Hey everyone and welcome back to BMX news
This is a weekly BMX news show where I talk about everything that happened in the previous week that I think you guys might care
About that being said, I'm getting ready to leave for LA here in like four hours
So I'm gonna make this one as quick as I possibly can
the first thing that I want to talk about is the biggest thing that happened in the past week and that is the Battle of
Hastings we all know about it. We all saw it. We all saw Tom Justice win it with an absolutely insane
Foofa knew that I'll put right here because
You just need to see it
And with this contest always comes a huge amount of content and stuff to talk about
The first thing I want to talk about is one that I think a lot of people need to see
Just to kind of get a background on the people who run source BMX run source park and run the Battle of Hastings
Because at the surface it's really easy to look at source BMX and compare it to Dan's comp and see how there's similarities there
But the differences lie
in the people that run them and so the first thing that I want to talk about today is a video where Kyle
Carlson sat down with the founders of source BMX and asked them a few questions and talked about the origin and
backstory behind the Battle of Hastings and seriously
This one is an absolute must watch for anyone who enjoys Battle of Hastings
And anyone who doesn't really know anything about source BMX, I'll admit before watching this interview
I had never even seen or heard of the guys who found its source BMX and after watching it I'm fans of the guys
they're super genuine and very into it for BMX these guys just wanted to do a
contest that wasn't like the other contest out there where
Sometimes you've got security guards around the riders and the riders are in one area and the Watchers are in this area
They want to do something different that kind of brings
Everyone together and then they also wanted to do something that brought the street in the park type people together
and that's why they have the plaza session where they do the video part where it's kind of a thing where riders who wouldn't normally
Compete in a contest and are more video part riders have a chance to film a video
with a partner and make a video in the street section of
Source park and then those videos get judged and ranked and the scores from those
added into the other parts of the contest where they've got the bowl in the finals and all of that and it's just
Really awesome to hear that
There's genuine people who really care for BMX
behind Source BMX and the Battle of Hastings and source' Park the first video of
Riding from battle Hastings that I want to talk about is a best of battle hastings 2019 video from our BMX
This is just over ten minutes of all of the best stuff
from the contest if you're gonna watch only one video from this contest this is gonna have to be the one after you at the
Very least listen to the interview with the guys who founded source BMX
This is the one that's going to have all of the most insane stuff that you're gonna want to see after that
we've got all of the plaza session videos in the order that they placed within the
Contest over on BMX Union all on one page for you guys to easily find and see them all
there's also links in the description to
everything that I'm talking about today in the order that I talk about it the next video highlight that we have is the
Finals highlights that starts out with that
super insane fufanu that came from Tom
Justice then we've got one that's kind of a little different and this one is with Tom Dugan going around
talking to people and he called it himself during the entire process should eat interviews with Tommy Dugan and honestly,
It's not bad at all. It was pretty entertaining throughout
So if you wanted a break from the riding stuff, but you still wanted to watch Battle of Hastings content
There's a video for you after that. We've got best trick highlights. This has Morgan Wade going completely insane
dropping hammers everywhere
If you haven't seen the highlights on
Instagram or Facebook or somewhere of all of the absolute
Insane stuff Morgan Wade did during best trick
You're gonna want to check this one out because he legitimately dropped the hammer
I said drop the hammer twice because the next video that I want to talk about is
Morgan Wade's drop the hammer
Section because this was posted up after he dropped so many hammers during the best trick contest and I figured hey
I'm gonna throw it in here because I know a lot of you are going to enjoy this one and it's pretty
amazing at the level that Morgan Wade has
maintained throughout all of these years of BMX that he's been in it and just the fact that he is still one of the most
Insane people on any course or contest that he's involved with and in speaking about Battle of Hastings
