Terry Adams – Myth Nightclub
Apparently Terry was riding flatland about a minute away from my house some time ago? Weird! I would have loved to go and watch!
Terry Adams at Myth Night Club from Buck on Vimeo.
The Top Ten Posts on KrtSchmidt.com
June 15th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in BMX, Biking, Extreme Sports, Off The Wall, Old School, Personal
I was looking through some of my stats and found that the top ten posts, to date, in terms of traffic are the following. Take a look in case you missed something!
- Johnny Knoxville is a Genuis
- Former BMX Star Now on the Beat
- How to Sell Your Old School BMX Bike
- Manuelito Is King!
- Skater’s Ankle Pops-Out After Crash
- Wakeboarding in Venice, Italy
- Wolfgang Sauter – 2008 BMX Masters
- Old School BMX Podcast
- Cool Illustrated Flatland Posters
- BMX Sculpture – Ricky Swallow
Selling Rare GT Coaster Hub
Well, you probably saw this before in a post but I’m going to have to unload it. I can’t hold on to it knowing that some OS-BMX rebuilder could use it for something cool. Interested? Go to the contact form and let me know! Thanks!
Damien Walter’s 2009 Parkour Showreel
Parkour, or as I refer to it, “controlled eating it” can be pretty intense when performed right. Damien Walter does it right.
Tags: Damien WalterThe Indian Master of Balance?
May 25th, 2009 | 2 Comments | Posted in BMX, Biking, Crazy, Flatland, Funny, Off The Wall, Old School, Sports
The 61-year-old who performs a balancing act with his BMX… on cliff edges
“Expertly balanced 300ft up a rock face, Khiv Raj Gurjar is the world’s finest exponent of Extreme Yoga.
Using only a BMX bike for support, 61-year-old Khiv takes the ancient art of meditation to new levels as he performs complex forms of yoga merely inches from the sheer drop.
Travelling to the top of the rocky outcrop near to his home of Jodhpur in the Indian state of Rajasthan, Khiv begins his exercises at dawn, so as to avoid the raging desert heat.
Having been perfecting his extreme yoga for almost 50 years, Khiv has travelled the world to demonstrate his skills.
‘I have been to Australia, the UK and Thailand, taking my trusted BMX with me,’ he says.
‘I have plans to develop my art, but I am keeping these plans close to my chest.’
Read the rest and see more photos at The Daily Mail:
Tom Haugen Newspaper Interview
May 22nd, 2009 | 1 Comment | Posted in BMX, Biking, Flatland, Friends, Interviews, Sports, Street Riding, Vert
This was in a obscure local paper but I thought you would enjoy it because Tom is totally awesome to the max.
Had he nicked the furniture, Tom Haugen’s career might have been over before it began.
With Minnesota winters incompatible with outdoor BMX riding practice and few indoor sites available, Haugen and a friend resorted to honing their tricks in the Haugen family’s basement.
“I told them if they scratched the pool table, they were done,” said Roger Haugen, Tom’s father. “They never did in all the time they spent down there riding their bikes.”
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Twenty-two years ago, while living in St. Louis Park, Tom got his start riding in the basement, on the street in front of his house and on makeshift dirt jumps. Today the Twin Cities native makes his living on the bike, performing and competing around the world.
He had not had a chance to be in a major event in his hometown until April 25 of this year when he was part of the Action Sports World Tour event at the Target Center.
At 32, Haugen is getting used to being referred to as a “veteran” BMX rider.
“A lot of guys get hurt and are done at 23,” Haugen said before a BMX demonstration this week at the Mall of America. “But there’s also a guy, Dennis McCoy, who’s 42 and is still a top-level competitor. I’ve had injuries, but if you take care of yourself you can keep riding.”
Haugen, who has a residence in Plymouth, spends five to seven hours a day on his bike and another two in the gym to keep up with riders who are younger – some more than a decade younger.
He built a reputation as a consistent rider who is as comfortable on ramps as he is on flatland. He has competed in five X Games, three International X Games and seven Gravity Games.
