Chad Degroot Archives

Profile Racing Neighborhood Crawl – Tampa

Profile Racing‘s Neighborhood Crawl series continues! This time around we get a mix of park, street and backyard ramp footage from the Profile squad out cruising in Tampa, Florida! This video has a super good mix of riding and styles, along with plenty of great spots. Hit play and take this all in!

“In January of 2020, I brought part of our crew back down to Tampa for the third Profile Neighborhood Crawl. Over the past year, my hometown has seen a DIY renaissance with a cache of freshly built backyard set-ups and do-it-yourself street spots, all within the backdrop of our communities having stepped up to advocate for a plethora of new public skateparks. This muli-media feature is a celebration of where Tampa Bay has come from, it’s roots in both punk and bmx, and to what it has become.” – Matt Coplon

“Filmed by our whole crew as well as Jona Jachan.

Riding by Cory Foust, Chris Childs, Bobby Proctor, Lucas Porzio, Alex Tate, Dylan Kakowski, Mark Mulville, and Chad Degroot.

Edited by Matt Coplon.
Song: Rocinante by Floor

Thanks from Matt to Profile Racing, Brian Schaefer and Edwin Velez (Skatepark of Tampa), Alan and Beth Shirley, Alex and Shannon Lepak, Jona Jachan, Zach Ozment, James Covington, and Will
Smyth/Dig Bmx.

And special thanks to these folks for archival information on the Tampa DIY Punk Scene: Henry
Wilson, Jeff Howe, Dan Shook, Jimmy Reese and Keith Ulrey.”

Deco BMX – 10 Years

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It’s pretty wild how fast time flies when you’re having fun! DECO is celebrating their 10th anniversary already and Chad DeGroot put together this mix featuring all the different riders that have supported the brands over the years. This is a mix of street, flatland and park clips and it’s a real good watch. Congratulations to Chad on the milestone!

“Ten years old or young. Consider it young and still growing. Time does roll fast but memories remain the focus and growing by the day. Could go on and on but the main words I want to say are: Thank You to all the playas who ride and support this dream. Growing in the bmx business world is like a roller coaster; more smiles for miles and the gleaming and glistening of the future while keeping the passion going.

I want more. Way more. Thank you. Here’s to 10more.

-Chad Degroot

PS- The “DE” in Deco is the first part of my last name and the “CO” is for company = DECO or DeGroot Company.
You are the Company that You keep.

Edited by Matt Coplon

Music Credits:
1. “Black Sun” by Year Future
2. “No hands” by The V.S.S
3. “Conscious” by The V.S.S
4. “Indian Sick” by The V.S.S” – Chad DeGroot

Profile Racing – Neighborhood Crawl

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At the start of the year, some of the Profile Racing team got together down in Florida to spend some time cruising the endless street, DIY spots, backyard pools, ditches and skateparks the state has to offer. Here’s a look at the riding that went down during the trip! This has a super good mix of styles and tricks, keeping things interesting from start to finish! This trip looks like it was a ton of fun. Take a look!

“If you’re looking for something a little bit different in your BMX entertainment search today then this is it. Profile’s Cory Foust, Mark Mulville, Luis Pinzon, Bobby Proctor, Chad Degroot and Chris Childs get busy in Tampa with some creative riding and some down right sick looking spots.

“In January of 2019, we flew part of the Profile crew to Tampa and made Seminole Heights our home base for a week. This is what we enjoyed together…we hope at some point you will come for a visit to experience it yourself.” – Matt Coplon

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Filmed over 5 days, here’s clips of Cory Foust, Mark Mulville, Luis Pinzon, Bobby Proctor, Chad Degroot and Chris Childs.
Filmed by Matt Coplon and Bobby Proctor.
Edited by Matt Coplon.
Song: “Flesh!”
Band: Entertainment
Label: Stickfigure Records
Thanks to Justin Walker, Scott Bentley, Ryan Clements, The Boardr, Gavin (Stickfigure Records), and Trey Ehart (Entertainment) for music permission.”

Paddy Gross – Four Pegs, Two Brakes, One Attitude

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Paddy Gross coming through with a dialed new video filled with brakes and pegs!

Here’s a really rad one that surfaced online featuring Paddy Gross putting his brakes and pegs to good use from Portland to Germany and a few other places. This also features front brake magic from Adam Banton, Axel Reichertz, Brett Banasiewicz, Clint Millar, Rob Nolli, Dave Freimuth, Chad DeGroot, Nick Harkins, Chris Rye, Tobias Wicke and Rick Moliterno. If that doesn’t sound amazing, then you’re blowing it! This BMX video is packed with amazing ramp riding and a little flatland from start to finish!

“I agreed to this project when it was still a baby. Now a year later it has grown into quite a monster of a video. We have had the honor of collecting original clips from many highly influential and legendary riders from the mid school. Which has made this video such a joy to create. Its like stepping into a time machine and traveling back to the glory days of bmx. Again thank you everyone who had contributed this project. it has been a blast. Enjoy!” – Matt Miller

Profile Racing – NOLA Sessions with Chad DeGroot and Terry Adams

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When you bring Chad DeGroot and Terry Adams together for a few days of riding, you know things are going to get interesting.

Profile Racing sent Chad DeGroot and Matt Coplon on over to New Orleans to spend some time filming with Terry Adams. Here’s a short but sweet video showing what went down in the two day trip!

“A quick trip to NOLA always avails some dialed sessions.
We joined Terry Adams and Chad Degroot on this 48 hour sojourn, in and out.
We hope you Enjoy.

Filmed/edited by Chad Degroot/Matt Coplon.
Song: No Hands by the VSS
Thanks to Ross Coulon for the hospitality.” – Profile Racing

Red Bull – A Visual History of Flatland BMX

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Red Bull coming through with an amazing video that’s bound to get some of you old school and flatland guys stoked. They teamed up with Chad DeGroot and Yohei Uchino to look at flatland BMX from the 80’s until now. Obviously that’s A LOT of ground to cover in 4 minutes, so the first half of this briefly covers the past with some costumes, old school bikes and some actual clips filmed from the 90’s, and then we get a few current riding clips that are real good, too. Check it out!

“Experience the evolution of Flatland BMX from the 80s to present day.

“STAGES” brings together two of the scene’s most iconic riders, Red Bull athlete Yohei Uchino & the legendary Chad DeGroot as they travel through time re-exploring a range of tricks & styles from the Cherry Picker and Scuffing to the highly technical modern era of Flatland BMX.

Song credits: Red Bull Content Pool Audio Library
Athletes featured: Yohei Uchino & Chad DeGroot ”

Brian Kachinsky’s Puerto Rican Adventure 2017

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The other week Brian Kachinsky had a little bachelor party down in Puerto Rico with Dave Friemuth, Chad DeGroot, Brian Hunt, Mike Escamilla, Andrew Brady, Kevin Porter and Aaron Bostrom, where the crew spent a week riding spots and exploring the island. This video that Dave put together shows what these guys got into on and off their bikes. As you can imagine with a crew like this, there was plenty of dialed riding and good times to be had. We’re pretty sure there has to be plenty of footage that didn’t make it into the edit that was probably hilarious, but… yeah… It’s safe to say these guys had a super good time during their visit. Anyone else reaaaaaally want to go to Puerto Rico right about now?