I hope someday Chad Johnston releases a boxset of all the Intrikat classics, I haven’t been able to watch this video for years until now. Xmas treats for you all!!! (more tommrow)

Whilst I was in California I had the pleasure of checking out Chad and Ryan’s new rides, Chad’s new frame is looking killer, Chad recently was at the S&M warehouse to check out how the frames are going, according to the S&M facebook, the frame will be around mid January 2011.

The 2011 World Circuit dates are announced, kicking off at Jomopro in the USA. The main talking point will be how close Jomopro and Ninja spin are on the calendar. Great to see Ninja spin back on the calendar. And the infamous Groundforce contest in Singapore added to the WC this year, Viki Gomez won this year. Who’s gonna step up next year?

Round 1-Jomo Pro, Joplin USA, 8 – 10 April.

Round 2-Ninja Spin, Onet le Chateau, France, 16 – 17 April.

Round 3-Ground Force, Singapore, 6 – 7 August.

Round 4-King of Ground, Japan, October.

Fat BMX continues to be one of the best sites on the net, props out to Bart and Paul always covering the flat, today is no different, check out Darin’s FF’s, thanks for the shoutout Darin!

http://www.fatbmx.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=14199

I was just talking to Bobby Carter out in LA last week about Props video magazine, and where they were heading in the internet revolution, and they go drop a new website design, and a new project called “owned”,hopefully the “owned” project will showcase some great flatland parts, read all about here….
http://www.propsbmx.tv/

James White took the win in Round 1 of this seasons Groundtactics competition, with Aki and Karino pushing hard, both the UK and Japan represented hard in the first round, lets push the creative level even higher for Round 2! Congrats to all the finalists, sets up nicely for Round 2 in Feb 1st 2011. Here’s James winning video one more time plus of course the results…

1 James White
2 Akihiko Takahashi
3 Masatoshi Karino
4 Keelan Phillips
5 Taiko Kaneta
6 Lee Musselwhite
7 Dane Beardsley
8 Aleksi Ritsilä
9 Jason Plourle
10 Bert Ribul
11 David Hoffman
12 Leo Claro
13 Thomas Noyer
14 Matti Hemmings
15 Pakhpum Poosa-Art
16 Jean-Francois Boulianne
17 Miquel Monzon
18 Huangjie Jiang
20 Rungrote Suntonpanitchakit
22 Pichit Wooranan
23 Worawee Srivichai
24 Kazuma Nakajima
25 Jon Dowker
26 Lisias Tabarelli

Pretty huge news considering Frank is one half of Deep BMX, Matti Rose being the other half of course, heres what he had to say in his statement:

“After three years of putting my energy and much fun into the project that started in my mind, I decided to change paths for the future. I would like to thank all people that helped us to grow and establish the company and push it in a positive direction! Deepbmx will continue doing products, roadtrips, contest etc. I will no longer be part of it. Over and out. *peace *
Frank Lucas

Congrats to all the finalists, and everyone who took part in this. A great standard of riding from all the AMs, cant wait to see what the top 16 bust out for a place in the final 8, next stage finishes Feb 1st 2011. Good luck!!

1 Ronny Engelmann
2 David Dudelis
3 Navid Saleki
4 Thore Saggau
5 Rayk Hahne
6 Luke Malone
7 Szitas Gabor
8 Julian Dela Cruz
9 Issabre Gaoussou
10 Andrew Wickhan
11 Szabo David
12 “Final Battle” -unknown rider?
13 Phitak Roungrean
14 Omari Kato
15 Michelle Maiolani
16 Aborigino Sandino Guerrero Stuart
17 Barre Neirynck
18 Ramon Lopez Colon
19 Malte Orth

I woke up today to news that Alex Jumelin’s clothing company Stereo Panda company is no more, RIP Stereo Panda…..