One of my biggest inspirations growing up in BMX, was Jason Hassell! Jason could do it all, and do it with style and smooth as glass to boot. Jason gave me my first big break putting me on the Hutch team back in 1987. Here is Jason’s BMX Beat run from 1987, great run for the time right here. Nowadays Jason is a Hollywood actor, enjoy this one.
Category Archives: Old school sundays
Old School Sundays with John Huddleston
Its been a couple of weeks without an Old School Sundays feature, let’s get back to it with some contest footage of John Huddleston ripping at the 1988 AFA Masters in Carson, California. Very little dead time in John;s riding, amazing flow and really exciting to watch.
Old School Sundays: Episode 1 / RL Osborn & Patrick Trantham Live Q&A
Many of you will know that RL Osborn is back on the flatland scene, and just started his own youtube channel where he is posting a bunch of cool stuff and answering fans questions. If you are an Old School fan, peep this live Q&A where RL talks about his Redline, Genereal, Bully days, why he quit riding (which is actually really straight up!), talk to of building his own signature frame again, and he shows love to the new school flatland. Good stuff right here!
Old School Sundays: 101 Freestyle Tricks Part 2
It had to be done, last week 101 Freestyle Tricks Part 1 got a lot of discussion on our social media post. This week, it’s time for Part 2 and two of the riders featured in this classic video from back in the day feature in Flat Snitches later today! Stay tuned for that!
Old School Sundays: 101 Tricks Part 1
Every so often, the 1987 BMX classic 101 tricks is worth a repost, today is one of those days. Pure 80’s vibes in full effect right here and a whole heap of nostalgia to boot!
Old School Sundays with Rich Upjohn / Happy 50th Birthday
Rich Upjohn – KOF – September 1989 from Kieran on Vimeo.
Today is a special day, Rich Upjohn celebrates his 50th birthday!
Let’s go back to 1989, and one of Rich’s flatland runs from the King of Flatland contests that happened regularly in New England. Jamming to the sounds of Madonna, I grew up reading all about these events in Radazine and E-wire ‘zine via Kieran Chapman (who I believe filmed this run too), so it’s so rad to see these runs. Rich is a great rider, and even back in 89’ he is throwing down death trucks, hitchhikers, macaroni to smith out, not to mention the direct entry to forward death with no dead time at all from the half lash (kind of an Rich Upjohn signature move in it itself) and much more with the legendary raditude to boot.
Happy birthday Rich, hope you have a great day!
Old School Sundays with RL Osborn
RL Osborn’s return to flatland is well documented all over social media, today when I was thinking about who I should feature. After a few searches, I came across this blast from the past that sealed the deal. RL’s final run from the AFA Masters at the Velodrome in 1987. The cross bar double boomerang at 5:14 is still dope to this day, his run starts at 2:50 later an interview with the man himself.
Old School Sundays with Dennis McCoy
The AFA Masters from Bristol PA back in 1989 will be remembered forever as the contest where Kevin Jones unleashed the hitchhiker and the backpacker in his run.
But, it was Dennis McCoy however, who took the win in Pro flatland. Dennis’ runs were always super charged! Check it out right here.
Old School Sundays with Dave Mirra R.I.P
I just come across this legendary footage from the archives, many of us know Dave Mirra will forever go down as one of the greatest to do it. New School heads may not realise Dave had heavy roots in flatland, check out these two amazing runs from the 1988 AFA Masters in Wayne, NJ, where Dave took first place in 14 Expert. Thank you East Coast Destruction BMX for uploading this!
R.I.P. Dave Mirra.
Old School Sundays with Ross Smith
It’s that time of the week, Old School Sunday’s. This week we have a fresh upload from the archives from Old School BMX TV, we go back to 1988 and what looks look a regional AFA contest. Ross Smith is one of the all time greats, so good to watch this back. Great run from Ross!