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With the many injuries that hit Huffy left right centre, he is still able to get some pieces of his tricks together. Infact, sometimes you wonder if he actually sustain any injury before. Well, I guess riding is all up in your head. If you think you can do it, you will do it. Don’t let morale pull you down. Morale is only temporary. Your mindset in your head is the one that control your everything. Go out and ride.
A contribution from Huffy himself. Self stuntman, self recording and self editing.

Huffy Pro “VIDEO”

Bonus clip from Encik Nizam. Same as above, Nizam has a history of leg injuries. A cast that cause his toes to twist and turn. Thanks to the poor workmanship of some doctor. While I post this, Nizam is already rockin and rollin with his bike. A man with the right attitude and vision. Wise man say, don’t throw away the brake mount just because you ride brakeless. You may need it one day. A video from Nizam himself in his younger days hehe…

Encik Nizam “VIDEO”

What happen when you put BeatBoxer and Flatlander together?

You get a super show out of the people themselves. Rider with their bikes and BeatBox with their mic. Sound like Bike N Mic. Bike N Mic originated from Martti Kuoppa, Viki Gomez and Electro. Since the organiser do not have enough budget to get the real BNM in, they invited the KGB Flow riders to do it. The end results was ????? check it out yourself…..

BeatBox vs Flatland “VIDEO”

With some motivation from the guys, I force my lazy ass from the sofa and start going through the vacuum box. Took out the cassette tapes for BMX Masters in Colonge, Asian X Games in Shanghai and Asian Indoor Games in Macau. On my PC and start editing. Being an amateur myself, you won’t see special effect matching Steven Spielberg leg hair. You only see raw live video of riders themselves. No stunt doubles either.

Just a little info on the videos. BMX Masters, I had Mat Dagu and LCS with me. In fact, some of the clips was shot by LCS. I did not include the Park, Mini Ramps, Vert or Flatland sections in the video. Bascially, my music ran out, I mean the song is too short to include more clips……….ya ya lame excuse!

Asian X Games, I think I had a good time filming there. The after party was really good. Maybe the night life in Shanghai was just amazing. And when you have so many great riders to party with, its SIMPLY THE BEST! by Tina Turner. I should have video how Tobias threw CK out of the lift like a teddy bear during a Lift Blanket Party at the club. BTW the lift got stuck in the processed due to over-load.

Asian Indoor Games, little Vegas in Asia. Not much filming because I was appointed as the Team Manager. Busy busy busy….definitely not a fun job. No time to party hard. With the strict rules, I can’t even act like myself hehe… The super night life in Macau and the temptation was killing me. I had to break the rules just to stay alive, its survival. I had a good section of Firdaus on his skateboard, believe me, he is really good!

Okay, enough said. Watch it…..

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Hey Guys! just got news from Rahman. He send us some pictures of the Dirt Jumps in California. Forgot what name it was. Anyway, he said you need to pay to ride them. US$2 for whole day. Cheap Cheap only…

Well, looks like Rahman is having a good time.

Bro! update us with more riding pictures. And you better come back with some big tricks in your pocket. We want to see them.

After a bad fall at the somerset skatepark that pretty much destroyed his left leg (fractured bone in 5 areas, his shin, ankle and feet), LCS is determined to get back on his bike once his leg recover. After a few months, with a titanium rod in his left shin, LCS got back into the riding scene and started going overseas for competition. When he return from the Korean competition (he came in 15th position in Busan), he rode as usual at his usual hangout. On 10th Oct 2008, he went down to Somerset skatepark to ride. Luck fell apart when he was doing his usual nose manual over the fun box. He went over his bar and landed on his injured leg. The impact broke his leg again.

I was told, some of his old injured bones that has healed, broke again. Along with that, some new bones gave way as well. LCS was devastated.

Below is a short video of LCS before he sustain any injury. We got the video together in 33mins, to be exact. We wish him a speedy recovery and get well soon. From Gerald Leow, Chee Keong, Huffy and Simon.

