Justin Kosman Photography

BMX Training Book Photoshoot

Romero and BMX Olympic Training

This week I worked on a series of photos for a new book being published by Olympic BMX Coach, Greg Romero. Romero has been all over the world racing a professional and has most recently achieved great success working with some of the new Elite BMX racers in the United States.  Romero led both Mike Day (USA) and Jill Kintner (USA) to Olympic Medals in the 2008 Beijing Olympics working as an independent coach for Mike and Jill’s sponsor, Red Bull Energy Drink. Romero is putting the finishing touches on a training book that is clear cut, and the the point regarding the essential training habits of top BMX racers. 
Greg drops his knowledge here.

The calm before the storm

More like eye the the storm. I’ve been busy!

It is the middle of July and wow has this summer skated by faster than ever.
A couple weeks ago I had to pull a double banger and go straight from the X-Fighters event in Ft. Worth, TX up north to Madison, Wisc for a shoot with Cam white that had over twenty separate video components. Final Cut got a work out on that one for sure and so did my server. Fourth of July weekend was pretty laid back with a session at Enarson’s ramps.  Little did I know that he has moved into his own place and so have several other guys.  There is only a mini ramp in his garage but I expect he will be coming over to his old address to ride as much as possible. I was able to hook up with Jason Richardson (who plays it family man these days) and Greg Romero (who plays it Olympic Trainer these days) and go surfing in Encinitas a couple times over the weekend.  I forgot how big a 3-4 forecast really is when the nose of your 9Fish drags on a drop-in. It was great, despite the crowded waters everyone got a little taste when the right set came in ... and when the wrong set came in we all were blasted back to the shore anyways.  Lately I’ve been filming here and there with Gary Young for his Vans Dunbar shoe commercial and trying to do some more unique locations and accommodate his recent knee surgeries.  I have to make it out with Cory Nastazio one more time to get some riding footage for his next commercial as well. Rarely do I have the the problem of needing filler clips, but it seems like the few shots I have of Cory are all bangers so it is a good problem to have. Speaking of footage, a week from today I am headed out to Colorado to shoot with Josh Harrington and Rob Darden for ten days.  The last ten day trip I went on I spent 8 of those days with a broken hand, so this one should be a cake walk. I say that now.  But while I am in Denver, I’m looking forward to seeing Derek Balmer of The Holdfast Creative. Derek is the graphic artist and web designer who whipped this website into shape and I’m happy that we are working on another small project together dropping around X Games. After we rock out in The Rockies I will be shooting the Nike 6.0 park contest in Huntington Beach and then it’s up to Los Angeles for a week of behind the scenes video production and editing with the Espn crew.
I’m excited to be this busy with everything that is folding all around us it seems like independent creatives are being called upon to act immediately and often to execute specific shoots and creative projects. 
And last but not least, Levi’s BMX has a new ad featuring Dakota Roche that we shot in Hawaii when him and Morgan Wade session the fence gap.
Check out the ad below!

Odyssey Bike Check

Dirt Ron Bike Check and Sweet ODSY Flipbook

Dirt Ron put together a new whip and was riding during the International Day of Tabletops in San Diego last week.
I shot a couple pics of him for a bike check up on Odyssey.
Ron is co-sponsored by ODSY through his affiliation with Give D!.
Link to it here: http://www.odysseybmx.com/dailyword/2009/06/dirt-rons-clean-bike/

GAME TIME

XF FW

It’s T Minus 4 hours till game time here in Fort Worth for the X-Fighters event.
We are all going nuts in this heat.
Here is Garth who is well on his way to insanity.

Red Bull X-Fighters

Ft. Worth is hot.

The dream team was re-assembled from the New Years Eve show in Las Vegas to capture the freestyle motocross action of Red Bull X-Fighters here in Ft. Worth, Texas.
Here are some exaggerated facts.
1. Hot and humid. Estimated at 200 degrees.
2. Giant course. Lots of cow pies in the pits.
3. Sinclair was measuring one of the jumps for a double backie attempt.
4. Staying with the legend RVE.
5. It feels too much like X Games; catering and all.
6. My dad is randomly in Dallas, only 30 mins away at a conference. And as luck would have it, our schedules are exactly opposite. He is done at 8pm, I start at 8pm.  See you on Labor Day.
7. Everyone has a 5dMk2. Well not everyone. But half of us are rocking the pro-sumer body at night because the hi-ISO in incredible. I was shooting at 6400 last night and it was crispy. Can’t stand the 9-point AF system though.

More soon.