Dawgs DVD Dustdown

Author: Sutty

How about slotting a dirt bike DVD into your player?

Paced
Paced is an all-new documentary-style look at the 2005 MX GP season as it runs its course then leads in to the big daddy of all MX events – the Motocross des Nations.
Possibly the finest parts of the movie are the recollections of racers Ben Townley, Josh Coppins, Billy Mac and Stefan Everts as they re-live the highs and lows of the season. It’s great to see how genuinely excited they are as they talk about the season’s best passes, crashes and victories and the on-screen action is certainly well up to par too.
However, one area which lets the DVD down is the voice of the monotone narrator who I would gladly kick square in the nuts for commenting on the world’s most exciting sport as if it were the world staring championship or something equally dull.
Aside from that small point it’s a frickin’ awesome production so let’s all pray for a Paced part deux – or even Special Edition – with narration from that cowboy dude who leant his voice to TGO II!
9/10

The Crusty Years Volume II
A four-disc box set that includes Crustys five to eight you say? Yes we do...
7/10

SX Exposed 1-3
From the studio of acclaimed movie-maker Greg Godfrey comes a gripping trilogy of tales featuring winners, losers, posers and saddening injuries. The thrilling movie – that has not been nominated for eight Oscars including best soundtrack –
takes a behind-the-scenes look at America’s #1 indoor motocross type sport thing. Yup, that’ll be supercross!
Starring Ricky Carmichael as The Goat and with a supporting cast of Chad Reed, James Stewart, Travis Pastrana and Kevin Windham the story unfolds in 16 cities around North America with an exciting ending played out in Las Vegas’ Sam Boyd stadium. Thrilling stuff!
There are plenty of interviews with the stars packed onto the disc too and to be fair each part of the story is equally as enjoyable viewed on its own or watched in sequential order with the others.
9/10

Total Chaos III
Loads of great freestyle motocross with a little BMX, skate vert and wakeboarding thrown in too. It’s little wonder that the Skin Industries-sponsored Total Chaos series are so popular as it’s no-fuss action-all-the-way in this Al Borda film.
7/10

Motorhead
No Lemmy, no point! Just kidding hee hee... Erm, so what can be said about Motorhead?
If you love motocross and its related sports as much as I love pork-based breakfasts then you’ll love Motorhead as it’s full of MX, FMX, SX and SM action along with some super-gnarly off-road truck and snowmobile madness.
Although it features top-notch riding action from pros including Chad Reed, Nate Adams and Travis Pastrana one of the highlights for me has to be the footage from the SX GP in Seville which has to be the muddiest supercross race in the history of stadium-based scrambly-bike racing.
8/10

3rd Gear Pinned
This is a movie by Trent Griswold who as far as I can remember was last seen driving to Walley World with his family. Oh wait, that was Clark Griswald – oh how the passing years have played havoc with my memory!
Anyhoo, 3rd Gear Pinned in a minibike movie that stars Chris Clark and Chris Skinner as they take fiddy-riding to the next level. Apparently the next level is jumping huge doubles pinned in third gear and back-flipping everything else. Sweet!
8/10

Berzerk 2
I loved the original Berzerk with a passion and Berzerk 2 leaves my loins in a similar state of lustful longing. The movie made by Push films – a European production crew based in Norway – features every decent European freestyle rider as well as a handful of top Yanks.
But it’s the Scandinavian riders who are the real stars of this show and extra special attention is focussed on Ailo Gaup, Frederik Johansson and Oystein Kjorstad who also star in the opening rock show segment with Andre Villa and crazy German Busty Wolter.
There’s a good selection of British riding talent featured too as Chris Brock, glamour-boy Gary Taylor, Disco Dave Wiggins, Jamie Squibb and Sean Vukovic all make an appearance in their own little sections. Definitely one of the finer freestyle films on the market at the moment!
8/10

Psychomoto
If you wanna know how to get the best from your supermoto bike then this is the DVD for you as it explains how to do stoppies and wheelies but most important of all – how to back it in like a pro. It’s also worth checking out to catch some amazing footage from the Mettet Superbiker event.
6/10

