BMX Adventurcation in Guam

The Vans crew just returned from a week in Guam riding skateparks, snorkeling and doing demos for the troops at the US Navy base.  Guam is a small tropical island about 1400 miles off the coast of Japan   that has been inhabited for about 4000 years. Right now is a US territory and has insane scuba, snorkeling and a kick ass skatepark.  This is the Van's team's 3rd time to Guam (2007 & 2010) and it was just as hot as the last two trips. Watch out for the video of Gary Young, Alistair Whitton, Michael Steingraber, Dennis McCoy, Coco Zurita and Ryan Guettler getting tropical in the next couple weeks. Big Thanks to Bill Marx with the NEX for all the hospitality.

Nasty Gets a Taste of Mackay's Trails in Virginia Beach

After the Vans ECSC Comp in VA Beach, Colin Mackay invited Nasty and the Haro crew to ride the trails he's been working on all summer. Check out this edit with Cory Nastazio backflipping some super small jumps and good footy from Pay Casey, Brian Hunt, Nyquist, Gary Young and Balls.

Cory's Corner 2 - Virginia Beach from Haro Bikes on Vimeo.

Ben Hennon Wins Best Line at Red Bull Skylines

Our boy Ben Hennon just won Best Line at the Red Bull Skylines event in Paris with a wild whip out of the Sosh tranny. The venue alone is worth checking out in this video from JCP. Gary Young, Daniel Sandoval, Pat Casey, Kevin Kalkoff, Ben Hennon, Baz Keep, Rob Darden and Mark Webb were all throwing down for Vans BMX.

RedBull Skylines, Paris France!

Vans park shredders Gary Young, Daniel Sandoval, Pat Casey, Kevin Kalkoff, Ben Hennon, Baz Keep and Mark Webb have arrived in Paris for the RedBull Skylines event going on this Friday November 2nd!

Tickets are sold out so expect the place to get wild!  Check out the 3d teaser below.

 

Dew Tour SF preview

The boys have arrived in San Francisco, California for the second and final Dew Tour stop for the year.

Back in August, stop 1 in Maryland included Park and Vert, this stop in San Francisco has Street Plaza, Street-Style and Dirt. Street-Style is something new and exciting. It's a section of road with different obstacles that the rider can hit from a starting point to the finish, and Street is set up in a more plaza style atmosphere.

Look for Vans riders in Dirt including Cory Nastazio, Scotty Cranmer, Rob Darden, Andy Buckworth, Pat Casey, TJ Ellis, Gary Young, Kyle Baldock, Daniel Sandoval, Ryan Guettler, Cam White and Luke Parslow.

Street Plaza Ty Morrow, Bruno Hoffman, Dakota Roche, Josh Harrington, Sean Sexton and Dan Lacey.

TV coverage in the USA is as follows...
Dirt 10/20/12 Saturday NBCSN 11PM EST
Street-Style 10/21/12 Sunday NBC 2pm EST LIVE
Street 10/21/12 Sunday NBCSN 11pm EST

For more info on Dew Tour go HERE and follow @vansjerry and @vansbmx66 on twitter and instagram for live news.

Texas Toast finals video

Gary Young and Chase Hawk get some clips in this and unfortunately Chase broke his leg at the event and will be out for six weeks. Gary's Ice to fakie was unofficially the trick on the contest. Looked like a great time in Texas! BMX is alive and well!

2012 Texas Toast Finals - More BMX Videos

Rebel Jam BMX Videos keep on coming!

Rebel Jam video keep popping up all one the inter web and here we have two bangers from Red Bull and Ethika to check out as well. The location for Rebel Jam was so amazing this year it's a sure thing that we'll see more to come. Red Bull Rebel Jam wrap up here. Ethika Rebel Jam Video

CVLT Premiere and TX toast this weekend!

This Friday night October 12th in Austin, TX the long awaited CVLT video "TALK IS CHEAP" is set to Premiere. Look for full parts from Vans pros Dakota Roche, Chase Hawk, Baz Keep, Tre Jones, Bobby Simmons and Timmy Theus.

On Saturday 13th and Sunday the 14th also in Austin, the Texas Toast is on again. This year Taj went bigger and better with Street, Dirt, Flat and the "Gauntlet of Death". I'm sure it will be very challenging again. Last year only a few made it through, Scotty Cranmer was the first I believe.

Look for these Vans pros to compete at Texas Toast...

Street - Gary Young, Sean Sexton, Dakota Roche, Ryan Guettler, Chase Hawk, Ben Hennon, Trey Jones, Eric Lichtenberger, Dillion Lloyd, Ronnie Napolitan, Hoang Tran, Dan Foley,  and Codey Levesque

Dirt - Chase Hawk, Gary Young, Dakota Roche, Ryan Guettler, Ben Hennon, Kevin Kalkoff, Rob Darden, Trey Jones, Ronnie Napolitan, Codey Levesque, and Dan Foley

Flatland - Matthias Dandois, Alex Jumelin.

Registration for Texas Toast has closed, and it will $5 to get in. For more info check the site HERE and also check out the video interview with Taj as he explains a few things.

