Vans rebeljam course designer Brian Kachinsky interview. Unfiltered BMX

Nov 11, 2014

Written by Bart de Jong

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Brian Kachinsky is not only a bad ass street rider, he is also an amazing course designer. We sat together with BK at Texas Toast and had a little talk about the new Vans rebeljam course...

What's your involvement with rebeljam this year?
Brian Kachinsky: I've gone to the rebeljam several years. I used to go to them back in Berlin and they were always amazing events. Andy Zeiss, the organisor this year asked me to help

design the course after Jeff K and myself had designed the Munich Mash course which went really well and he was psyched on it, and the riders were stoked on it. We got a lot of great feedback, the contest was incredible. So many never done before tricks were pulled. So when Andy asked us to design the course for rebeljam we said yes. I always have ideas running around in my head and to be able to make them a reality is a treat.

Are you also going to help with the build or is Ben Hennon and his crew doing that?
Brian Kachinsky: Yeah, Ben Hennon and his crew, the ART Ramps guys, are going to build it and I'm really psyched on that because the whole event is BMX, top to bottom. It's organised by BMX-ers, it's built by BMX-ers, etc. so events like that I think are always the best. They always turn out to be more real and in the spirit of rebeljam, unfiltered BMX, which is awesome.

Did you have to work with a limited space when you designed the course for this year's rebeljam?
Brian Kachinsky: It was tough because the venue is all the way over in London and I live in Chicago but luckily I had gotten some photos and some floor plans and stuff like that of the venue and yes, it's a little bit smaller than let's say the space we had to build the Munich course but I think that's good because it's a new challenge. It looks like a cool building, it's in an old theatre, but it's a bit smaller so things are going to be scaled down. There's nothing huge on the course, yet there are opportunities to do big stuff if that makes sense. Jeff and I drew it up, we had all these ideas that we refined and we went to the Four Seasons skatepark in Milwaukee to measure it all out to make sure that our drawings were accurate and there was enough room to get speed and stuff. There was a lot of work put into it behind the scenes but it's going to be awesome and the riding is going to be mind blowing as always.