Singlespeed & Fixed Gear - Amazing video! (BMX is singlespeed!)

This is very cool.
Corey Martinez is a better bike rider than I am. (http://www.gougoule.com/bonus/corey-martinez.php)
Wow.

It would be nice to be half as good as him!

someone posted this over at fgg's forum a while back. truly progressive riding. dig the 'Jesus' sticker on his helmet, too.

holy crap

that was refreshing

yay, corey martinez!!

you guys should try to find some vids of paul osicka riding. he does mostly flatland, but some of his stuff is just INSANE!

george dosantos and ruben alcantara are pretty sick too.

some people are immortal.

wOw

The one trick he does at 3:22 was the one that cemented it for me; this guy is a legend.

it takes a certain amount of cojones to pull tricks off with that fluidity. i can't even ride that smoothly.

makes me want to learn bmx...

fsnl
sparky

The one trick he does at 3:22 was the one that cemented it for me; this guy is a legend.
agreed - 100%. Amazing.

That backward grind right after wasn't half-bad, either. :eek:

okay, i shouldn't do this, as it really belongs in the bmx forum, but here's one of mirra, 2/28/05, working on what would seem to be a triple tailwhip. i couldn't link directly, so go here (http://www.bmxonline.com/bmx/video/0,15753,,00.html#), and it'll be the very bottom link.

Holy cow that dude is insane....Half the stuff he does most BMX'ers can do, but he pulls it off with such fluidity and grace. Truely elevates BMXing to an art form.

I will say that I'm usually not a fan of the BMX. It just doesnt stike me to be as difficult as say, skateboarding, but this guy's vid was really impressive.

but this guy's vid was really impressive.

It honestly was worth the half hour wait my computer took to buffer, or whatever. :)

I'm glad y'all liked it.
Really smooth style, pleasant music (no MTVesque emo), and total lack of bad boy posing made for a very refreshing video.
And yes, the trick at 3:22 was way cool. BMX does the velodrome.

I will say that I'm usually not a fan of the BMX. It just doesnt stike me to be as difficult as say, skateboarding, but this guy's vid was really impressive.
as someone who's been skateboarding for the past 6 or 7 years on and off, i'll be the first to say that i think bmx is awesome and give those guys a lot of respect for the tricks they pull off... as long as they don't chunk up my ledges.

i couldn't link directly, so go here (http://www.bmxonline.com/bmx/video/0,15753,,00.html#), and it'll be the very bottom link.

Front Brake Revolution (http://www.bmxonline.com/bmx/video/image/0,15741,1046540_78_1,00.html) from that page has some pretty slick lip tricks, including a thru-frame icepick.

See? You brakeless riders, front brakes have uses. ;)

Front Brake Revolution (http://www.bmxonline.com/bmx/video/image/0,15741,1046540_78_1,00.html) from that page has some pretty slick lip tricks, including a thru-frame icepick.

See? You brakeless riders, front brakes have uses. ;)

The last half of that videos has me wondering; do those guys hate cars or love them? Maybe they just love America.

And yes, the trick at 3:22 was way cool.

I don't know, that superman tailwhip at the end did it for me. The boy killed it. When I rode BMX, I always thought that style and fluidity were more important than the "tech" of a trick. The most simple tricks done with such fluidity could impress me over some guy muscling a really hard one. He seems to combine the "tech" with the fluidity. Makes me want to start riding, but alas, BMX is for the young.

Sick, sick = nice.


I don't know, that superman tailwhip at the end did it for me. The boy killed it. When I rode BMX, I always thought that style and fluidity were more important than the "tech" of a trick. The most simple tricks done with such fluidity could impress me over some guy muscling a really hard one. He seems to combine the "tech" with the fluidity. Makes me want to start riding, but alas, BMX is for the young.

This is exactly the same way I feel about skating - on the occasions that I still go down to the skatepark (haven't been yet this year, all about the riding) I'll head out there and do smooth lines and get a "flow" of the park. But the young 'uns are all about pulling up to a bank/curb/wall and pulling off some tech trick like a switch 360 or something and then coming away from it all sketch-like. I've always been more about the "big" as opposed to the "tech" so maybe I'm a little old school but I like watching strong flowing solid lines made up of big simpler tricks rather than tech stuff.

Style, grace and elegance is like watching magic - the ride that the DCC did last night when Judah was in town from SF had elements like that especially Tony - who's easily the fastest and highly traffic atuned rider I've ever had the pleasure of seeing with my own eyes. He rode like there was no traffic or cars or lights. More on that in another photo thread soon.

great video, reminds me of inline...this guy ends his tricks reeeeal smooth esp. with the fakie maneuvers

Sick, sick = nice.
I've always been more about the "big" as opposed to the "tech" so maybe I'm a little old school but I like watching strong flowing solid lines made up of big simpler tricks rather than tech stuff.

Style, grace and elegance is like watching magic - .


I skate too, and I have to say that Christian Hosoi has to be my all time fav skater. That boy oozed style doing s-turns down the street. Power and grace all in one.

skating: penny, hands down.

I don't skate, but I did play Tony Hawk 2 a bunch for awhile when my sis borrowed a friends play station for awhile. The first time I watched this video I was reminded of how it was playing that game with all the perfect cheats turned on.

"BMX is for the young"

WHAT? what do you consider young and what do you consider old? guys in their thirties and pushin 40 are now at the top of the sport in each discipline of BMX.

I think the point was you need to be young to start BMX. The top guys are top guys cuz they've been doing it for 30-20 years. A 10-20 year old is going heal faster than a 25-35 year old.

i'm pretty sure you mean young people haven't had "the big injury" yet vs. older guys knowing "the big injury" is likely to occur if it hasn't already.

i speakeses froma the experience. :(

You take your licks when you're young, but you also learn your limits. When you get older (and less bouncy), you can keep pushing those limits to progress. Things just take longer, because you know that you should quit when you're tired, or whatever.

Then there's the 10 Million Dollar man, Mat Hofman, who rivals Evil Kinevel for broken bones. But most pros stress how important it is to be safe.

oh man, hoffman just scares me to watch. he is and always has been sketchy. he totally has done stuff no one else has, but i was in a contest he was in way back when before he was sponsored and boy was he sketchy...but blowing the doors off all the other ramp riders. the sponsored guys. he was not a free agent for long after that.

my damn Mozilla just shows a broken link. Anyone got a mpg or whatever of the vid?

http://media.santoalt.com/101/032205/corey_martinez.wmv

Yes, I know, but those guys never left. I've ridden off and on for the last 15 years. Those guys are inovators in a discipline that is constantly changing. 4130 is in their blood. I love BMX and always will, it's just that BMX was always an S&M type of relationship for me. (No pun intended)...but the beating I would take on an average weekly basis just wasn't doing it for me anymore. Alot of riders younger than me were getting hurt (badly) left and right and it sort of was a wake up call that I wasn't getting any younger. I've found a similar fluidity in riding a track bike that is similar to BMX except I wasn't getting beat up all the time. Anyhoo, I give mucho props to the older guys pushing the sport just as much as the young bucks. BMX 4EVER!



"BMX is for the young"

WHAT? what do you consider young and what do you consider old? guys in their thirties and pushin 40 are now at the top of the sport in each discipline of BMX.

Boy that's the best extreme sports video ever. A couple of tricks are so insane i don't think anyone else ever pulled them. Not even X Games or Gravity Games winner runs have a tail whip off a rail ridden upwards or the mindblowing 720 from only 2 feet above ground. Found a little interview on http://www.bmxonline.com/bmx/interviews/article/0,15737,600425,00.html