Chunos, Max Velboy, David Belka, Arab, Vlad Mel’nik, Misha Pahomov, Kostya Andreev & Shmel’ – killin’ it in parks of Krasnodar and Novorossiysk. Filmed during a “Gypsy trip”. Read and watch what happened later on Kazantip soon on Hellride.ru.
Music:
Johnny Cash – Daddy Sang Bass
Johnny Cash – Get Rhytm
Van Morrison – Gloria
Tsu E Fa.” – Hellride
