Brakeless, tech ramp riding, 9 feet off the ground at 42 is no easy feat, but Will tackles it with the skill and ease of someone half his age. Over the years, Will has been a huge inspiration to many of us in the UK scene. I remember flipping through Ride magazine and being blown away by a sequence of him doing an over smith grind down a handrail – it seemed impossible at the time.
Almost twenty years ago, Will Jackson scored the cover of DIG issue 39, as well as a full-length interview in the magazine. Hailing from the North of England and riding for Wethepeople, Will Jackson was not a superstar rider you’d see on televised events or in ads for energy drink — he was just a dyed in the wool BMX rider that lived and breathed riding, and did everything he could to quietly mine his own path through the murky depths of professional BMX riding.
After doing a BMX 'zine for ten years (1987 - 1996) FATBMX made it on the internet. The year was 1998. Here to stay.