[bmiddaugh]

Why the heck would anyone take my advice?
😆

[bmiddaugh]

Ok, I’m gonna be honest here.
I like you guys, but a kegger at Ant-Dogs is not professional.
Someone needs to find a place that we can have a real sit down meeting, like a small hall or such.
It doesn’t matter to me personally if that goes down, but I see a lot of people who have energy and ideas that don’t seem to get listened to.
If anyone cares to help champion “the cause”, cool.
If not, I’ll just keep doing my site and zine and having fun.
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[bmiddaugh]

How about actually having it at CJS after hours?

[bmiddaugh]

Ya see guys and gals,
people have a tendency to come here and voice complaints, concerns basically speak whatever is on their mind.
Well there comes a time when you have to stop talking and realize it’s time to start doing.
I can not continue to plod along pushing this idea myself.
I get pm’s quite often from people who have great ideas and want to somehow make it happen.
If you all sat down together and actually came up with a plan you’d be surprised at what you all could accomplish.
Pete, Bill, Ant, Rich, Jaylamoon, Dave, Dave, Dave, Rodney, Rich, Glenn, Craig, Paulkka, Mike, Debbie, Brian, Jesse, Grabel, Jeff, Lisa, Vinny, Scott, Donna, Phil, Timmy, Jimmy…. everyone who believes in this thing whether they have been here for years or just a short while
All of you could make incredible things happen because you really care about BMX.
A lot of us were trying to figure out how to “fix” NJBMX.
That isn’t the solution.
The solution is to grow recognition of BMX in New Jersey.
We can’t do this by hiding in the shadows and talking amongst ourselves.
You have to do it by shouting how freaking great what you are doing is from the mountaintops.
You may notice that I put that tagline on my site,
“The worst thing to happen to NJ BMX in 10 years”.
Yea, I did it with sarcasm.
Someone mentioned it and when I thought about it, I realized how absurd it was.
Suddenly people are talking about BMX in NJ again, new, old, participant, spectator, wannabe…whatever.
They are talking.
Some bad, MOST good.
Look at the news on the front page.
See any negativity?
Look at the forums, take a real look.
Weight the negative with the positive.
The real answer is more good has been done here in 1 year than in the past 5.
People are beginning to care again.
This “upswing”, is due to promotion.
Look what we are doing, aren’t we great?!!
I could go on for awhile here but it would be pointless.

We need,
more BMX racing tracks,
more BMX practice tracks,
more public skateparks that allow BMX bikes,
more people putting stuff in schools,
more people putting stuff in businesses,
more people just handing stuff out.

I can’t do it alone.
You all can’t do it alone.
WE can do it all.
Now, who here wants to start acting like an adult and do what the people before us did and start some new things happening.

[bmiddaugh]

I gotta agree with 5 quite a bit and the sad thing is we just give it away.
You look at a 401k statement and say woopee I made xxx.xx on an investment.
But the real price will be paid by your kids…and that’s what a lot of people say they are doing it all for.
Strange.

Here’s something funny.
People will always do what is in their own best interest, but the problem is they don’t realize that what is in their own best interest is what is good for everyone not just themselves.

[bmiddaugh]

This will not be a b**ch session but an idea and planning session.

[bmiddaugh]

I got it to work partially, man this is doing some weird stuff here.
Almost annoying.

[bmiddaugh]

LOL…
yea are these really Farside’s cranks?
(like you didn’t know this was coming)

[bmiddaugh]

ah, another year and another multi page EHT thread.

Doesn’t this stuff get old to you guys?

[bmiddaugh]

http://www.imba.com/resources/trail_building/build_freeride_park.html

[bmiddaugh]

that track was frigging amazing they had.

Deb, it’s an extreme sport, i was making extreme examples, LOL!

Dave…
belly bombs!!!! Gotta love CJ man, white castle within bike distance!

[bmiddaugh]

Let’s imagine the scenario like this.

Class of 6 grade kids.
Lights dim.
“promo” video comes on.

Which type of video is going to get kids pumped up on BMX.
Lot’s of jumping, speed, passing.
or
mom and dad eating hot dogs, 6 year olds rolling jumps, and an announcer sounding like their parents.

Did we not ALL make fun of those PSA movies when we were kids?
Kids today are smart, (just like we were) and they know hokey from kick a**.
As hokey as I think the type of thing I envision is, I KNOW that anything that doesn’t show action and heroes is not gonna fly.

If however, you are showing the video to a room full of conservative soccer parents,
well then throw my stuff out the window.

But are we trying to get kids to ride or are we trying to make BMX look cutesy to parents?

Look at BMX World and Ride, that is what will attract youth.
BMX attracts a certain mindset.
Do not dumb it down to people who aren’t gonna get it no matter what you do to present it to them.

[bmiddaugh]

Who do you show a promotional video to?
Not being sarcastic, just wondering.
Like where do we show a promo video?

[bmiddaugh]

hmmm, so there is no special like say…hardware thing you need to run it?

[bmiddaugh]

How easy is it to install?
How many copies is each track allowed?

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