I should probably tell you guys who won the Battle of Hastings and go through the placing at least the top three
So as you know, Morgan Wade won best trick
But when it comes to the actual contest between the plaza riding and the finals in the bowl third place is team
Dan Bailey and on team Dan Bailey we've got we've got Sam Jones Alex Donna key Alex
Hi, and of course Dan Bailey in second, we've got team Lewis Mills and on team Lewis Mills
We've got Dan Lacey Garrett Reynolds
Bruno Hoffman and Lewis Mills and then the winning team and the one that I am seriously the most psyched about is team
Sergio Laius they took the win you saw while hi everything they did was super awesome and Tom justice
Not only did that giant Foofa knew but also we had Sergio Leo's in there doing a huge downside
footplant on one of the walls in the bowl
so the people on Team Sergio Elias were of course Tom justice and Sergio Leo's and then we had Simone a Morocco and
Courage Adams so two of the best street riders out right now
I was going to say that this team is extremely stacked
But honestly when you look at the top three the entire top three teams were extremely
stacked Lewis Mills and Garrett Reynolds on the same team
I mean seriously, then you've got Alex Donna key and Alex Heim together
just everybody in this contest is
Amazing and there's a reason why it's the best contest in BMX right now
And with that that's the last thing that I want to talk about with Battle of Hastings
Let's move on to some other stuff. The first thing is a video from the powers bike Jam with merit BMX
So this one's the merit dudes hanging out at the jam and doing some pretty awesome stuff as well
Honestly, I watched this one and it's probably my favorite video of this week starts out with bad Maddie doing a double peg grind
So not saran-wrap heel clicker doing a double peg heel clicker, and then it's got Charlie Kremlin's doing some stuff
Montana Ricky's in here dude in here. I think it's Justin did a double tire ride on the spine 2x
Uplander and then he went around a curved wall ride in his ex up ride. Just total insanity
and honestly
I think this is a good one for anyone to watch especially because it's only two minutes long then we've got some stuff to talk
about with the 2019 Vans BMX Pro Cup World
Championship from their tour that they had this year. It's going down this weekend tomorrow, Huntington Beach, California
World championship. I'm gonna be there I'm pretty freakin stoked
We're leaving for California here in a couple hours
And we're going to this contest tomorrow and I cannot wait to go and hang out with everybody and hopefully film some sort of video
For you guys to see and in speaking about this
we've got two short videos to talk about the first is a teaser video for the contest and the second is a
Huntington Beach Park preview with Chris Fox and since this week's news videos kind of jumbled up already and all over the place
We're not gonna go in order of products or any of that crap
We're just gonna keep moving through what I have to talk about. The first thing here is a throwback video from
2008 and it's a mosh video apart
I'll give you one second to go down in the comments and leave a guess as to who's
mosh video a part you think it is if you already know don't cheat, but here you go 1
2 3 leave the comment, it's Ian
Schwartz, so if you guys are fans of Ian Schwartz
Which I think anyone who was around in 2008 was a fan of Ian Schwartz
You're gonna want to check out this video and there's a few more videos that came out this week that I want to talk about
To make things a little bit more diverse and well-rounded as far as the writing Styles go
The first is a video with James White called I of the tiger and this is a flatland video
I know there's at least a few of you out there that want to watch this one and then after that we've got a Cody
Diggs video from Relic so this one is trail riding all the way throughout
I know that there's at least a few of you that are gonna watch this one and then just to make it even more well-rounded
Let's throw in the hitching post video that I put up this week with Mike Petoskey at the wheel mill after that
Let's talk about one product related thing
That is the free night planetary free coaster if somehow you haven't seen one of the videos that I've made
About this free coaster check out the playlist right here and watch some of these videos because this thing is amazing
I want to throw it in here because I know that there's probably a few of you who
Might not have even heard of this hub yet with that being said, that's the last thing I have to talk about this week
I'll catch you guys at Huntington Beach tomorrow for the Vans BMX Pro Cup
Super excited subscribe if you're new and thank you for watching and I hope to see you in tomorrow's video. Good. Bye