The Guettler Tour Goes Big

Guettler his HB crew set sail for a weekend of park riding and fundraising for Maddog last month and now you can see all the action and antics in their exclusive video.  Pat Casey, Tj Ellis, Kevin Peraza, Larry Edgar, and Victor Salazar all get a piece of the action from Socal to AZ.
The Guettler Tour from Casey McPerry on Vimeo.

TJ ELLIS Ripping Dirt Video

TJ Ellis just dropped this ripping dirt jumping video with a bunch of opposite 360 no handers and pretty tech flip combos. You can call them tech, but anything on Parslow's big jump is just straight up burly.

Dew Tour S.F wrap up

Dew Tour San Francisco is in the books. Dirt, Street, and the all new Street Style event had the Vans pros having a good time, doing their thing and representing all weekend!

Here is some points of interest.

-Kyle Baldock won $5,000 in the Dirt best trick event for a Front Flip Cliff Hanger??!! 

-15 riders wearing Vans in Dirt semi finals in a field of 28. 

-TJ Ellis won semi finals, the preliminary final and finally took 3rd in the 8 man Dirt final. He did a bunch of front flip whips, the trick that took him out for most of 2011 with a torn ACL knee ligament.

-Dak, Josh Harrington and Sean Sexton were in Street and Street style events and all three were carrying injuries all weekend. They still rode and pedaled through the pain. Respect.

-Scotty Cranmer wearing a full face helmet. With the recent head injury to friend of the Vans team Brett Banasiewicz, Scotty decided to lead by example. All riders in the Dew Tour had to pass helmet checks. No soft foam skate helmets were allowed. We recommend you check out the bike specified Pro -Tec helmets and look after your brain, you only get one. Also congrats to Scotty grabbing 3rd in Street Style. Did you see those flip transfers??!!

-Bruno Hoffmann came all the way from Germany and got on the Street podium. Bruno has been blowing lately and this is a great way to wrap up the year. The Street final was insane. Congrats!

That's it for Dew Tour this year with only two stops. Lets see what 2013 brings!

Dew Tour SF preview

The boys have arrived in San Francisco, California for the second and final Dew Tour stop for the year.

Back in August, stop 1 in Maryland included Park and Vert, this stop in San Francisco has Street Plaza, Street-Style and Dirt. Street-Style is something new and exciting. It's a section of road with different obstacles that the rider can hit from a starting point to the finish, and Street is set up in a more plaza style atmosphere.

Look for Vans riders in Dirt including Cory Nastazio, Scotty Cranmer, Rob Darden, Andy Buckworth, Pat Casey, TJ Ellis, Gary Young, Kyle Baldock, Daniel Sandoval, Ryan Guettler, Cam White and Luke Parslow.

Street Plaza Ty Morrow, Bruno Hoffman, Dakota Roche, Josh Harrington, Sean Sexton and Dan Lacey.

TV coverage in the USA is as follows...
Dirt 10/20/12 Saturday NBCSN 11PM EST
Street-Style 10/21/12 Sunday NBC 2pm EST LIVE
Street 10/21/12 Sunday NBCSN 11pm EST

For more info on Dew Tour go HERE and follow @vansjerry and @vansbmx66 on twitter and instagram for live news.

Kill The Line video

One of the best Dirt contests goes down each year in the south of France, and Vans is the main sponsor behind it all. Check out the official video here.

Doyle Wins Vans Kill The Line

The French know how to build some crazy dirt jumps and Chris Doyle knows how to ride them. Legendary Chris Doyle won the 2012 Vans Kill the Line with classically smooth riding and 2 perfectly dialed runs that showed signature Doyle style with 360 turndowns and crowd-pleasing inverts. Michael “Hucker” Clark was the only rider to flip the stepdown and took second place with burly moves, consistent runs and big tricks. Last year’s winner TJ Ellis climbed the podium again with a 3rd place finish thanks to runs that consisted of flip trick variations through the middle set of jumps. Simon Moratz from Germany took home the “UNIT Best Trick” and 1,000 Euro Prize money. Check out the video that Soul BMX Magazine put together from this rad event.

Final results from the LXVI Invitational

18 year old Californian Daniel Sandoval took out the win today in Virginia Beach, Virginia at ECSC.

