Break out the popcorn—20 minutes worth of 2022 Swampfest madness is hitting your screen. The best jam/shitshow in BMX went down in Wildwood, Florida, and despite a day of downpours, nothing held back the 48 hours of riding and raging. No words can do Swampfest justice; you have to live it to truly understand. Hopefully this glimpse into the weekend will help, though. Huge shout-out to Trey Jones and the crew for putting on yet another one for the books.
2022 marks GT’s 50th Anniversary and we figured we’d throw it back at this years Swampfest by firing up the GT Air Show. Leandro Moreira, Gustavo Balaloka, Parker Heath and plenty more put on one hell of a show. In typical Swampfest fashion, things got pretty loose and mother nature opened the floodgates, but that didn't put a damper on the fun.
BMX European Cup 2022 | Verona, Italy by Quillan Isidore
Name: Kryštof Odehnal
Age: 21
Hometown: Valašské Klobouky-Czech Republic
Hook-ups/Sponsors: Respilon, Rollei
The FAT favorite list:
-Spot to ride: I have two local spots to ride - Brumov Bike Park which is the outdoor park I grew up in and we have in my city a training resi park that me, David Janáč, Vojtěch Chuchma and Daniel Knotek ride. Built by us!
-BMX video: Harrymania! It blew my mind when I saw this triology for the first time and I am still going crazy about it now!
-Website: Instagram. It’s an app mainly but I love it! Many amazing riders sharing their brand new clips that inspires me to keep working!
-Web video: Logan Martin - STAY DEDICATED. I saw it a million times I guess. When I feel down I just play it and couldn’t even watch it because when I hear it, it displays in my head.
-Food: Any Asian food, mainly spicy food and Dandan noodles
It was a cold night in Denver, so we decided to heat things up by throwing a party. A 100 Beer Party at DPark. A ton of good riding and accidental makes going down while the Busch Heavy, High Life and PBR slowly disappeared. Pusher BMX even threw in some money to give away to make things that much more interesting.
Long time friend of LUX becomes family. We’ve always been big fans of Raphs riding and even bigger fans of his personality. If you’ve met Raph, you’ll know they don’t come any more real. Welcome home Raphael Jeroma-Williams.
Featuring Stephan Atencio.
Filmed by Guille Lyon.
FAT-'zine issue 12. Hit the link and flip through the pages. Back to 1989 with FATBMX.
Issue 12 had a green color. In the beginning we picked our color but after some issues we did not care. As long as it wasn't the same color as the previous issue it was okay. The cover photo on the green paper came out nice. Issue 12 had the infamous Believe it, or not?! news section, a reader photo section and also an MBL concert report. We used to have some ramps at the end of our street that we set up differently all the time. It was our ghetto skatepark but it worked for us. We also rode our scooters there, see page 9 and 10.
RAD-LAME list, of course! Entered a Talent Show at school and won! One DJ, one rapper and me flatlanding on stage. We got a trophy and a day off. Sweet.
2 Hip King Of Nothing (Rotterdam) report where they stole my camera. Bad news it was. Free Dave Vanderspek Curb Dogs sticker in this issue. RIP Dave. Yes we rode fullpipes back in the day. 19 years ago in Lieshout. Take that.
Tony Hawk did a demo in Eindhoven and we were there. Ryan Moniham interview, Dynamo Open Air '89 report, Bresie interview, Miniramp pics, Pingel art, Open Dutch vert skate championships, and a freestyle contest report from Sedan, France. Another road trip it was and we rode on carpet! That about sums it up.
Even though Greece's Thanos Grantzas has only been riding a couple of years, he's already killing it.
The GT Airshow (and unplanned firework show) was an all-out indoor frenzy! After the weather dumped rain on everything the ramps were moved indoors and Swampfest continued! Hit play and watch how the final jam of the event went down…
After doing a BMX 'zine for ten years (1987 - 1996) FATBMX made it on the internet. The year was 1998. Here to stay.