I recently sent the pic above to ESPN to see if they were interested in it for the POTD.... Rejected. I guess it's not "crazy" enough, or "bangertastic", however, if you knew how hard it was to get on that wall from this little wedge, you'd probably think differently. One mans throw away is another mans blog post, on Mr. Koenning's site (yep, you're now in the age of "Mr. Koenning").
It seems that rejection actually works better for me, especially in the BMX world. I write stories a lot, luckily a decent amount of those stories have been published in a couple magazines, though more have been rejected than published. I don't think I would have any published if I wasn't rejected right from the get go. Then there's those times when I make an edit and I send it to the come up and it doesn't get posted, and I'm like "did you get that edit I made?" They're like, "yeah we got it"... Oh, I suppose it's not street enough for you, I guess I should have made Bissell throw them bars, and made Floyd nose wheelie a little more. Maybe I didn't wear a baggy enough T-shirt. Good old rejection has helped me look past the other sites and focus on the ones that are more important, and the ones represent what I think BMX is. I'm stoked to see Mr. Koenning constantly droppin' old BMX knowledge on us and creating this blog. Now, if I can just get him to send me that damn interview...
3 comments:
if i was photo editor...I'd use that photo, just saying
What a rad post. Thanks Mike.
I love that picture. Stuff like that is so fun to ride, and so maddening at the same time.
Yeah, I'd run that picture all day long. The slight lack of tack sharp focus is more than offset by the insane technical difficulty of the trick.
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