We're at the Boyley Park, my home basically,
where everyone and anyone is welcome.
Doesn't matter who you are, what you are, where you're from.
These are my friends family, brothers and sisters.
Skateboarding is like a thrill. It's adrenaline.
Once you've tasted it
And you've got into it, you can't get enough of it.
Eat, sleep,skate.
Eat, sleep, ride.
We do hugs round here, init.
There's no dramas, no rules.
It's just you and your bike and just having a break from the world.
All your problems just disappear when you're there you just don't think about them.
BMX'ing is in the soil of Hastings without a doubt.
But when I started the BMX'ing
there are a few locals from around here, that
were like already in magazines and you'd be excited to see them
or if you caught them at a skate park.
There's always been a motivation there for
like any sort of kids
to just jump on a bike and enjoy it.
It's just like back in the day when no one had phones.
You'd just turn up somewhere
knowing that someone would be there.
From the first day I went there it just felt like I'd been there
my whole life. It just felt like I belonged there.
Just getting on a bike and riding is one
of the best feelings that I've ever had.
Rob. Geezer!
It's hard to ride a contest like this
in your hometown six hundred people banging those barriers
There's no atmosphere like it.
Excite the judges up there. That's what you need.
Keep them excited and entertained. I'm nervous.
Proper nervous, but I can't wait.
There's a lot of pressure and I'm like having to step up.
You know. So, yeah.
See what we got. Let's go.
I've just got to commit.
Just feel like I'm going to zoom straight off.
Oh, there is no way
you're not going to make it into that vertical.
The best bowl riders
in the world have ridden this.
And Stu's ridden this for it five, six years.
He knows what he's doing. Like to do something in there
that he hasn't done before would be pretty crazy.
Yeah, I wouldn't say that I'd win it.
If I did, it would be insane.
I think that
he underrates himself, but he's smashing it. He's some incredible bike rider
who's gonna make it far in life with it.
but I don't think he can see that
just yet. He needs to open his eyes a bit.
The three whip bar should be a banger at the end. Yeah.
You ride until you can't pretty much.
And then once you've refilled back up
it's back again.
Yo.
How long have you been here bruv? A year. Year?
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
You're welcomed into a new community like whether you were a kid with
Brand new shoes on or the kid with no shoes on like we're all the same, init.
If I'm not at home I'm here I literally live here.
This place has been an escape for me since I was about thirteen, fourteen.
Soon as you learn how to pick up a bike. Yeah.
Soon as you learn how to leave the house.
Soon as I had that bit of freedom.
That was it. It's nice to just come up every weekend and just sort of chill out.
We're all kind of brought up from the same background.
So we're all in it together, we see ourselves as a family.
So if someone has a problem
everyone's there to support them or if they're struggling at home like
we are all trying to focus on each other and make everyone feel more comfortable.
So you feel like. That's your safe place.
We're here. Backing you.
So today is contest day. I'm feeling very tingly from all the hype and adrenaline.
I'm shaking but buzzing with emotion right now.
I'm pretty nervous for them cos it's dangerous what they're doing.
And in a contest they're always gonna push themselves more than they normally would.
Yeah hopefully, we smash it out the park mate, come back with a big cheque.
Yeah, cheers, brother. We'll see.
We'll see what happens, man.
There's a lot of pressure.
It was almost like they put on a bit of a show really.
Mate, the kid was
gonna kill himself,
Or send it and he sent it.
I'm feeling pumped after the best trick as well it was just going off.
It's just sick. The feeling you get it's like
I'm proud like you're the dad but you're not. A nice little feeling in my chest.
Stu just killed it. Did Amazing.
Still I'm just buzzed I don't even have any words to say.
The BMX Community. It's like
just one good heart.
I don't think there's a bad bone in it. BMX has made me the person
I am today and I wouldn't change it for anything in the world.
bmx Is life.