Old School Sundays? – Trier Worlds 1990

BMXworlds1990sm from Axel Reichertz on Vimeo.

This might be considered Mid school, but at 25 years old it seems pretty old to me and amazingly there are still some gems in here! Killer riding from the likes of Albert Retey, Lee Clarke, Mark Teo, Jay Jones, Craig Lepage, Mike S and many more! This was such a good contest for the time, so stoked to finally see some footage from one of my first international contests! Don’t sleep on this one!

Benjamin Hudson – 2014 Flatmatters Awards/Breakthrough Rider Interview

Intro/Interview: Effraim.
Photographs: Gerard Arhens.

When you see a new face on the scene, it’s one thing to have a great video part. It is entirely another to be the real deal in the flesh, I first had this feeling when I saw Martti Kuoppa for the first time at the Worlds in 1996 in Jugendpark, then again I had this feeling when I met Nathan Penonzek a year later in Huntington Beach, California. This feeling returned at Battle at the Rockies last year, we were all aware of course of Benjamin Hudson and his amazing “Welcome to Far East” edit, I wondered to myself on route to Colorado would Benjamin be the real deal?

The answer was quickly “yes”, effortless style, crazy pivots and so light footed around the bike. I immediately thought to myself it is like watching a young Nathan Penonzek all over again, which was ironic as Nathan was right next to me on the judging panel. Benjamin won the Breakthrough Rider of the Year by an absolute landslide, and deservedly so. Enjoy the last in series of Flatmatters Year end awards interview, we all eagerly wait to the see what the future brings to this amazing talent from Chile.

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