Mutiny in Barcelona
BMX December, 10 2010
Last month Justin Simpson, Brandon Hoerres, Josh Bedford and Rubio all hit up Barcelona to see what all the fuss is about.
-Gaz
Click below to check out the latest FIT print ad from Ride US.
Gatorade has spent many years researching and understanding what goes on in traditional athletes bodies when they are doing their sports. Whether it be hydration levels or information about how their body reacts to the most intense moments, Gatorade and their sport scientists have a pretty good idea about what’s going on with—like I said—their traditional athletes… Action sports on the other hand, that’s a totally different story.
This year, Gatorade’s theme is “Go All Day.” In celebrating that theme, Gatorade wanted to start doing research on the non-traditional sports like BMX, so they hit up Nigel Sylvester, who rides for Gatorade and asked him a pretty crazy question: If you could go anywhere in the world to ride bikes with his friends, where would you go? That’s a very heavy question to ask someone, even Nigel… so after lots of research and different ideas being thrown around, Japan was chosen as the destination! With it’s huge city, amazing architecture, and lots of un-tapped spots, Japan would be the perfect location.
To document the trip, Gatorade invited a few key BMX media outlets, including Defgrip, to go along for the ride. The video you are about to watch documents the trip from the riding and research, to the culture and adventures and to coincide with the video, we will have a photo gallery with a more detailed story going up next week!
Huge thanks to Nigel and Gatorade for putting this trip together and we hope you enjoy the video!
7D 2000 fps
film December, 8 2010
7D 2000 fps from Oton Bačar on Vimeo.
Oton Bačar, who made the much-talked about 7d 1000fps video which has received over 599k views so far, has released another slow-motion edit filmed on his 7d and a 18-135mm Canon kit lens – but this time with renders of 2000fps. The result is crazy. Oton’s imagination knows no bounds.
Some technical details: The super slowmo rain is fake, it was created with Red Giant’s Trapcode Particular 2 in After Effects. And like his previous video, Oton’s skilled use of Twixtor gets this impressive slow motion out of his 7D.
After watching Anthem 2, it dawned on me that 2010 was pretty awesome for legit BMX video projects.
There was definitely a time when the fate of videos was in question due to the internet, but this year proved different. A company might not sell as many videos as it once would, but good DVD’s are still sought after, well received and I thank brands for continuing to put in the work.
Below, I go over a few videos that stood out for me this year. This is not a be all end all, year end best of videos post (I haven’t seen everything), but just an overview of some notable ones. They are not listed in any particular order.
Feel free to add your input/feedback in the comments.
New Fit Softgoods
BMX December, 7 2010
Click through the player above to check out all the new FIT softgoods.
Sunday! – LAX to ATX Edit
BMX December, 6 2010
The Sunday team road-tripped it up from Cali to Texas. The trip consisted of Alex Magallan, Aaron Ross, Garrett Reeves, Tom Arkus, Eric Lichtenberger, Jake Seeley, Jim Cielencki and Lee Dennis. Gary Young unfortunately got hurt prior to the trip.
Click below to check that out. Enjoy!
Picture Box
BMX December, 6 2010
T.I.Y.B.O.L. – Grant / Passero
BMX December, 6 2010
Here’s the first section of Lotek’s “This is your brain on Lotek” series, featuring David Grant and Craig Passero. All the edits that drop in this series will be compiled into the next Lotek mixtape DVD. Keep an eye out for more.
Any questions?
via-@lotekbrand
