Saturday, March 26, 2022

Mat Hoffman's first 900 and Joe Johnson's first double tailwhip...


Yesterday ( 3/25/2022) Mat Hoffman put a post on Facebook saying that his first 900 happened 33 years ago today.  On that day in 1989, I happened to be a cameraman for Unreel Productions, shooting video of the 2-Hip King of Vert in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.  That's where Mat landed that first 900, so I got it on video (14:43).  Joe Johnson, riding for GT at that time (after riding for Haro), also pulled his first double tailwhip air that day (11:31).  Some days being a cameraman was epic.  That was one of those days.  Here's part of my footage from that day, with narrated by Eddie Roman and some friends for the 2-Hip video, Ride Like a Man.

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Wednesday, March 9, 2022

This blog has 44,746 page views...

 Just sayin'.  People actually check out this blog every day, even though I haven't added posts in a long time.  Due to some kind of internet shennanigans and the censorship rampant online these days, my blog counters don't show the number of page views like they're supposed to.  I don't know why.  44,746 page views, the #1 Old School BMX blog anywhere.  

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