Jay Marley Interview – The man behind the Gasparilla Jam

Intro/Interview: Effraim
Photos: Jay Marley, Terry Adams.

The first month of 2018, and already two awesome jams on the West coast and East coast of America. This interview came out as a spur of the moment thing where I was posting the news yesterday of Terry Adams winning the Gasparilla Jam. I wanted to know more about the guy behind the event, I hit up Jay with a few questions. Ladies and gentlemen here is the Jay Marley Interview!

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Hiroki Film Monthly 1/2018 Front Wheel

Yorihisa Shiota, Misaki Katagiri, Shiyu Orikaawa, Takahiro Enoki, Yohihiro Shinde, Ryuji Nakamura, Yasuhiro Uehara, and Yasuhito Watanabe feature in the first Hiroki monthly edit of 2018 dedicated to front wheel riding. Don’t miss this one!

One Love Jam Bonus

BONUS from OneLoveBmx on Vimeo.

Robert Reilly, Rich Slezak, Dane Beardsley, Ruben Castillo, Pete Brandt, Misael Mizo, Lincoln Harberger, and Frank Ruiz feature on the Bonus edit from the One Love jam a few weeks back. Jamming to the sounds of Bodycount!

Vienna Jam – 14/15th April

Sebastian Grubinger hit me up today with some jam news for your flatland calendar. Here’s what he had to say:

“We will have 1500€ price money. 500 for the cash for tricks Jam on Saturday where everybody gets some euros for the tricks he lands. And then on Sunday the best trick contest. 600 for first place. 300 for second and 100 for 3rd.
Also we have workshops for whoever wants to try flatland with Viki Gomez and myself.
It all takes place during the Vienna bike festival with a lot of other events thrown in.
It’s the 20th birthday of the event, in the past years with around 100,000 visitors on the weekend. So quite a big audience to promote flatland with a jam.

More news soon.

http://www.bikefestival.at

Old School Sundays – 1987 AFA Masters Finals: Socco Freestyle Championship

In my younger years, I must have watched this AFA Masters Finals: Socco Freestyle Championship contest on VHS thousands of times. Interviews with RL Osborn, Martin Aparijo and Dennis McCoy going into the finals for the year end, who won this one? If your into the old school, you’ll love this one! At 49:59 long, save this one for a quiet day.

James White launches ‘ElleVee’

Exciting news today, James White dropped a few hints in his bike check earlier in the week about starting a new company and here it is! Is this the return of Level Vibes? Stay tuned for further updates…

“Level Vibes = L.V. = ‘ElleVee’. A new company purely created to support Flatland. Keep your eyes peeled for limited edition merchandise and team announcements. All proceeds go towards Flat happenings…”

Bradfield Plaza Jam – Sydney Australia / Saturday 17th February

Paul Chamberlain hit me up with some jam news for the Australian scene and all I could think of was why would you look at that riding spot?! Here’s what Paul had to say:

“We’re going to have a bit of jam on February 17th at this spot. No prizes, no schedule, just riding. Erik Laev is in town. That’s him in the picture. He’s got some amazing tricks and it’s always good to hang out with someone from another scene. He’s so far away because I wanted to capture how epic the spot is to show people that it’s worth travelling for. We rode here once years ago, but it was dirty and we never went back. It’s clean now, and it was sick today! We must be crazy to not have given this spot a second shot! Flyer doesn’t have much info, so just tell people to hit me up. It’s under the Harbour Bridge, it’s called Bradfield Plaza.”