Josh has been a rider tht I’ve always been impressed with. I remember a few years back seeing edits of him just killing it. He has continued to get even better and has a lot going on. It was time to shoot him some questions. Check out what he has to say, and then leave him some love in the comments!
ASA Tour -Minneapolis- Video
Here is the video I made from the ASA contest. Part of the deal was that nobody besides the ASA people could film the finals since it will be on TV. However, I still got some good clips. The crashes Daniel Dhers and Rob Darden take are bad, but both guys got up and had smiles on their faces.
ASA Tour -Minneapolis- Photos
Above is Chad DeGroot, Matt Coplon, and myself. It was good catching up with these guys!
I had the chance to go to the ASA Tour stop in Minneapolis today. I snapped a few photos, and I got some video too. I haven’t had the chance to get the video uploaded yet but I should have that done soon enough. I didn’t shoot any photos of the riding because my camera sucks, and the riding shots were blurry from the lighting and everything. All the riding will be in the video. It’s 2:30 a.m so I am sorry if any of this gets confusing. Check out the photos and some words.
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Deljon Willis Interview
There are a million things that come to mind when I think of Deljon. The guy is probably one of the funniest, and most fun people to be around. Wheather he is riding, filming, or mooning unexpected bystanders, Deljon is kicking ass. I personally owe him huge for announcing at the last Renegade contest, he got everyone so pumped up. I won’t lie, I wish this was done months ago. Check it out!
Interview by Alex Douangmala
Photo: Tristan Thiel
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Deljon Marqurise Willis
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Jimmy Le Van Interview
From time to time I will be doing a full interview for Dig. I had the chance to do an interview with thee Jimmy Le Van recently. You can check that interview out right here. I’m really stoked on this interview. Plus, how many times do you think you can talk to somebody that has been dead, and came back alive more than once?
Aaron Huff Interview
It seems like every kid growing up involved with BMX wants to start their own company at some point. It was time to catch up with a guy who made that dream happen, and has been kicking ass ever since. Aaron is best known as the guy behind Solid, and there is a good chance you may ride, or know somebody that rides something that came from him. Check out what Aaron has to say, and then leave Aaron some love in the comments!
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Aaron Huff
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Theory: Create a Pro?
Thing have been slow, I know! Finals are coming up at school, weather has been amazing, I’ve been finally getting all dialed in with Dig, and Adam just went on a trip to California for 10 days so that means The Come Up needs updating from me. Things will get rolling again soon, I know this!
However, the point of this post. I was talking with Brian Kachinsky about all his recent trips and I told him “Why don’t you get DK and Etnies to sponsor me as a pro for the Summer. That way I can ride all over at the best spots, and hang out with you all Summer.” Then I got thinking, what if that actually happened to me or a random kid who wasn’t pro material… keep reading, you might find this interesting..
So what the hell am I talking about?
Have you ever noticed that a lot of pros who are already good, get even better once all the sponsors come through? Example: Harry Main! The kid killed it before, but look at how fast he has been progressing lately! Check out an old edit, then a new edit of him at the bottom of this for a little proof!
So my theory that I think needs scientific testing to be done is this…
We take a kid who rides decent, sponsorless, and really loves BMX for the right reasons. Hook him up with two or three pro sponsorships for the Summer. Pay check, product, and travel budget. You know, the real deal!
Once the kid is all dialed in, we send him on trips all over with pros to film at some of the best spots all over the place and just live the pro life you know? Maybe even get them into the Dew Tour or something too just to really push buttons.
I am convinced that we could have a kids progression level turbo boosted by something like this happening. I’m not saying BMX is easy by any means. I am just saying that once you get the opportunities to ride all different kinds of spots with people who will push you to try bigger things without having to worry about a job or how they will pay to get to these places, good things will happen.
They need to make this into a MTV show! The kids would eat that right up.
So am I just imagining things or does this actually sound possible? I mean obviously the factor of money to hook the person up is really the only thing holding this idea back, but it would be an interesting thing to see.
Tell me what you think in the comments, and if you are a company who would be into this, lets make it happen! haha
Now for the Harry Main idea, this is his first edit from when he first got hooked up by KHE two years ago…
This is Harry’s new edit that dropped just the other day… Yeah.
Have a good weekend everyone!
FUTU Review
I’ve been looking forward to FUTU for a long time… ever since I heard they were doing a sequel, because I enjoyed the first BMXFU video. I expected more of the same in FUTU, but I was wrong.
REVIEW BY: BRETT ROHLFING
I got much much more.
Everything was better! The packaging, the menu, the camera quality, filming quality and riding quality… all improved. I got more when it comes to length as well. FUTU is probably twice the running time of the first. Some did stay the same, such as the song choices being smart. Never overpowering the riding or standing out too much, but always fitting the style and adding to the fun feel. Also the outtakes and random clips from TV shows made appearances just as in the first, showing that while the level of riding was serious, chances are they don’t take themselves too seriously.
The traditional summary of who is in the dvd and what their section consists of is a format this review cannot follow due to the length of the dvd (over 1 hour). I will whoever run down some people that stood out the most for having unique style, something that has always been synonymous with BMXFU in my mind.
Chris Orbell- Starts off the disc and has the most manuals in a part I’ve ever seen, often with a few tricks throw in the middle of them.
Jake Montgomery- His clips with front brakes are some excellent, one or 2 I don’t think I’ve seen done like that before.
John Murphy- rocket everything
Josh Cameron- A style thought lost years ago, he keeps the gyro alive with manly park moves like bar fuf bar on subrails and everything else that people would go for before everyone’s brakes and pegs came off and bars got huge.
The Come Up section- Some flatland guy kills it all set to a song I had expected to be used with TCU long ago. Jake Seeley also produced, as always.
Steve Bureau- SkateFu! His style fits perfectly with the crew, smooth, tech and a little more creative than I’ve ever seen my local skaters get.
Andrew White- Hangovers are as easy as feebles for him it seems and does them everywhere on anything.
Shaun Swain- Dude is wild! Nose to feeble on a tiny ledge to no footed can can? Hop Nothings? Also a frequent use of strange no footed riding across things using his arms to hold his weight over the bike.
Lee Denis- I guess hang tens are easy now, or that’s what you’d think when watch Lee. Also a bad of tricks both up and down rails and some savage rail to ledge moves towards the end that stand out.
Charlie Crumlish- I saved him for the end because he was the stand out of the dvd by far. Charlie has always had a different entertaining style but this time it’s on a whole different level. I can’t explain it without typing out every trick in detail, which still wouldn’t do it justice. The whole dvd is great, but his part is worth the cost alone.
That’s about the amount of sections most dvds have, but in this case it’s probably less than half. Everyone else not mentioned still laid down dialed stuff, I just wanted to point out the more unique styles.
Bonus has another 30 minutes of leftovers, which are definitely not scrap. Also Shaun Swain has a bonus part and there is a tripod shot trails edit that totally doesn’t fit the vibe of the video at all.
My only wish was that they had made a 20-30minute highlight video of the best clips in the video to have something to pop in quick before a session to get pumped. Other than that I loved it.
So go buy it at The Come Up store right now!
