Chris Courtenay is sitting on a plane right now on his way over to Vegas for Interbike & Nora Cup. He will then start off his USA trip for a few months in Greenville & a few other places. During the last few weeks he put some work in for this little edit for Ride On BMX produced by Jack Birtles. Looking really good for sure… well done guys.
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We are very stoked to have received a top 5 nomination for the video of the year for next week’s Ride BMX Nora Cup in Vegas. Thank’s to all the pro riders that voted for us, it’s an honour to have been voted into the top 5. Can’t wait for the Nora Cup party, it’s gonna be awesome. See you there !!
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When I was up in Brisbane a little while back I went down to Helensvale park with Clint and filmed his first 10 clips edit, stoked on how it came out. He has only pulled the last trick once before in his life I believe, check it out.
We proudly supported the 2011 Canadian Concrete Series held in & around Vancouver this year & the organisers have just released the video from the series. Check it our below.
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Cooper has a new oneclip over on the Focalpoint site with some front & rear brake action on my bike… guess I better learn some new tricks since he just did all 3 of mine… haha.
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Our distributor in Spain, Promotions Otreal have been helping out a local rider there with Colony parts for a little while now. His name is Ruben Vicente Arebalo & has good clips in the video below put together from the summer riding with his friends. Look out for Ruben with the dark curly afro style hair. Enjoy. Thanks to Tito for helping out Ruben.
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This edit is made up of Cooper Brownlee’s left overs that didn’t make the cut from our DVD, check it out. If you haven’t seen our DVD yet, track yourself down a copy at any Colony retailer now.
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Flow rider from Latvia Oskars Zajarskis sent through a quick edit form his local park, some good moves in this and the park looks real fun.
Marnold, Chris Courtenay and Brock Olive have all recently had Oneclips in the Focalpoint clip a day series.
We met up with Mick at his local park Prahran to film his ten clips, the park is just on the out skirts of Melbourne city and definitely has its own unique feel, interesting characters around all day long but as kinda sketchy it may seem from first glance, everyone was real cool and down with what we were doing.
Mick had previously filmed an edit at the same park a month or so before hand so he wanted to make sure he got some new lines dialed in and some different moves to what you may expect to see from him.
Filmers: Cooper Brownlee (fisheye) Sam Illman & Flagz (long lens)
Edited by: Cooper Brownlee.
Our flow rider from Italy Daniele De Piccoli along with his crew entered the Nike Chosen video comp and did quite well. They ride some cool spots in this.
Alex Hiam turns 16 today… happy birthday mate !! To help celebrate his birthday here are a few web edits from Alex over the years on Colony.
A 13 year old Alex & his first edit for Colony.
A couple from a 14 year old Alex…
And finally from a few weeks ago…
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Next in the 10 Clips series of edits is Marnold. We had never lit up a spot in a school before so we didn’t know how it was going to go down. We waited until about 7pm rolled in there with all the gear set-up and it was game on. There was a cleaner floating about on the grounds but he didn’t seem fazed at all by what we were doing so maybe we got lucky that night.
Filmers: Cooper Brownlee (fisheye) Luke Vandenberg (long lens)
Edited by: Cooper Brownlee.
Paddy Gross, our main man in Germany, gave us a disc with some left over footage he had laying around. Glen McLaughlin edited it into this little piece here, enjoy.
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Next up in our Ten Clips series of video’s is Alex Hiam. One of his favourite parks here in Brisbane is Fairfield, so we hit it up one weekday so it was a bit quieter, which it was but it was crazy windy at times. You can probably tell how windy it was in the background of some of the clips. Alex was keen though so we spent the afternoon filming this. Thanks to the locals for being patient at times.
Filmed and edited by Cooper Brownlee with additional filming by Rhys Yeomans.
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The finals for this years Down Underground flatland series presented by Newcircle, is set for August 21st inside the Ausbike trade show in Melbourne. Come along to check out the very best of flatland in Australia & abroad with it being reported a Japanese contingent is heading over for the comp.
Check the video below from Round 2 earlier this year. Filmed & edited by John Young.