He mixed a bunch of tech moves including bar to whip, late front flips and 360 bar to bar on the last set to beat out Vans team mates Pat Casey and TJ Ellis, also from California.

This is Daniels first big win on the Pro circuit and I'm sure there will be a few more, the kid is on fire!

Look for a video of all the action from todays event, coming soon.

There is still one more day to go, with a Vert Demo planned 1-2pm Sunday. Dennis McCoy, Coco Zurita and Simon Tabron will be the entertainers!

LXVI INVITATIONAL AT ECSC

It all begins today in Virginia Beach, Virginia. For the first time, the LXVI Invitational Box Jump contest is going down at ECSC. Vans BMX stars Scotty Cranmer, TJ Ellis (pictured), Cory Nastazio, Ryan Guettler, Kyle Baldock and more will compete today at 12 -2 in a qualifying round.

Saturday 12-1 is the final round. Riders are competing for a portion of the $25,000 purse.

There's also Vert Demos going on all weekend with Simon Tabron, Coco Zurita and DMC Dennis McCoy.

The event is free to get into, and you can also keep up with us on @vansbmx66 on Instagram and twitter.

TJ Ellis Power Hour

How much can you get done in one hour? Tj Ellis puts together some heavy runs at Tuttle's trails in So Cal for Vital BMX.

Power Hour: TJ Ellis - More BMX Videos

Baldock wins BMX Worlds Dirt in Germany

Kyle Baldock wrapped up BMX Dirt at The Worlds in Cologne, Germany after some truly amazing runs.

Kyle's first run had a 360 flip first set easily the highest air of the event, straight into a 720 truck next set. He was riding so smooth and consistent.

TJ Ellis, Cory Nastazio, Daniel Sandoval and Rob Darden also made the final.

The crowd was loving the dirt final
with the DJ cranking Pennywise and The Romones in classic "Worlds" fashion.

The Street contest went down Saturday afternoon and German Bruno Hoffmann took the win, fresh of a stay in Southern California. Unfortunately Park and Vert rained out today and was cancelled.

HERE'S a video from Ride UK.

ART BMX Magazine #8 Promo

ART Magazine is a fairly new BMX magazine but they seem to be doing it right. In this issue, Nasty, Darden and TJ escape the rough English weather for a plan B, Barcelona. Turned out to be a good move by the looks of this video promo for their issue 8 out now!

Ryan Guettler & Jaie Toohey Roadtrip France Edit

Guettler and Toohey did a little road trip for Unit to the Lords of Dirt Contest in France to ride some amazing jumps and live the French life for a few days. Looks for a few clips of Nasty and TJ Ellis in there as well.

Parlsow Wins Red Bull Dream Line BMX Dirt

Style. Big Tricks. Perfection.
Vans BMX rider Luke Parslow can out swinging at the first-ever Dream Line contest in Wabasha, MN this weekend and walked away with $8000 cash and not a scratch on him. Luke threw down 360 flips, flip one-handed x-ups to turndowns, front flips and a giant double backflip, but it was his style and perfection that sealed the deal. Not crashing once and stretching huge classic nothings and supermans made Parslow the unanimous decision for the win. Other Vans riders TJ Ellis, Cory Nastazio, Gary Young and Diogo Canina were going huge on the some of the most perfect dirt jumps ever shaped.

T.J Ellis wins VANS Kill the Line 2011 in France

Californian T.J. Ellis is the winner of VANS Kill the Line 2011. In the counting two out of three runs he perfectly pulled tricks like Turndown-Frontflip, Tiregrab to Nohander-Backflip and 360 variations midset and dominated dirt legend Cory „Nasty“ Nastazio (USA) who got second and Peynier local Berenger Cordier (FRA) who placed third.

Dew Tour Dirt Kicks Off This Weekend in Portland

Dew Tour BMX Dirt kicks off this weekend in Portland, Oregon and it's sure to be insane. We've got a whole slew of dudes headed up there to shred at what is always one of the craziest dirt contests of the year. Rumor has it that the jumps are outdoors this year so we'll see how the riders fair in the unpredictable weather of the Northwest. Be on the look out for Nastazio, Parslow, Ellis, Whitton, Young, Cranmer, Canina, Guettler, Pat Casey and cam White to all be shredding up North.
In the meantime, check out Nasty's current set-up that gets him through a weekend like this.