“I always took pride in being versatile, and I think that’s one reason I’m still doing this,” Haugen said. “Today, most guys focus on one discipline.”
But in the late 1980s, when Haugen started riding, there were few if any BMX ramps. So he started out as a “flatlander,” with the practice facility often the street in front of his house. He rode flatland for six years – until he was 16 – before moving on to dirt jumps and eventually ramps. He moved to Orlando in 2005, making it his permanent residence, in part because it was better for practice in the winter.
“I’d always had a bike, but when I was a kid, the cool thing was to have a bike with pegs [essential for various BMX tricks],” Haugen said.
After he got a bike suitable for BMX, it wasn’t long before he was pushing its limits.
“One day when I came home, I was coming up the driveway and he was coming down the driveway on his bike, standing on the handlebars, steering with his feet,” Roger Haugen said.
Haugen’s parents were aware of the injury risk, but didn’t discourage their son from riding.
“I think they saw I had a passion for it,” Haugen said. “And I think they were OK with the friends I had. I have a really tight group of friends, the same friends I’ve had for 20 years. We were just a bunch of young kids riding our bikes.”
Haugen had a serious injury in 2006, breaking his tibia, fibula and ankle. That forced him away from competition for several months, but he was able to return by 2007.
He elected not to return to school. In 1998, Haugen had about one year until graduation from the University of Minnesota when he turned pro. He had been pursuing a teaching degree.
Haugen hasn’t ruled out teaching someday, saying it’s the only other thing he could see himself doing as a career. Going back to school was always a fallback plan in case his riding career ended catastrophically.
If worse came to worst, “he said the U of M was handicapped-accessible,” Roger Haugen said.
Watch some TH footage after the jump!
Tags: Bicycle Motocross, Cycling, Mall of America, Minneapolis – Saint Paul, Sports, Target Center, Twin Cities, University of MinnesotaAfrican Safari on a Bike
Four months on a bicycle between Cairo, Egypt and Cape Town South Africa is not your typical African safari.
En route with the Tour d’ Afrique, the world’s longest bicycle race and expedition, the Zenga Bros. (CAN) and Brian Vernor (USA) make light of this physically daunting trip by sharing a universal love of the bicycle with Africa’s roadside mechanics, sporting racers, and innumerable curious strangers.
Traveling more than 70 miles per day, 50 racers and expedition riders experienced the boundless Nubian desert of Sudan, the great majesty of Victoria Falls, and finally the cold rush of the Atlantic Ocean.
Where Are You Go captures the 7,000 mile expedition as a constant adventure full of playfulness and mysterious beauty, and is a testament to the endurance of human curiosity
Unicycles Come Into Their Own
A first I thought I would get a giggle out of this video but after watching it I’ve got a lot more respect for our one-wheel bretheren. Some really creative and ballsey moves here.
Steal from BMX, Get 7 Years in Jail.
May 16th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in BMX, Biking, Extreme Sports, Flatland, Things That Are Lame
Galmish faces up to 7 years for stealing from BMX
A Pleasantville woman faces up to seven years in prison after admitting she stole more than $11,000 from Titusville BMX Association.
Holly Galmish, 32, of the 400 block of North Main Street, pleaded guilty on Thursday in Crawford County Court to two felony counts of theft by failure to make required disposition of funds.
Under an agreement that led to Galmish’s guilty pleas, 11 other charges were dropped.
Galmish served as a former treasurer for Titusville BMX.
Crawford County Assistant District Attorney Christopher Mitchell said prosecutors recommended that Galmish make full restitution for the money she took and that her charges run concurrently.
Each of the charges Galmish pleaded guilty to is punishable by up to seven years in prison.
Galmish, who is now free on bond, will return to court on July 22.
Titusville Police accused Galmish of stealing $11,484 between January and August 2007 and manipulating documents in an attempt to hide the thefts. Police began investigating in November 2007 after the BMX Board and Titusville Leisure Services found discrepancies in the association’s bank account.
When police interviewed Galmish in April, 2008, she admitted to stealing the money.
