BLOGGING LIKE MY DADDY.

Shane Rossi from Animal got a really good interview on some Swiss website.



Johnny Devlin has a quick interview up on the O-BMX site. That site is updated every day with news from the Orlando scene, videos and mail order bargains. Check it out.



Bruce Crisman is on Federal and says he's going to fakie hop a 15 stair. Quick interview with him here.



Mike Spinner is sponsored by a new knee pad company run by Nate Wessel and Tom Stober. He says that they are the first knee pad company to use special molding technology and that they are lighter and stronger too. I don't know anyone who wears knee pads ( besides Spinner ) but if you're into that, check it out.



Doug Horton interview.

A couple other things:

Sequence of Ryan Sher's insane curved wallride down stairs.

Bunch of new street shots on Ride LI.

The Volume video has an official premiere party going down.

FDR might be getting shut down. That's a damn shame.

Joof video.

The new Young Jeezy CD has officially leaked.

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SHOOK BRAINSTORMED REVIEW

I have enjoyed everything Chad Shack has ever been involved in all the way back from the early days of Shine, so when Nuno over at Odyssey offered to send me a copy of the latest issue of Shook, Brain Stormed, I was all about it. Every issue of Shook has been good as far as I'm concerned but some have been better than others. How does this one measure up? I'll give you a part by part run down but don't take my word for it, cop it and decide for yourself.

The first section is this dude Shawn Real. At first I was watching this and thinking "fuck, this dude is really good" but then I realized I had actually seen him ride a couple times at skate parks in Florida last winter and was just as impressed back then. He does a sprocket stall to barspin out on a dumpster. He does a bunch of good street lines and hang fives. His last trick is a huge fucking handplant. Very good way to start the video.

Next up is the west coast mix section. If you hate big white tee shirts and long icepick grinds you'll hate this part. Personally I really like the way all these kids ride and think it's super refreshing compared to all the long haired AIDS victims who dominated video parts a few years back.

Andrew Mick has a full part next. I saw a full part online of this kid recently and was pretty impressed, and while this part shares some of the same footage, it's mostly new stuff. He does an over toothpick down a rail, a really good Derek duster, the world's biggest smith to 180, some crazy nollie grinds on a ledge down stairs and the biggest icepick grind on a ledge ever. You gotta love it.

There's a good mix section next which I guess is probably the east coast equivalent to the west coast section. Lino has a really good line, Tony Neyer ( who's last name kind of sounds like a derogatory term for black people which might make him an accidental racist ) kills it, Joof gets a clip and other people do other things.

Next up is the "GREASE TOUR" which features Steve-O, Marlon, Oba, Joof, Jarrod Allen, Nick Steben, Rahmel and Ralphie. After sitting through listening to some gay lord freestyle for 20 seconds and Rah dance for some reason it gets down to the riding. Steve does a ton of good rail shit, Marlon does the best front wheel lines, Rah icepicks up a rail, and Joof does the longest icepick. Oba does this HUGE smith. Jarrod does a huge fucking gap. I really like this part, it comes off as just a really fun road trip and the riding is super good.

Anyway you pretty much get what you'd expect from an issue of Shook at this point. It's right on the cutting edge of progressive street riding, it's better than Props and it makes up for being a little bit short by being top quality the whole way through.

REALLY OLD MIKE HODER DEMO TAPE

I posted another old Hoder video the other day, but this one is way better. It's nuts that he was doing stuff when he was 17 that made it into his Shook part just a year or two ago.

I found this video on Gangster Biking which is a pretty good site in it's own right.

3 Rail Firsts with George Dossantos

If you're like me and grew up on Don't Quit Your Day Job, George D isn't just some rail boss, he is THE rail boss. In '99 I didn't think you could do much on a rail besides double pegs and icepicks, but George changed all that and helped usher in the era where any trick that can be done on a ledge or a mini ramp can be taken down a handrail too. He was nice enough to fill me in on 3 tricks that he did before anyone else ( he opted to fill us in on his smith to half barspin instead of my first choice, the rail ride, because he says he thinks he was the second person to do it ). Check it:


Crooked 180: When I was 18 I got my license. I had a blue Plymouth Horizon. We used to go down to Philly EVERY weekend. Jeff and Bob had just finished Don't Quit Your Day Job, and everyone was psyched. There was this rail down about 6 or 7 stairs... I forget what building it was in front of. That day I remember Rich Andreu being there, along with my friend Mike. I don't think Bob was there. Me and Rich started riding the rail (no homo). Started doing some tricks down it, I did a feeble, a crooked, and even a double to manual to no footer. I was always good at spinning off of stuff, so in my head I was like, I'll let her rip. Did a few more crooks and the one time that I locked on good, I just swung a 180, and it worked! I wasn't sure if it was gonna cause the rail was down stairs. We all just laughed and my friend Mike started yelling. He still brings it up whenever I see him.

