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English => General Flatland Forum => Topic started by: Vic on September 29, 2007, 12:57:16 AM
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As it's so underground, how did you discover flatland?
I was just looking for street videos on google and accidentally found a flat video of Art Thomason (http://tinyurl.com/2uqo96 (http://tinyurl.com/2uqo96)). I honestly thought he was the only guy in the world who could do that.. then I searched a bit more and found out theres a whole world of this stuff! I just thought, how could something so huge go unnoticed? Where have you been my whole life?! I wish I discovered flat when I was younger. I quit street and focused on flat from then on.
The second video I saw (http://tinyurl.com/35qus5 (http://tinyurl.com/35qus5)) was some kid struggling to land some basic tricks and I thought to myself "pffft, I can do that".. took me a long time to realise I was so, so wrong. Props to that kid. I honestly thought flatland would be piss easy..
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I think in about 1984 there was a guy at the local park with one of the very first Haro Master's doing a rock walk and 180 bunny hops.
I was hooked.
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I SAW PICS IN 83-84 BMX PLUS OF RL AND MIKE BUFF,,,AND THOUGHT "I CAN DO THAT!
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day smith x games
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Got in to BMX when i saw a few pictures in local sports shop ad for moongoose BMX bikes. But all thoes pictures was from race, dirt, street and vert. So i was riding street for 2 years with my Diamondback Joker.
Soon after i got my first bike my brother gave me a Matt Hoffman's Pro BMX 2 for PlayStation2 at my birthay. There was few clips from Day Smith. Thats when i first saw flatland.
At thoes time there still was a BMX website BMXTRIX or something where i was looking up how-to's for street and dirt tricks. I learned fork glides and thats all.
Then for 2 years I wasn't riding at all. I was in to BMX all the time, but bike bike was broke and couldn't save up for new one. After thoes 2 years i put my old bike back and got some parts from friends, but i didn't have cranks and it was winter, and we had a small salfmade indoor in old house, so i was just chillin with my friends and doing forkglides and learning dorks.
After about four months i got money for a new and good bike. I was still in to street, so i broght Eastern Bikes Ace Of Spades, but i sold it to my friend 2 weeks later and broth my Dragonfly Trigger.
Thats how i got in to flatland.
Oh... Sorry.. Topic was "How did you discover Flatland?", but i told my whole life storry!
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BMXTRIX.com
nuff said.
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i always new about flatland , i do it because its not barspin tailwhip, turn down , table, tailwhip , 360 , tailwhip.
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A few years back I was flipping through channels during the xgames, and happened to catch a few minutes of it. Ever since then I wanted to try, just didn't have the motivation until recently.
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kevin jones. ive been hooked ever since i met him. i problt ride more than anyone here and even my girlfriends into it.( i got her doin fork glides nd peg wheelies, she loves it ;D )
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One Sunday afternoon I was bored and was flipping thru channels on the idiot box and came across Xgames. It was just BMX, but it really interested me, since I've been wanting to get a bike to get in shape.
From there, I searched BMX on YouTube and came across:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LTVhqHAdo
Later learned it was Simon O'Brien...
I thought it was f*cking amazing....
For the longest time I thought "flatland" was the name of a crew ^_^
(was not aware that it was a discipline of BMX).
I joined BMX-Forum to do some research and get some background...
But before I could decide on a bike that was best for me, I had to first determine the style of riding I wanted to do.
Then I came across the article, "Choosing the Right Style of Riding"
http://www.bmx-forum.com/23935-choosing-right-style-riding.html
That's when I discovered that "flatland" is a style and not a crew, HAHA -_-
At first I just wanted to get a bike-- then very specifically it became a BMX bike because I figured I would have a little fun with it and mess around.
Now, I've kind of changed my mind about it and really want to make an effort to learn it. I never took up dancing, even though I wanted to all my life. I'm now hoping maybe flat can be a way of expressing myself, if not a way to escape the confines of my day job...
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I learned about flat when I was back in high school..I used to see this kid doin wierd tricks on a small bike and it amazzed me..so one day I left lunch didnt eat and kinda slowly walked over to this lot almost off skool proporty to watch him. I kept doin this for weeks on end skipping lunch and some classes to watch him ride. I later met and talked to him. xD. and up bein my freind and great flatland rider Gabe Kadmiri :D Mhmm thats him he is the one who interduced me to the sport and got me addicted to it.and I thank him for it..THNX GABE!!!..
