This week, the BMX community got absolutely drowned in amazing web edits and tons of footage from the annual Texas Toast contest. The couple of videos that really stood out among the sea of new edits were Charlie Crumlish's coverage of Texas Toast, Erik Elstran's 2014 Sunday video and Colony rider Bobby Altiser's 2014 edit, More details after the jump
Texas Toast, in my eyes is the best thing that has happened to BMX in the past 5 or 10 years. It's a time where all of BMX comes together, puts aside petty differences and rivalries and parties the hardest that you've ever seen. Even the competitions are less competitive, so riders just have fun, and the other little "contests" like "Ring the Bell", The Gauntlet of Death, and this year's special Mike Tag memorial metal peg only, no wax brick ledge challenge were off the hook. I really don't see anything even close to that in BMX happen other than at Toast.
I don't care at all for park riding, but front brake wizard Bobby Altiser is one of the few exceptions to that rule. His edit is so chock full of NBD's and WTF's that I had to watch it a few times before I even began to understand what the hell he was doing. He has his ice stalls, tooth stalls, on coping stalls and back wheel pivots on lock. But the one thing that really stood out to me was his toothpick stall with a footjam whip (or two or three) inside of the stall. Plus the fact that he looks more comfortable hurtling backwards than most people when they walk.
Last up is Erik Elstran's 2014 Sunday Web VIdeo. I really have no idea how to even begin to describe the level of creativity that went into this edit. I don't even think half of these tricks have names or have ever been done before, but damn does he make them look steezy as hell. The insane curved wallride to firecracker and the curved wallride to smith put a smile on my face. You really just have to see it to understand!
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