ACT Jam 2019: Canberra- Australia

Fresh edit that dropped yesterday from Cult Crew at the ACT Jam, which just happened recently in Canberra, Australia.  Decade jump to manual??!!  Daaaayyummm.  Looks the the event was put on by Backbone Bike Shop in Canberra.  Here's their edit of the event:

Toyota BMX Triple Jump Best Trick Jam

Quick edit of a recent best trick jam, not sure exactly when this happened.  About a month ago, I think?  Anyhow, just uploaded this morning by Our BMX.  It's new school egg beater time over a small mountain range called three double jumps.  As an old guy getting back into things, I don't know most newer riders names yet, but I do know it's little Ryder Lawrence who's a decade younger than most of these guys, nearly making a 360 over this huge set at 1:20.  This is four quick minutes of video game trick in real life.  And if you break your frame trying something nearly this ridiculous, you know where to get a new one, right?

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Brian Foster Living the Dream

Here's some really good riding for Good Friday.  Fit bikes legend, Brian Foster, from late 2018. 

Apparently his long, on the down low transition into a physical therapy doctor hasn't affected his bike skills.  Want to hear something crazy, when I was roommates with Brian at the P.O.W. BMX House in about 1993, he used to ride a place called Jones Track, in Riverside, a lot.  Way back then, trails were a lot smaller, and dirt jumping, as its own sport, was just hitting its stride. 

I remember Brian several times, coming back from an afternoon's session at Jones Track, both exhilarated and frustrated.  The thing about Jones Track was that most of the jumps were only a foot or so tall.  I could jump a lot of them.  But they were set up in really weird combos that just jacked with everybody's rhythm.  They were just these straight lines of little jumps in a field, but weird combos of little jumps that made them hard as hell to get all the way through.  Top riders, even B.F. himself, would head into a line, get 2/3 through, and get squirrely and jump off to the side. 

But that was the whole point, small and technical, like when jumpers learn flatland tricks and blend them into their riding in new ways.  I just wanted to tell that little story, just to remind people that even though Brian has been defying gravity for years, and putting together lines of rhythm that a Jazz drummer would be proud of, he really is human.  There was a time, long, long ago, when one foot high jumps could frustrate him. 

So hang in there, ride everything you can, and build all kinds of skills.  Some day you may ride like Brian Foster.  OK, not really, ain't nobody that rides quite like Brian.  But you can still be pretty damn smooth and flowy. And if you're looking for a Fit bikes of your own, check out...

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