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RAD *ahem* Party Jamz for legendary BMX legend of legends, Gerry “THE WIZ” Smith’s birthday with me and a crew of rag tag ragamuffins on the decks.

Nita Nita
146 Wythe Ave (at N8th)
Brooklyn NY

FREE • 930pm

*it is with tongues firmly in cheek that we bring you this message.

sidehack_smith, originally uploaded by smoovebert.

I thought they were joking when Impakt Sidehacks impresarios Greyboy and Truly Odd said they wanted to try to do a smith grind on a picnic table on the sidehack. Minutes later, we were around the block at a local school. Unfortunately, all I had was my point-and-shoot.

These guys are nuts.

Chris Cole Smith, originally uploaded by Bama Tnez.

Corey Martinez behind the lens and pro skater Chris Cole on some smith grind action. If I was a skater, i would probably be irritated by bmx’ers calling this a smith grind. Actually, I was a skater back when this bmx grind came into being and I was ecstatic.

Kids are stupid.

some quick clips with the new camera at the banks yesterday. Oh, I relearned tailwhips, it’s been years since I’ve been able to do more than 1 in a day. also? grinding without pegs. pegs?!?! who needs pegs?!?!

Wow, so the Fantasy Factory episode featuring homies Greyboy and Truly oDd (and Dave Mirra and Jim Bauer and Francis De La Pena and Keith Mulligan and Fuzzy Hall) was on tonight, and now “sidehack” is the #1 hot trend on Google right now. WTF, that’s awesome. Grey and Truly have been doing this sidehack thing for a while and I’m super stoked to see them get some recognition and furthermore, some tangible interest. I can’t wait to be able to buy one of those sidehacks, even though I have to go to walmart to get one. Follow @impaktbmx and @herculesbmx on twitter to find out the latest in the sidehack world. And whatnot. Click here to see a sweet promo from last year for Hercules Sidehacks, their higher end sidehack company.

Apropos of nothing, here is me and Greyboy crashing on a sidehack.  I was going to go fly out for the Fantasy Factory shoot but ended up having to work. That’s probably fine because I probably would have killed myself.