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BARCELONA VIDEO PREMIERE SATURDAY FEB 11th 2 PM!!!

Landozine — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:35:02 +0000

I hope to see you all out next Saturday afternoon at 2pm for the premiere of the Landozine BARCELONA video, as well as the 10th anniversary Landozine video… that’s right. I just finished editing 2 videos and will be showing them both for FREE at the Clocktower Pub on Saturday February 11th. This is an all ages event, so if you ride a bike in Ottawa or Gatineau and aren’t working on Saturday, you have no excuse but to come out and have a good time.
DVDs will be on sale after the premiere, $20 gets you both the Landozine 10th anniversary video and the Barcelona video as well as a heap of extras. Big thanks to Joe Mamma’s as always for setting us up with the venue. And after the whole thing is wrapped up most of us are going to be heading to Montreal to ride Liam’s Taz rental. All are invited!

2011 BEST/WORST LISTS!

Landozine — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:19:48 +0000

Hey everyone. It’s that time of year again. Capital BMX will be compiling a list of everyone’s Best/Worst lists for the new year. Please send your lists to me as soon as you can. Feel free to send photos as well to accompany the lists. E-mail me – Chris@Chitaroni.com

Don’t dilly dally.

Halloween Jam 2011 – Get a costume already.

Landozine — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 00:41:24 +0000

Weather is looking good for this weekend. Get a costume, grab your bike, maybe some beers and come out to Kanata Sunday night to watch people do scary things. We are going to have fun, and smell Tommy’s pads.

Nick Stupich – Broke off.

Landozine — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 00:17:04 +0000

Today while riding the Aylmer trails, Nick Stupich took a rough tumble and dislocated his ankle. He was trying a one footed 360 and just came down on his extended foot in a way that was not meant to be. I’m not a doctor or anything, but I have watched a good deal of Grey’s Anatomy and my opinion is that amputation is the most probable solution to his dislocation problem… but I’m not a doctor on paper or anything so what do I know?

Nick’s Ankle. Those bumps probably shouldn’t be there…

Even in the face of certain death, Nick is calm, cool and collected… even though brandon has the expression and stance of someone who is peeing his name in the snow…

extra corners…

Injury rule #1 – keep it elevated.

Paramedics came all the way into the trails to get him with a stretcher…

Nick is never in too much pain to make a few business calls. Daytradin’

Trails Jam – October 1st.

Landozine — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 05:06:40 +0000

I am excited to announce that on October 1st, Capital BMX will be hosting a Trails Jam at Josh Brose’s farm just outside of Ottawa.
There will be prizes, food, drinks and guaranteed good times. Even if you’re not a trails rider, come out and watch what will surely be an incredible session, have a burger and enjoy what will probably be one of this season’s last big events.

The trails consist of two big doubles and a large quarterpipe. Rich, Nick and I went and rode them today to check them out and everyone had a tonne of fun. Check the rest of the photos for a look at the trails.

more info coming soon.

stay tuned.

New Skatepark for Ottawa region.

Landozine — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 19:29:49 +0000

Several months ago when we re-launched the Capital Riders Organization website I received an email from a Kemptville rider named Dan Williams. He asked if Capital Riders could help get a park built in Kemptville. Unfortunately there wasn’t much we could do other than offer some advice, but it seems that Dan took that advice to heart and combined with his determination was able to get the wheels rolling. According to THIS article Kemptville will be beginning construction on a skatepark later this month. The really cool thing about the project is that it is being done as part of a reality TV show. So there is some 3rd party funding being thrown in. I haven’t been able to find any details on what kind of park it is going to be, or what we can expect as far as size is concerned, but it is being built by Spectrum, who have done many many parks in Ontario so we can expect something of high quality at the very least.

If anyone has information on this park, please email me – landozine@hotmail.com as I’d like to keep Ottawa’s BMX community updated.

Shoot Yourself Contest Results

Landozine — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 19:27:41 +0000

The first annual “Shoot Yourself” contest is now finished. Capital BMX would like to thank absolutely everyone who helped out and got involved, you all made this event a great success. Big thanks to Ten Pack Distribution for providing a box full of prizes, and Joe Mamma’s for not only providing prizes but also organizing the venue. Nearly 40 people showed up last night to the Clocktower Pub in Ottawa to watch the 16 entries submitted by riders across the country.

