Bobby Kanode Archives

Kanode Knows – Ryan Chadwick

If you’re a fan of podcasts or video interviews in general, you’ll be real stoked on this one. Bobby Kanode sat down with filmer and all around good dude Ryan Chadwick to talk about a bunch of things like his X Games Real BMX 2019 video he filmed with Simone Barraco, making the decision to try out working outside of BMX and stepping down from his roles as TM and filmer for The Shadow Conspiracy, making the move back into BMX as a freelance filmer and much, much more. This is a real good listen, especially if you’re into filming or the industry side of BMX as a whole. Hit play and take it all in!

“Ryan Chadwick is a freelance videographer from Tempe, AZ. He’s won NORA Cup for the Shadow ONE video, an X-Games Silver medal with Simone Barraco in the 2019 REAL BMX Video contest, and he’s produced several full length BMX videos, including: I Got Work, I Got Work Strikes Back, and Shadow’s epic video What Could Go Wrong. We sit down in his beautiful ass house and talk about stuff. Thanks for watching. Hope you enjoy!

Leave a comment if you read that whole thing.” – Bobby Kanode

Troy Blair “Lightworks” Section

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Bobby Kanode uploaded Troy Blair‘s section from the “Lightworks” video online for your viewing pleasure. Troy’s one of those riders that you can always count on to deliver something awesome and this part is a good reminder of that. This has a good mix of tricks from grinds to big wallrides, hang fives and much, much more. This section spans 4 years worth of riding which helps give it a bit of a unique vibe just because his riding evolved and changed in that time little by little. Hit play and enjoy!

“Troy Blair in the Arizona BMX Full Length Video Lightworks.

It’s wild to think of Troy as one of the O.G’s since I still remember first filming him at ASU campus for Mediocre at Best 7 years ago like it was yesterday. He’s always been able to do almost any trick you can think of, and his choice of what to do and film has developed into his own delightful signature style. If you hear some howling in the background on everyone else’s clips in the video, it’s most likely him. He’s been with this project from the very beginning in 2014, and has watched the whole thing go from a summertime mixtape, to never happening, to actually maybe gonna happen, back to never gonna happen, and so on and so forth. Things just wouldn’t be the same without dis man.

Thumbnail photo – Josh Metzger
Film & Edit – Bobby Kanode
Song – “Pray for ‘Em” by Meek Mill

Follow Troy on IG @CliffDevoe” – Bobby Kanode

Hayden Shimmell “Lightworks” Section

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Bobby Kanode has started uploading sections from the “Lightworks” DVD! To kick things off, he has uploaded Hayden Shimmell‘s section that is loaded with dialed riding. If you like crankflips, one hand x-ups and crankflip barspins, you’re going to love this! Hit play and check out what he stacked for his part!

“Hayden Shimmell in the Arizona BMX Full Length Video Lightworks.

Hayden has such a weird stringy poppy beautiful style and worked pretty damn hard to film this section. He was one of the later additions to the roster, and he rose to the occasion. Shout out to him, and his mom for being our number 1 fan.

Thumbnail photo – Josh Metzger
Film & Edit – Bobby Kanode
Song – “Super Gum” by Tobacco” – Bobby Kanode

“Lightworks” Promo #3

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After 4 years, it looks like the “Lightworks” video is finally dropping!

Here’s one we really didn’t know if we would ever see released or not! About 4 years ago Bobby Kanode released the first trailer for the “Lightworks” video he was working on featuring the crew out in Arizona. After not hearing much about the video for a while, today Bobby released the 3rd promo video for the video and details on the premiere that’s going down later this month in Phoenix! Check out the promo above, then get more details below!

“Full Length BMX Video filmed entirely at night in Arizona by Bobby Kanode

Featuring Full Sections from –
Joey Motta
Troy Blair
Drew Hosselton
Eric Bahlman
Brian Grant aka HORSE
Hayden Shimmell
Travis Cordova
Jeff Wescott
Cody & Dawson Clark
and Nick Bonnell

$10 at the door

Saturday July 21st, 8pm
Phoenix Center for the Arts
1202 N 3rd St, Phoenix, AZ 85004

Music –
“Shadow”
Chromatics

“Shooting Star”
Whoever Sings that song

Filmed and edited by Bobby Kanode”

Subrosa In Color

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Subrosa’s old filmer, Bobby Kanode, decided to release a video that might not have ever seen the light of day…

Anyone who has taken filming BMX serious has always dreamed of being paid to film for a brand or a video project. Bobby Kanode spent 3 years as the team filmer for Subrosa, which meant he spent his days traveling all over the place with the team filming for web videos, full-length videos and more. During his time he stacked a lot of clips, some were used, others weren’t and were just sitting on his hard drive waiting to be seen. The time has finally come, because Bobby has gone through and edited the clips into this full-length video that’s loaded with pure gold featuring their team riders, past and present, during that time frame. When Subrosa first started out, they did a lot of their projects in black and white, so that’s where the title comes from. Get the full story from Bobby below!

