Dive into Caroline Buchanan’s 2016 Journey to the big show through the 3rd stop of the BMX World Cup Olympic Qualifying race. See the BMX Australia High Performance Unit staff support. Her down time mental switch off practices, winning the time trial BMX World Championships in Colombia and her mindset, dreams & prep for the the biggest sporting event of 2016.
If you’ve missed the other two episodes jump onto Caroline’s Youtube channel and keep up to date!
Robbie Maddison has jumped some crazy stuff on his dirtbike, but sending it off a massive ski jump in Park City, Utah is on a whole other level. The crew met up with pro ski jumper Sarah Hendrickson for some advice, and ramp builder Matt McCaul shows what went into making the ski jump ready for a motorcycle.
Make sure you check out the new series “On Any Sunday: The Next Chapter” for some more of Robbie Maddison!
“Can you help hook up my young FMX ripper Tommy Rob bro, I have already given him some gloves and he is going to be massive and he’s he nicest kid in the world” – A text message from Aussie FMX legend Justin “bushy” Bush.
That is the first I had heard of Tommy Robinson, one of the Fish Fingered FMX crew from NSW I knew two things immediately –
1 – That he was obviously going to be a total ripper of a bloke.
2 – That he would shred on a dirt bike.
Fast forward to F1 in Melbourne this year, watching practice I could hear a few industry people who were in early for the event talking “who’s the kid in the all black?!… I have got no idea but he is killing it!!”
I guess both of those scenarios really describes Tommy the best, he is honestly one of the nicest people I have ever met and he lets his riding do the talking.
It’s dudes like Tommy that make what we do so worthwhile seeing the #FISTARMY kill it on the world stage is still so surreal to me and that is exactly what Tommy has been doing having. Tommy also just competed at XFighters in Madrid, landing his new world first body aerial now called the “twist top”.
Big things are happening for Tommy and they couldn’t happen to a more deserving legend.
I guess you can call this clip a ‘Welcome to the team’ that is 2 years late but hey good things come to those who wait right?!
Special mention to Benny from Headstrong films for killing it with the edit!
Smash Forth Tommy and thank you for flying the #FISTARMY flag.
@Sam88moore
In less than a month BMX athletes from around the world will step onto the world’s largest stage in Rio and leave it all on the line in the hopes of securing the title of Olympic Champion.
Caroline Buchanan has spent the last 8 years training for this upcoming Rio games. After coming up short in London, she went on worldwide tour of Championships and wins. Now she’s back stronger than ever to claim what was hers 4 years ago.
This time every year we are treated to a weekend of seeing the world best action sports athletes compete on the world stage in what is referred to as the Olympics of action sports the XGames.
When I started this little glove company I dreamed of seeing it on the big stage in the XGames on the other side of the world in the USA, it always seemed so far away from Tasmania, Australia and sort of unreachable but to see the athletes we support not only competing but absolutely killing it is crazy to me and I am lucky to have these guys in our corner. 4 Xgames medals for the #FISTARMY in 2016 so stoked! – sam88moore (FIST HQ)
| 1 | Dennis Enarson | 41.00 | 29.00 | 14.00 | 70.00 |
| 2 | Logan Martin – #FISTARMY | 32.00 | 29.00 | 32.00 | 64.00 |
| 3 | Kyle Baldock – #FISTARMY | 24.00 | 29.00 | 34.00 | 63.00 |
| 4 | Drew Bezanson | 23.00 | 38.00 | 20.00 | 61.00 |
| 5 | Ryan Nyquist | 26.00 | 31.00 | 17.00 | 57.00 |
| 1 | Kevin Peraza | 41.00 | 47.00 | 40.00 | 88.00 |
| 2 | Ben Wallace | 38.00 | 32.00 | 43.00 | 81.00 |
| 3 | James Foster – #FISTARMY | 32.00 | 32.00 | 41.00 | 73.00 |
| 4 | Pat Casey | 29.00 | 8.00 | 42.00 | 71.00 |
| 5 | Mike Clark | 34.00 | 27.00 | 69.00 | |
| 6 | Chris Doyle | 40.00 | 28.00 | 10.00 | 68.00 |
| 7 | Kyle Baldock – #FISTARMY | 45.00 | 20.00 | 17.00 | 65.00 |
| 8 | Leandro Moreira | 11.00 | 22.00 | 41.00 | 63.00 |
| 9 | Ryan Nyquist | 42.00 | 19.00 | 61.00 | |
| 10 | Cory Nastazio | 27.00 | 17.00 | 31.00 | 58.00 |
| 1 | Jackson Strong – #FISTARMY | 94.00 | 94.00 | |
| 2 | Josh Sheehan | 89.66 | 80.33 | 89.66 |
| 3 | Clinton Moore | 89.00 | 89.33 | 89.33 |
| 4 | Taka Higashino – #FISTARMY | 88.66 | 87.00 | 88.66 |
| 5 | Rob Adelberg | 87.33 | 86.00 | 87.33 |
| 6 | Tom Pages | 40.00 | 84.00 | 84.00 |
| 7 | Rich Kearns | 83.66 | 84.00 | 84.00 |
| 8 | Blake Williams | 82.33 | 83.33 | 83.33 |
| 9 | Harry Bink | 69.66 | 69.66 |
Photo credit: NICK EVENNOU
Luke has recently made the move to race the AMA Supercross and Outdoors series in the USA, based out of Temecula California Luke is racing for the MAD Racing/Dirt Candy Suzuki team. “FIST was looking for a racer in the USA and Luke becoming available was awesome as he fits right in with all the rest of us animals over at FIST. “We are so stoked to be able to support an up and coming Aussie in the US series and we look forward to coming up in the US market with Luke” – sam88moore (FIST HQ).
Counting down the days to the Olympic games Caroline Buchanan has just claimed the elite women’s time trial world title and placed second in the main event at the UCI BMX World Championships!
The world championships have been a key Olympic selection chance for the Aussies and with a time trial world title and a second place to her name, Buchanan is now front and centre for a ticket to the Olympic Games in Rio.
We’re so proud of Caroline’s achievements leading up to the Olympic games, can’t wait to cheer her on in Rio! Be sure to check out her video above taking out the Elite woman’s time trial, man that track looks gnarly.
#FISTARMY
After surgery on Robbie’s left knee 6 months ago he’s now back to training taking Robbie Maddison to the next level and doing things that have never been done before!
We thought riding a wave on a dirt bike was already insane next level stuff so can’t wait to see what’s install next. #FISTARMY
Whilst out in Cali earlier this year I was lucky enough to tee up a morning session with Taka Higashino to shoot some photo & video content.
We were blessed with prime FMX conditions, not a breath of wind insight and the sun was out in force for the morning session at Ronnie Faisst’s compound in Murrieta. Taka is a mad man and it was really cool to see how he rides a session, each rider is different in the way they tackle their daily sessions. It’s almost an art in how each rider achieves trick perfection.
Taka sure didn’t hold back, throwing huge tricks one after another, smooth and extended every time! With the conditions being perfect we were really able to make the most of the opportunity and gathered a bunch of real quality photo and video content.
It’s not everyday you get to shoot one of the best Freestyle riders in the world, especially one as cool and down to earth as Taka, his broken English is bad ass and makes for a good laugh! It was a pleasure shooting whilst out in Cali, definitely a highlight of the trip!
Speak soon! BT
#fistarmy
The #FISTARMY as we call it is anyone who dares to be a little different and likes the way we roll, why wouldn’t we put hula girls and flowers on a glove? Why wouldn’t we want skulls and the logos of rad companies and athletes on our product?
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