Space Brothers Podcast

The first time I saw BMX flatland it was 1985 and I was an 11 year old kid growing up in a small town in Indiana. I walked around the corner from my parents shop as I waited for them to get off work, and saw a guy doing flatland tricks on a red Hutch Trickstar. I could tell right away this guy knew what he was doing. So I sat on the curb and watched him work through a series of amazing balancing and hopping tricks. His name was Derek Craig, and I asked him what the best way for me to get into the sport was and he told me to get my hands on some bmx magazines and start figuring out which bike I wanted to get. So before I went home, I asked my parents if they would buy some BMX magazines and luckily they said yes. About an hour later I walked out of the local newstand with 3 different mags and instantly started daydreaming about the bikes, the tricks, and the life of being a BMX freestyler. Back then there were only a handful of videos and even RAD the movie hadn't been released yet. All we had were the photo