Name: Johan Janssens
Hometown: Boechout, Belgium
Started riding BMX in: 1982 my first season in competition racing.
Website: www.jjrbmx.com (Hutch BMX, JJR BMX, old school Pro Winner and more)
Bike: Quiet Resistant/JJR, Denver Special 24”
What's your earliest memory of BMX?
Johan Janssens: Around 1981 when I saw a kid riding his BMX bike on the other side of the street and wished I had one too. Later I got a Raleigh Ultra Burner.
Adelaide street assassin and Tempered team rider, Brayden McPharlin is back on your screens with another absolute banger. Sit back and enjoy a fresh five minutes - rail game strong!
Tam Roulston's American dream wasn't exactly smooth sailing - taking a really nasty slam into a fence and a bunch of other injuries to name a few. You can't keep the big man down though and the result of his time in the US was pure gold. Watch the behind-the-scenes, bonus clips and more in the latest instalment of our In The Cut series. Empire biscuit for that man!
Tadeáš Linek is next in line for the DIG Locals treatment with a load of tech lines. Filmed during trips to Barcelona and the rest were shot back in his home of Czechia.
Jumping forward a decade or so from our last episode. I first met Owain in the 90's, he was a tiny chatty kid ripping around the boneyard in Chester and the surrounding skateparks of the time. Fast forward many years and this dude has never dropped off. Rode for a bunch of big companies, won contests, flew around the world, scoring multiple magazine covers, video parts, road trips and done all there is to do in the game of BMX. We get in to the start of his BMX journey, trips to Woodward as a kid, growing up around the Chester BMX scene. Changing up riding styles, and the in-depth street riding phase and why, riding all terrain, his involvement with BMX now, the obsession with collecting old BMX media, recent barn edit and the open loop. And even some UKBMX hall of fame talk in here.
Woodward BMX Season 2 - EP2 - The Golden Coast. In the first episode of Season 2, the crew from last season trade the East Coast for the sun-soaked West as they travel to Woodward West in Tehachapi, CA. Amidst the Californian vibes, unexpected twists await, and alliances will be tested. Expect the unexpected and gear up for an action-packed Season 2 of the Camp Woodward BMX show.
Re-Up; Preserving BMX History #30: William "Larock" LaRoque (USA)
Name: William LaRoque aka Larock
Hometown: Long Beach, CA
What's your earliest memory of BMX?
Larock: Seeing On Any Sunday for the first time and wanting an MX kit for my hand me down Lime Green StingRay.
Who were some of the BMX riders that you admired back in the day?
Larock: That’s a tough one! I was kind of Partial to the SE Factory Boys because they had such close ties to Long Beach, BUMS track was less than a mile away from where I grew up. Scot, Thomsen & PK of course. But who could deny the Panther, Dain, Utterback, King, Atherton and all of the others that graced the pages of our favorite magazines.
Sam Burditt teamed up with Tyler Manning to film a plaza edit between filming for the latest OTG video and its banging! ...no Taylor Swift here
Emile Bouwman, Kimo van Hulst, Oran Farag, Denz van Lare, Rodrigue Timellini and Rinke Diependaal are showing what BMX is all about: chasing a unique style of riding, helping your friends to land that single trick and, at the end of the day, just having a good time enjoying a broodje kroket together!
Name: Nate McCallister
Age: 24
Hometown: Pasadena, Maryland, USA
Hook-ups/Sponsors: Pedal Pushers bike shop, Kali protectives
The FAT favorites list:
-Spot to ride: Woodward
-BMX video: Props
-Website: Youtube
-Web video: Webbie show
-Food: Bbq
-Person on Instagram: natemccallisterbmx
-Travel destination: Japan
-Riders to ride with: Andrew Meier
-Car: R34 Nissan skyline
After doing a BMX 'zine for ten years (1987 - 1996) FATBMX made it on the internet. The year was 1998. Here to stay.