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CC: There’s the FU crew in the Niagara Region that I chill with, but there’s a worldwide chapter too. Anyone who’s down with what we do is a part of FU.

Your newest DVD, FU3 recently came out and it’s great. Tell me a little about the project. Where did you film it and what are some of your own favorite parts of it?
CC: Most of he DVD was filmed within an hour or two of Niagara Falls, Canada. We took a few trips to Montreal, Rochester, Toronto and some other places but for the most part it was between Buffalo and Hamilton. Can’t really pick a favorite part but I’m really psyched Greg Henry and Shawn Swain finally have full sections that come close to representing how good those dudes are.

I know you recently came back from a trip to Texas. What were you doing down there and any memorable stories?
CC: Oh shit… I was down there filming for the OSS DVD and the next Lotek Mixtape. Way too many stories to list… the one that sticks out in my head happened the night I was supposed to fly out at 6am, we decided the best possible plan was to stay up partying until my flight. There was a wrestling match between Magellan and Gravy that took out our coffee table and I ended up passing out and missing my flight out, had to pay 50 bucks to switch it which kinda sucked but it was a fun night. You can peep the footage of the coffee table smash in a flip cam edit Scott Marceau put together. Another memorable moment you can catch a few clips of in the edit is Mastroni’s van breaking down at least a mile from the house and us having to push it home, so fun.



Your riding is pretty “outside the box” in terms of the kinds of tricks and combinations we see you do. How do you come up with these ideas? Was there ever a trick that seemed like a “great idea” at the time but then ended up going horribly wrong or at least turned into a really bad idea?
CC: Nah not really haha, nothin really comes to mind. I eat shit a lot but it was never really because of bad ideas, probably me just not paying attention to what I was doing. As for coming up with ideas, I just look at spots for awhile and try to find stuff that I think would make for clips people wouldn’t expect. I have a lot of respect for people doing the big shit, I’d like to do more of that but I’m a pussy so I have to think a little harder to film shit.

Who are your greatest influences? Upstate NY has had pretty long standing tradition of BMX. Riders like Jim Cielencki, Tony Hamlin and Dave Mirra all have ties to Upstate NY as does FBM, Sunday and Kink. For a state where we have some of the world’s worst winters, how is this even possible? Any ideas?
CC: Bad winters make you that much more motivated when the weather is nice, you’re hungry to ride by the time spring comes so I think that’s why so many good riders come out of this area. Jim recently got scared though, had to move to a warmer climate… haha.

What kinds of things do you do when you aren’t riding?
CC: Messing around with video stuff, trying to learn new shit in Premiere and After Effects. Doing whatever freelance video jobs I can find, talking shit, drinking with the by’s and trying to find girls takes up most of my non-riding time. Oh, and updating www.bmxfu.com, anyone still sleeping on the site should homepage it, we've got a lot of dudes working hard to keep fresh content on there in FU fashion, check it out!

Lots of people are talking about the FU Cam series. Can you tell us what else is in store for future episodes?
CC: Future episodes, I’m sitting on like 10 right now because they take forever to compress right and I haven’t been home much as of late. Watch for D.Q.Y.B.J.2 to drop soon, I’m working on it as I write this interview actually. Basically FU-Cam is something I want to keep up to showcase all the riders out there that kill it and don’t get coverage. That was why I started making DVDs, but FU-Cam is a way for me to do it much faster and more often. Still going to make full-lengths though, watch for BMXFUOR20 later this year shot entirely in hiiigh definition.