During the judging process, videos were ranked not only on the level of riding but also how well edited the video was. A well edited video is one that is entertaining, hard hitting, never loses the audience’s attention, and uses music and visual effects to pull the viewer into the video.

Congratulations to all this year’s winners!

WHEN WATCHING VIDEOS, USE PASSWORD – ‘SHOOTYOURSELF’

Runners Up/Honourable Mentions:

-Trevor Angelucci
http://vimeo.com/26143922

-Phil Bellefeuille
http://vimeo.com/26123254

-Matt Comeau
http://vimeo.com/26407398

-Jorden Guth
http://vimeo.com/M34T5P1N

-Rich Redmond
http://vimeo.com/26566002

-Chris Chitaroni
http://vimeo.com/26585859

-Brandon Lalonde
http://vimeo.com/26506500

Best Trick

-Nick Stupich (Footjam Decade 180)
http://vimeo.com/26519316

Best Prop
-Steve Moreau (child mannequin)
http://vimeo.com/26277006

Best Flatland
-Prasheel Gopal
http://vimeo.com/26245582

The Golden Bread Clip Award
Leland Nightingale
http://vimeo.com/26253960

Best Edit
-Vince Emond feat the riding of Gurgit Dhami
http://vimeo.com/26253772

Judge’s Choice
-Colin Smith
http://vimeo.com/26255282

Street As Fuck Award
-Matt Langford
http://vimeo.com/26250496

Third Place
-Haircut Nick
http://vimeo.com/26250341

Second Place
-Tommy Hains
http://vimeo.com/26472733

First Place
-Jay Leroux
http://vimeo.com/26251553

High Jump

Landozine — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 19:47:18 +0000

Found this picture of young Ottawa local Riley Scott riding in a high jump competition at Woodward during his stay. Anyone who has ridden the woodward resi knows this is pretty impressive and probably hurt the wrists/ankles regardless of being a resi setup. Good job dude!

Capital BMX Video Challenge Awards Gala.

Landozine — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 06:28:08 +0000

Thats right. Awards Gala. I’m making it fancy sounding.

The submissions are already starting to roll in. I haven’t looked at any yet, I’m going to wait until they’re all in front of me to start reviewing them. I believe that I’m going to have help from guest judge Chris Silva, and possibly someone else if I can manage to get ahold of them. Stay tuned for more on that front.

The big news is that Jose from Joe Mamma’s pulled some strings with his friends at the Clocktower Pub on Bank Street in Ottawa and they’re going to allow us to do an awards presentation/video premiere in the basement part of the bar. There have been BMX video premieres there in the past and it has always been a great time. The awards start at 7:30 PM on SUNDAY JULY 17th. If you are under age, you cannot drink obviously, but feel free to show up devoid of any ruth and get rowdy while we watch some bangers go down.

Even if you didn’t submit a video please try to show up and support the scene. Ten Pack donated alot of swag, Jose went to alot of trouble to hook up the venue and the riders have legitimately been doing things that could have killed them (Crazy Steve, I’m looking at you and your enormous gap to icepick attempts in Trenton…). So instead of sitting at home on facebook hoping that girl you like that doesn’t know you like her is going to come on and ignore you, you should come out and have a few drinks and have fun.

Capital BMX Video Challenge Day 5

Landozine — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 06:15:37 +0000

Andrew Grant with a turndown over the trenton bank to bank hip.

Today was day 5 of the video challenge, and a few Ottawa riders took a day trip to Trenton Ontario to try and clock some non CP footage. As per every other day of riding I’ve seen lately, things got pretty intense. I can’t explain how excited I am to see everyone’s final edits. I’m trying to work out a plan for the awards ceremony right now, probably all get together at a bar and premiere all the videos and hand out some prizes. Fun will be had by most.

Jorden Snappin’ a Table at height.

Roman candles never stop being fun. Here I am picking off Jay’s ankles on the pier in Kingston during an after riding swim session.