For those in the Brisbane area, it’s pretty obvious that the Core Series Final set for today at Morayfield is cancelled due to bad weather. The weather isn’t quite as bad as the pic below from the floods here earlier this year. Then, the park was completely flooded. Keep an eye here for news on a new date if it will be rescheduled.
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Marnold, Chris Courtenay and Brock Olive have all recently had Oneclips in the Focalpoint clip a day series.
Ryan Guettler recently went to France for a dirt comp & he is there for a couple more weeks yet. Here is what he had so say…
Jet lagg could be one of the worst things to go through!! When every one is sleeping your wide awake looking at the clock watching the mins tick by and when every one is fresh and ready to ride your trying to hold your eyes open sucks so bad!!
Me and Jaie Toohey have been in south of france for 5 days now on our 2.5 week trip. Its been fun and we have meet up with alot of other riders, we are sharing a house with Cam white, Josh stead and Danny Jose (Hungry Monster rider) Staying in the house feels like when I had to stay at my grand mothers place no TV, no internet but we play lots of ping pong out side every night. Me and Jaie go to Mcdonalds for the wifi which is so slow, its been 30 mins so far on uploading theses pics and it may not happen i hope you guys get them.
I bought my video camera and have been filming every thing we get up to so look out for a video when i get home.
Yesterday was the Lords of Dirt comp. Very BIG jumps and huge roll in the pics do not show how big theses thing are. 9 foot lips and 15 foot landings. I came from dew tour very sore and a bad knee which needs rest but competed and just missed the finals, I had a rough time pumping the sets with a bad knee so gaining speed was so hard.
Josh stead rode well and did the run of the day ending with a double flip but it was 2 runs count so he ended up in 6th
Cam White rode solid and even flip superman seat grabbed the 2nd jump over 30 ft long and ended with 2nd place
Jaie Toohey killed the event every run was a winning run. He rode faster and higher then the rest and won the comp and placed 2nd in the best trick with a 360 triple whip!! Jaie looked at home on theses massive jumps the nitro circus really paid off.
This week we are doing Monster demos in the down town area then on the weekend is The VANS kill the line. Which is a comp in the woods with big jumps again I am really looking forward to this comp.
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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.
It was a hectic weekend just been with the tradeshow in-between both King of the Jibs and Slay the Rails. Here are a few images from the booth showing some of the 2012 colours and products. Available in October.
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.
Some of the team are in Melbourne at the moment, here are a couple shots from a good day out yesterday. Brock Olive and Liam Zingbergs.
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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Massive thanks to all the riders, people who came and watched, the judges and Dre for doing a good job with the Mic, it was a really fun day.
Congrats to Daniel Johnson for winning, Marnold came second with Jack Elkins in third. Raphael Jeroma-Williams took out best trick with a luc-e up rail to duster down the other side of the wedge rail.
Today at the Melbourne show grounds is the King of the Jibs 2. Get yourself down to see the 30 of Australia’s best street riders battle it out for their share of the $1,500 prize purse. $500 for 1st, $400 for 2nd, $300 for 3rd & also $300 for best trick of the day. Practise starts at 12pm & the comp starts at 2pm. If you need directions click here now. See you there.
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See you at the jibs comp which starts at 2pm, the tradeshow opens at 10am so make sure you come past the Colony booth.
Yesterday we set everything up for the Jibs on Saturday, we have alot more room this year so it’s going to work out good!
King of the Jibs 2 is on tomorrow at the Ausbike trade show at the Melbourne show grounds. As a re-cap here is the video from last year’s event for a little of what to expect tomorrow. We have 30 of the best street riders in the country there to battle it out for a share of the $1,500 prize money.
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Here is our current print advert featured in DIG issue 82 of Mick Bayzand. Make sure you grab a copy of this issue, as always its got solid content.
Mick continues to run wild in the bushlands of northern Queensland…
Hey all! It’s Mick here letting you guys know what other adventures I’ve been up to. Kimberly and I drove into Byfield National State Forest just outside of Rockhampton. We lived in the rainforest fending for ourselves for a good while. I have to say, this was probably one of the best parts of the trip so far. We hiked along the rocks of the creek and got ourselves lost in the forest. I got to free climb some pretty cool rock faces before leading us through our own trails. We spent our nights by the campfire drinking goon, and I carved myself a couple tools for survival. We really got in touch with the more primitive sides of life. We chilled with a couple of crazy looking frogs, a bilby, and some other kind of marsupial my girlfriend thinks is said to be extinct. It was pretty amazing a part from having to shower out of breakfast bowls, but that’s all part of living in a rainforest. Stay tuned for our next adventures. Peace.
One of the main newspapers here in Melbourne The Age, hit us up with a bit of an interview about King of the Jibs. This was published in the Sunday paper and I think they did alright with it, usually articles written by people who have no idea what BMX is about end up all tacky but this seems alright. Have a read and see you on Saturday…
On my way down to Melbourne for this weekends Ausbike trade show & the King of the Jibs 2 & dropped into Canberra yesterday to check out the new park at Belconnen. Met up with Zac & Tom with the Afray guys. Wow, so much stuff there in one park. Worth the drive down for sure. The Canberra locals are lucky to have such a different park to ride.
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I am back in Melbourne at the moment and this weekend I hooked up with Marnold and CO, it was possibly the most productive weekend riding we have ever had here. Marnold killed everything we rode.
Thanks to DJ for the photos.
The Ausbike trade show is this weekend & we will have a stand there with all our 2012 products on display. Don’t forget the King of the Jibs comp is on Saturday the 20th August as well. See you there.
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Ready to shred right out of the box are our pre-built Contour wheel sets in all our 2011 colours. Check them out at a dealer near you now or for more info click here now.
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The Core Series Grand Final for 2011 is set for August 27th at Morayfield skatepark. Should be a fun day for all involved, see you there.
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Ryan Guettler just won the last chance qualifier in park at the Dew Tour in Portland. Good luck with the semi’s mate.
Photo jacked from the Dew Tour site.
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Peta sent us in an update about her recovery from the crash she had a few months back…
I just wanted to let you guys know that I finally got my teeth fixed from when I crashed back in February filming for The Colony DVD. I would also like to say a big thanks to Clint for helping me out with the fundraiser tee and to anyone who bought one of the tee’s I appreciate it so much!
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.
Mainly BMX in Geelong have just moved next door into a fresh new, much larger location. Looks they have really done a great job fitting out their new shop. Check the pics below. Mainly BMX stock the full range from us here at Colony, so next time you’re in the area drop by & say hi. Click here to check out their website now.
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