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theRuler:
thats nothing
someone told me that vert riding come from skateboarding.

as if!!!

i mean, bikes have 2 wheels for a start

j...:
hmm, well i dont see street as being anti social.
i mean i can go to a skatepark with 10 bmxers there and no one talks to ya. where as ive ridden street up london , met riders from around the globe and had some amazing sessions. for example i met a south african guy up southbank who is on a working holiday here, i now hook up with him about once a week and ride street. (btw check out his site www.bloodshotink.co.za)
ive met many just as many riders through street riding as i have through park riding.
another way of looking at it is do riders want to ride in an icolated anti- social fashion: one person that springs to mind is jonah lidburg (on the drop the hammer dvd, not sure if i spelt that right) who only rides alone.

as for the age difference im 18: street riding , riding in the street, objects not made specifically for bmxing use that can be found in the street,  for example a set of stairs, a handrail, some sort of modern art sculpture etc...

j...:
oh and i wasnt there as i havent been alive that long, but i would say mto a degree bmxing is influenced by skate boarding.
and on the flat land matter its definetly the case. a lot of older flat land tricks are making a comeback in street. for example all the hang 5 combos, i would say they are influenced by flatland.

Wayne Ryder:
I think some threads can be pulled together here. Maybe.
In the latter part of the 80s, riders were dressing like skaters and did wallrides. That's about all I can remember as far as street riding goes, put a small ramp up against a wall and ride up it. In about 1991, there was that skater event at South Bank, FIST (Freestyle in Street) which would've been part of the small nippy boards phase, replacing the huge 10x30in coffin doors I remember from '86. Little wheels, too.
BMX was in decline. Hoffman took up street riding, pulling rails and pegstalls on anything he could. God only knows how the pegs on his Bashguard Sport held up. Forward a bit to about 1994 and Mark Eaton's doing flatland moves in the Dorkin' videos, incorporating them in his street riding. Jay Miron does a bit of flatland in Mad Matt.
So I think there's always been a kind of parallel course that both things have followed, and like it or not, the two owe a lot each other.

dirtyvans:
yeah street defo has some flatland moves

the more new street movies i watch lately the more i see modern riders  incorporating flatland moves the same way mark eaton did steam rollers along ledges

theres even some in that awesome voices video in the video section

modern street is awesome, anyone seen the fly uno dvd?

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