vorhese, www.bmx-test.com, august 2001 : I have been lucky. Most of the videos I've seen recently have been pretty good. And I was definitely not disappointed with Mutiny's first team video. When the intro segment started playing, I immediately knew I'd be in for a treat... a mostly all street video, with a tad of ramp and dirt thrown in. I love watching street ever changing locations, ingenuity, creativity.
The rider sections start with Walter Pieringer. The first 4 tricks he tries, he takes it. And the last one is a rail mishap which results in a flying bike to the head. After that, he goes off on high ledge manuals and this insane ramp to roof(?) 50/50 stall. Top Notch. Next is Nate Moroshan. Able to grind rails on both sides, tailwhips, crooked grinds on rails. Nice. And he takes it on a feeble with a pit. Kerry Sayre follows. Most of his stuff is at Chenga World and Section 8 on ramps. But he takes it outside for a few things. Nice tats.
The next section is Brian Lee. More both side rail grinding, rail feebles, a sweet 180 feeble down a inclined ledge, and one of the raddest 180 stair gaps I've seen. Will Bissel... oh yeh, this guy can flow. Cowboy hat manuals, backwards bunnyhops down stairs, nollie 360's down stairs, and a dope 10 gallon drum fastplant.
Alright, now my favorite rider section: Joe Simon. Yes, I play favorites. He's Austin's local super hero, hardcore underground rider. Many gap to feebles, ditch riding, and things that just defy description. Plus this guy has style. Finally Dan Pors. Opposite foot forward rail icepick, rail manuals, school yard gap (impress the kids), so much stuff.
This video has it all: drunks, security guards taking it, a crash section (the laugh after Joe Simons monster 50/50 stall attempt is priceless), and awesome riders. The soundtrack kills: Old Metallica, ACDC, Boy Sets Fire, Van Halen. There is so much stuff in this video that will rock your socks I don't want to give it away. Put this video on your priority list NOW.
www.videoxsports.com : From the creators of American Scream comes Throw Your Bike, this is a video about the love and joy of riding. From Texas to Michigan, Ohio to California, we have captured the true nature of what it is to risk your life for fun. The riders of Throw Your Bike aren’t superstars or glory hounds. The only egos here are crushed and bruised. Get a good grip on the edge of your seat, for there will be much weeping and nashing of teeth...
vorhese, www.bmx-test.com, june 2001 : Mutiny's "American Scream" is probably one of my favorite videos. It's fast paced, well-edited, and thoroughly enjoyable. Now Mutiny has released a new video entitled "Throw Your Bike." In a way, it could be titled "American Scream 2" as a lot of the footage is additional shots not used in "American Scream." But unlike Metallica's Reload album, this video isn't just leftovers. More crazy riding, more insane falls, more pounding music this video delivers the goods.
Edited again by Mutiny owner Steev Inge, there are the usual random sections mixed in with rider sections. Neal Harrington, Bill Bachman, Albe's superstar Flipper, Joe Prisel, the insane Austin Green, Ojay Juarez, Joe Simon, Walter Pieringer, and many more make an appearance. Riding all over the country from Texas to Ohio to California with a lot of recognizable skateparks such as Chenga, Freestyle, Transitions, Section 8 "Throw Your Bike" is well rounded (again flatland gets the shaft).
There were definite stand outs in the film. After visiting Ft. Worth and hearing about Ojay Juarez, I clearly see why he receives all the acclaim. Brakeless, tech, and smooth. Mark Filipowitz gives an overdose of park and a little street sesh. And he is apparently a dork.
Ride Magazine's review claimed this video was good but just didn't flow. I couldn't disagree more. Although "American Scream" remains my favorite of the two, "Throw Your Bike" is a definite must buy. Go support Steev Inge's company Mutiny and receive an awesome video in return.
Lance, www.bmx-test.com, july 2002 : It seems starting off the review for this video is giving me a lot more trouble than it should. I could start off with telling you about how well the music flows with the video, or I could start of with the fact that the editing is awesome (done by Joe Simon himself), but I choose the easy route... the riding.
The riding in the video is strictly Mutiny's pro team (unlike the other videos they produced) with a little b-team here and there. With no intended disrespect to their other productions, "Subversion" far exceeds all before it. The Mutiny team is a very diverse group of guys that keep the video interesting throughout its entirety, no repetitive style that makes you feel as if you are watching the same rider with different clothes on the whole time. I won't give away too much as to what goes down where in the video, but I will tell you this, for every rider in the video there is at least one "rewind" trick to go along with their part. My personal favorites were Ojay's, and without a doubt... Joe Simon's. Myself, I was not really interested in Simon before this video as far as his riding goes, but I guarantee after you see some of the shit he does in this vid, you too will agree he is one great rider. Not to take anything away from any of the other riders in any way, they all are very good to say the least. If you disagree I'll tell you this much... regardless whether you love or hate Walter Perringer, he is way sicker than you could ever imagine. If you could only tailwhip concrete insanity or trick retarded steep spines - mother fucking pop, ladies and gentlemen. Oh, and fast foward through all the fuzz at the end to see the secret section, videos just aren't the same without them lately.
