Big Ben, no hands on the 6 foot quarter.

Rich minutes after learning how to do no footed cans on a quarter.

Gordy layin’ it down on his new frame.

This photo was taken by Rich, of me doing a top sided no footed can. Watch out Bestwick…

This is another photo with Rich behind the lens… of Ben… showing us all how its done.

Kyle Lafleur sent through a random photo and said this:
The last two days were super nice, we put in a bit of work and got the little mini ramps running.

Spring is almost here.

 Cory Clark – Hippy Hop

Pure Style, Jeff Bedard with a Coffin Ride Under The Bunny Hop Meter

Rich Redmond Hop

Greg Flag Inverted Fast Plant

Nick Goodland One Handed Fastplant.

Greg Flag maxing out the height meter! 3′9″ ish? Crazy.

Freezing Rain all the way home from Montreal. Greazy Redmond in the Background.

Rusty Bikes here we come.

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Greg Flag Reverse Wheel Jam.

Cory Clarke Wild Wheel Jam.

Nick Goodland One Handed Table.

Havin a Burr about it.

Greg Flag Can Can Toothpick.

Cory Clarke Ridiculous air. His Back Tire hit the ceiling on this one!

Ben Kaufmann Canadian Nosepick.

Eric Trepanier Toothpick.

Marc Boudreau Footplant Whip. It counted!

Marc Boudreau Fufanu.

Havin a Cig rit about it.

Greg Flag Can Can Wheel Jam?

Good sized crowd for a living room ramp.

Another crowd shot.

Pat came all the way from Guelph for this, with Leland. What’s your excuse?

Ben Kaufmann – toofpick

Corey Dewey – icepick to 270…to flat

Montreal folks scooped up the remaining copies of Yo, Sick Zine 4.

This sheet/towel of puppies was covering the glass door to the backyard. I thought it was funny and looked out of place in that house.

Ben’s shoulder and Corey Clarke’s back wheel made contact with the ceiling.

Andrew Grant was peer pressured in to chugging the remainder of his bottle, and the Wine-O King returned.

Things started to get weird.

I watched Greg Flag pull a bloody piece of metal wire out of his hand.

Jose from Joe Mamma showed up with a prize bag full of stuff for the riders.

Extra big thanks go out to all the 39C guys for putting this event on, securing all the ramps, getting sponsors, spreading the word and getting lots of people to drive a long way to ride a small ramp set up in a living room in the middle of January. No easy task. Even more thanks to Jamie Lawlor, who is essentially the landlord of the house, and took on the risk of having this night go on in his house.  Thanks guys.  Best jam ever.

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.

Last week a bunch of us drove to Montreal for the Premiere of Jeremy Deme’s newest Presence video, You Know Time It Is. Everyone rode UAB during the day, stuffed our faces with poutine (or poutine soup if you were unlucky), and then headed to the Green Room for the video and party. What was expected to be a short night of partying evolved in to an all night affair, and Andrew Grant was the trooper and drove us home long after the bar closed, and everyone got to make a late night stop at Belle De Provence. I slacked on shooting any worthwhile photos of any riding, but here’s a few party photos that you can check out after the link below.

Just about everyone was out dancing and mingling.

DJ booth.

We thought the DJ looked like Karen O from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and Karl had this shirt on.

Mike Fiz seemed to know every girl there. All 3 of them. BMX Boner Party.

Mike started picking up Lil’ Dill and swinging him around at one point.

Watching Greg Flag and Corey Dewey dance is a sight to see, because they really don’t need anyone else there, or each other for that matter, to have fun.

I thought I would start off the year with a photo post. I used this photo in the latest issue of Yo, Sick Zine, but it’s also nice to see it in colour, greater resolution, and with a bit of an explanation.

During October’s contest at the Taz in Montreal, a handful of other riders rode the upstairs miniramp, and Jorden Guth was doing these wild airs to harsh toothpick slams. It was loud and scary, especially with the way he dangles his toothpicks. Even with this photo getting scanned crooked, I still liked it because you can see the rest of the park in the background with a contest taking place, and Jorden’s total disregard for anything else happening, except scaring himself with something dangerous. That seems to be a common thing for him.

Brandon Lalonde sent through a photo sequence he shot some time this past summer while Corey Dewey was in town. Click the photo to see it bigger.

This is a video grab of Rich doing his first Cannonball. He wasn’t too happy about the leg positioning… but i’m pretty stoked on it nonetheless. One more trick to throw down at the trails this spring eh Rich?

Learning new tricks all around. Bo-YEAH!