Faisst: Mentally Twisted
This DVD is worth watching just to see Brian Deegan play the role of Officer Boner Skalansky in one of the many hilarious skits that run alongside the top-shelf FMX action. But be warned, the adult nature of some of the scenes depicted in this DVD should only be seen by a more mature – but at the same time slightly immature – audience.
Probably the best segment in this whole DVD comes in the ‘extras’ section as there’s plenty of footage from the foampit as Twitch and Faisst learn the flip!
Awesome!
8/10

Metal Anger
Call me a liar but I’m pretty sure that ‘metal ’anger’ was one of Eliza Doolittle’s lines from the movie My Fair Lady. While this ’ere movie doesn’t star Audrey ’Epburn it does ’ave an ’ole ’ost of modern day FMX ’eroes including Brian Sheppard, Nicky Danielson and the world’s most underated freestyler ever to sling his leg across a bike – Myles Richmond.
It’s well worth buying just to see how smooth Mylo is on a bike but when you throw in a little FMX-style carnage as well as some other top riding then you know you’ve got yer money’s worth!
9/10

Bar to Bar: Supercross 2005
If you love AMA supercross and you’ve got over four hours to kill why not take out two birds with one stone? Simply slot this DVD in your player then put your feet-up and relax to the sight of Ricky Carmichael doing what he does best – killing the competition in stadia around the good ole
US of A.
With all the 125 and 250 action from each and every round – except Daytona (don’t ask!) – you get a blow-by-blow account of almost the entire 2005 SX season. And there are plenty of interviews and all the gossip from the season’s press conferences on the ‘extras’ disc too. Sweet!
9/10

Travis and the Nitro Circus 3
Travis and his dumb-ass redneck buddies (gosh darn
hillbillies – Marge) are back for the third installment of the very popular Nitro Circus series of DVDs. Right from the off the action comes thick and hard as anything and everything (including Travis’ buddies) is crashed, thrashed or trashed – often with hilarious consequence.
Also worth watching to see the world’s first double back-flip landed to dirt.
8/10

50 Nuts 2: More Boobs
Personally I was shocked by this DVD’s name and I almost refused to watch it (I’m a good boy really) but then I remembered just how sweet the original 50 Nuts was and decided to dive in regardless!
The case of the DVD promises to deliver bigger hits, bigger tricks and bigger tits and I can’t really argue with that statement.
50 Nuts 2 is more of a lifestyle DVD than an all-out action movie but that’s not a bad thing and it certainly fills a gap in the Over 18s minibike movie market!
8/10

FMX Riot: Duel in the Desert
What a great idea! Take some of the world’s best freestylers and dump them in the desert with no ramps or tape measures and see who can bust biggest on natural terrain.
With bad-ass riding skills from world class FMXers including Metz, Twitch, Todd Potter and Busty Wolter the action comes thick and fast from the dunes of Glamis and the hills of Ocotillo.
And as an added bonus for fans of on-screen freestyle magic FMX Riot is the first ever freerange mosickle movie to be shot in High Definition – resolutiontastic dudes!
7/10

Bubba’s Flying 50 Freak Circus
This DVD follows the rules of the old saying ‘never judge a book by its cover’. The sleeve may kid you into thinking you’re about to be bored rotten but the action inside is fricking awesome.
Basically this DVD’s all about Bubba and his cronies as they do their freestyle groupie bit before the lard-tub Lothario checks out a myriad of minibike magic from right around the globe. Ack, it’s hard to explain it all in detail so just go buy, beg or borrow a copy.
8/10

The Enduro at Erzberg
Whoever came up with the title for this DVD needs a good shoeing and he or she is not the only one. The hairstylist of cover stars David Knight and Kurt Nicoll is equally in need of a good word – at least Ronnie Renner and Travis Pastrana had the good sense to keep their hats on – but luckily you can’t just judge a DVD by its coverstars’ hairstyles.
The Erzberg Enduro’s probably the toughest single-day event in the world and this DVD shows it off in all its gruesome glory! It’s a Discovery Channel documentary style affair but there’s enough fast-paced action to keep you hooked right to the end.
8/10