Freestyle Now squad member Shaun Jarvis is having a busy month of May. From heading to Canberra and Melbourne earlier in the month he has just got back from a trip to Brisbane and a long long drive out to Cunnamulla to host a coaching session session for the locals. This weekend Shaun along with squad members Hudson Goodchild and David Pinelli head to Exmouth to get rad with the locals and host another skatepark coaching session. Shaun sent in a few words about his Queensland trip and had put together another travel video.
“The trip out to Cunnamulla was one of the most fun and hectic trips I’ve ever been on. Hectic was the order of the weekend. With an 840kms drive out to Cunnamulla we had planned to set off early, haha plans what are they!!! Along for this trip was Brisbane locals Bradley Spann, Manuel Kovacs and Alex Haim. At 4am I got a phone call from Manuel saying he has a flat in his car and can I pick him up…. So much for leaving Brisbane at 5:30am. After picking up Alex 2 hours late we roll out at 7:30am. The drive was long and we got in to Cunnamulla at 7:30pm just in time to get dinner at the pub before it closed. The coaching session at the Cunnamulla skatepark was one of the raddest, with the youth there so receptive. It was a long day. Sunday morning came around and with not much sleep thanks to the other guests in the hotel we departed back to Brisbane. So about 30kms out of town we get a flat. Some travelers stopped to make sure we were all good, we were, and as they drove off they said have a good day, Brad replied “thanks it can’t get any worse”… wrong. After driving for just over an hour we realized we were not heading east but travelling north. North to Charleville, 200kms north. We did have a rad session at the skatepark though so it was kinda worth it. Arriving back in risbane and dropping off the other guys I got to my hotel at 1am, so Sunday was a long day. Coming back to Perth my flight was delayed so I got an earlier flight, via Sydney, which resulted in a mad rush to get my bike packed. Getting on the plane with only minutes to spare full of sweat form the mad rush.The trip its self was so much fun and Brad, Manuel and Alex were so much fun to hang with and they did such a rad job at the skatepark coaching sessions. I made another trip video, hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed the weekend. Stay rad”.
Freestyle Now squad member Shaun Jarvis is having a busy month of May. He recently came back from a 10 day trip to Canberra and Melbourne. With only two days in his home town of Perth he has ventured off to Brisbane where he is currently in the remote town of Cunnamulla some 840kms west of Brisbane. Next weekend Shaun along with Hudson Goodchild and David Pinelli will be travelling up to Exmouth in the northwest to host a coaching session. Shaun sent in a few words about his part 1 travel video for the month of may.
“Canberra was good fun. I headed out to Tumut about 200kms from Canberra to host a skatepark coaching session taking some Canberra shredders with me to assist with the session, was good to have Mike Ross, Troy Harradine and Jayden Poidevin along with me. It was so cold that it started to have light snow towards the end of the session. Spent a day just hanging in Canberra before heading to Melbourne where I spent a week just hanging out with friends and riding, it was cold but a great week. I always seem to film stuff with my good camera and never really edit the footage together so for the month of May I decided to film using my phone and edit it on the go with a phone edit app. The result is this video. It’s dodgey and raw but shows what I did and saw and rode with over my 10 day trip. For me it’s something I can look back on with fond memories. I’m working on my next one from my Cunnamulla trip and will also have one done from our Exmouth trip later next week. Stay rad and have fun.”
Vietnam Freestyle Now squad member Tánh Gà has been on the squad roster for the past 3 years, and his level of riding has never stopped improving. The Saigon shredder has just recently completed a new video showing his rad capabilities. The Saigon Xgames day is also fast approaching where the bmxers and skaters take the competition to the streets of Saigon and you know that Tánh will no doubt kill it. We would like to thank Tánh for holding it down for Freestyle Now in Vietnam.
Freestyle Now reserves squad member Billy Brooks is always riding bmx and having fun. If it’s not fun billy would not be doing it. His recent video was shot in a day with his friend Dave C around Sydney. Billy lives in country New South Wales and was in Sydney for a few days before returning to his home town of Mudgee
Freestyle Now has been getting rad for 27 years, we kicked off in 1986 with just 3 squad members. Over the years many squad members have come and gone but the radness has always kept flowing. Adding new members to the squad is not always an easy task. The person needs to have the right qualities, a good vibe and and attitude, the will to progress and not hell bent on being sponsored. We would like to welcome our newest squad member added to our reserves squad, John Manning. John has all of the qualities that make him a great addition to our squad of radsters. John rode scooters for a few years and can still rip it up on the aluminum but a year ago he made the switch and is now killing it out on the streets. Check out his welcome edit to scope out what John is down for and know that with more riding, more time his riding will only blow up. Welcome John.
John Manning febles the ledge at Armadale park.