-Five Stars- quality editing and music alone make the video worthy. this is one of those videos you just like to watch over and over repeatedly.
Vorhese, www.bmx-test.com, february 2002 : I'm a big fan of Mutiny and the Mutiny team. They somehow still remain just below the big-wig radar, yet put out great products. And the team is great: Brian Lee, Dan Pors, Joe Simon, Neil Harrington, Ojay Juarez, and Walter Peiringer. The latest Mutiny video, "Subversion," is Joe Simon's first Mutiny film edit, and if you've seen stuff from him before (Trend 2000), you'll understand this guy has skills. I'm a big fan of Joe Simon. I've met him a few times, I've seen him ride, and he's a fairly nice guy. And if you watch him ride you know he's batshit insane. This video, "Subversion," is definitely one of the stand out bmx videos of the year.
I don't want to do a rider by rider account of the video nor list the big tricks. But trust me, there are definitely 3 tricks I wish I could blurt out right now so that you will get this video. Ask a friend, I don't want to be responsible for ruining the video. But this video contains two of the smoothest and most stylish riders I've seen: Ojay Juarez and Dan Pors. Watching these guys ride, especially Ojay being brakeless, makes me drool. I only wish I had that much skill. Brian Lee and Walter once again are nut-ass punks (If someone knows what Walter yells in the coffee shop, please email me). Neil Harrington looks about twice the size of his bike yet pulls off a trick that left my mouth wide open. And Joe Simon is a berserker. Watching that guy ride reminds me of an intelligent yet insane Van Homan. This video WILL NOT disappoint.
In all, this is my favorite of the Mutiny videos for sure. This video, along with Etnies' "Forward" and Little Devil's "Criminal Mischief," makes up this year's triad Of BMX videos that you cannot miss. Also, stay tuned after the credits for another section (shouldn't we all expect this by now?). 9/10.
kyle4130, www.bmx-test.com, august 2002 : Well this is the latest team video from Mutiny and it is the best video I have ever seen. I didn't see "American Scream" (although I plan on getting a copy) so I can't compare it to that. I have seen the Animal video, which was great, but in terms of progressive street riding, "Subversion" pisses all over it!
The editing is handled by Joe Simon, also this is the first product I have seen from him, and I don't mind saying this is hands down the the best edited video I have, with a wide range of artistic techniques that other videos are lacking.
The video contains full sections from Dan Pors, Ojay Juarez, Walter Peringer, Neil Harrington and Joe Simon. It also has shorter interlaced sections from Thomas Stellwag, Will Bissell, Brian Lee and Jason Suchan, who all rip it up.
the old cliche of a trick list not giving the video justice, applies heavily to "Subversion" but none the less, I am writing a review so I will give a brief guide to the sort of stuff going on here. Dan Pors does a manual, hop, half back pedal in the air to an icepick down a rail, Ojay Juarez (who's section I thought had amazing unique style to the music and the editing) has some unbelievable fakie combos, Walter Perringer, no joke ten foot over a spine and he does a tailwhip gap that is ridiculous, I feel an ass for not of hearing of Neil Harrington before but he does a 180 over to double peg down a handrail on street,
If I am not mistaken, this is the first time that has been done on street. Joe Simon ends the show with a walride up the 7ft curved wall in Austin (no bank) to ice pick the top, it was amazing.
The riding is 80% street with the rest park. No trails here. Although I love trails, this was not hyped as a trails video so I was not under the wrong impression. The music matches perfectly, with a range of styles from Radiohead to Iron Maiden, with everything covered inbetween.
So in closing, I think this video exceeds all previous and is an absolute masterpiece. Props to Mutiny and of course, Joe Simon, who you should thank for bringing this into our lives. (Do I need to give it a rating? You should know that you MUST BUY THIS VIDEO NOW!)
bmxandie21, www.bmx-test.com, august 2002 : This video is sooo good. I give it an 11 out of 10. If you have been let down by the quality of riding in other videos because Criminal Mischief blew it all away, let's just say this video is for you. 99% of the stuff is new inventive street stuff I never thouht possible. Ever seen an over backwards grind down a handrail??? I didn't think so. Im in no way giving this video a good review cause I once owned a Mutiny...trust me. The editing is magnificent, don't let Joe Simon's sloppy works in the Trend video fool you (You are kidding right? Please TELL ME YOU'RE KIDDING! -jas), the music is great as well. The video consists of team riders DAN PORS (holy shit), Neil Harington, Joe Simon, Walter Pieringer, Ojay Juarez who have full length parts.... Brian Lee, Jason Suchan, Will Bissel, Some English dude, and a few others. The video also contains a very very good and very secrety section I missed the first two times out of the 5 I watched it today (yes I watched it 5 times in a single day). It runs 45 mins. It's 90% inventive, burly, amazing street, 9% crazy park footy, 1% dogs humping blankets and stories about being bit in the nipple. I probably sound a little weird but how good this video is... can't be said in a single paragraph. Please watch this video, have your rewind button ready, and watch closely.
fallenclothing03, www.bmx-test.com, july 2003 : Every review of Subversion I've seen on here so far has been totally positive. Even so, I think 100 reviews couldnt do justice to this video. I will start with all the negative stuff... I really don't like Ojay Juarez. He's brakeless/4 pegs and just does little stupid shit that gets boring. He does a few sick things though, but generally I skip his part. Even though its good, the Brian Lee/B Team section is pretty boring. Jason Suchan's part in the B Team section is ridiculous though.