Smith to Half Barspin: This was pretty much around the same era, another Philly trip. Jeff Z. was getting damn good at taking pics and Ride BMX was gonna run a bio of me. This went down on the LOVE park BLUE RAIL. I loved that rail. There were soo many sessions on that thing I get them all mixed up. I remember getting to the rail and wanting to do something cool. I was already pretty confident with smithing down it, so I did a few of those, and even tried a smith to 180 and landed 90... after that didn't work out too well I thought "I still wannna do something different", so I thought of throwing the bars I think I ended up doing 3 or 4 smith turnbars until I finally handed them off. There was no way at that time that I could've thrown a full. I was happy though. I even remember seeing Butcher months later and he was psyched on it... that was awesome.

Half Cab to Rail: This one was kind of weird. Jeff Z. had already moved out to Cali, so shooting pics with him was few and far between. He was out here for some reason I forget. Anyways he wanted to meet up and shoot something... at this point I had already done a half cab to rail, in my Standpoint interview but never shot photos of it. But that was in Ohio so that wouldn't work. So I picked Jeff up at his parents house, and went to the Monroe rail 3 towns over from where I live. It was strange 'cause it was just me and Jeff, and he didn't even bring his bike, just his camera stuff. He asked what I wanted to do and I was like I guess half cab to rail, and he was like "ohhhh man that would be awesome"... I laughed and said, if I get on I'm gonna 180 out of it. So I did a couple of 180's and rolled backwards to the rail a few times. And then within a few more I got a perfect setup and just hopped up, I couldn't believe I didn't miss, slid down and as I got to the end of the rail I made sure I 180ed out. I heard the shutter on the camera going crazy. I turned around and just started laughing and Jeff was doing his laughing/yelling "YES! YES! George muthfucking D!" and then he got on his cell and called Losey to tell him what had just happened. Very interesting.....

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I GOT IT 4 CHEAP

( Rodizzle photo by Matty Long )



New BLT preview. This looks very good. Check out another trailer from them here. The UK is killing it.

A dude posted on my board saying that the Rodeo Peanut mixtape is out and available through Animal. That's all I've heard though, I def wanna see this.

John Heaton Nair's his own asshole. I had my girl Nair my chest and back the other day and besides removing maybe half of the hair, that shit is worthless. It hurt too, I can't really imagine putting it on my butthole. Also who would have ever thought Morgan Wade could do the Rubik's Cube?

Kevin Porter Top 5 List.

Jay Z's new Jim Jones diss.

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THE KICKFLIP IS BACK

Over here at The Come Up I pride myself on bringing you the newest, hottest news in BMX. Well ladies and gentlemen, it seems that the kickflip is back from the grave courtesy of Steven Hamilton:



( Photo: Seth Holton )

Check it out full size on the Animal site. Is the excessive peg bonk the next trick to make its return to its former glory???

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TWO NEW MANMADE DESIGNS

Probably the best shirts I've seen from them so far. Check out the rest of the site here.

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URL MAYHEM

Yo, real quick if you are having problems with your bookmarks to The Come Up here's the deal:

1) The current URL which always works is www.thecomeupbmx.blogspot.com

2) www.thecomeupbmx.net is not currently working but will be once I have the new site up ( hopefully soon ).

3) www.thecomeupbmx.com is not my URL and while it was linking to this site for a while, it isn't right now for whatever reason. I'll try to get that sorted out soon.

4) www.thecomeupboard.com is an entirely seperate URL that hosts The Come Up's messageboard and nothing else.

Word. I got a couple of posts to make before the night is over, keep checking back.

INTERVIEW FRENZY

Just got an e-mail notifying me of a dope Bruce Crisman interview. I shouldn't have to do this but in case you don't now, Bruce runs Facad, has been a sponsored rider for a million years, won the X-Gaymes ( or something ) and... hates Myspace sluts???

Do you like MySpace?

I do like Myspace but I do not like the porn that pops up on every page. You girls ought to be ashamed of yourselves.

We're just going to have to agree to disagree on that one, Bruce. Read the rest by clicking here ( the english interview is under the French stuff ). They've got some other good stuff up there too so make sure to look around.



In other interview news, Steve DFTU got some shine on the Defgrip site. Unlike Bruce, Steve loves sluts ( he works at a porn company ) and hates indoor park riding:

If you ain't doing what Mike Spinner is doing then why act like a cock? I reckon a bunch of skatepark kids out there have serious social problems.

Word that. Read the rest here.

Unrelated, there are some good pictures of Big James up on the Animal site.

Even more unrelated, the new Eminem/50 Cent/Llloyd Banks/Cashis video is crrrrrrrrazy:



And that's about it. The board is going strong, 318 members and growing. Sign up now and keep an eye out for a George Dossantos "3 Rail Firsts" coming soon.

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STUFF

( Evan Butts - Foot over bar height peg stall. Picture by Evan Butts, I guess. Check out some more of his stuff here. )



This is Mike Brennan's part from the Bulldog video which came out almost a year ago. He's way better than this now, tons of new moves and all his whips are to the pedals.

Manmade has an exclusive video up on Defgrip. This video is so nuts, their team is insane for '07.

Misled trailer. You gotta watch this, it's so dope.

The Come Up Board is growing... 224 members as of this post. Tell your friends! Tell your mom!

BONUS: Ghostface knows what's up:



You can find a bunch more of these on Youtube if you search.

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