DFTU

The latest DFTU/carhartt jam just went down. There are a bunch of good pictures and some words here. And there are a few different videos of it:



Then the other video is here.

On the same note, I just saw the DFTU mixtape and it was fucking awesome.

And on another similar note I recently interviewed the UK's Marv:



Who held down the last section in Voices, here's a preview of that ( it's a preview, 2 questions is not a full interview, keep hating BMXBoard you fucks ):

What's the story with those 8 piece bars you ride for most of your section in Voices? Why did you seeminly stop riding them towards the end of your section?


They are 4 piece and they were made by Powerlite. When I was young there was a group of riders known around London called Bicycle Union and they all had the same bike set up, 2 pegs, back brake, Powerlites and would always ride mini ramp. Everyone I grew up with thought they were the coolest so we all had a pair of powerlites at some point. They might look like shit but they feel amazing loads of up and back sweep. Pwerlite made two sorts though. One set came on their complete bikes which always broke and some super tuff ones they sold separately. I had the ones which broke and mine broke half way through filming. I’m over them now, it was the end of an era.


What's the street riding like where you live? It seems like you have a lot of crazy spots out there, but a lot of them seem pretty harsh and hard to ride too.


Yeah there is a lot of street but none of it is perfect. We would watch American videos and be gutted cos all the spots look amazing, all the spots in this country always have something wrong with them. Either the run up or run out is shit or where you take off is a down slope. But you get used to it. It makes you look hard as fuck cos they look like shit too.

If you remember correctly, his part in Voices was unbelievable and his clips in the DFTU mixtape are even better ( smith to barspin on a high ass 6 stair ledge ). I'm going to try to interview one or two of the other dudes from the video too before the zine is done.

Keep your eyes open for the new, exclusive Blackman signature shirt.