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bikeflat.com!
i didnt know about flatland untill one day i was serching online for a how to video on how to do a jet hop, or bunny hop and bikeflat.com came up and i watched all the flatland how to videos they had and the couple of jam videos they had posted and was like i wanna do dat!
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i discovered flatland when I was very young. I think I saw a guy riding at a 1/2 time show on tv or something. Thought it was awesome, but it looked impossible, so I sadly forgot about it. I was more into bmx racing then.
So I didn't even remember anything about seeing it until I was 20. I don't know what exactly triggered the memory but I was so pissed I had let all those years pass by. I grabbed my friends bike that day and started trying tailwhips.
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BMXTRIX.COM (R.I.P.)
That site was awesome.
Although, I first "discovered" it when I was reading an Issue of Ride BMX UK Zine in like the early 90's somewhen... I didn't actually know what it was as my childing brain was baffled by the shapes. I just liked the looks of the bikes back then.
It wasn't untill a few years later I found BMXtrix and "Flatland" was given its name in my brain.
I stopped riding dirt/ramps and "street" and focused on flat.
Love it!
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I been riding since i was little, and Had a mongoose with flatland geometry, always doing bar spins, wheelies,peg wheelies, footjam endo's I decided one day to learn how to do wheelie in a circle on youtube and I was Flatland for the first time, I didn't even know what that I was doing a little flatland.
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Well back when I was 12 I was pretty fat so my friend encouraged me to ride some trails on my BMX which my dad had previously bought me for a birthday. I can't remember exactly what it was, it had stickers saying "CONCEPT" and "MAD FRANK" or something.
But one day when I tried a pretty huge jump I nosedived and buckled the wheel on my friends bike so I stopped doing the dirt ramps.
Then I tried street so I bought a Hoffman Disrupter PL1 I think but since I was far from ramps I just rode Flatland in my front drive after seeing it on BMXTRIX. Then a year later I got a DK Signal and the rest is history.
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Mountain Dew commercial back in 1985
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BMX on t.v in 1984 got a bike,got the magazines & learnt some tricks 23 years later i'm still learning always fun always will be, ride on. ;D
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watching bmx (street) in the xgames years ago with mirra etc... and just caught a few minutes of Andrew Faris riding... i was sold
that and a video i saw online of kuoppa doing some kind of rolling upside down tailwhip... still cant find the video anywhere... :angry:
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in 1986. a schwinn ad w/ jason parks doing a lawnmower in front of a big godzilla statue. HOOKED!!!!!!
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when i was just a little lad of about 8 yrs of age. i saw flat on tv cuz of the x-games, and i thought it was wayy cooler than any of the other stuff. and i just kinda didn't really take it up cuz i was so young, pop-a-wheelies were enuff to keep me content for a while, then i just never got a bmx bike until all my friends started riding dirt, i got a cheap ass mongoose dirt bike, and i rode for about a week, then i shattered the meniscus(sp?) in my knee(non-bmx related) and i couldnt really ride all summer, when I thought i was ready i wanted to ride real bad, but everytime i did i got this huge lecture from my mom cuz like it wasnt really healed and the doctor said i still needed to be a lazy bum, but i settled with her that i could do flat since to the average person it doesn't look like it abuses ur body(man was i wrong) but i never told her cuz i didnt care it was so much fun, and i never looked back
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1984 in a fast food parking lot after hours. 2 guys 2 neon colored bikes, GT's I think. They were doing endos and rock walks, I was in awe. I couldn't believe you could do those things on a bike. Definitely hooked from then on. Then I got my first issue of Freestylin and some Skyway pegs and I thought I would be a pro some day. Those were the days.
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Me and 5 friends all got bmx's one xmas and started riding street. We met another group of riders who had been riding longer then us (they were like gods to us ;D) 2 of which rode flat (one was keelan).
Anyway over time most of the guys from both groups stopped riding for whatever reasons, but a few guys from my original group would sometimes ride @ the same spot as keelan. I remeber watching him do multi whiplashes/ hikers etc and decided i wanted to try flat, so I brought a 2nd hand GT Dyno frame but stopped riding a few months later.
Fast forward 3 years, I have finally built the Dyno up and got back on my bike.
