specific terrain you’re BMXing in, as well as how colour coordinated you want to be in terms of potentially doing combined tricks with each other and so on) Skatehut has gear and clothing accessories that can keep your team from looking like losers.
It is easy to find a lot of reasons not to do the team thing, but there are reasons besides YouTube to consider it as well. Working as a team, you might find it a bit easier to obtain sponsorship details and that kind of thing-if you’ve got the raw talent you might make it on your own, but realistically endorsements are rare and if you do not either know the right people or have such incredible skills that people know you (even better would be both) then you are probably not going to get an endorsement with or without a team. Even so, working with several other individuals you may be able to formulate a ‘style’ that could be greater than the collective sum of your individual abilities.Insofar as the simple financial consideration – lots of places will give discounts on equipment and accessories if you are a ‘team’. Registrations in some events are a little easier and cheaper as a team also and will allow you to c
ompete in more competitions and participate to a fuller extent at the same event. If the idea is to go somewhere to ride then you might as well ride as much as possible!In addition to saving a little money on some gear and entry fees, there are also other possibilities. Full commercial endorsements may not be entirely guaranteed but getting a local shop or club to sponsor you to an event is not
impossible at all. Getting a $100 sponsorship to cover gas and an entry to an event 6 hours away has some merit and is an easy sell. A last point about having a team, besides potential for some savings and laughs on YouTube.-when you seriously wreck next time it’s nice to have a team mate that has an arm and hand still working well enough to use a cell phone…..By Daniel Stratton
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After doing a BMX 'zine for ten years (1987 - 1996) FATBMX made it on the internet. The year was 1998. Here to stay.