39 C Hosted the best BMX JAM this decade.
Posted by Landozine - 18/01/10 at 11:01:49 pm
Kicking off 2010; Jeff, Marc, Karl, and Jamie threw down with one of the most original BMX Jams that I have ever been to. As most people in Ottawa know, Jeff has a bunch of ramps stowed away in his warehouse that have been used for a bunch of things already (backyard jam, ghetto street jam)… well this time the 39C boys decided to take things to a new level by placing the ramps smack dab in the middle of their living room. I wasn’t totally surprised when they announced their plans to do this, as anyone who knows them knows that they like to leave their living room as little as possible. Beers and C-gars on the couch all day. What DID surprise me was the amount of work they put in to make it happen, very out of character for Jeff especially.
The Jam attracted people from all over, in fact there were more people at the party that were from out of town than there were Ottawa locals. Fan favourites, Pat and Lelo showed up for the jam and partied hard all night. Riding wise, the ramps were owned all night by Greg and Dewey from MTL, Corey from Vancouver Island and our own Big Ben Kaufmann. It was seriously a pro demo in there. Greg was owning the quarter to sub, Corey put a hole in the roof trying a flair on a quarter that shouldn’t even be comfortable to air, and Dewey manning up a sick icepick 270 on the same ramp were all probably the most notable tricks I saw that night.
After the riding chilled out, everyone got serious about drinking. Andrew Grant chugged a bottle of wine and then he and a couple of others started jumping and hitting their heads in the ceiling fan… which eventually led to a high kick smashing out the ceiling fan… which eventually led to wrestling matches between the ramps where Karl Oxenlostthefight got owned by Andrew, and then we watched Jeff and Jamie square off in a ruthless sumo wrestle. During this sumo duke out, they each had a smoke in their mouth, and at one point Jamie had Jeff pinned to the ground while taking a drag of his cigarette and ashing all over Jeff’s chesty nipples.
Its events like this that make me excited to be part of the BMX community. Nobody has this much fun over the age of 15 but us. We may be acting like 15 year olds; wrecking a living room, drinking in a terribly irresponsible manner, smashing our heads into a ceiling fan and play wrestling in a super gay way… but it sure beats the alternative; being a douchebag fun hater. So next time you don’t show up to one of these events (thats right, i mean you) remember that someday you’re going to have smelly kids, a shitty job and a wife that gets saggier and less fertile every day and you’ll wish you could go back in time and enjoy your life before it started to suck*.
*this scenario excludes the exception of Roland who has a kid and a wife and still has more fun than any of us.
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best ever.
39C is full of heroes.
thanks doodzzzz
Comment by Trent Barker — January 18, 2010 #
Fucking bummed I couldn’t be at this. Sick shit 39c.
Comment by Jeremy — January 19, 2010 #
ya same… awesome stuff guys!
Comment by Tommy — January 19, 2010 #
I don’t understand how that first photo was taken.
Where is he coming from to get speed if the couch is in the way?
coming in from the right and going alley oop? Two seperate photos with the couch photoshopped in?
Comment by Prashant — January 19, 2010 #
great!
Comment by Rich Red — January 19, 2010 #
The lens I used to shoot it just made the couch look alot closer than it was.
Comment by Landozine — January 19, 2010 #
even if it was pushed up at the base of the tranny of the opposite ramp, how could he drop in between where Jeff is sitting and the wall to get enough speed to air it? Surely his bars or body would hit something.
Good photo nevertheless, but your sorcery confounds me.
Comment by Prashant — January 19, 2010 #
It looks like there’s blood all over the ceiling in the 4th picture…
Comment by Ben C — January 19, 2010 #
thats just the giant hole in our ceiling from corey’s flair attempt haha.
Comment by Karl — January 19, 2010 #
stoked! that looks fucking awesome dude!
Comment by COCKMASTER — January 19, 2010 #
Looked like a fun time, but I think heterosexuality could be restored to the bmx community. Whatever…
Comment by Skizzarz — January 20, 2010 #