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and I thought I would be a pro some day. Those were the days.
haha same here, I thought it would all be easy.. ^_^
I didn't know there were so many old skoolers here (80s).
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I think it's pretty cool that several people on here learned about flatland through YouTube. It seems like there was a whole generation of riders who found out about it through the X-Games, but now that flat hasn't been included in X for several years it's nice something else is picking up the slack. Anyway, YouTube is much more accessible than the X-Games' two minutes of flat coverage, so it's cool to think we could be in the midst of an era where more people are finding out about flatland than ever before.
As for me, I'm from the "Rad" school.
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I think it was 82' or 83' when I first was introduced to it. I saw a show with RL, Mike Buff, and Fred Blood. Fred busted out with skates and was doing back-flips on the quarter pipe. It was back in the day where everyone had number plates and pads on thier bikes. Gradually I saw more and more riders in the neighborhood I lived in. Ever since then, I've been hooked. The one local guy who really inspired me was a guy named Robert Saucedo. He did everything. Flat, vert, and a little street. He could do 540 airs over the channel as well as many killer airs. He was the first one I saw do a flail boomerang and I thought it was funny because I never saw that before. Well, I still do them to this day. I learned all my scuffing and rolling tricks from him and his buddies. Robert eventually went to ride for Ringling Bros. Barnum and Baily circus. I went and saw him back then and it was awesome! I still have the bulletin of it. Man, those were the days.....
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1989. Navy Housing in Groton CT. 15 yrs old. Used to walk my ghetto blaster the the local Dolphin Mart(the military 7-11). A few skaters there knew me as the white rapper kid, though i was dubbed 'Axle') They had a friend who moved up from Viginia, same age, said he was "the other' white rapper and he was meeting them there to jam on his bike.
This dude pulls up with a chrome Haro Master, pegged out(i'd never seen pegs,gyro,etc). He come screaming around the corner, gets up to us and slammed out a loud double tailwhip to decade and i was jaw dropped for like a minute.
So we all became the skater/biker punk rapper crew of Navy Housing. All the headbanger kids hated us even more with the rappers in it. One night they jumped us(only 7 of us) and they had a few more but some were younger bros. to the bigger ones. And when you have 5 boards and 2 bikes against a small mob of denim and beer bottle mullets, you get no contest. Skateboards make great weapons and when you're more concerned with not getting run over by a bike than blocking a punch, BOOM! ((sigh)) fun a$$ days boyeeee!..
We ended up split by '91 cause our 'rents got transferred, but we still keep in touch and laugh about those days.
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I saw Rad back in the day and did alot of dirt jumping on dept store bikes... around about 1992 I finally got a GT Vertigo complete with pegs & gyro.. I tried some stuff but i wasn't big enough to move around the bike, or move the bike around me.. Then I got a license so the bike sat for a few years.. In 2006 my best friend died and i linked up with his cousin who rides flat.. Roosevelt sent me a DVD of some flatland vids including some history on the development of the sport, and i saw him doing hitchhikers and such on his website, that was all i needed to see... I've been breaking in my shins hardcore for 3 months now...
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day smith x games
Same, I believe it was the 96 X-Games. I did not start riding until Thanksgiving of 05.
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Rad
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i saw Alex Jumelin probali at the CoB a cuple a years ago and he did that crazy stuf of his cliffhanger and i like it very much and from that on i whanted to start doing this sport at the begining i didn't know what was the name of the sport :)) ;D :beer: thank Alex J !!!!!!
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Mat Hoffmans Pro Bmx 2, Made it my goal to unlock Day Smiths video after i knew what flatland was, Did it <3
From then on i became what we call a "flatlander"
This was many many years ago
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My dad bought me my first real bmx bike when I was in elementary school and I wanted to ride some ramps but no skateparks let bikes in back then. He then told me he saw guys on tv at the X Games that were doing crazy tricks on the ground and using no ramps. I wasn't exactly sure what he was talking about and then he took me to the GT Airshow and a local bike shop (this was in '98) and I saw Aaron Behnke riding flat. I still have the GT Airshow shirt that he signed along with Rob Noli and Kevin Guttierez. I went home and immediately starting trying fork glides and tailwhips.
