Another walk down on Memory Lane back to 2014 for today´s Movies Monday to Kris Fox´s The definition of speed and style web edit. This edit shows exactly why is style so important in BMX. Hype around specific tricks come and go, but great style is for eternity.
Kris Fox was brought into BMX racing by some childhood friends and BMX was a love at first sight. As he puts it in an interview with Jeremy Pavia:
“All I knew is that I found something that I could focus on for myself and something that understood me. I could pour my shyness into it and in return it gave me an identity in this world.”
Racing BMX from an early age taught him to master bike control on and off air, how to speed up and pull higher without pedaling, and how to slow down or keep the bike low without breaks. His implacable style comes from not being afraid of going huge, and landing perfectly keeping up the speed for the next transition. This speed is what makes him able to see and clear transitions others would not even think of. After an injury in 2008 his perception changed on BMX, and in order to move back to fun and simplicity that BMX was for him originally, he transition into BMX Freestyle. And not long after he became the Kris Fox that we all admire, qualifying at Vans Pro Cup Finals with steeze. Watch him ripping on concrete, dirt, and wood in The Definition of Speed and Style!