Classic Brian Foster- Holy Fit

While this Bock Bikes Blog is new, I'm an old guy.  My biggest riding days were in the 1980's and 1990's, then I faded when I became a taxi driver.  Whatever era you start riding in, that sets up your perspective of what's good riding, what's cool and what's not.  We tend to carry those perspectives on as we get older.

In the 1980's, when we called it "BMX freestyle," we'd go to contests, and see 40 different people doing tricks that none of us had ever seen before.  Originality was a key factor.  In those days, 15 novice guys would be busting new stuff we'd never seen.  The problem is that, you can only have that scenario at the beginning of a sport.  After a while, the foundational tricks have mostly been invented, and riding usually turns into combining variations, or doing the same tricks bigger, or on different terrain.  Contests, unfortunately, kind of turn into gymnastics.  When I started working at Cirque du Soleil in 1993, I soon realized that any aerial sport, BMX airs, skate airs, freestyle ski jumping, whatever, eventually turns into circus acrobatics.  You have flips, you have spins, and you have flips with spins (corked 360 flips, for example).  Then you have whatever basic maneuvers are allowed by the vehicle itself.  By that I mean, on a bike you have barspins, tailwhips, tabletops, and on a skateboard you have indy airs, methods, judo airs, in addition to flips and spins.

So the high level (big money) contests turn into guys doing the most flips, spins, corked flips, barspins and tailwhips possible.  But style, good old epic style, doesn't score well in a major contest.  It doesn't matter what sport.  But style is what it's really all about.  You learn a trick.  You get a trick dialed, so you can do it every time.  You learn to STOMP that trick.  THEN you do it with style. Hopefully.

So for years now, every time someone on Facebook or YouTube shared the latest video of some rider doing a quintuple barspin, triple backflip, corked out 1440, quadruple tailwhip... or whatever, I would watch a video afterwards that just had good style.  Usually that video was one of my old roommate, Brian Foster.  Most of the time it was this Holy Fit section.  This is just one of those epic edits, oozing with style, that makes you remember why you ride.

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