“From 2013 to 2016 I had the opportunity of a lifetime to be the filmer for Subrosa Brand. When it was all over I was left with a hard drive full of good times, and last year I chopped this video up to “clean out my closet.” I can’t say enough good things about all the boys, and I had the time of my life. This is kind of the DVD that never happened. Big thank you to Ronnie Bonner and Ryan Sher for having me for those years, and bigger shout out to the best team in BMX.

We’ve got a lot of recycled clips in here but they’re in color now, as well as brand new (yet still old) never seen section from Johnny (no longer on Subrosa) and a stacked friends section. Pretty hyped!

Love you guys, enjoy.

00:14 Simone Barraco
02:43 Hoang Tran
04:25 Lahsaan Kobza
09:13 Nick Bullen
11:35 Johnny Ice
14:36 Friends
18:23 Joris Coulomb
19:57 Kevin Kalkoff
22:20 Scott Ditchburn
23:27 Kyle Hart
28:33 Jono Hopping
34:41 Matt Ray

Filmed and edited by me (Bobby Kanode)
Additional Filming – Ryan Chadwick, Ryan Sher, and Josh Metzger
Music

Simone:
Ghostface Killa x BBNG “Tone’s Rap”

Hoang:
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard “Lunch Meat”

Lahsaan:
NoFX “Don’t Call Me White”
Dom Kennedy “California”

Nick:
King Gizzard and the Lizard “Head On/Pill”

Friends:
Shakey Graves “Family and Genus”

Joris x Kevin:
Father John Misty “True Affection”

Scott Ditchburn:
Stormzy “First Things First”

Kyle Hart:
Winds of Plague “The Great Stone War”

Jono Hopping:
Shiny Joe Ryan “Always Wanting More”

Matt Ray:
50 Cent “I’m the Man”” – Bobby Kanode

Matt Ray – Secret Version

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Bobby Kandoe uploaded a Matt Ray video that didn’t make it to the final cut…

It’s always crazy to think about some of the videos that never end up seeing the light of day. Bobby Kanode had put this draft sample video together for Matt Ray‘s welcome to the Subrosa Brand Pro team video that came out a while back, but after another trip or two that added in more clips, the whole video ended up getting a re-edit before release. What’s crazy is that this video is an absolute banger and would have done just fine, but everyone decided to step it up a few more notches, which is also rad. Either way, Bobby decided to upload this version to his personal Youtube since it was too good to just dump in the trash and erase, and we’re glad he did it. Hit play and enjoy.

“This was the first draft I sent to subrosa for Matt’s welcome to pro video. This was before his second trip to AZ to film for this, and it reflects where I was emotionally at this point. This is one of my favorite things I’ve ever made and I hope u like watching his epic tricks to my weird sad taste in music. At this point I was ready to hang up the cameras forever and move on from filming completely, it felt right idk. Fuckin enjoy.” – Bobby Kanode

Subrosa – Matt Ray Rye Airfield Takeover

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What happens when you give Matt Ray a place to ride like Rye Airfield all to himself? Bangers.

Subrosa just dropped this new video featuring Matt Ray going to work during some private riding time he got in at Rye Airfield with a few friends. Matt is the kind of rider that can absolutely slay rails and ledges, but he also has a deep bag of tricks when it comes to blasting quarterpipes, box jumps and more. Needless to say, Matt put his skills to work all over Rye Airfield. Hit play and take it all in!

“Subrosa pro Matt Ray got handed the keys to Rye Airfield a few months back and was allowed to ride the whole place to himself!

He teamed up with Bobby Kanode to capture it all.

Thanks to The Shadow Conspiracy, Bobby Kanode and Rye Airfield.

Shouts to Aaron Franco and Maicol Monsalve for the guest clips.

Filmed and Edited by Bobby Kanode” – Subrosa

I Got Work Crew Does Sacaton Skatepark

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It has been a while since we’ve seen a BMX video from the same crew that did “I Got Work” out in Arizona. Here’s a look at a fresh batch of clips the crew stacked during a session at the Sacaton Skatepark. As always, these guys bring a good vibe and plenty of dialed riding. Take a look!

“I Got Work, a BMX video by Ryan Chadwick, came out in 2007 and changed my life. You can watch it by section here: https://vimeo.com/user9097776

This here video features a lot of the original crew:
Spenser Loofa Lee
Sam Buros
Brandon Straub
Pat Burke
Ryan Chadwick
Brad BMX
Eric Bahlman

I took a little snippet of music from the original video for this and its a splash of nostalgia for me. I remember driving out to tempe for the first time in my life to witness the premiere of this video in Kore Bikes garage. These dudes were celebrities to me back then. Now they’re like, 30, old and crusty, and still killing it. Much love dudes.” – Bobby Kanode