Dakota Roche- Native Land BMX street riding edit

This is my favorite of the Dakota Roche edits out there.  If you're into BMX street riding, you know Dakota has been killing it for a really long time.  Watch this video.  Then go ride.  

Way back in about 2002 (or so), I caught a ride with Barspinner Ryan, Freddy Chulo, Athene, and little Armando to a BMX event called the Nasty Jam.  Cory "Nasty" Nastazio had a BMX dirt jumping jam in conjunction with a mototcycle race, way the fuck up in Gorman.  If you aren't from Southern California, Gorman is a little town with big hills up near Magic Mountain amusement park.  If you are from Southern California, you probably still haven't heard of Gorman, it's up on the Grapevine, north of L.A. and the San Fernando Valley.  As California goes, it's the middle of freakin' nowhere.  The only other time I had been up there is to go target shooting with a friend in the early 90's, other than driving through on my way to NorCal.

It was a fun day watching some top dirt jumpers huck it over a single big jump, watching some motorcycle races, and a cool band that played at the end.  Then we all headed back in town to a really good burger place afterwards.  The woman who helped Cory put on the jam (sorry, forget her name) had a son.  He was 14 or 15, and was talking to the pro riders at the dinner as we all ate.  In the room were Cory Nastazio, Stephen Murray, Barpsinner Ryan Brennan, Freddy Chulo, Reuel Erickson, and several other top BMX jumpers.  The kid told all the riders he was going to be a big time pro, like them, someday.  All the riders were cool, and told him to go for it.  As you figured out by now, that kid was Dakota Roche.  

Obviously he kept riding, and got pretty buff along the way.  I saw him 3 or 4 times after the Nasty Jam, riding in Orange County, still a young up and comer, but definitely getting better every time I saw him.  He's been riding hard, pushing the limits, and innovating every since.  As an old Has Been BMX industry guy, and Never Was  rider, his video parts are some of my favorites to check out these days.  All his edit are worth checking out, but the combination of tricks, obstacles, editing, and music make this one my personal favorite.  So give it a watch, and then go ride.