RebelJam Highlights Video

The world’s top BMX riders gathered in Tossa de Mar, Spain this weekend, 5-7 October, to ride the Street, Flatland, Park and Dirt features of the incredible Europark set up during the 6th Annual Vans Rebel Jam. Video by Alex Baret

RebelJam 2012 results!

RebelJam 2012 is over, thanks to all the watched the great coverage online and if you were lucky enough to attend I'm sure you had the best weekend ever. Start saving and get to RebelJam 2013!

For more results, head HERE to the official RebelJam site. They're replaying the coverage from the event in case you missed it. 

PARK Hard Trick Award 1. Andy Buckworth 2. Daniel Sandoval 3. Ben Hennon
PARK Creative Award 1. Gary Young 2. Ben Hennon 3. Maxime Charveron
PARK Style Award 1. Kevin Kalkoff 2. Bas Keep 3. Daniel Sandoval

FLAT Style Award 1.Matthias Dandois 2. Jesse Puente 3. Kevin Nikulski
   
STREET 1. Dan Lacey 2. Bruno Hoffmann 3. Diogo Santos 4. Ed Zunda 5. Dakota Roche

DIRT Hard Trick Award 1. Daniel Sandoval 2. Rob Darden 3. David Godziek
DIRT Style Award 1. Daniel Sandoval 2. Dan Foley 3. Kevin Kalkoff

RebelJam has started!

Practice has started in Spain, live coverage online beginning on Saturday 6am EST HERE and Sunday same time. (12 noon in Spain)

Park, Dirt, Flat and Street disciplines with Vans Pros Dakota Roche, Gary Young, Daniel Sandoval, Dan Foley, Rob Darden, Andy Buckworth and the Euro Vans crew including Matthias Dandois, Bruno Hoffmann, Matt Priest, Dan Lacey, Ben Hennon and Mark Webb.

Keep up with @vansrebeljam on twitter and instagram for live updates.

LXVI INVITATIONAL AT ECSC

It all begins today in Virginia Beach, Virginia. For the first time, the LXVI Invitational Box Jump contest is going down at ECSC. Vans BMX stars Scotty Cranmer, TJ Ellis (pictured), Cory Nastazio, Ryan Guettler, Kyle Baldock and more will compete today at 12 -2 in a qualifying round.

Saturday 12-1 is the final round. Riders are competing for a portion of the $25,000 purse.

There's also Vert Demos going on all weekend with Simon Tabron, Coco Zurita and DMC Dennis McCoy.

The event is free to get into, and you can also keep up with us on @vansbmx66 on Instagram and twitter.

26 become 11, Dew Tour park prelims

Today in Ocean City, Maryland twenty six riders dropped in for three, forty five second runs. Best run counts and now we have eleven riders for tomorrows semi final. Scotty Cranmer watched today as a bonus for his 2011 season. He will compete tomorrow.

Pat Casey had a flat rear tire just a couple minutes before his name was to be called for run 0ne, with a pit crew on hand, the tire was ready to go and he literally picked up his bike, dropped in and qualified 2nd! Unreal!

Kyle Baldock messed up his first two runs, leaving all the pressure in the world for run three. Kyle pulled it though and qualified in 6th.

Saturdays semi final looks like this. Top 6 will go to Sundays final.

Scotty Cranmer (VANS)
Brett Banasiewicz
Pat Casey (VANS)
Drew Bezanson
Harry Main
Daniel Sandoval (VANS)
Kyle Baldock (VANS)
Ryan Nyquist
Gary Young (VANS)
Garrett Reynolds
Chad Kerley
Andy Buckworth (VANS)

The semis kicks off at 5:30pm ET and televised on NBC Sports at 11pm ET.

Follow us on @VansBMX66 (Instagram and twitter)

For more info click HERE for the Dew Tour site

Vans’ Inaugural LXVI BMX Invitational Hits the Beach at the ECSC August 24th and 25th

The first LXVI BMX Invitational presented by Vans hits the beach on August 24th and 25th at the historic Virginia Beach Oceanfront alongside the Coastal Edge East Coast Surfing Championships presented by Vans. The LXVI BMX Invitational challenges twenty of the world’s best BMX riders including Scotty Cranmer, Ryan Guettler, Ryan Nyquist and Cory Nastazio as they compete in a triple box jump contest for their share of a $25,000 prize purse.

Expected Riders Include: Scotty Cranmer (2012 X-Games Gold BMX Park, 2012 Dew Tour Champion BMX Park), Ryan Guettler (2005 Dew Tour Champion BMX Dirt and Park, X-Games medalist), Pat Casey, Gary Young, Kyle Baldock, Cory Nastazio (X-Games medalist), Ryan Nyquist (numerous X-Games medals and Dew Tour championships), Brett Banasiewicz, Dennis Enarson, Jeremiah Smith, and Brandon Dosch.

Expected Judges Include: Robbie Morales (Cult), Keith Mulligan (Ride BMX), Ben Crockett (BMX Plus!), Dave Brumlow and Allan Cooke.

