Terry Adams is a highly respected flatlander in most people’s eyes today. In 2008 he brought us his solo video titled Dreams. The main theme throughout the video is that through hard work and determination you can do whatever you want. He opens up with a great quote, “If you can learn to ride a bike upside down with feet crossed spinning in circles, than you can do whatever you want in this world…” Which then starts his journey of riding. He has three sections of no dialogue and him just riding his bike. As much as people hate on Terry for doing the same thing over and over again, I can’t stress enough that does some links in this first riding section that make me wish I never picked up a bike. To get an idea, Karl Kruiser to halfpacker to backpacker to 360 body varial to swivel cross footed hitchhiker out. What in the hell?!!?!?!?! He also rides in a variety of places in most of his riding sections so it doesn’t get boring and keeps it interesting. For this project, Terry used Mickey Gaidos as the guy behind the lens. The filming is just straight up spectacular. Back to Terry, he also has two sections about the business aspect of riding professional flatland. One sections is where he is talking about how he has tried and succeeded getting magazine coverage for flatland. The other section is about how his sponsors put some enormous pressure on him to do well in a contest setting. It also shows how he prepares for these contests as well. With some of the dialogue parts you have some really key players in the BMX game that talk about Terry and what he has done for flatland. Some of them are, Fat Tony, Jeff Zielinski (photographers for rideBMX), Dennis DMC McCoy(!!), Bobby Carter (Diversion VM), Chad Johnston (Intrikat), Ben Crockett (BMX Plus! Photographer and associate editor), Effraim Catlow (Pro BMX Flatlander/Flat Matters), Matthias Dandois (Pro BMX Flatlander), and others. The last section of his 3 riding sections is seriously the most ridiculous riding I have ever seen Terry do. Watch for the banger trick, I think I must’ve rewound the DVD forty times just to understand how the hell he did it. Another cool aspect about the video is that there are some great quotes from various riders provided throughout. There were a couple of things I was disappointed about, first off the music wasn’t really my style for a flatland video, but it did fit well with the story Terry is telling. Another thing I was thrown off by was that Scott O’Brien wasn’t in the film saying anything about Terry. It was just weird because they are always seen together. Guess, I’ll never figure it out. Last but not least, there were no bonus features, well at least I haven’t found any, that bummed me out. The only thing you really get to see are the two trailers for the video, there is one that I included at the end of this review. I think what Terry was trying to get across in the video was that, even if you’re not a flatlander or even ride bikes, that no matter what you want to do with your life all you have to do is push yourself and work hard. This is a must see and I get motivated every time I watch it. Just do yourself a favor and go out and get it. Loudogg rating scale equals 4 out 5.
This seems like a real positive message. Im really not fond of the " One Rider" only videos..but this one seems motivational..They really need to do a Kevin Jones documentry...I mean noone has as much variation and style..I think a modern Chase video would be great also...
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