🎙️ UNION TAPES EPISODE 30 LIVE WITH KURT SCHMIDT 🎙️
The latest episode of the Union Tapes is live now featuring Kurt Schmidt, check it out below!
"Kurt Schmidt is without doubt the fakie pioneer, no one was doing fakie tricks like him in the mid 90s, we delve deep into that topic and as usual go right back to the start. Kurt grew up near Minneapolis in middle America, a long way from the sunshine drenched concrete skateparks of California but the lust for BMX was strong and these guys made their own thriving scene, mostly in Kurt's garden, where they constructed quarter pipes to rip on.
I never knew just how deep Kurt's BMX roots were, he started way back in the 80s BMX boom. Progressed up the ranks in the local MFA contest scene, met a bunch touring BMX teams and through riding with Rick Moliterno and DMC ended up riding for Haro, just as BMX was collapsing….
We get into the stories in this episode and uncover a bunch of tricks that Kurt owns, that most people don’t realise. The inception of Standard Bike Co, how and why it came about, what the idea was, the way they rode, where they took inspiration from and how they picked the team, the BMX beefs back in the 90s and the whole story up until now!"