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After many upgrade and changes to my computer, many of the good old files were deleted or by accident. It is always good to do backup. I had some of the files burn into CD. Here is a short video of a flatland contest held in Oct 2002. The quality is rather poor, but you can still figure out how young the guys were. Check out how the bike look then and you will recall how heavy they were. I think almost everyone in the video can still be spotted riding in City Link or somewhere in Singapore today. The event was held in Jurong Green Community Club. Enjoy!

Flatland In Build-Up Area

From reliable source, the park is targeted to complete by end this year. Delay is expected if luck is not on the contractor side. From the look at the situation now, it seem like the plan has changed in the design. The initial plan was to build a hill, then shape the park inside the hill. This way the park is actually elevated. If they were to shape the park downwards (the vert bowl is about 3m deep) on the existing land. During high tide, the sea water will sip in from underneath and weaken the structure easily. Needless to say, during construction time, they will need to work fast before the tide catch up. Anyway, the entire park are divided into 3 sections. They are “Park Zone”, “Combo Bowl” and “Vert Bowl”. Between the 3 sections are numerous street courses. The whole set up is like an integrated park course. You can basically link from 1 section to another. How cool is that!

Sketch of the Park Zone:

Sketch of the Combo Bowl:

Sketch of the Vert Bowl:

Goodbye TreX-Games 2008.

Here are the final results:

BMX Park
1 Gary Young USA
2 Geoff Slattery USA
3 Kiattichai Wanitsakul THAILAND
Not in their placing sequence, the rest of the finalist are Brad Simms (USA), Yun Yi Li (Taiwan), Hector Garcia (Mexico), Suh Ik Joon (Korea), Rizki Leodardo (Indonesia), Sebastian Keeps (UK), Phamee (Thailand), Jared Washington (USA).

Flatland in sequence,
1 Justin Miller (USA)
2 Matthias Dandois (France)
3 Pakphum Possa-art (Thailand)
4 Hiro Morizake (Japan)
5 Chutchalearm Chaiwirotwit (Thailand)
6 Uchino Yohei (Japan)
7 Adam Kun (Hungary)
8 Yoshihiro Shinde (Japan)
9 Yosuke Uno (Japan)
10 Shinichi Kiba (Japan)
11 Paphael Chiquet (France)
12 Lee Dong Ho (Korea)

Lets look forward to TreX-Games 2009. I’ll make sure I have my camera with me.

TreX stands for Traditional Sports, Electronic Sports and Xtreme Sports. Xtreme Sports lasted from 26 Sep - 28 Sep. For BMX Park event, riders like Gary Young (Macneil), Brad Simms (Hoffman), Sebastian Keeps (Hoffman), Geoff Slattery (New Jersey), Hector Garcia (Mexico), Jared Washington (Animal) and the best of asian riders were present. Flatland, Chase Gouin is the Head Judge, while the riders are Mattiaus (France), Justin Miller (USA), Adam Kun (Hungary), Raphael (France), Hiroya (Japan), York Uno (Japan), Kiba (Japan), Yohei (Japan), Shinde (Japan) and the best of South East Asia riders were present.

In the Park event, Kiattichai aka Tee from Thailand stand a very high chance in the finals. He came in 1st in the prelims, trailed by Gary Young. In Flatland finals, Toon from Thailand came in 3rd placed. Just behind Justin and Mattiaus. The final results will be posted once I got the news. The event was really fun. Everyone just clicked along well with tonnes of nonsense prank. BTW a flatlander from India was competiting in the event. I believe some of you guys met him in City Link.

In the meantime, a short video for you. Was not able to capture any Park riding. Probably the next post, I’ll get some. Enjoy!

After many event organisers in the world got the news of Bike N Mic, KGB have been very busy with showtime. They hardly had time to manage the production. But still, they managed to squeeze out some time to make it happen. Some snap shot for your viewing pleasure. The new KGB stem is not uploaded due to some minor changes to the design. Stay tune for that in 20inchO Blog!