Great footage from the archives sent in from Jffe. Filmed by John Preville, 1989 Great Lakes Freestyle Contest footage (how dialled was Bill Neumann!!!) plus parking lot footage from i’m guessing the Virginia Make A Wish Foundation Contest, great practise footage of Mike Schmed and Pete Brandt going off during the Ozone era! So good to see this!
Mike was sick. He wasn’t around all that long but he could bust out with some crazy moves. Great to see footage of him.
Was he from the Jersey area Brett?
what’s remarkable is Pete Brandt’s passion for the sport, riding at Sacramento kings arena 2 days ago, totally HARDCORE…. after all these years, MASSIVE RESPECT ! only a few can achieve that
@johnm – well said! 🙂
Pete is such an OG BOSS!!!!!
First time I ever seen anybody do a no footed whiplash besides Ross Smith. Badass!
And me also kenny although I had heard Mike used to do them via a number of ‘zines back in the day. Love the footage of Pete B! As Lee said OG Boss indeed!
That Make a wish comp was sick! Think I have footy from that, just gotta find a VCR to watch them old tapes. Pete’s still a boss!
Yo E, that’s me riding at the start if the video.
I did wonder Steve but wasn’t entirely sure so left you off there, no offence 🙂
No problem, was ready to check out some OG Bill Neumann and was surprised I popped up on there.
That was my first real contest (make a wish). Eye opening. I didn’t even know who Chase was at that point.
Montrose! The old Great Lakes Freestyle contests were legendary back in the day, props to John and Josh for digging out the old footage.