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Tadashi Nakamura – The Style Edit

New joint from 84Kick featuring a very familiar face, Tadashi! Tadashi is the man. If you keep up, you’ll know he’s been riding for a long time now and has a timeless, smooth style and spot approach. While this was only shot in a day, there’s some really nice moves in here along with a ballsy handrail at the end. Great work!

Ismael Lebrech – 3 Years of FGFS

1 year since his last edit, Ismael just dropped some serious heat and progression on us! Having the pleasure of talking to Ismael and learning more about him really helps me understand how he’s gotten so good so quickly. His mind is entirely committed to progress and he will not stop until he learns something. The tech combos here are tough as nails and he isn’t afraid to go big either. Ismael is truly a great all around rider. If you told me Ismael has been riding for 10+ years, I’d still say he’s a great rider and this is a great video. For 3 years, this is NUTS (No BMX background either). Amazing work here for Ruff and Fixated

Day Edit 2 feat. Mike Chacon, Jamil Gray, and Friends

This makes me so happy to see. Old guard meets new guard with Chacon and Jamil riding with the modern day LA squad including Statik, Thompson, and more. Jamil’s wall 1 bar was so sick and Statiks riding keeps getting better.

TEAM VOLAR – COLACIÓN VOL1

Santiago De Chile showing out! Really cool team mix from Team Volar featuring a grip of riders not on my radar yet. If you know me, you know I love seeing riders that I’ve never heard of before. Love the effort that went into this and there’s some really solid biking going on throughout. Excited to see more!

Ruff Bike Co – REAL POTATOES

Been waiting on this one!! Perfect timing too with the new frame drop. The whole Ruff crew sans myself got out to Idaho to eat some real potatoes and do some real bike tricks. This is one of the hardest hitting crews in Fixed Gear and while the spots in Boise weren’t anything too crazy, they made due and still got some really great tricks out there. Some of my personal highlights were Jacob’s 3:19 wheelie, Corey’s DANGEROUS wheelie to railhop at 8:30, Chase and Matt’s rock tricks at 14:15, Chase’s rail trick at 16:24, and Corey’s nosie to water to end it all. Such a fun video with a great soundtrack. Oh, and to top this all off, they got a legend to come out and dust his bike off: JONATHAN DAVIS! 9 years off the Fixed Gear bike and this dude hasn’t lost a step. Still some of the best tables and tuck nos around. Such a fun element to add!

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Kerry Kimura On the One Edit

New piece from 84Kick is really cool. I haven’t heard the name Kerry Kimura much, and this surprises me given his style and abilities. He’s smooth, stylish, and creative. Kerry clearly has a Teppei influence (not mad at all about it) cause this dude is NICE with the skids. Overall, this was just a super refreshing watch and that leg over skid 180 at the end was SO DIALED!

JOHNATHAN BALL – WANING 2024

Whats up. It’s been a long time coming. I premiered a nearly finished version of this video 6 months ago at Suck My Comp 6, so I”m a bit bummed it took this long to round out.

Overall though, I’m pretty happy with how this one turned out. Web edits in FGFS are rare these days, so I’m satisfied that I’m able to keep up a roughly once a year cadence. A lot of the clips took a long time, and a lot of clips were filmed during periods where I haven’t been riding my bike as much as I would’ve liked, so there was a lot of de-rusting going on. That being said though, there’s some tricks I’m really proud of throughout this one. Even though the ending tricks were a little lighter than I’m used to for myself, injuries plagued the filming of this and I decided to cut my losses and finish it off with what I had. It’s nearly 6 minutes of footage anyways, so I can’t complain too much.

I’ve already begun filming for a new project that I can’t talk about yet. So even though this video’s theme is all about sunsetting, I’m not done just yet. Anyways, I really hope you enjoy it and leave a comment if you did. Big thanks to all my friends who held a camera for me throughout.

New Edit Premiering Friday: Johnathan Ball “Waning”

On Friday, I’m premiering my newest edit that has been in the works for about a year and a half titled “Waning“. There’s a lot to be said about the making of this one, but I’ll save those words for the real post once the video drops. For now, mark your calendars for May 10th at 9:45AM Pacific Standard Time on the SMC Youtube channel. See you there!