Let the indoor sessions begin

With over a foot of snow on the ground street riding has become impossible..So this week will be indoor park session week!

Black Diamond skate park at Moorestown Mall session going on thursday around 12:30 or 1. My truck is already full but if you can get a ride out there definitely come and hit it up.

Friday is the long overdue Franklin Mills Woodward session. I'm driving up with Gettings and I'm not sure who else he has in the vehicle. So again, try to get a ride out there. Not sure about times or anything like that but I'll post em up on here A.S.A.P..

If you have nothing to do check out this video.

lolol

Christmas Eve Shred

Who's trying to get into some shreddin tomorrow before it gets too dark?

I was thinking maybe a little Hammonton session since it's been almost a month since I've been out there and I miss Kyle, Shaun, J.Z and Max.

If you're down make sure you get a hold of me and I'll let you know what time and all that business

Apple Pie Hill

Walter Hummel and I took a trip out to Apple Pie Hill today. It was a real good time and we got too explore some super cool parts of the Wharton State Forest. We took a few wrong turns but made it there in one piece. We met these dudes who hiked 16 miles from Batsto to get there which is pretty gnarly. After all the fun we couldn't find where I had parked my truck so it turned into this...

neither of us made it out alive

quickie

Brandon went out and made this video in the matter of a few hours. It's pretty ill, check it out.

Progress

Alas the tables have turned in our favor, as I type this Mike is finishing capturing tape 5 of 6 of all the footage for the DVD, we've had a pretty good bit of snags, the inability to capture our tapes has been one of the biggest, but we have persisted and are overcoming. To quote the man behind the video, "This has been the worst three hours of his life; I'm excited to be getting this all done..faggots. Now I get to spend the next three weeks of his life making everybody look like shredders." Expect a full interview soon

A new hope...

Gettings got the hook up with another mini dv camera, it's dead right now but the charger for the ZR850 should fit it and we will HOPEFULLY be good to go with capturing footage off of the tapes.

I'm not gonna lie, without Gettings this video would have probably never gotten done and I don't care what they say about him, he's a good guy haha. If you want to know what's going on in his crazy mind check this. You can also click on the link on the left side of the page titled working man shreds. Gettings really started to put in work towards the last few months of filming, he progressed a lot and began firing out some really nice clips, so be ready for his section in the DVD because I'm definitely stoked for it.

Matt Gettings from Mike Ware on Vimeo.

I don't know if many of you have seen this video, I put it together a while ago on my 2nd vimeo account that I forgot the password too. It's pretty much just Matt riding his ramps for a few hours set to some Led Zep.

This is an icepick on a rail/ledge in Cape May. If it weren't 29 degrees that day there would be a lot more pictures and footage from that day. That's definitely a place to check out around the spring months so the salty ocean air isn't as rough on our bodies.

All sorta stuff

Nick Capaldi has herpes in his shin.

Matt Mazzone's forks broke

I crashed into a wall today

Brandon wears two layers of sweatpants to keep warm

yeah..

nevermind

I don't feel like posting videos every day sorry

Check this shiz out though.

I love the sound his cranks makes mid E.T

what's round at both ends and high in the middle?

Whackness

As if the video hasn't had enough issues...

The tape upload with Gary D fell through today so we have no way of uploading over 5 hours of footage...

If you know anybody with a camera that works with MiniDV tapes get a hold of them.

The video probably won't be out by the Christmas deadline that I had originally set, but filming is definitely finished.

I'll do write ups later

Piney BMX welcomes summer from piney bmx on Vimeo.

blah blah blah

Piney BMX first day of fall from piney bmx on Vimeo.

lol Jon Clayton

bits and pieces

Louis's part is 99% finished! There are a few clips on the tapes that will probably make it into his part so I had to leave a little room for rearrangement. Spoiler alert, he has the first section in the video. I couldn't think of a better way to start off the video.

Tomorrow is the big day, all the clips are finally getting uploaded off of Nick's camera so it's official filming is seriously done now haha. I'm not accepting any clips past Friday so anybody that has clips on their computer that they would like in this video get it on a flash drive and get it to me by then.

Day 5...

2005? Let's see...Nick Capaldi had a bright yellow haro, I was learning how to 180 with Richie, Louis Kerekes had a bike that weighed more than he did, Gettings was still a good ass dude, John Griffin's S&M black bike only had one coat of pain on it, Billy Brown lived in Berlin, Mike Staveckas had a 4 door Sedan instead of a monster truck, Josh Vodopija was popping wheelies at the Nesco Firehouse, Matt Mazzone was getting a handjob somewhere and Shmeagle was as big as a baby deer.

This video was a tear jerker..Filled wit great memories with the guys who taught me everything I know about bmx. At 1:41 I wish I could remember what Jon and Emory were talking about, but it doesn't look very comfortable. Tons of crashing and a lot of stuff that would take way too long to speculate.

big news in Nesco!!!

