Z Ride Presents: The Royal Z-Baums Profesional BMX DVD

It's kind of strange for a VDO magazine to sponsor riders. To get coverage, they can simply film their own riders. This is the case in "The Royal Z-Baums" where they have lots of footage from their own team guys such as Bruce Crisman (interview), the FLYBikes team (a trip to Spain shows the riding scene there), Seth Kimbrough gets a Bike Check and Josh Harrington takes the Z-Ride issue to Australia. But there is more, and that's a good thing. The DVD gives you roughly 20 scenes that includes a few ads, a few contest reports, a pedal flip trick tip, precision lumberjack action and an acoustic guitar duo (good thing it's easy to >>FF the sections that are not meant to be watched twice). The DVD actually takes you all over the world which is a good thing. There's more BMX riding going on than just in America. Z-Ride also comes with some original edit features that I liked. It keeps things fresh which is hard to do nowadays with every Joe and their uncle doing a VDO magazine. The riding is mostly street and park with a little bit of flatland (Kuoppa/Gomez) and some dirt. It's hard work putting out a DVD on a shoestring budget. The idea of bringing out Z-Ride trading cards and a 'zine with every issue of Z-RIDE came to an end soon. That's actually a bummer as it would have given them something to stick out from all the others out there.