Chase Gouin, King of Concrete 1992.
Chris Carter just posted a great response to Chase Gouin’s “Memes to an end” editorial we posted just the other day on his blog. Chris discusses the sport/artform side of flatland, interesting reading, hit the link yo!
http://deadreckoningbmx.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/why-style-matters.html
“Style fills the gap between these sports and Flatland and this is something that should be celebrated.”
Good point and great article overall 🙂
“If we had the internet in the 90’s we’d probably be saying “Wow, everyone’s got a Hoffman Big Daddy, everybody’s doing the same tricks!”
i’ve been around long enough to know this is true. i remember of links in the 90’s that everybody did. at some point everyone had the same kneesaver bar…
so nothing new really… the internet might have a pervert side effect and help riders to all do the same links but….this is so very much human, why fight it ?
i never had a kneesaver bar.
hahaha love it
nice article, i can agree on some statements
some people need to grow up seriously ! leave the guy alone, it’s his point of view wether you like it or not – such drama for an article? there’s like tons of femmes/queers in flatland nowadays…
femmes/queers ??????? what with the homophobia dude ,that a ridiculous statemant absolutely ridiculous pure discrimination it has no bearing here whatsoever.
dude if you feel discriminated sorry
As for not fighting something just because it appears to be human nature. Well, we can look back and understand that many of our attempts to make sense of the world and our place in it were born of natural human curiosity. But we can also see that not all of it turned out to be so helpful to us in the long haul. Some natural more primitive and in-correctly informed human tendencies may have served practical/useful purposes at the time. But ultimately many of them ran their course or backfired on us. For more details on this, maybe another article is in order…haha…or oh-nooooo here he goes again.
So we can just “go with the flow” in which case if we all just did this every time it was thought to be an irreversibly human characteristic,how would the advancement from questioning occur? Besides, to give in to (or give up on changing) what is considered human nature can often result in control relinquished to the world en mass and bi-pass individual interest. And these sometimes forced against the grain individual traits developed (or as “natural” responses to what for some is beginning to not feel so natural after all) are what of course gives us that sense of personal identity while still being a part of the whole. Hopefully that comment has been sufficiently addressed for now.
Albert Einstein has spoken guys.