Should be a great weekend of BMX with the King of the Jibs the day before also at Ausbike & then on the 21st of August, is the second annual Slay The Rail comp also in Melbourne. A very big weekend of BMX here in Australia, the way it should be.
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We are proud to present the King of the Jibs 2 in conjunction with the Ausbike 2011 trade show down in Melbourne next month. As per last year, it is an invite only event with 30 of the best street riders from around Australia. Check the flyer for details & click here to get your tickets to watch the comp. A big thanks to Focalpoint for their support of this event once again.
Check out the video below from last years event for a taste of what to expect. Hope to see many of you there.
Thanks to Glen McLaughlin for editing the video.
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After working hard on filming for the Colony DVD, we wanted to play around with a web edit series that was a bit more relaxed, so the deal is…. The rider picks out a spot or park they enjoy riding and then they film ten clips at that spot. No pressure, just keep it fun and do the things they enjoy doing.
This is Tom’s local park so I knew this would be the place we would hit up for his Ten Clips. To mix it up and to work in with Tom’s work schedule, we got out the generator and filmed it at night whilst the local kids lurked in the background.
We moved the generator set-up around to each part of the park to film each clip which worked well.
Filmers: Cooper Brownlee (fisheye) Troy Charlesworth (long lens)
Edited by: Cooper Brownlee.
If you live in France, you most likely read Soul BMX Magazine on a regular basis. Well this issue they are giving you the chance to get The Colony DVD for a very small price with selected copies of issue 71. Check it.
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Tim Towie put this together to test a new camera, liam throws down some good moves on an up-ledge.
Our main man in Brazil, Valvoline has recently been hooked up by Etnies in Brazil & this is his welcome edit filmed on some fun looking trails.
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The last in our series of interviews exclusive to TCU with the team is with Zac Miner. Check out what he went through whilst filming for the DVD & next time you see him ask him about getting married in Vegas. Funny shit.
Thanks to everyone for checking out all these videos this week & I hope you all like the DVD when you get a chance to check it out. Now it’s time for me to go get my party on for tonight… word. If your going to a premiere somewhere in the world soon, I hope you enjoy it & have a great time. Thanks !!
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Cooper Brownlee’s turn this time to talk about his experiences filming for the DVD. Not sure how he finds the time to progress with his riding in amongst all his work load but he get’s the job done. His work didn’t stop here with this interview as he filmed & edited this himself.
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Once again today we bring two interviews from the team…
Ryan Guettler had probably some of the worst runs of luck injury wise while trying to film for the DVD. All in all though, he still managed to get some good footage captured for his section. Find out what he went through to get his section done in the video below.
Filmed & edited by Ryan Guettler & Bret Trigg.
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Chris Courtenay also had his fair share of injuries while filming for the DVD but still managed to come through with an impressive section regardless. This being a true showing of his commitment to the project & his love for riding. Check out his thoughts of the whole experience.
Filmed & edited by Stewart Munro.
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Today we are bringing you two videos in one day…
First up we have Marnold who has put together a really solid section for the DVD. I felt he really came of age with his riding during the course of filming & really started to shine the last year or so. So good to see it unfold before us all. Check out what he went through to get his part done.
Filmed & edited by Cooper Brownlee.
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If you’re interested in my experiences with the making of the DVD, check out the video below.
Filmed & edited by Stewart Munro.
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The second instalment in our series of interviews in conjunction with TCU belongs to Tom Stretton. Tom has one of my personal favourite parts in the DVD & for good reason. No one rides like Tom, I mean no one. Check out what he has to say about his experiences filming for the DVD.
Filmed & edited by Stewart Munro. Once again all riding footage used is B roll & not in the finished product.
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In conjunction with The Come Up we bring you a series of interviews with some of the team about their experiences filming for the DVD.
Starting today with Mick Bayzand there will be a new interview dropped each day over the next week leading up to the 16th of July. Hopefully you will get a bit of an insight into what went into the DVD & what to expect from the guys. The riding footage used in all these interviews is B roll footage that did not make the actual finished product.
Interview filmed & edited by Cooper Brownlee with additional footage filmed by Flagz.
The Colony DVD will be available worldwide from July 16th.
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