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one day there was this porn vid with flatland spliced in
after that i developed a fetish
promote flatland thru pr0n plz
hell yeah.
just think of the possbilites.
riding backwards with the girl on the back pegs...
a guy doing a backpacker and the girl doing a hitchiker right infront of him...
hmm....
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actually its kinda been done.. http://bikeflat.com/media/doubles.wmv (http://bikeflat.com/media/doubles.wmv)
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actually its kinda been done.. [url]http://bikeflat.com/media/doubles.wmv[/url] ([url]http://bikeflat.com/media/doubles.wmv[/url])
that's just... yeah...
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I dicovered flatland(freestyle) back in 86 thru a "FREESTYLIN" mag.I was a little BMXer on a Mongoose back then.I later went to a HARO show at ROCKVILLE BMX shop in MD and saw THE PLYWOOD HOODS for the first time.At that point,all I wanted to do was learn tricks but didn't have the set up.Later that year my Mongoose got stolen and was replaced with a HARO MASTER.It was all over from there!!
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L E E M U S L L E W H I T E !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
when I saw him something hit me in my head and that was it
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How did I discover flatland,Well, after saving my money on newspaper route.My dad took me to a bike shop in the mid 80's if I remember right . Where I fell in love with this neon pink GT Pro-Performer the builder say lets throw some neon green in there to (grips,acs z-mags,etc.)My dad and I was just to weired out by this builder his hair half buzz cut half long. I remember askin' what happen to his hair,he replied I'm a freestyler , he then took my new bike out rode it doing every old school trick in about 10 minutes at the end he threw up the bike in the air way above the roof and then caught it. I was so blown away I was shakin' .His name was Bob he is,was from the St. Louis,St Charles, Missouri area . I will never forget him.
THANK YOU BOB,gypsy
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he threw up the bike in the air way above the roof and then caught it. I was so blown away I was shakin'
how'd he catch it? It's pretty hard to catch a bike without getting hit in the head by a pedal or one of the pegs isn't it?
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Oh, man...it had to be around 86 or 87. I was in a video store and spotted the box for "Rad". I had already known about bmx racing, but watching flatland tricks just blew me away. Ever since, there's always been either a bmx or flatland bike laying around, even when I couldn't ride. And yes, I still have a copy of "Rad" on vhs.
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He caught it with the handlebars and his foot caught a pedal. Oh by the way I never tried it.I wasn't going back to that newspaper route again to fix a broke bike.LOL,gypsy
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i was at a bike shop replacing a sprocket i broke doing stalls on cement. on the counter was this very slick manga style card. it was the ad for Elevation (3?)
i was really intrigued...growing up in rural wisconsin with no cable i'd somehow missed flatland altogether. i went by myself and got my mind expanded. hook line and sinker. thanks Hector! :ph34r:
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i was accually telling chase this in a e-mail the other day , how much irony is it to just stumble across this thread!
but i told him that most people usually say the movie rad, and funny thing is , when ron wilkerson was up and running wilkerson airlines it was the 1st time i had ever seen kevin jones ride flatland. back then juggleing hitchikers was crazy!!!!
and thats what got me hooked!
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hmm i discoverd flatland thru park riding lol i was about 15 and the local council built this skatepark i used to go all the time couldnt even bunny hop but i would lol local riders would teach me stuff till one day i was taught barspins and i loved to do them all the time than some dude came along on a gt vertifgo weird toptube on it lol and was doing tailwhips on some street he showed me how to do them....but at this time i still didnt kno flatland ever excisted..till i bought a dvd called mirracle boy and nyquist and it showed u fotage of dave in his younger days doing flat and i was blown away by this time i was 16 lol and my freind had a copy of matt hoffman bmx 2 and i would sit all day long doing flatland tricks on the game....wasnt till this year now 21 i trully got in to flatland ok sucks rite now no one to ride with lol but hay i still like it and in the space of 3 months i enterd a comp and came in 9 in ametuar...no bad i think lol for a noob
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i got tired of skating cause like
every frikin kid does it, it wasnt satisfying anymore to land a 360flip off the local ledge or transfer the halpipe to the vert wall.. everyone can do it now its ridiculous
one of my friends jesse bikes more than he skates, i watched him at the skate park doing can cans, judos, all kinds of crazy s**t.
