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.

ZURITA AT HOME

See what Chilean Coco Zurita gets up to on this day in the life by Alli Sports.

Calling the shots - BMX Vert edition

Calling the shots on Vert with Simon Tabron, Jamie Bestwick and Coco Zurita. A quality and very entertaining episode. Good to see the boys having fun.

Coco back home in Chile

Our Vert specialist and all around BMX legend Coco Zurita is back home in Chile doing some meeting and greeting at High Schools informing the kids that they too can live the dream if they work for it!

Coco spends most of his time in the United States now, but always has time to give back to his homeland.

Darkness Video featuring Coco Zurita

Coco Zurita and filmer Dylan Pfohl went all out for this one. Good to see something different.

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.

Vert finals at Dew Tour

As the sun set on East Coast, Vans pros Simon Tabron and Coco Zurita were doing battle in the Dew Tour Vert final.

Coco was airing so high, and his first run was his best scored with flair whips, double whips and signature snapped table around 14ft.

Simon lead the event throughout most of the contest until he was overtaken in run 3 by Vince Byron and then Jamie Bestwick.

This photo of Simon is an Allyoop no-handed 540! Simon finished the night with a traditional 900 that he pulled right off the side of the ramp, taking out a camera man from NBC.

Great show on the beach tonight in Maryland, good job to all six competitors and especially Simon Tabron for making podium.

For more info check the Dew tour site HERE
And follow @vansbmx66 on Instagram.

Tabron Qualifies first in Vert Prelims

Today in Ocean City, Maryland for Dew Tour stop 1, Vert Prelims got under way. Twelve riders were cut to six for tomorrows final.

Vans Pro Simon Tabron was on point today and finished in the top spot. Simon can allyoop 540 so good! Coco Zurita blasted to the moon and finished 5th, and DMC put a couple great runs together and finished 7th.

DMC will miss the finals, but was happy with his riding today non the less.

The Vert finals are scheduled for Friday evening 7:30pm EST, for more information, check the official Dew Tour site HERE

Good luck Coco and Simon!

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 Philly June 9!

This Saturday there's a free party in the King of Prussia Mall parking lot in PA.

Vans BMX team Cory Nastazio, Gary Young, Ryan Guettler, Ali Whitton, Coco Zurita and Scotty Cranmer will be on hand for demo's at 1:15pm and 4pm.

Live bands and free giveaways! Check the Facebook page HERE

See you there.

King of Prussia Mall
160 North Gulph Road, King of Prussia, PA 19406

X Games Invites, Vans Team Coming in Hot!

Vans just made a big splash in the X Games list with riders invited from every BMX discipline. Simon Tabron will be kicking it in Big Air and Vert with DMC and Coco Zurita teaming up on the vert ramp as well. BMX Park is pretty stacked with Scotty Cranmer, Gary Young, Chase Hawk, Kyle Baldock, Pat Casey, Diogo Canina, Rob Darden, Bas Keep and Daniel Sandoval. Chances of an all Vans podium are pretty good for that one! Street will be a treat with Dakota Roche, Ty Morrow, Bruno Hoffman, Sean and Sexton throwing down, but look for a few more Vans riders to make it in before everything is said and done.

Coco at China X

Coco Zurita checked in with us.

"It's been a great time out in China, I ended up 5th place in Vert and 9th in Mini-mega.

X Games China was really fun, it was sweet to ride a Vert ramp after 4 months.

I've been trying to get as much as I can out of this trip, hitting up skateparks like SMP, filming, and shooting photos. I also stopped by a Vans retail store in a mall, they have some sick shoes. Chinese dudes know whats up!

I am heading to Woodward Beijing tomorrow to get some riding in.

Good times!"

VANS BMX ON TWITTER

Just letting you all know we started a dedicated twitter HERE and for the Iphone users, an instagram for Vans BMX.

Follow us for updates on road trips, contests and all things with Vans BMX team.

We will be giving away prizes from time to time so look out for those tweets!

2012 should be busy so stick with us!

@vansBMX66

Coco Zurita talks Chile on Vitalbmx.com!

Vans man of many talents, Coco Zurita talks about the jet setting life of living in LA and living in Chile on the endless summer program. Take a look inside his hometown of Santiago and listen to him preach the good word of BMX on VitalBMX.

Vans Video Vault: Coco Zurita in Chile - More BMX Videos

Coco Zurita Talks Live on Vans' Waffle Soup this Wed

How rad is that? Make sure you visit us while we hang out with Coco and send in some questions for him to answer. Also, big prizes on the horizon, Coco is giving away his BMX bike! He rode this bike at Woodward West and also got 4th place at the Dew Tour Finals in Las Vegas. It's a 20inch BMX bike, low seat, bars pulled back some, awesome bike worth $1,500. Tune in to see how you can win!

Coco X Games 17 Vert Coco X Games 17 Vert Preview

Vert Crew at Dew

The Vans Vert team Dennis Mccoy, Coco Zurita and Simon Tabron all made the finals at Dew stop 1 in Ocean city, MD.

The finals were supposed to live on NBC, but with rain delays, the boys didn't ride until 8pm last night!

Simon got on the podium in 3rd (.14 away from 2nd!), Coco in 6th and Dennis finished 10th.

Check out this pic from prelims, McCoy at age 44 with a new move. Can Can flair!

The boys now head to LA now for X Games 17. The Vert final is Friday night. Good luck boys!

Coco Zurita Blasts at Mega Ramp Invitational

Coco Zurita just got back from South America two days ago and he is already going bigger than ever. Mega Ramp held a pro invitational at Woodward West this week and Coco took flight right from the get-go. While most riders were doing big tricks over the gap and barely airing the quarterpipe, Coco was speed jumping the gap and blasting 15ft + airs on the massive quarterpipe. Check the photos, Coco is nuts and walked away with 6th place and a better view than most people will ever see of Tehachapi.

Coco's Chilean Adventure Day 2

Today Coco and Colin hit the road west to check out a beach town called Valparaiso about 2 hours west of Santiago. After getting the boot from a couple skateparks on the way, Coco remembered a crazy ribbon structure off the highway that he always wanted to ride but never had the chance. A little 4x4 action up and over the curb and they were in the mix with trucks flying by at 90kpm. It was a pretty wild scene with cars honking and guys riding bikes on a giant concrete ribbon in middle of nowhere. Later on at the beach, Coco found a shark fin wallride thats he's ridden a bunch and made for some good wallride 180 photos. Tomorrow there is a Vans demo and another video session at the skatepark that Coco's dad runs near the house.

Coco's Chilean Adventure Day 1

Coco Zurita made a trip back to his homeland of Chile with fellow Vans team mate Colin Mackay. The two riders made a long trip down to the most southern tip of the country to a place called Punta Arenas to check out a local contest in a place where the Atlantic meets the Pacific. The days were cold but the riding was good and there was an unreal local girl's BMX scene. When they got back to Santiago, Coco decided to make a day trip to some trails for Colin to check out and they ended up being set against an amazing backdrop of the Andes Mountains for one of the most amazing sunset sessions. On Friday they crew is headed to a beach town to check out a new skatepark and ride some undiscovered street.
Here is a shot of the Vert shredder riding dirt- who knew??