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With Pondfest™ becoming an annual pilgrimage for a good portion of the S&M and Fit familia, we tacked a transition trip from Denver to The Pond onto the itinerary and threw Hoder, Aryei, Kareem, Coltin and Kole in the van. The boys crushed some Colorado concrete and dirt mounds with the Fast and Loose boys en route and then met up with the entire Halahan clan, Hucker, Hartwell, Brant Moore, Max Jung, Dallas Dunn, Moeller and some OG S&M crew + a few hundred homies and proceeded to ROAST the POND for a few days. From Kareem's Dirt Rider of...

Pasha is back with another banger of a video. "One day I decided to collect some footage for Animal Bikes and HHX to make the video later, I was asking friends around to film me the clip, unfortunately I broke my wrist on the second day of filming, that’s why it took me a while to get things done, but there was no deadline, so after recovery we keep filming until there’s enough footage for one song" Filmers: Max BESPALIY Igor BESPALIY Aivars JUSTOVICH Ilya CHANKSELIANI Facundo FALCO Vlad SMETANKA Sebastian ALZATE Olga RYAZANOVA Music: Bennington - John Maus  ...

Some highly progressive riders came through after the early 80s BMX explosion, the kids inspired by the King of the Skateparks and early Freestyle contests at the start of it all. The next wave was snapping at the heels of the big pros of the time. Joe Johnson is one of those guys, making a lot of noise on the east coast, Joe built his own quarter up against his moms house, mastered it then continued on to create many of his own moves. Joe went on to become part of the prestigious Haro team in 86. I remember watching...

John has been in BMX since the start, he’s been involved in a lot of projects both in front of the camera and behind the scene, we tap into all of that and more. From John’s start in BMX in the west London area to present days BMX projects. We get into his first BMX, the early race days, the first quarter pipe ridden. Discovering Harrow skatepark and the early 80s scene. Riding for Raleigh, the team and the BMX programme they tried to create in the mid 80s. Meanwhile quarters and the London scene in the darker days, leaving...

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...