Eben Krackau Can-Can AFA Velodrome

Spotted this shot of Eben Krackau in the October 1987 issue of American Freestyler. Lots of Can-Can shots of Eben on here.

Dave Vanderspek Over Christian Hosoi -- Venice Beach AFA Contest

A reminder of how good Vanderspek was.Here is Vander over Hasoi during the Venice Beach AFA contest. I am still trying to figure out what issue of Freestylin' this is from. I am thinking the November 1985 issue, if anyone can verify that for me?

View more of Vander here:

http://edwardkoenning.blogspot.com/2012/09/freestylin-magazine-september-1986.html

As Seen On Flickr--Marty Schlesinger

Spotted this in J. Gusto's photo stream. http://www.flickr.com/photos/teneyck/

Rich Sigur Highest Air Contest--Freestylin' March 1986

The Ride of My Life

Brian Blyther Highest Air Contest--Freestylin' March 1986

Freestylin' -- January 1988 Part Four--Mike Dominguez 540

Dino DeLuca--AFA Huntington Beach 1985

View more old school videos at JefcoFreestyle YouTube Page

Mike Dominquez Lookback Austin AFA

From the September 1987 issue of BMX Plus. Download the file here, Or visit http://oldschoolmags.com/ for more classic old school BMX magazine downloads. 

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Dave Vanderspek at Joe's

From the May 1985 issue of Freestylin'. Vander was always a shredder. Check the upside down chainstay mounted brakes. RIP Vanderspek. 

Carlo Griggs 1988 Austin AFA

He was going so high on those skinny ramps. Amazing.

Craig Campbell

I have had such a good response after posting that wall ride photo of Craig Campbell, I went and tracked(borrowed) down some more photos of him. Anyone have the AFA footage of him at the Austin Masters Comp? I wouldn't mind getting that posted.

Chris Saldivar -- can-can

Chris Saldivar doing a can-can air at Jack Smith's ramp somewhere in San Antonio. Crazy fun half pipe to ride. I remember something about it having a dip before one of the transitions to be like the dip at the Pipeline Skatepark. HA! It probable just sunk in the crazy south Texas soil.

From the Archive--Joel Alamo

Joel Alamo with a killer invert at the Austin, Texas AFA contest. 

From the Archives.

Steve Swope clicking a turndown at the Austin AFA contest. John Kerr taking a photo on the deck with Leo Chin waiting to ride. 

Head over and take a look at Steve's Blog. And have a look a his interview over at Least Most.

More Dominquez.

Can't have that KOV post without having this up also. Austin AFA from 1988. What they hell were they thinking by not having wider ramps? 

More BMX scans.

Pulled a few more pictures to scan tonight. Just some random ones I had in a box in the garage. Love the picture of Chris. Text book perfect no-hander on vert. 

Mat Hoffman at one of the Austin AFA comps. I don't remember the year. If anyone remembers e-mail me.

 Chris Saldivar doing a no-hander on Eben's old half pipe. 

Me doing a nose  pick to fakie  somewhere off of Walzem Road.  

Greg Guillotte.

There was always a myth about this guy in Texas. I had heard about him but never really seen him ride. We would hear things about his riding and about how high he was going. I think Eben or The Gute had ridden with him before and they were just blown away. I was never much of a vert guy, I would mess around but other than that riding anything bigger than 7 feet scared me.Even just sitting on top of a vert ramp watching Kevin and Eben blast would give me the he-be-g-b's. (Isn't that in New York?)

Then sometime in '89 when the AFA was the contest series to go to. I think this was my first time I had seen Greg ride. Holy Hell! Full on crank at those little ramps. Smooth as glass. And what I would still consider the best turn down in BMX. I watch this video and still get excited to go ride my bike. And ride it really fast.

All this babble was brought on by a post at Twitter from Jared Souney showing a cover shot of Greg from GO. Brakeless invert somewhere in Texas.

One of the best covers from GO's short life. And one of the best vert riders from back in those AFA days. One of my favorites for sure.