Was Manning skatepark named after John Manning, Tooth hang at his favorite park
Freestyle Now long time squad member Kie Ashworth is currently over in America with a few friends traveling around and just enjoying the bmx lifestyle. Kie also attended Tim Rose’s wedding. Kie lives for the travel that comes with the bmx lifestyle and has put up two short videos of some of the spots he has been riding. Save your money, travel and live.
Freestyle Now squad member Billy Brooks is on another level when it comes to riding bmx. He is on an never ending journey to explore now ground to ride and his latest update proves that nothing is impossible.
Billy is always looking for some new territory, road side hip – Photo Lance
“Hey all, been super busy lately. I wanted to build a ramp in my bedroom so I did, has been the best choice I have probably ever made. It is super tight but works well for bike & board and doubles up as a heat chamber for the frozen toilet winter that’s about to happen. A while back I went on a long weekend trip with Mud & Dave we rode this megaramp near end of day, such a wild place. One of the best weekends ever had. Recently Tom, Lance & Dave made the trip out to Mudgee for a few days, another 10/10 weekend. I had talked about this spot out of town on a road side with friends since forever and have never rode it out, good time to check it out with good blokes, good day at ULURU. I met a nice lady from Dubbo that looks after three Akita dogs and two sheep she rescued from getting their throats slit. Its good meeting kind people. A mate been working on a spot with some road barriers, so got to shred that spot, good deal. Thanks Mane.”
Another Bill video creation of goodness
Clockwise from top left – Can you see the full pipe. – “I thought it was imposable” you don’t know Billy like we do. Anything can be hit by Dolla. – Billy riding the megaramp in a weekend trip, photo Dave C. – Get it done, built a ramp in your bedroom and shred.
Barriers? Bill does not see any barriers with riding just good times.
Freestyle Now squad member Tánh Gà from Vietnam has this rad video edit up on line. Tánh had this to say about the video. “Samurai energy is planning for make more videos about extreme sports with who is the best. They want to make the video popular in Vietnam and to see how many people like the video and watch it” The video is definitely a rad quick edit and highlights how good of a rider Tánh is. Enjoy
Kie Ashworth has been on the Freestyle Now squad since late 2005. His ability on a bike is absolutely amazing. He rides and hangs out with a good crew of riders in the southern parts of Perth. Sion Bourne has been documenting these riders in a series of videos. Round 3 out it is without a doubt one of the radest videos to be posted up on line for a long time. Great production and amazing riding. Check out the video to see Kie rolling hard along with some of his good friends hitting it hard.
It’s been a bit long in the making, with trying to get everyone in front of the camera to film clips for this, the first of many Freestyle Now web plays. But it is done. The first video to contain all the Freestyle Now squad members. The concept of the video is to show the riders and their everyday riding style. Featuring Freestyle now squad members, Andrew McDermott, Billy Brooks, Brady Thomas, Callum McCauley, Dave Pinelli, Dylan Schmidt, Jason Parker, Kie Ashworth, Kim Johnson, Laurence Bakewell, Paul Chamberlain, Phillip Marshall, Shaun Jarvis, Tánh Gá, Tim Rose. We are proud to have all these riders represent Freestyle Now. Enjoy and go shred.
10th April – Skatepark jam session Yanchep skatepark Yanchep Western Australia
10th April – Skatepark coaching session skateboard, scooter, bmx Cooloongup skatepark Cooloongup Western Australia
11th April – She / Her Skatepark coaching session skateboard, scooter, bmx Cooloongup skatepark Cooloongup Western Australia
11th April – Rollerskate Skatepark coaching session Cooloongup skatepark Cooloongup Western Australia
12th April – Skatepark competition skateboard, scooter, bmx Cooloongup skatepark Cooloongup Western Australia
13th April – Pump track coaching workshop session (BMX / MTB) Hester Park Langford Western Australia
13th April - Rollerskate skatepark coaching Fremantle skatepark Fremantle Western Australia
13th April - Skatepark jam session BMX scooter rollerskate Kwinana skatepark Kwinana Western Australia
14th April - Bayswater BMX and MTB jump track opening Bayswater BMX and Mountain Bike facility (Under Mooro-Beeloo Bridge) Katanning St Bayswater Western Australia
20th April – Skatepark competition skateboard, scooter, rollerskate, inline, bmx Balga skatepark Balga Western Australia
21st April – Skatepark coaching workshop session Dowerin skatepark Dowerin Western Australia
24th April – BMX / MTB air bag jumping coaching session Honeywood Park Wandi Western Australia
27th April - Skatepark competition BMX scooter Busselton skatepark Busselton Western Australia
27th April - Skatepark competition BMX scooter Dunsborough skatepark Dunsborough Western Australia
