At the beginning of April Freestyle Now squad members Dylan Schmidt, Tim Rose, Shaun Jarvis and Kie Ashworth headed to the northwest of Australia. Port Hedland was the first stop to host a skatepark coaching session and to perform some bmx stunt shows at the Port Bound youth festival. On the Friday the squad was at the South Hedland skatepark for come coaching sessions with the locals. The Saturday was show time at the festival with some great entertainment going down throughout the day. The Port Bound festival is always a great day out for many, and this year the festival was packed. It was a bit slow to start with, but that is to be expected due to the overwhelming heat of the day. Later in the afternoon it picked up with one of the best turnout the festival has seen. On the Sunday the squad drove over to Karratha to host a skatepark competition. On the Monday it was time to return to home but not before hitting up some of the Karratha locals dirt jumps. Shaun Jarvis had this to say about the trip. “The 4 days seemed like a week. We did so much it was straight up another amazing trip. So good to travel with a great crew, it was fun and we had an amazing time. Being on the road getting out there and meeting new people is the best. Travelling with this crew is great, couldn’t ask for a better lot of guys to be travelling with and performing shows. Good times forever”
Tim Rose is wild on a bike.
Clockwise from top left – South Hedland skatepark will be rebuilt soon with a new park going up. Dylan Schmidt mad flair – Tim Rose in flyout nothing mode – Shaun Jarvis style – Kie Ashworth looks while tooth picking
Clockwise from top left – Dylan Schmidt – Tim Rose – Kie Ashworth – Tim Rose – Port Bound festival stunt shows.
Dylan Schmidt hits an extended superman at the final show at the Port Bound festival. The crowd was loud as the night is dark. Headlights lighting up the up ramp.
From left the crew, Kie, Dylan, Shaun and Tim.
Kie Ashworth has a photo blog, The Nurries Life. These photos have been taken from the blog. Clockwise from top left – Kie barspin at the pipe – Kie at the Karratha trails – Dylan whips second jump in Karratha – Tim’s nac nac are rad.
Kie Ashworth no foot can can, he has the best.
Tim Rose can flow anything, and these trails in Karratha were no exception.
Freestyle Now squad members Paul Chamberlain and Billy Brooks along with good friend Kit McKenna, recently did a road trip of great proportion. They had been talking about it for months, to cycle from Christchurch to Queenstown in New Zealand, a journey just under 500kilomerters. Billy being the videographer that he is has put together this great edit of the trip, highlighting all the goodness that could only be done on such an epic adventure. Upon their return both Paul and Bill had destroyed their rear hubs, a small price to pay for such a good time. Paul sent in a few updates of the trip that you can check. Update 1. Update 2. Update 3
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.
While Freestyle Now was in the Northern Territory for the Palmerston skatepark competition squad members Dylan Schmidt, Shaun Jarvis and Billy Brooks spent a few days rollin around Darwin and enjoying the greatness of the top end city. Such a rad place and so much to see and ride. As always, good times were had.
Clockwise from top left – Billy riding the ultimate skatepark, Dylan superman’s one of the dirt set ups that the Darwin crew have, Dylan fast plant in a ditch, Billy combining his two loves, dirt and x ups.
Freestyle now chief video guy Billy Brooks has put the rad edit together from the trip, enjoy. Look out for appearances from Darwin legend Dave Orme as well as Estonian rider, Ingvar Newman and Western Australian transplant Chris Jones.
Freestyle Now headed up to Darwin to host a skatepark competition at the Palmerston skatepark in June. Freestyle Now squad member Shaun Jarvis and radster Billy Brooks spent a few days in Darwin riding, having fun and mixing it with the locals.
While Freestyle Now was in Darwin for the Palmerston skatepark competition squad member Shaun Jarvis along with all round good guy Billy Brooks spent some time sightseeing and riding. They journeyed out with Local rider Dave Ormie to Litchfield national park to swim at Buley rock hole and to see Florence Falls. Much thanks to Dave for his hospitality. On their last day the two guys went street riding and beach riding, and then trekked off to go dirt jumping with a bunch of the Darwin locals at some private dirt jumps. Darwin is an awesome place to roll to.
Top – Billy smashing it at the bank, Bottom – Shaun riding on the beach, Right – Billy dropping in at Florence Falls.
Shaun and a truck at the bank
Ingvar Newmann is traveling through Australia at the moment, hip no hander out of the dirt bowl.
Clockwise from top left – Billy with some pretzel arms, Local Josh Porter X up style, Dave Ormie lookback, Shaun Jarvis first time on dirt for over 20 years.
And now for the final installment of the 9 episode series of “Behind the Bars” . this series of shows was produced by Freestyle Now of community television. The shows focused on the BMX scene in Perth and was produced during 2001 to 2002. Behind the Bars was started when Shaun Jarvis said to Jason Parker “Do you want to do a T.V. show”. So only armed with their idea and no experience in video production or even computer skills, the two Freestyle Now squad members set to task to produce the series. With each episode having to be broadcast every month the schedule of filming, editing and producing was an extremely timed task. At the end of show six the format was changed up a bit with the introduction of Andrew Romano and Paul Elwin in to the presentation. These two guys worked behind the scenes during the previous six shows.
So it’s been about 10 years since the shows went to air and now they are all up on line for the masses to see once more. If you would like to check out the previous episodes check the “Behind the Bars” page here .Enjoy
In this episode
Trails plus more trails
Amped – Heavy Weight Champ interview
How to ride trails with Ben Coffey
Warren McVittie interview
Freestyle Now squad member Tim Rose has just recently taken off to America for another trip. Here is what Tim had to say.
“Summers coming to an end, but is has been absolutely nuts, been riding a lot of trails and street with a heap of good guys, makes riding so much more fun. Been saving hard out to afford an early trip over to the states to see my girl. Spending 5 weeks with her. Going to be doing a lot of touristy stuff but will definitely be riding as much as possible so keen on more good weather and trails! I’ll keep ya posted on my travels. Cheers.”
Below is one of the videos from Tim’s last venture to America back in October 2011 with Kie Ashworth and Jake Corless from the trails at Catty and Posh, the trails be hitting up while over there.
It’s time once again to unleash another episode of “Behind the Bars” the television show that Freestyle Now produced that focused on the BMX scene in Perth. It was broadcast on community television in Perth Western Australia in 2001 and 2002. After 6 shows the format was changed up slightly for the last 3 episodes. The shows were never scripted and everything was done spontaneously. So after 10 years it’s now time for the world to see episode 7 of Behind the Bars, and if you would like to check out the previous episodes check the “Behind the Bars” page here .Enjoy.
In this episode
Freestyle Now show at Centenary of federation youth festival September 2001
Amped – Gyroscope interview
CTR safety equipment review
Belmont skatepark competition
Tim Rose is just flat out awesome. One of the most stylish riders flowing around on a bike. Recently we found out that his birthday just so happens to coincide with one of the first Demos Freestyle Now had done. It’s a fair call to say that Tim Rose and Freestyle Now are about the same age. Tim sent through this video that he put together of day at the trails with fellow riders Sebbi and Rory. Get back to the origins of BMX and build some jumps. Enjoy.
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