I just farted and made my dog throw up

That's a wrap...

Filming is done...

Most of the guys spent the last day at the EHT Bike Track.

I personally wanted to shoot myself but everybody else seemed to be having a pretty good time. A lot of guys showed up, including the EHC crew, Little Matt Marrero, A couple of guys from EHT, and even a few cats from Hammonton poked their heads in there. Matt Mazzone, Nick C, Little Matt and I took a ride over to ACS to ride some "street." On the way there we got chased by what may have been the meanest Poodle I've ever seen in my life while cutting through some kids yard. There wasn't much but we made do with what we had, next time we're out there a piece of plywood is necessary for what will be a pretty sick session. Whatever school that is next to the bike track had some decent stuff to shred but nothin too big went down. All in all it was just a fun day with friends and although I wish we could have gotten a few more clips, today was pretty successful.

So now what is there left to do? Wednesday Gettings and I are going over Gary D's crib in Vineland to upload over 5 tapes worth of footage. Then as soon as we have the 2nd hard drive full of bmx goodness, full on editing begins. I've already messed with a lot of sections but now it's for real. I hope everybody is down with how I make this video, I'm doing my best to make everybody look like a boss. I'll go as far as saying there are no friends sections, 2 different town mixed sections, another sections that lasts a whopping 23 seconds and a Mullica park mixed section that will hopefully bring a tear to your eye since our beloved local park has been gone for so long. Right now I'm writing down every name or group that has ever been involved with Piney and the list is looooong. The credits will be a nice look back on great times we've had as a group of friends and shredders.

I'll wrap this up before the rambling begins.

I'm not going to put an exact date on it, but I'm hoping to have a video premiere during Christmas Break. There are a few places I have in mind for the premiere but more details will be released at a later date.

I'm also going to throw the nostalgia videos up on this post because I don't feel like doing another one tonight..

This video is pretty embarrassing I won't lie. Chock full of indian givers and not much else. The ender was an accident that lead me to learn all the fastplant tricks that I know now. It's mostly re-used clips because then as well as now I don't produce too much.

I thought this was a good idea, though everybody else thought it was gay. It's just a bunch of pictures from 2007-2008. Check it out

Day 4..

"yeah baby, world champions.."

Both of Jon's Icepick's blew everybodys mind when he did them, and if you listen when he eats it on the picnic table you can hear Sarah Bonthrom screaming haha.

The wild black dude rapping way too loud at the rec.

Some more footage of Shmeagle with no pants on..

Mike Romanelli taking an insanely large bite out of his chicken cheese steak at Farmer John's then banged out a 270 to fakie indian giver.

Look how small the dirt jumps were back then, and we totally thought they were the shit.

My wallride to manual 180 took around 700 trys.

Also features a song jack from Innocent Bystander well before I knew what an Innocent Bystander was, so sorry about that..

Nick Byers & Mike Ware from piney bmx on Vimeo.

Creamy and I said, hey let's make a split video, so we did..

I'm not talented enough on a bank to fill half a section so I let him do most of the work on the ol' starter ramp. I originally wanted to call this video "Getting extremely Creamy" but decided against it haha. The best part is Creamy with the howler monkey yell at the end

Day 3..

A summer/winter full of pain from piney bmx on Vimeo.

This video was a hit on the Gadfly. There is actually an entire story behind the 2nd clip. Clayton and I had skipped school that day to go build at Dustins. We made an entire set from 6 in the morning to 1 pm. Then we rode our bikes to the skatepark to get some sick footage for the Crew video. I wound up busting my chin and he snapped his chain, neither of us could ride home. So he called up his brother Cory, Cory took us to Wal*mart so Jon could "buy" another chain and some allen keys haha.

Another one of my favorite clips is Jon doing a full blown body slam into the St. Joe wallride. He had already done it really high but I wasn't filming, so he went for it again and body checked it insanely hard.

Nick's infamous "ow my ass" clip makes an appearance.

Billy ate major shit at Hess about a day before Christmas, we then went home and made a grind box that eventually turned into the hip transfer on Josh's miniramp

Teaser from piney bmx on Vimeo.

I legitimately thought I tore my ACL on that first manual. 4 out of the 10 names don't ride anymore. A few of the clips happened on January 1st, I remember because we all just spent new years over Mike Romanelli's house and Cody Meyer almost died because he was pouring gasoline on an open fire. He then tried to fill a bucket with holes in the bottom with water to put it out, Mike and Kyle put it out and are now Volunteer Fire Fighters haha. Nick Byers had a Mexican stache at 1:32. Dustin's cousin Harry was down for a little while and blew all of our minds with his dirt steeze and tricks. I was hoping to get more footage with him and Dustin for the DVD but Dustin got hurt and Harry has been down in Florida. Notice the video was supposed to be OUT by April 2010...There weren't enough clips to even put out a half decent web video by then haha

Quick Louis K interview

Q:I’ve noticed you’ve been riding more and more, how stoked are you on getting out more now-a-days?

