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I've seen vids of "sponsored" bmx street riders that don't have half as many moves as that guy does, the fakie manual to stall on the back wheel to half cab gap down the stairs....the list goes on and on, great stuff.
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By flawlessly blending trials moves with some pretty sick bmx moves, its like he's sticking two fingers up to bmxers saying:
"Yeah I can do that shit to, but I can also do this this this and this......"I mean the tailwhip sidehop gap for instance that was unreal, to do a trick like that with such precision.
I'm sure he didn't set out to make a video "sticking two fingers up at BMXers" as he rides with a load of them.
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I've just come across this video by accident and I came to add it on this thread to find that it's already been added and discussed further than I could have thought!
Forget all the bollocks that people have been saying about it. He's an amazing rider and he's doing some very impressive stuff on his bike. I like to ride all disciplines of cycling and he looks like he's put the most together on one bike - BMX, mtb, trials and few other bits and bobs. That flair off the tree was nuts!
Good on him.
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i ve seen hundreds of expensive bmx DVDs and internet stuff even all the bmx tricks live, but Danny REALLY impressed me!
Likewise, its unusual to see that kinda of creativity in street riding these days, some of it has got a little monotonous if not still impressive, or too far to the extreme of techinical or going big, instead of being an even blend of the two. He manages to pull off some insanely tech moves, and then still go big as well, huge drops, 360 down a massive double set!
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Likewise, its unusual to see that kinda of creativity in street riding these days, some of it has got a little monotonous if not still impressive, or too far to the extreme of techinical or going big, instead of being an even blend of the two. He manages to pull off some insanely tech moves, and then still go big as well, huge drops, 360 down a massive double set!
When he lands that it had the bike snapping sound you only get when something is really big.
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It scared me when he dropped off that bridge. That's the highest I have ever seen anyone drop on a bike without destroying the wheel/frame and their legs!
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I've seen vids of "sponsored" bmx street riders that don't have half as many moves as that guy does, the fakie manual to stall on the back wheel to half cab gap down the stairs....the list goes on and on, great stuff.
No fakie manuel in that vid!
You obviously watch the wrong vids/ride with the wrong people
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A video that blew my mind over a year ago is the Etnies Grounded vid!
Especially Rubens gap towards the end
Here is the first part. The rest are on you tube. just search etnies grounded
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No fakie manuel in that vid!
You obviously watch the wrong vids/ride with the wrong people
What lol?! There were several trick combos where he pulled fakie manuals as part of a trick or as a link from one trick to another, obviously you were watching the wrong vid/people, when I get time I will actually watch it back and point out the time slots in which he does this.
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So you don't count travelling backwards on the back wheel on a non freecoaster hub as a fakie manual? I would have called it a fakie manual as opposed to a fakie wheelie.
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Likewise, its unusual to see that kinda of creativity in street riding these days, some of it has got a little monotonous if not still impressive,
Sorry but I think that's utter garbage. In the seven years I've been riding in London I've seen more progression over the last six months than at any other stage.
In the last month I've seen the following done, all on street:
Crank arm grind up a legit handrail.
Crank arm up a handrail 180 out
Tooth 180 out up a rail
Switch footed pegless opposite rail
Opposite wallride from flat 180 out as part of a line
Hop over ice 180 out down a rail (not in London but nuts none the less) -
I'm not saying it's crap.
All i'm saying is that it isn't ground breaking in bmx terms. (90% of the tricks he does are bmx tricks)
It's the situation in which he does the tricks which is ground braking. Afterall there are very few new tricks in BMX, it just tends to be longer more complicated combos. Not saying that is not impressive but just because the core trick is not new does not mean the entire thing is not ground braking
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It's the situation in which he does the tricks which is ground braking. Afterall there are very few new tricks in BMX, it just tends to be longer more complicated combos. Not saying that is not impressive but just because the core trick is not new does not mean the entire thing is not ground braking
Just because you haven't seen them doesn't mean there are no new tricks.
And just because he is doing Bmx tricks on a trials bike does not make it ground breaking.
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If freecoasters didn't exsist (which, believe it or not, at one time they didn't) then maualling backwards would NEED backwards pedalling. The reason it is called a fakie manual and not a fakie wheelie is because you're not powering the wheel, you're just keeping up with it.
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If freecoasters didn't exsist (which, believe it or not, at one time they didn't) then maualling backwards would NEED backwards pedalling. The reason it is called a fakie manual and not a fakie wheelie is because you're not powering the wheel, you're just keeping up with it.
well we've been calling it a fakie wheelies since the mid nineties. Like I said in an earlier post it's just terminology.
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Anyway for me I think Tommy hit the nail on the head, its not the tricks themselves that were innovative, but the execution and where he executed them, and I think the key point he made was "few" new tricks, not no new tricks. Of course there will always be innovators and creators of new tricks, Morgan Wade with his bike flip, Dave Mirra with the double backflip in competition, Ryan Guettler with the first 1080 in competition etc etc....i'm not slagging off bmx, I bmxed myself for 7-8 years and still love it, I just don't ride anymore thanks to a dodgy shoulder.
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Speaking of gaps have you seen the "shark fin" sculpture he gapped out of across some huge gap into a bank! Know where I could find a clip of that?
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By flawlessly blending trials moves with some pretty sick bmx moves, its like he's sticking two fingers up to bmxers saying:
"Yeah I can do that shit to, but I can also do this this this and this......"
I mean the tailwhip sidehop gap for instance that was unreal, to do a trick like that with such precision.