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dailymail.co.uk article on BMX Rider Nigel Sylvester

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Sitting in his favorite seat in the corner of the parlor room at trendy Ludlow House in Manhattan’s even trendier Lower East Side, Nigel Sylvester sips green tea and contemplates his next move.

The ‘it guy’ of BMXing has spent the entire morning at the post office mailing out the first batch of orders from his merchandise line.

The athlete is one of the few black professional BMX riders and is an even rarer feature of the sport: he’s just made the Forbes Top 30 under 30 list. All this despite the fact that he doesn’t even take part in competitions.

Nigel has seemingly built his entire brand through social media and explained, after kindly asking a waitress for a few extra biscuits to go with his tea, that he’s done everything on his own without a PR manager.

 

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4148826/Pro-BMX-Nigel-Sylvester-Nike-Instagram-YouTube-Forbes-30.html#ixzz4XIVhAy9O
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CALLING THE SHOTS!?!?!?!?!?!?

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Two of the best UK riders, Dakota Schuetz, and Terry Price throw it down in a calling the shots video posted yesterday. Some crazy tricks are thrown so watch the video and check out some of our videos too!!!

England Plans to Build a 5-Story Skatepark

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A PARKING GARAGE is nearly the ideal location for skateboarding. The inclines, the rails, the concrete parking bumpers—they’re all there just waiting to be repurposed as a playground for grinding. And then there are the cars and pedestrians and security guards, who want nothing more than to be, like, a total bummer and kick you out.
Good news: British firm Guy Hollaway Architects has designed a bonkers-looking building proposal that takes the best parts of skating in a parking garage and combines them with the the convenience (and legality) of a more traditional skatepark. When completed—Guy Hollaway hopes in early 2017— the multilevel building in Folkestone, England, will be a massive sporting complex where people can skateboard, rock climb and ride BMX bikes indoors.The skatepark’s unorthodox design was born out of a common urban constraint: lack of space. Folkestone’s only skatepark is closing later this year to make room for residential housing, and the developer, Roger De Haan, wanted to find a place to relocate the park. Having just bought a plot of land, De Haan entertained the idea of moving the park there, only the plot of land was too small to house everything a decent skatepark needs. So they decided to look up. “When you start thinking about it in terms of multi stories, the opportunity changes,” Hollaway says.Read whole Story here.

http://www.wired.com/2015/05/inside-bonkers-plan-build-5-story-skatepark/