FG = The New Skateboarding (this time it's true)

[quote=MrSmith;196434]" There is already a name for FGFing or whatever you want to call it and thats Circus Bicycling, and its about as new as big ben."

well - yeah. But the magic word here is "marketing." Once someone realises that presenting it in a cool way is a winner with ver kidz it doesn't matter whether all those tricks were being pulled a hundred years ago in the circus ring.

That clip of four guys in lycra rolling around a gym on their back wheels isn't cool and marketable; scruffy, hip kids doing it on the street is, even if the four guys are pulling far more elegant stuff because after a short time their lack of slickness works against them (though they didn't mix it up enough too). Similalry the first time I saw that Russian girl (?) doing her crazy shit I thought, "why is she wearing a leotard?" - she was outside. If she had done it in rolled up jeans and a backpack it would have been 50x as cool - as it is, she remains circus-bound just by the way she's marketing her skills. Card tricks weren't at all cool until Blaine decided his schtick was going to be "the street"....everyone knows Paul Daniels was pulling that shit and much better in the 80s but noone wanted to be associated with his approach.

I'm not a marketing expert and I don't even like to think I buy into it, and I'm not saying I don't rate people who can do mad tricks but can't think beyond their leotard. But it's fairly clear fixed tricks are going to have a big renaissance in the next few years if a few young kids start posting their meagre pallet of tricks on youtube.

here you go - you summed up my initial thought better than I could.