Christian Rigal Archives – Page 5 of 14

“Still United” Out Now

March 11, 2016

The long awaited, highly anticipated “Still United” DVD from United Bike Co. has arrived. This video is hitting BMX shops and mail-orders that carry United worldwide now! With a line up like this, Peter Adam behind the lens and countless trips around the world, there’s no denying this is one video that will be worth every penny. Get on it!

“After two and a half years of travelling, riding and filming in ten different countries, we’re stoked to celebrate our 10th anniversary and present you with the trailer for STILL UNITED, our first full length project since the epic NORA cup winning THIS IS UNITED.

With some serious long term commitment from everyone involved filmer/editor Peter Adam has put together an amazing piece of work with a raw, uncompromising, feel-good approach and way too many highlights to mention. Our crew are picky filming for a full-length and this one is all about quality over quantity.

STILL UNITED features: Jeff Kocsis, Christian Rigal, Geoff Slattery, Corey Martinez, Alax Valentino, Nathan Wiliams. Plus: Jack Birtles, Harry Mills-Wakley, Sebastian Anton, Dan Boiski, Ian Morris, Jimmy Rushmore, Fernando Laczko, Tom Deville and Nico Terrez.

NTSC Format

Region: 0 (Playable on DVD players worldwide)”

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“Still United” Premiere at Source Park

March 11, 2016

The highly anticipated United “Still United” DVD has arrived. Check out some highlights from the world premiere at Source Park that featured a session with the entire United team, along with a handful of the 4Down Distribution guys in this video from Freedom BMX!

“Last weekend, the world premiere of the spectacular still United-DVD took place in England. But before the video to the public was presented, it was the team of United Co. course not take to turn a few laps around the brand new source Park.

Particularly Corey Martinez turned it on full and took pretty much every corner of the huge main hall apart. But his teammates as Alex Valentino, Harry Mills Wakley and Christian Rigal clearly enjoyed on the countless opportunities that the source park has to offer. And so they let it be taking long extensively cycling all day.

It was supported by Ben Lewis, who still sat in the morning sting a new tattoo, which it did not prevent, well depart. But Fernando Laczko was condemned to watch, because he was plagued by severe back pain. Bummer! Luckily he had his video camera with him so that he could collect a few clips for our video. Thanks for that! What came off exactly in the historic walls of the promenade of Hastings, you are experiencing above.

Camera: Markus Wilke and Fernando Laczko
Editing: Markus Wilke
Music: Ankathie Koi – Donna (courtesy of Seayou Records)”

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United Bike Co. – “Still United” Trailer

February 11, 2016

For those of you who have been patiently waiting for the United “Still United” DVD to drop, you’re going to be vey excited to know this one is very near completion! They dropped the trailer for the BMX video tonight and damn does it look incredible. You can expect some serious heat from Nathan Williams, Corey Martinez, Christian Rigal, Alex Valentino, Geoff Slattery, Fernando Laczko, Jeff Kocsis and the rest of the crew since they have been going all in for this one for quite a while now. Hit play and get stoked!

“YES! It’s finally (nearly) here – the ‘Still United’ DVD has been in the works for the last two years now and you can get a quick tease for what’s in store right here. We’ve been blessed to have been along for most of the ride the past few years and we can honestly say this will be incredible. With the likes of Nathan Williams, Corey Martinez, Christian Rigal and more filming for this for such a long period you can rest assured that it’s all out of hand nuts. Shout out to Peter Adam for creating this gem and Ian Morris for dedicating so much to a full-length DVD project.” – DIG

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Demolition Parts – What’s New With Christian Rigal

February 2, 2016

There’s a new Q&A up on the Demolition Parts website with Christian Rigal where he talks about all of his filming projects for Demolition and United, his section in the United DVD, working on filming outside of BMX on corporate jobs and more. It’s definitely an interesting read, so check it out right here — What’s New with Christian Rigal

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Demolition Parts – Christian Rigal 2015 Video

October 26, 2015

One thing we know about Christian Rigal is that he puts a lot of pressure on himself to film the best he can and he won’t put out a BMX unless he’s really stoked on it. Today, Demolition Parts released this new video where Christian crushes street spot after street spot with all four of his pegs. This is one BMX video you cannot pass up!