i thought it was like the sikkest thing ever
as i was skating next to him he was doing a lot of stuff on his bike that i've never seen before. he got me into bmxing and let me borrow one of his really good bikes. It was a haro but not like a normal haro, it was a hella good signatre series from 2001 with an indestructable frame. it was amazing. (not so much for flatlanding thou)
the first day i have it i'm riding around (i've had a lot of year on bikes before but only mountain bikes that i started getting so tired of i even tried to put pegs on one of them) and i call my friend to tell him about my bike. Well it turns out my friend used to race BMX when he was younger until he had got in an accident doing something stupid and broke his femur and couldnt ride for months. he said that he had lost all skill but before he got the accident he was starting to get into a more underground form of freestyle BMXing called flatlanding. i was like 'whats that' so he told me some stuff (he wasn't to informative) so i looked it up on youtube.. saw a video.. got hooked.. searched some more.. looked up a s**tload of info on it.. and began my life as a flatlander aha.
I started on the bike I got from jesse which was extreamly heavey and learned all the basics and just recently I got a WETHEPEOPLE metric from my grandma.
so yea..
thats how i started flatlanding.
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I'm 22 and i grew up watching riders like miron, DMC, and all those old school guys who did flatland type tricks. Flatland came up on tv during like x trials and xgames, and i had seen a bunch in some bike videos I had. I'd always been interested in doing it but was more focused on ramps/street.
After a few gnarly wrecks and hospital bills, i vowed to not ride ramps anymore in 2005 and got my complete hoffman flat bike. I rode it for awhile but lost interest. My friend Mike robbins (who is super sick btw) had always been riding flat and i've seen him progress a ton over the past few years and he got me amped on it.
My friend who i used to ride street with all the time got pumped up about riding flat cause he's been beat up doing other types of riding too. So now we're back on the iron horses.
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i already posted my story in another topic. haha...i dont think ill subject u all to that same long azz story again. haha. ^_^
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actually its kinda been done.. [url]http://bikeflat.com/media/doubles.wmv[/url] ([url]http://bikeflat.com/media/doubles.wmv[/url])
:wacko: :beer: ;D :P ^_^ :P
funny ****
some one from across the street was flating in his drive way and it looked interesting and ive seen no one else do it in the neighborhood and it look like wtf r u doing and that started it all off back in 98
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i already posted my story in another topic. haha...i dont think ill subject u all to that same long azz story again. haha. ^_^
Yep I remember that post a classic it took up whole page! ^_^
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Saw a Gt show " not the bike " in the mid 80's. Bought a Dyno Slammer and never rode flat on it, just street and dirt. A few years ago I got a computer and using the net was able to see the progression flats made and wanted a taste.
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Bob Haro did a rock walk, Martin Aparijo did a double decade, Dennis McCoy did his bike dance, Kevin Jones did a deathtruck, Chase Gouin took off his brakes and did everything really fast, Nathan Penonzek went round the back, Terry Adams jumped some impossible way from one side of the bike to another.
Each time was a new discovery, a new door, a new path.
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ya dont really remember but i always wondered how and why some of my good friends quit flatland....how can you not be feigning to ride your bike and becoming restless and crazy when you havent ridden in a few days....how can you just not ever want to ride again? how can you not see the inifinite possibilities?
but anyways life goes on
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Skatesantacruz and edoog2k4, real cool to see two different generations and experiences.
M...one never stops riding a bike, whatever the style or form, unless a serious life threating state of being or body issue takes over making it impossible...many riders take a break, sort their life, or what not, and most return to riding. After all it is a way of life and if one considers this to be art form then its blood, even when one can longer ride a bike.
DMC is one solid rock...he's introduced BMX to so many riders...Neela
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the intro and outro credits of RAD....used to watch those over and over.
martin aparijo
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I started making a lot of money recently and at the same time felt like getting a hobby outside of music. I first saw flatland on Youtube and thought it was the fvcking coolest thing. I went ahead and got a Signal, and 3 months later here I am.
Youtube is doing wonders for the sport I think. I expect more people like myself will keep coming, and more and more BMXers from street/park style will convert.
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I used to do a lot of dirt jumping in MN. That all ended when I moved to KY, and could not find any local jumps, since I was new, I had no connections with people who rode. I started to go find parking lots and mess around. Later, I went to college, and I can't afford financially or time-wise to get hurt or break anything. "Wow," I thought, "look at all the parking lots and that basketball court over there is perfect." I never looked back. Flatland forever!!!