Posted on Mar 09 2012 by Sam King
Hello, my name is Sam King and I've recently started working for solutions. When I'm not working here, you can normally find me riding a BMX, or taking photographs of people doing it! BMX stands for Bicycle Motorcross and it originated in California in the racing form. Now days there are many sub disciplines of BMX, with the most popular being Freestyle.
There's Dirt which involves jumping ramps made out of, well, dirt! This is one of the hardest to master and people often have to spend many cold wet hours digging the jumps in the winter. It all pays off in the summer though when you can spend all day in the woods, jumping the same jumps over and over.
Then there's street which is probably the most dangerous. This involves riding in an urban environment, using the obstacles around you to perform tricks, for example grinding down hand rails, ledges, and jumping down stairs. Simply whatever you can find to ride. Of course this has it's problems too like hassle from security guards, or the risk of getting hit by cars!
Park riding is a lot more chilled out than street riding. This is where most new tricks get invented and you're always guaranteed to have something to ride. Skateparks in my opinion can be the most fun things to ride. There's so many variations of ramps, ledges, and fun little obstacles. Park riding is probably the most popular out of any type of BMX riding.
There's also many other types of BMX such as Racing which is now in the Olympics, Vert riding which is where you ride a half-pipe style ramp that has a section of vertical ramp above the transition and is usually above 14ft tall! There is also Flatland which I would describe as gymnastics on a BMX! It's very technical and very difficult!
And here's a photo of me doing what I love doing most!