“This year Christian has been working on multiple projects at the same time, and when he came to us with the idea of doing a new Demolition edit also, we were a lil hesitant if he could pull it off or not. When we finally saw the end result, we just about sh*t our pants. The man is a machine on and off his bike. How he came through with such a banger edit is beyond us. For him to get this done and have it this heavy is insane. If you like insane/ original grinds moves and more, you’ll love this one!

Filmed by Doeby Huynh
Additional Filming by Connor Lodes, Greg Micklas, Dan Coller, Corey Martinez, David Grant, Nathan Williams, and Jessie Silva
Edited by Christian Rigal”

Sosh Urban Motion 4 – Alex Donnachie & Christian Rigal

September 26, 2015

Now here is an amazing way to start your Saturday off right! Hadrien Picard sent over Alex Donnachie and Christian Rigal‘s winning part for the Sosh Urban Motion 4 video contest! When you team a rider like Alex up with a filmer like Christian, you know you’re going to end up with an incredible BMX video that you have to see… Even if it’s filmed on cell phone and not Christian’s RED camera! Hit play and take it all in!

Sosh Urban Motion 4 – Syllyvan Gaincetre X Vincent de la Rue – 2nd Place

Sosh Urban Motion 4 – Simone Barraco X Alex Barrett – 3rd Place

Sosh Urban Motion 4 – Maxime Charveron and Matthias Dandois – 3rd Place (tie)

Sosh Urban Motion 4 – Charles Tschumy x Julien Arnaud – 5th Place

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Quicky: Christian Rigal

July 31, 2015

Photo: Chris Martinez

It’s pretty rad seeing how riders are able to balance out multiple roles in BMX these days. Christian Rigal is a perfect example of that who is one hell of an amazing rider, but he’s equally as dialed on the other side of the lens as well. There’s no doubt that you’re a fan of his riding, his film work or both. With that being said, between riding and filming, Christian is constantly on the move working on projects from his section for the new United DVD “Still United” section to getting his new RED Scarlet Dragon camera dialed in. We haven’t caught up with him in a little while, so we figured now would be a perfect time to catch up with him and see what’s new! There’s some Markit news that we’re especially excited about… Check it!

Name: Christian Rigal
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Red Bull – The Big Rig Holiday

July 28, 2015

Here’s one from Red Bull that we have been waiting for all week! They recently piled a unique crew of riders together in an RV for a trip around the Northwest to hit up street spots. Watch as Nathan Williams, Reed Stark, Alex Kennedy, Corey Martinez, David Grant, Christian Rigal and Matt Roe all go to work on spots with their different styles making some some amazing riding. That rail that Reed Stark does is absolutely UNREAL. It looks like he took a serious beating but didn’t let the rail win! Hell yeah, Reed!

“The great outdoors… and I’m not talking about the leafy industrial estate out of town with the awesome rails that you don’t get kicked out of. I’m going on about forests, waterfalls and one hell of a big rig ploughing its way through the great Pacific Northwest!

The great outdoors… and I’m not talking about the leafy industrial estate out of town with the awesome rails that you don’t get kicked out of. I’m going on about forests, waterfalls and one hell of a big rig ploughing its way through the great Pacific Northwest!

The plan was simple, well, to be honest it was non-existent; take eight friends, both old and new, meet up in Portland, Oregon. Then pile everyone into a 40-foot-long RV and see what happens!

The heavily-laden RV consisted of a pretty eclectic list of names, including Nathan Williams, Reed Stark, Alex Kennedy, Corey Martinez, David Grant, Christian Rigal, and Matt Roe.

The ‘plan’ was so loose that we hadn’t even decided on which direction to take.
After some deliberation and many blank faces we set the compass for south and headed for Salem and Eugene and possibly some of the smaller towns along the way. We soon realised this was probably the worst idea we could have come up with…

Driving an enormous recreational vehicle into small peaceful towns with eight dudes hanging out of every window obviously didn’t go down too well, let alone help with finding spots and being able to ride them long enough to film a clip! Needless to say, we encountered our fair share of small town cop mentalities and bafflingly idiotic reasoning. But despite that we got some pretty amazing bike riding documented in between our troubles, and Reed got his crazy 180-degree curved rail in Eugene, so it wasn’t all in vain.”

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