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

As spotted in a skaters forum few months ago

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How old must Rodney Mullen be now?! And he's still fucking awesome. Respec'.

As spotted in a skaters forum few months ago

HA!

The only thing that comes to mind reading the thread title is:

Can I point out that (as a MTB'er + been through using mtb jump bikes etc) that mountain bike 'freestyle' is shit compared to bmx. Watch the best mtb dirt jump video, then watch a bmx video piss all over it. MTB frame and wheel sizes, even 24'' are just completely inferior to a bmx to do tricks on. Just as mountain bikes should stick to cross country, downhill and bullshit industry coined 'freeride' + 'all mountain' , track/fixed gear bikes should stick to what there for.

Like barspins - buy a bmx

Can I point out that (as a MTB'er + been through using mtb jump bikes etc) that mountain bike 'freestyle' is shit compared to bmx. Watch the best mtb dirt jump video, then watch a bmx video piss all over it. MTB frame and wheel sizes, even 24'' are just completely inferior to a bmx to do tricks on. Just as mountain bikes should stick to cross country, downhill and bullshit industry coined 'freeride' + 'all mountain' , track/fixed gear bikes should stick to what there for.

Like barspins - buy a bmx

I think with todays big bar trends, barspins are not pssible for most.

Its all about lazy whips.

Fashion, trends, fads its everywhere.

I think FGF is rather similar to the flatland/freestyle skateboarding.

The only person left doing it is rodney mullen, and as amazing as it is to look at it perfected, its too specific, and awkward to learn that no - ones properly into it.

If you add to it the fact that the ultimate FGF bike is a "artistic bicycle/kunst fahrrad" like the germans ride,

FGF starts to look seriously shit.

The kids who made the video got it right,

RIde fast, have fun.

Spin your bike/bars , whatever when your waiting around a car park to kill time.

And to those who dont already know,

BMX's were designed for racing,

todays bmx expecially are as close to a race setup as possible.

its only a side-coincedence that the nimbleness of them lends well to tricks.

i think that's a pretty good point, these early dudes lived on their bikes and their down time was spent fuckin around with street tricks...

who knows where big bike stuff is going? there's always been trick riding but when 14 year olds get involved the marketeers take far more notice.

One of the kids in the video is even rocking the whole original Tony Alva look - big hair and a pork pie hat. Hmmmm..... perhaps a bit too self-consciously a pioneer?

re: skateboarding vids thrown in here tho - the language of the "trick vid" (whatever you want to call it) was developed for the skateboarding stuff, you can't deny how fluid and beautifully captured / edited the sequences are and much of the technology has been developed for the skateboard. At the moment the filming of the fixed stuff is at a similar point to the tricks - fairly undeveloped. Not sure what point I'm trying to make, just generally enjoying this thread.

It ain't the new shit..

Most of the fixed flatlanders probably have a dad or uncle that's been training for road events on fixed for the last 30 years :P

http://www.63xc.com/willm/tdef.htm

it'll never be like skateboarding/rollerblading because video's like Chomp on This, Baker2G and Poetry in Motion will never get dropped.

Until someone goes down a double kink rail on a fixed bike I'm not too bothered

it's a pile of toss.

Can someone tell me why snakeboarding never caught on?

cus its crap
fg'ing is NOT like flatland skateboarding
i will have no association between the two
that is all

I think FGF is rather similar to the flatland/freestyle skateboarding.

Chalk and cheese

The only person left doing it is rodney mullen, and as amazing as it is to look at it perfected, its too specific, and awkward to learn that no - ones properly into it.

Daewon Song?

Please stop comparing FGF to Skateboarding. I'm seriously going to puke. The skill level required to skate like Mullen, Song or any of the pro skaters takes decades of skating every day to get that good. That video the OP posted looks like it took a couple of teens a few months on their summer holiday to perfect.

Excellent back and forth between Mike and Joel there.

New term for me to band around FGF.

FGF for life man!

Can someone tell me why snakeboarding never caught on?

I saw an old fella on one of those in Paris the other week, looked an absolute cock. Elbow pads, knee pads the lot, AND he even had a fuckin' beret on!

My kids (10 & 12) are full-on into this:-
http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=l7BkoI5NBzc&feature=related
Skateboards and scooters lie rusting in the garden.

Note: these are not those stupid snake-board things.

scootering is something that didn't really catch on... was a bit gay

but this terry price person took it to a new level. watch the very end

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgjJCo-Nd9g

That's fuckin nuts!

[URL="http://johnprolly.blogspot.com/"][/URL]basically if 14 year olds start doing this and reaching that level, in 2 years the X Games have a Fixed Gear Freestyling category, with guys doing crazy stuff we can't even imagine now.

never going to happen. Fixed gear riding will never reach the levels of bmx/skateboarding. The bikes are just to big and cumbersome to do anything even half decent on. People aren't going to want to watch endless skid / trackstand variations

People will watch anything. Have you seen how popular big brother is?

People will watch anything. Have you seen how popular big brother is?

LOL good point.

I just witnessed a balance board being the new FGF

hahaha, ive got one of them, they were fun
havent used it for years

Lots of skateboarders/bmxers ride fixed, but that is where the connection starts and finishes. 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.

The one thing that coming from a skate or 'action sport' background gives you is the vision to look at things from a "freestyle" perspective. Although my best skating days are well behind me i still look at every potential handrail/walride etc that i pass and imagine how i would tackle it.

However i am lucky enough to have a large quiver of bikes, so that i have a bmx that i use for when i want to, a DH bike, a ss hardtail, a 24Inch jump bike etc and from time to time i like to try and do stuff on one bike that it wasnt designed to do as its a challenge, but for me fixed will always be about charging round urban enviroments as fast as you can, thats were the buzz is for me.

That guy on the scooter makes me want to try that sh!t! I used to work for the playstation skatepark when it first opened, and we were always trying to ride anything we though we could round there for shits and giggles, from scooters to snakeboards to shopping trolleys! Some of the guys got pretty sh!t hot on the scooters

scootering is something that didn't really catch on... was a bit gay

but this terry price person took it to a new level. watch the very end

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgjJCo-Nd9g

fuckin nuts