A:well it sucks living 2 miles staight back in the woods with nothing to ride and noone to ride with but when my truck works or its nice enough to ride out to somewhere and take a bus/train to whereever has some good spots and well.. it helps out

Q:Do you miss putting out epic web videos every other month?

A:yesssss!! just got done talking to matt about this, i need to get my hands on a video camera.. bmx-forum.com isn't too happy that i stopped hahah

Q:Who has influenced your riding the most?

A:definetly all of my friends and all the kids that make the best of where they ride at, no matter how bad or good the spots are.

Top 5 favorite tricks
1. not barspins
2. not tailwhips
3. not more then a 360 degree spin
4. full/540 cabs
5. GAPS!

Top 5 favorite bands/musical artists
too much to choose from... but

1. Black Dialiah Murder
2. TV on the radio
3. Led Zep
4. Pink Floyd
5. As I lay dying


Top 5 bike videos
1. The origional crew video from so long ago from before i found the crew...
2. Fit Life
3. S&M Please Kill Me
4. Good enough for who its for
5. Anything that has to do with riding, I love watching them all.

Q:What’s life like on Blueberry road? I know that road is killer on every vehicle..

A:it costs me alot of money to live here, my landlords/neighbors a animal banger, all my vehicals currently don't work, theres too much sand to build trails, and my best friend is a buck.

Q:Your part in ‘Good Enough For Who It’s For’ was pretty gnarly, how do you plan to one up that section in the Piney DVD?

A:I don't think I can get any better then that part hahah.. well maybe a 270 instead of a 180 would be pretty GNAR

Q:Waaaay back in the day I remember you rode with a helmet. Was there any reason for that or did you just have enough brains to protect yourself?

A:No, I just wear the helmet on my other head

Let’s wrap this interview up..

Q:Do you have any words for up and coming riders?

A:Just stay motivated, and you can't give up.

Q:How about some famous last words to live by?

A:Live, learn, and ride.

It's too cold for dis

Let's keep it coming with the Nostalgic theme.

"It's too cold for this"

I don't remember too much of this day but I do remember riding that fly out jump for hours on end with Nick Capaldi and Mike Romanelli.

It's Nick Capaldi day on pineybmx.blogspot.com! Here are Nick's scrap clips from well over a year ago, it's amazing to see how someone can progress the way he has. I hope you enjoyed the Indian Givers, bow legged table tops, and orange forks. Also take note that 74% of the clips in this video took place at spots that either don't exist anymore or have been completely renovated.

Let the countdown begin...

I'm hoping to have this video finished by Christmas break. That gives me 20 or so days of editing, DVD authoring and duplications. Sometime soon all the tapes are getting uploaded over Gary D's house, hopefully that will be enough to close out a lot of the sections because a few guys (myself included) have some voids in their parts.

Instead of a new teaser for the DVD, I'm going to post all of the old videos from all the different youtube accounts I have on here as well as a few from Gettings and Shmeagle, along with a little write up about each video. I might do something like 1 or 2 a day simply because I can't remember how many there are.

We might as well start with the beginning..

The first official Piney BMX web video, featuring my favorite introduction to any of the videos I put together, a song jack from Jackass the movie, Billy Brown in baggy jeans, Shmeagle's imfamous "Hey Girls" at the Mullica skatepark, Mike Romanelli barking at his bike after eating shit on a 180, myself punching my front tire because I wasn't good enough to half cab onto the mini ramp and Jon Clayton breaking his ankle without realizing it.

In my opinion the best web video we put out

Piney BMX October video was supposed to be the first of many monthly web videos. Josh Vodopija, Mike Staveckas and Matt Gettings make their first appearance in a Piney video and have since become 2 of the main guys in our little crew. Josh got his mini ramp days before we started filming for this which may make you feel nostalgic seeing that ramp so nice and smooth. Nick Capaldi used to do bow legged tabletops which everybody still thought was the shit back then. Nick Byers before he was known as "Creamy" still skated and wasn't jacked, I almost forgot how nice he was on the 4 wheels. This video also features my most favorite 1-up off all time, Shmeagle and Kyle Kaenzig 180ing up the banks in EHC, I laugh every time I see it. My first hop into a manual 180 was the banger...we all know where that lead too haha. "Be on the lookout for the November/December video coming 2009"...sadly that never happened, Winter took it's toll and we produced a 19 second video 2 months later demonstrating why we couldn't which you will see in the next post.

I hope you enjoyed my commentary on these videos, and if you didn't suck it just watch the videos and look back on the past 2 years.