Transcend DVD by Ty Stuyvesant & Steve Machuga

Apr 27, 2006

Written by Bart de Jong

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Writing reviews is a tough task. You don't want to piss the makers off who have spent months getting the thing produced but it's no use either to praise every production so you lose track of what's good, and what's not. We like to give fair reviews to every DVD we get sent. We also apologize if the reviews take a while before they're up. It's simply how things go sometimes. Transcend is a production of Ty Stuyvesant & Steve Machuga who spent over a year to collect all the footage and then edited it to this very DVD. It has basically 14 rider sections with some freestyle skiing thrown in for (good) measure. Riders include Sean Burns, Anthony Napolitan, Ryan Worcester, Dennis McCoy, Jamie Bestwick, Seth Holton, Steve Machuga, Harrison Boyce, Nick Halsey, Dan Montgomery and more. Each of them have a section with one better than the other but with this group of riders you are guaranteed to have some quality riding going on. Harrison Boyce and Nick Halsey impressed me with their part and so did Ryan Worcester.

Seeing McCoy's final crash again on tape was shocking. I remember the day he smashed his hip at the 1992 BMX freestyle world's in Hungary. The slo-mo didn't make the hit any better. DMC has been around and all the footage of him from the old days was quite interesting. Hey, there are other riders on transcend that will fill you in on all the latest kink rail crooked switch fakie grinds so chill okay?

For some reason the DVD ended mid-way to continue with the rest of the clips. It's no typical SoCal-Contest tape, in fact, I don't think it has any footage from there. Loads of different spots were visited and unless your name is Ty or Steve, you probably haven't been to all of them. There's trails, street, park, ditches so if you like that stuff, it's safe to check this out.

One of the best parts (for me) was in the bonus section. The trails bonus parts was insane. Made me want to ride. That's right, the sun's out, see you later.

BdJ