Kevin Jones, 19 & Over Expert, AFA Masters, Austin, TX (May 2, 1987)
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As Mike Daily wrote in "Kevin Jones: The Man. The Interview." published in Aggro Rag Freestyle Mag! Plywood Hoods Zines '84-'89: The Complete Collection (Stovepiper Books Media, 2013):
Skyway rushed to sponsor Kevin Jones after his second place finish in 19 & Over Expert at Round 3 of the AFA Masters series held May 2, 1987, in Austin, Texas.
Kevin pulled stall lawnmower to backwards peg picker into trolley (his head tube-straddling, no-handed scuff); and uptight wheelie (his upside down backwards wheelie while turning the cranks by hand) into straddle.
Kevin also premiered standing room only (his standing-upright backwards infinity roll); elephant glide (his sitting-on-the-crossbar while letting-the-back-end-of-the-bike-swing-around foot-drag scuff); and then--after he had run out of time, unfortunately--locomotive (his backyard-like progression of his tag sanity hops). Kev actually coasted the locomotive without scuffing (locomotive glide) then pulled it off.
Lew reported in the September '87 issue of FREESTYLIN' Magazine:
"Kevin Jones got the crowd louder during his run than anyone else the whole weekend, including the pros. Every trick he did looked impossible yet was wired. He had a style so fresh it's gonna take even the best guys a few months to catch up. He did one of those runs that left every man, woman, and child in the arena stunned. He got second place."
Haro's Rick Moliterno--ever the man to beat in 19 & Over Expert--got first. Kevin later told Spike Jonze for FREESTYLIN' (August '89): "I would have been satisfied if I'd have made the top ten, and then I got second. I didn't know why there was all the controversy about it...[Rick] beating me. I was just glad to get second, plus I got sponsored. That's all I really wanted to do anyways was get sponsored. I never really cared about getting first."
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10 times better than anyone riding at the time! He also had innovated the whole sport of flatland. This marks the change of all flatland forever!
3 minutes that changed everything about flatland from that point on...
Game changer. I think this is the earliest Kevin Jones footage and it's hard to believe this was only a year or two after pro riders were still doing lawnmowers and front wheels hops in contests. I can't imagine what it would be like witnessing this in person - seeing KJ doing a peg picker (an advanced trick at the time ) and suddenly he starts rolling! And on wobbly Tuff wheels, no less.
Wow! Hard tricks and very brilliant connections. Genius!
the run that changed everything.
I never saw KJ compete or ride for that matter. Only pics in the magazines showing how to do tricks. There was 1 that took up 2 pages. Can't recall the trick but he was on a Skyway. It wasn't til maybe 2019 I found the Dorkin' videos that I finally saw his talent. Definitely the game changer! In 1988 I saw rolling tricks being the thing to do. Way too frustrating for me to try though I did try. By 1990 I quit riding all together.
The Hitchhiker got me. I could sort of ride into it, and end up in position, then I’d end up stepping a foot off or leaning forward. Practiced for hours on the double yellow line down the middle of a road in front of my friends house. Good memories.
HUGE game-changer in the sport, right there.
The Godfather of modern flatland.
History being made.
Smoothest operator !!!!!!
So good!!
THE BOSS KEVIN
Awesome!
That was insane! I've never seen those tricks before
Things got REAL complicated REAL quick and this contest run had many people giving up the flatland game forever! Kevin is the Godfather of modern flatland!
rolling tricks started in the Midwest US. There were kids doing variations of all these tricks throughout Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan in late 1986-87. Kevin Jones was older, put it all together and brought it to the masses. That's fact.
So who started the rolling tricks in the Midwest? I thought Kevin started all of this.
1:25 me when my mum orders pizza 🤣🤣🤣
Aside from the pinky squeaks, I think his entire run was all his own original tricks! Who can say they've done that?!
The backwards infinity roll at the end was RL's creation although Kev introduced the standing version.
I was there. He got second place behind Rick Moliterno.
You were there....where was the event located? Just curious.
He never got the credit he deserved.
and then came KJ........
I can shred Fiola