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Nike, China, and Old School.

So lately I've been lucky enough to have been filing for Nike 6.0. The trips have been frequent and fun. Nigel, Dennis, Spinner, Garrett, and Losey are 5 of the best people to travel with. A couple week ago I got invited on a really cool trip. It was for something called LIGHTING BOLTS. I really didn’t know much about the trip. I just get a call asking if I want to go film stuff in China, and I say yes.

Three days before my flight I received a group email that had a bunch of names I don’t usually see in an email, but I used to see on my wall. Bob Haro, Brian Blyther, Eddie Fiola and Mark Lewman just to mention a few. I travel all the time for BMX, I haven’t been this nervous to go on a trip in a while. I was going to be on a road trip with the guy who invented the whole thing we do, and one of the guys from RAD, now that’s rad!

So besides this Mega-BMX event Nike threw in China, we were actually there for 3 other HUGE Nike events we had to get through to get to our deal.

The first was something called NIKE HOUSE of INNOVATION, this was basically this Nike Museum located in a kind of SoHo district of Beijing. Oh yeah did I mention I was in China! Since the summer 2008 Olympics is going to be in China and Nike obviously has a tremendous dedication to all things athletic, they basically put together this building in China that people can check out during the Olympics. It has the evolution of many of their shoes as well as some cool artwork, and a bunch of interactive features, it was a lot like being on a Nike Spaceship.





You know you're blinging when you got your own sewer cap!

At that point I was like “Wow, that was cool, can’t wait for the BMX event!” but then we headed to “LOOK OF CHINA”.

Nike designed a bunch of specialty shoes and uniforms specifically for the Olympics, including an SPD BMX shoe. That in itself might seem impressive, but where they had the launch for the line is what blew me away. So we walk into the FORBIDDEN CITY, yeah that’s right, the place where Emperors ruled for thousands of years over China, was now where I was standing with what felt like a thousand other people to see the Chinese Olympic uniforms and a whole bunch Nike shoes no one will ever see in a store. Words cannot describe the event they put on in that place. Simply amazing!


There was a lot of people here!




But wait there is more! Right when I think we are leaving, we go back to the art district and we go into this little studio and they have a yet another launch. This one was Nike Sports Wear, which Nigel is now hooked up by. They actually had a big HD TV with Nigel riding and doing tricks in the clouds. No one in our group knew or expected that, so it ended up being one of the highlights of the night when we all arrived and saw Nigel manualing through a soft bushy cloud.



Blyther didn't want to run out.

Food was interesting.

Mat Hoffman with a chinese surfer.


Next day Nike set up a tour for us to go check out the Great Wall of China. I didn’t know it was 6,000 Kilometers long, that’s about 4,000 miles, so that’s longer then America east to west. Be very thankful George Bush hasn’t appointed himself Emperor, that thing looked like a ton a work.


There's a lot of BMX history on this historical monument!

The Big night! We go to the gas tank!
Basically there’s a guy at Nike, his Name is John Martin. He’s the Creative Director of Nike Action Sports. He grew up in Ireland riding BMX, and he LOVES it!!! John Came up with a concept for an art show where a group of old school BMXers took a basic Bob Haro number plate design and they did something artistic with it! In addition to the actual plates on display they set up a bunch of ramps for the Nigel, Spinner, and Maxime Charveron to get down on. Now since there was all these other events going on, this event ended up quite packed. There will be a bunch of magazine and websites coverage coming out in the next few days. I hear they are also planning to do the art show in NY and LA in the next few months!

The show was incredible and it made you feel a sense of pride being around such a strong sense of history with twist of new school live in your face. I’ve always been proud I rode, and am a part of this thing we call BMX, but this was one of those nights where I felt invincible in my conviction.

Maxime liked to do this whenever a photo was being taken!

see!

He was also lazy!

KFC yo!

Jeff Tremain painting our new friend!

we need more cars like this one!

That guy loved my bike, but he had bad shoes!


We ate at this place called hot pot, it's basically a scam where you cook your food for yourself, Nigel ate Pig brain!

Massages were cheap in China, I got a foot one twice in one day!

We got to check out the Olympic Staduim!


This guy made it all happen! Bob Haro.


Shopping was FUN in China!!!

What do you think???

JPG...who knew?

TJ Ellis graces the cover of this months JPG . The magazine has a cool concept, you upload photos to their website, people vote on the best pictures and the lucky top few get printed in the magazine. With the death of print media around the corner, it's cool to see someone using their brain to try and make it work!

Sandy Carson has a photo in this issue of Skater and filmmaker Mike Manzoori.

DR. Phil

With winter killing everyone right now, a lot of pros are flocking to the warmth and sunshine of sunny California. Right now a lot of peoples living rooms are full. Nate Moroshan's girlfriend works for the Dr. Phil show, so Tony Neyer, Jason Enns, Nate, and Myself were able to score some tickets, free cell phones, flowers, chocolates, and cupcakes. Seriously we walked away with like 800 dollars in free stuff, actually the whole audience did! I'm more excited to be in a picture with Tony and Jason.

Side Note: Tony snores way too loud. Listen to this video of Tony at 4:30am the night before!

Busy, Busy, Busy!

Well, some how things have been super busy this past year, and they do not seem to be slowing down. Between NIKE, PRIMO, FOX, FAMOUS, and of course VITAL, every week seemed to have some sort of cool trip or event planned. I thought it may slow down this year, but apparently not. Starting next month I'll be blogging regularly about everything and anything! So for now I'll be loading up the truck and getting more footy for yall 

HARO CONTEST

So, I actually have a few minutes extra to say something about the Haro Contes, that went down last weekend in Greenville NC. WOW!!! So many thing to say...First off, I truly belived, since I didn't really know any of the ten finalists, I expected day one to be HUCKFEST 2007, but that couldn't have been further from the truth, Every rider there was SOOO good, it was like like being at a metro jam or something, everytime I turned around something crazy was going down, Most of the time I was able to get it on camera, every once and a while I missed it (I'm old and I was standing around for mad long!) Luckil, Kyle Carson was there to back me up, and well as FUEL TV MEDIA GIANT Dave Mavro. So thanks to those guys...

 Besides good riding all the dudes were super cool, so much fun to be around and hang with, it was a shame it was only 2 and a half days! 

So I hope people are into the webisode thing! The idea was pretty simple, rather then coming home and just anouncing the winner and show some pics and show some video, we thought we'd try to give all the dudes a lil more shine time, and hopefully give all the viewer a much larger, more in depth coverage of the event!

 OK one last random thing, guys will start getting eliminated in the next few episodes, and even though it's sad they didn't get on Haro, all these guys will be on full rides if they still want it, Every dude in the top ten was a PRO!!!

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  josephfp Posted:

  1/16/2010 10:55 PM

  HAY YOUR THE BEST GLEN. IM A RELLY BIG BIG FAN.. THANKS FOR THE CHANCE TO WIN A BIKE
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  peoplethewe Posted:

  11/17/2009 4:23 PM

  hey glenn!!!! when do we know who won the osiris prize packages?
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  bupsy Posted:

  10/24/2009 9:11 PM
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  Skanimal Posted:

  7/28/2009 4:51 PM

  yo wat up!? your vids are sick