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The Focalpoint crew loaded up the van for another weekend of good times and spots!
Here’s a look at what went down when the Focalpoint BMX crew down in Australia went out to cruise some spots last weekend! This raw cut gives you a look at the riding that went down and then some of the laughs that went down. Hit play and take it all in!
“This weeks Van Ventures featuring Alex Bolton, Polly, Pat Freyne, Cooper Brownlee, Jake Deering, Sean Falkenstein & Lachy Swanton.” – Focalpoint BMX
Focalpoint just dropped a rad video from some time the crew got in at the Ringwood Skatepark!
The crew at Focalpoint sent through this fresh edit featuring a bunch of familiar faces getting some riding time in at the Ringwood Skatepark in Melbourne. This plaza style park let to plenty of grinds and a little bowl action. Take a peek!
“Clips from a couple sessions at Ringwood park in Melbourne’s east. Footage from Alex Bolton, Jake Deering, Pat Freyne, Jacman Hinss, Cooper Brownlee and Lachy Swanton.” – Focalpoint
It’s time for another section from the Focalpoint “Alive & Well” DVD for your viewing pleasure. This time around we get the split section featuring James Pease, Marius Dietsche and Cooper Brownlee (who pulled double duty filming and editing the whole DVD) putting in work on the streets. All three of these guys put their pegs to heavy use on everything they touched, so hit that play button and take it all in!
“The Three way split of James Pease (who won the Melbourne Street Series), Cooper Brownlee and Marius Dietsche. The three guys hold their own with James giving you some raw street style, Cooper with some classic ledge combo’s and Marius does some of the biggest backwards grinds you probably seen.” – DIG
Let’s talk about the “Alive & Well” DVD from Focalpoint!
If there is one guy who we don’t quite know how he manages to do everything he does, it’s Cooper Brownlee. Between his roles with Colony and Division Brand, he has always managed to put a lot of time into keeping Focalpoint going strong, keeping the scene down in Australia rolling along.
A few weeks back, the latest full-length video from Cooper and Focalpoint called “Alive & Well” was released and it’s a banger of a BMX video packed full of familiar faces. The video features full parts from Jake Deering, Sean Falkenstein, Alex Bolton, Kym Grosser, Pat Freyne and Jack Kelly, with mixes and a split section featuring Marius Dietsche, James Pease, Cooper Brownlee, Polly, Brad Anderson, Chris Whyte, Daniel Johnson, Jack O’Reilly, Jacman Hinss, Lachy Swanton, Tasman Murray, Jax Anderson, Chris Henderson, Kyle Fletcher, Matt Green, Jack Gruber and Alex Hiam.
If you aren’t going through that list and wanting to see this video already, you’re crazy because that’s some of Australia’s finest that all stacked clips for this BMX video.
Going into the video, we had a pretty good idea of what we were getting into. We’ve followed Cooper’s videos enough over the years to know that we’re going to get some really clean film work and pretty straight forward editing without a lot of extra fluff or graphics. We’re big fans of clean and simple, and that’s exactly what we got in this video. The film work had a good mix of long lens and fisheye shots without over doing it with the second angles for clips unless it was necessary. The video has a good balance for the footage and it makes it easy to watch without getting caught up thinking about how they could have done this or that to make it better.
When it came to the music, the “Alive & Well” video focused more on classic and laid back tunes from bands like Blood Ceremony, Sacri Monti, Uriah Heep, Blues Pills, Leon Russell, UFO, Electic Citizen, Omega and Mott The Hoople. We really liked the sound track for this since you can’t go wrong with the classics. If you like rap with your videos, you’re not getting much love in this one.
The “Alive & Well” video is all focused on the streets with a lot of rail and ledge destruction, ditches, banks and wallrides. There might be a skatepark clip or two mixed in there, but this is for the most part just grinds and lines. With a line up like the one this video has, you get a lot of different tricks and a good mix of styles in this, which helps keep things interesting from start to finish!
Overall, the “Alive & Well” video turned out just as dialed as I had expected when I saw the trailer for the first time. We were really stoked on the whole video, but Jack Kelly didn’t disappoint with the ender! The entire video runs a total of 54 minutes including the crash section that is packed with heavy slams and some good laughs, so it’s a decent length! It’s actually a lot of video for the price, since it is currently available for FREE with any order from the Focalpoint Webstore! Talk about a deal.
Check out the trailer below and you can learn more about the video over on the Focalpoint website!
Focalpoint coming through with the latest The Package video for your viewing pleasure. This time around we get a mix from Matt Green, Marius Dietsche, Cooper Brownlee, Tasman Murray, Jax Anderson, Diz, Luke Vandenberg, Bolts, Daniel Johnson, Pat Freyne, Lachy Swanton, Polly, Jack Kelly and Foxy who all go to work on spots down in Australia. This has some awesome riding, clean film work and dialed spots. Can’t go wrong with that combo! We’re just curious to know what video project is in the works…
“This will be the last instalment of the Package series for a while as we are embarking on a new video project very soon so we put this new video together to finish things off nicely.
Hope you enjoy…
Filmed by most the riders. Edited by Cooper Brownlee.”
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The Division Brand squad coming through with a new team mix that’s packed full of heat from some of the time each of the guys were able to spend out in Melbourne! Amazing riding, great film work and some real good spots. You won’t be disappointed with this BMX video!
“This has been one Cooper Brownlee and the Division dudes have been working on gradually as each of the crew came through town and it worked out to be a right piece for the eyeballs. Shot around the city area of Melbourne, Australia with Chris Whyte, Mitchell McDonald, Cooper himself, Daniel Johnson, Carraig Troy, Rhys Gogel and Wolfgang Ray. Dudes killed it.
Filmed and edited by Cooper Brownlee. Additional filming by Chris Bracamonte, Pat Freyne, Carraig Troy and Chris Whyte” – DIG BMX
It’s pretty awesome seeing what BMX riders can come up with when they get the chance to do something like a DIY spot in an abandoned building. We’ve seen the Melbourne DIY spot pop up in a handful of videos over the course of the past year and it seems like they keep accumulating more and more things to ride. Here’s a look at a session that went down with some of the Colony and Division Brand squads courtesy of DIG.
““One day during my stay in Melbourne we were rained out when we had planned on going out to ride street and film. So Cooper Brownlee, Wolfgang Ray, Ricky Catanzariti, Chris Whyte, Marius Dietche and myself went over to this DIY spot Cooper and some locals had put some work on a while back. Fortunately for us the spot was really dialed and we got in a really good session.” – Chris Bracamonte
Filmed and edited by Chris Bracamonte
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