Short BMX docu profile. Shot on 8mm, 16mm, and 35mm Kodak film stock.
This roadtrip was on my list for a while. Drove from Los Angeles to Miami within five weeks and ended the trip with a 2 week stay on Grand Cayman to ride one of the world's biggest Skateparks.
2016 was my 13th year back riding after suffering a brain injury from a serious bike crash, It was also 20 years from when I began riding BMX. I was keen to film what I hoped would be one of best video projects, at 33 years young! However in the all too familiar Nik Ford time bomb scenario, I had another nasty crash on my bike and needed to have surgery to reconstruct my shoulder. This delayed the start of filming and meant I had a lot to fit in to the later half of the year. Now the edit is complete I am stoked with all the clips, my favourites include the no handed xup grind, suicide double barspin rocket icepick, feeble grind to xup pegs to barspin out and the rodeo grind.
It was particularly hard to film in this spot as most of the ramps are 5ft or smaller but it's on my door step, it's only 3.5 and its cool to give your local parks some coverage. I will be shooting TWS4 this year but I need to build some perfect setups and go to some epic parks!
Here's all of Merritt crew insta clips from 20170102 to 20170108.
Check it out.
G R E G JZZ BMX PART
BMXFU mixtape Meow Mix vol.2
Simple Session brings the whole worlds BMX family to Estonia to shred and spread positive vibes. The event gathers together the community of BMX where all styles of riding is respected, judged equally and everyone parties their butt off. The SS event series is one huge riders celebration where the brother and sisterhood of BMX meet in a faraway country of Estonia somewhere in North-Eastern Europe where medieval fairytale meets the post-soviet ghost. ? With 17 years of history the SS contest is one of worlds longest running BMX events with the biggest international turnout. Thanks to everyone for their continuous love and support!
I've had this idea for awhile and we finally made it happen. Pretty stoked how everything turned out. Thanks to Jabe Jones, Alex Lomelli and Seth Hawkins for helping make this happen!
Monster 2017 Toyota BMX Triple Challenge Highlights: Anaheim, CA
Watch Mike Varga, Kevin Peraza, Daniel Sandoval, Pat Casey, Colton Walker, Brandon Loupos, Kyle Baldock, Dawid Godziek, and many more completely shut down this weekend's stop of the Monster Toyota BMX Triple Challenge in Anaheim, California!
Rider Sem Kok.
Film Joep van den Beuken, Aaron Zwaal, Florian Bosman.
Edit Joep van den Beuken.
A brief insight to the rich history of BMX in Hastings England. First shown in the build-up of the SourceBMX Battle of Hastings live stream program. Big thanks to Mark Richards for putting this together.
Bmx Street tech at its finest coming from one of the newcomer of the french scene : Valentin Cotot, latest video premiering now on Soul.
Jari Roggeveen edit by Alex Haasnoot
After doing a BMX 'zine for ten years (1987 - 1996) FATBMX made it on the internet. The year was 1998. Here to stay.