Now for the good...the intro to the video is unbelievable. Not so much the riding, but just the overall uniqueness of the editing, music, etc. Immediately you will notice that this video is very different. Blended with the intro is a clip of Dan Pors missing a manual to 180 and yelling...then it freezes and Dan Pors' section starts (the individual rider intros are amazing too). Pors throws down some of the sickest riding I've ever seen and you will never see anybody do x-up manuals like he can. Next is Brian Lee/B Team and Ojay Juarez sections which I already talked about. Walter Perringer is next. He has pretty ugly style and overuses barspins worse than Nyquist, but he rides to Iron Maiden and his section has a few of the craziest things in the video. Next up is Neil Harrington. He is without a doubt the most underrated rider out there today. He grinds left and right so well that it makes you question whether or not he has a natural grind side. I think I counted around 10 things in his part that had never been done before this video came out. He is also literally 7 feet tall which makes everything he does even that much more amazing. His last trick is something that you would never expect to see...easily one of the craziest rail tricks ever done and from a rider who few people even know about. Joe Simon closes the video, and probably deservingly, although he is the one who edited it so it kind of seems selfish giving himself the closing part, but oh well. Imagine if Jim Cielencki and Van Homan were merged into one rider and you would have Joe Simon. He does so many unique grinds and variations while still throwing down ridiculous gap to rails and making it all look dialed as hell. There's a secret section after a bunch of fake static that is a bunch of extra riding thats pretty damn sick, plus some crashes and stuff. On the DVD that secret section is bonus section 1 and you also get 2 other bonus sections which have even more unbelievable riding, mainly by Neil Harrington and Dan Pors as well as their first American Scream video. Neil Harrington, Joe Simon, and Dan Pors are 3 of the most underrated riders there are today and it's amazing that more people haven't heard of these guys. In addition to the riding, there are things which truly make this a great video. First, the editing throughout is amazing. Joe Simon did a great job and it's really artsy at some parts but during the sections it's just cut and dry riding...no overused replays and multi-angled shots. The music in every section fits perfectly and it's not like some videos where there is one theme (like how Wide Awake Nightmare was mostly 80s rock). Most importantly, I have watched this video countless times...possibly over a hundred, who knows...but to this day I still do not get bored of the video whereas I got bored with Forward, got bored with Wide Awake Nightmare to a point, even eventually got bored of Criminal Mischief and Animal.
Bottom Line...riding wise, Wide Awake Nightmare has surpassed this, but this video got no hype and was totally unique in everyway. This is the only video out there that truly deserves a 10/10.
This video features Morgan Wade, Danny Hickerson, Joe Riley, Mike Hernandez, and Ryan Mills, as well as a few other people in friends/split sections.
In some areas, I was let down. This is not a team video so most of the guys from Subversion are not in this. Neil Harrington has a few clips in the random section and Walter Peiringer has a half section and that’s it. This video also has a lot of the same stuff over and over (cement park lines, turndowns/tables/darksides over hips, etc.) that makes the video boring in some ways.
Most of the sections were pretty boring all in all, so I'll just get to the good stuff, the last 2 sections. Much like in Subversion, the best parts end the video and in my opinion the person who got the last part shouldn't have (Neil Harrington should have had the last part in Subversion, not Joe Simon).
Danny Hickerson comes through with easily one of the best parts I've ever seen. This guy can spin and tailwhip both ways so amazingly well it makes you wonder if the term "opposite" applies to any of it. He does some of the most innovative tech stuff I've ever seen and pulls out a number of tricks that you would probably not think were possible. This guy 360 whipped a spine to manual to 180 at Roots, just to give you some idea. He also does a few sick tricks with his feet backwards. His bonus footage on the DVD is amazing as well.
Morgan Wade closes the video, and I think it has more to do with the fact that he is Morgan Wade and less to do with how good his part is. His part is very good though, but really nothing compared to Danny Hickersons. His part also comes across as very unbalanced... it goes from tricks like 720 x-ups and flipwhips to riding tiny trails and doing tailwhips over pyramids. If you've heard stuff about him before, this part is pretty much what you should expect in terms of the big tricks.
The theme of this video is supposed to be just a bunch of riders having fun, and somehow that equates to a lot of candy bars, one footers, and dancing. I don't know if that’s my idea of fun but I guess its there’s so whatever floats your boat.
The bonus footage is really good and shows a lot of stuff from different angles and tricks that were almost pulled but still worth watching. I also love the editing of this video with the collage of riders... it is really simple but unique at the same time and not overdone in anyway.
Overall this video is worth buying for Danny Hickerson's part alone, although Morgan Wade's part isn't bad either. Rating: 7/10. Buy it for Danny's part, or just borrow it off someone. Whatever works for you.