TJ Ellis catch up

TJ Ellis has a good chance at winning any dirt contest he enters. He has the biggest moves up his sleeve and sends them all the time, no matter if it's a morning ride with his Vans team mate, Luke Parslow or if he's in the finals at a major contest. TJ recently went down on a wild move that has been good to him in the past, and he is now on the bench.

CM: TJ, you recently went down at Nasty's Jam and ended up having to get surgery, what happened?
TJ: Yeah that was no good I came in sideways on a front flip tail whip and my leg locked in a straight position and that's all it took. I thought I had a small tear and sprain but instead it was my ACL that completely tore and my meniscus had a bucket handle tear so got that all fixed and I'm just recovering now.

CM: How long until we see you blasting some dirt jumps again?
TJ: I should be back riding around late July hopefully. It's hard to tell with this injury though I don't wanna push it too soon. I'm just hoping to be back strong as possible by the time 6 months comes around and start back where I left off at.

CM: What have you been doing in the down time?
TJ: I've been just doing a lot of exercises and I recently just started walking so that got me off the couch away from the PS3. I've been checking out sessions here and there and I'm going to try to film some people ride in the mean time.

CM: You've had a couple of big injuries lately. BMX proves to be a rough hobby as you now know. What are your thoughts on it now compared to a few years ago when you really rode pretty full throttle without any care?
TJ: I look at it the same because you can get hurt doing any trick at any given time so as I get older just trying to stay off the ground more and just get more dialed with the big tricks but when I feel good on my bike that always changes and I start sending myself again. I just gotta keep it on 2 wheels and stay consistent.

Can't wait to see you shredding again mate,

Colin Mackay

Luke Parslow and TJ Ellis on Ridebmx.com

Luke and TJ get down with a pretty serious game of B.I.K.E. for the RideBMX.com crew.
If you aren't familiar with the games it's just like HORSE in basketball except on BMX bikes doing some pretty nuts tricks. Check it out here.

TJ Ellis and DMC Scores Podium spots in Vegas

The Dew Tour Final in Las Vegas are now a wrap and TJ Ellis front-flip-whipped his way to a 3rd place podium spot in BMX Dirt along with blasting the most massive backflips of the night. TJ ended the season in thrid place overall followed by Vans BMX rider Luke Parslow only six points behind.

BMX legend Dennis McCoy reached deep into his vert roots and rode to a 3rd place finish in BMX Vert and came in 9th for the season tour. His teammate Coco Zurita stayed within the top 5 for the 2010 season.

The park course was crazy once again and it was Vans UK shredder Mark Webb who came within striking distance of the Dew Cup and brought out a 360 triple tailwhip en route to a 3rd place in the overall series with Scotty Cranmer in 8th place and Gary Yong in 11th.

Congrats to all the Vans riders who continue to push the level of BMX on and off the course!

Fuzzy Hall's MX Crossover Race SLC

Fuzzy Hall and the BMX crew all got together with the moto guys for a MX Crossover Race in Salt Lake City. Alistair Whitton, Morgan Wade, Drew Bezanson, TJ Ellis and the rest of the Dew Tour guys in town for the contest headed over to race the BMX track and then charge through the course on dirtbikes. Check out the video over on Alli.

Dew SLC dirt finals

Today Vans BMX Dirt team riders TJ Ellis and Luke Parslow braved the windy conditions in Salt Lake City, Utah for the Dew Tour Dirt finals.

Parslow got the ball rolling with a double flip on the last set first run, this was a great start for Luke, but unfortunately Luke crashed the next 2 runs and it takes 2 good ones to do well. Luke won practice that's for sure, he has a bunch of confidence at the moment and he seamed to enjoy the course. Look for Luke to shred the Las Vegas finals in a month.

TJ Ellis is battling a possible torn knee ligament at the moment, so he kept it cool where he would usually just send it, but TJ still rode very well and just missed out on podium in 4th place.

TJ is up for a NORA Cup next week in Las Vegas for Number One Dirt rider award, It would be great to see him take the prestigious award as it would be well deserved.

Mackay