Contest Schedule – Best 2 out of 3 Runs
Thursday, Aug. 23rd 2PM – 4PM - Open Practice
Friday, Aug. 24th 12PM – 2PM - Qualifiers
Saturday, Aug. 25th 12PM – 1PM - Finals

Prizes: 1st place: $5,000 2nd place: $3,750 3rd place: $3,000 Runner ups will receive a portion of the $25,000 purse.

Dew Tour Stop 1 Begins Thursday

The Vans BMX team has arrived in Ocean City, Maryland for stop one of The Dew Tour.

Competition begins on Thursday, August 16 with BMX Vert. Simon Tabron, Coco Zurita and Dennis McCoy will take on the Half Pipe and try to make the six man final for Friday.

The Park discipline runs from Thursday through Sunday, with 2011 the Dew Tour Park Champion Scotty Cranmer advancing to Saturdays semi final as a reward for his 2011 season.

Look for other Vans pros in the Park preliminary rounds trying to move into the finals including Kyle Baldock, Pat Casey, Ryan Guettler, Andy Buckworth, Diogo Canina, Rob Darden, Ben Hennon, Josh Harrington, Chase Hawk, Daniel Sandoval, Mark Webb, Gary Young.

This stop also includes Mini Mega Ramp and Flatland. Vans Europe and French Flatland Pro, Matthias Dandois will be in Ocean City!

For more information on the Dew Tour and this first stop for 2012, check HERE

Keep up with the Vans BMX crew live on Instagram and twitter. @vansBMX66

Young is a Father!

Congrats to our very own Gary Young who is a recently a proud father!

 Leena Elizabeth Young
8lbs 6oz
20 3/4"

X Games LA... Now!

Well the event has arrived a little earlier than usual but the X Games starts later this week in LA. The Vans team have arrived and will begin practice today!

Competition begins June 29 with the first BMX event Street on Friday at 3pm. June 30 Saturday morning Park will get under way at 10am and Vert at 4:30pm. July 1 Big Air at 6:30pm

Street - Dakota Roche, Bruno Hoffman, Sean Sexton (Ty Morrow out with injury)

Park - Scotty Cranmer, Gary Young, Chase Hawk, Kyle Baldock, Pat Casey, Diogo Canina, Rob Darden, Bas Keep, Ben Hennon, Daniel Sandoval

Vert - Dennis McCoy, Coco Zurita, Simon Tabron

Big Air - Simon Tabron

Look for alternates Josh Harrington and Dan Foley to ride if someone is injured.

@vansbmx66 will be in LA so join them on instagram and twitter if you haven't already!

If you can't make it, you can watch it all go down on ESPN HERE. And HERE is the official X Games site for the latest.

Journeys Backyard BBQ BMX Demo

Journeys King of Prussia Photos

This past weekend Nasty, Gary Young, Scotty Cranmer, Ali Whitton and Ryan Guettler were in PA for the Journeys BBQ.

The boys put on two shows to a very enthusiastic crowd. Scotty was all over the ramp, blasting airs close to 8ft on the mellow 5ft ramp. Scotty even kicked a flair whip and pulled it. His first since 2007! Tailwhips either way, straight double Barspin airs and all the lip tricks in the world. Scotty put on a show!

Gary Young still rode good considering he has been out a month with a shoulder injury. Love his tables! Gary is expecting his first child so his phone was close by at all times. X Games is coming up in two weeks, lets hope Gary can still ride it.

Ali had a bit of trouble with flair's and when he finally got one he rode off the side of the 40ft ramp. He was having a good time though! Ali does really good Indian air's!

Guettler came off a Colony trip straight into a long flight out to the east coast for the demo's and still managed to pull no foot can flairs and some cool lip tricks like Hurricanes and Lawnmowers. A fan had Ryan sign his bike, it was a Guettler signature Mirra-Co from 2006!

Nasty dog Cory Nastazio took care of the early morning news show and local newspaper interviews on behalf of the Vans team. The kid is too famous! He rode the demo's but smashed his ankle flipping the smallest hip in history in show 1, so he was chillin for the 2nd demo. Good to see Nasty ride some ramps though.

It was such a good weekend thanks Micah Krans for announcing, all the fans for attending and Journeys for having us.

There's still a few stops left, check the Journeys BBQ site to catch the next one, unfortunately the Vans BMX team only hit the King of Prussia stop so if you missed us, see you next year!

Join us @VansBMX66 instagram and twitter!

Vans team are in PA!

The Vans BMX crew Ali Whitton, Ryan Guettler, Gary Young and Scotty Cranmer are in King of Prussia, PA for the Journeys Mall parking lot BBQ set for Saturday June 9!

Show times are set for 1 and 4pm.

Check out the pic of the guys working on some things in practice today. They were on the morning TV news plus one of them will be in the morning news paper. Cant wait to see that!

The ramp is pretty mellow and about 5ft tall, but Scotty was airing it at least 7ft today!

Follow us on @vansbmx66 on instagram and twitter for updates if you cant make it!