Check out Shane Brennan’s BMX edit from weeks 5 and 6 at Woodward! He is a 13 year old bmxer from New Jersey. @shanebrennanbmx

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12 year old BMX rider Tyler Bush, killin it in Week 5 Woodward West camp experience 2014. Watch the movie!

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Ok, let’s start off with your name and age: Kaden “DUBBY” Stone 10 years old
Where you live? Lake Elsinore Ca
You seem to spend lots of time at Ben’s backyard. How far is that from your house? It’s about an hour and 15min all depends on California traffic.
Who do you usually ride with there and how does that influence your riding? I ride with a lot of different people mostly Daniel Sandoval, Ryan Guettler, Kris Fox, Aj Anaya
Best time at Ben’s Backyard? Every time I go it’s the best time. Just to hang out with all of the guys and try new things.
Sponsors? VANS, Freegun, ODI, Sunday Bikes
What size bike do you ride? Sunday Primer 16
When do you think you will move up to the next size bike? Maybe in a few months I really have not grown much.
How old were you when you started to BMX and can you remember what motivated you to start? I started to ride bikes when I was 2. My dad would take me out to the little dirt jumps behind our house and let me go crazy. He always knew I needed something more so one day he decided to take me to the skate park. When we pulled up I got to see a young Daniel Sandoval blasting all over the place and thats when I was hooked and found my true love for BMX
How much time do you spend riding? I try to ride at least 3 days during the week and ride all weekend. Hopefully soon my backyard will be built up so I can ride all the time.

Kaden Stone blasting and casually dropping a hand.

What gets you really stoked to go out and ride BMX? Friends and helping others out paying it back.  I have been blessed to have pros help me out with everything in BMX and paying it back and having fun is the best part of BMX
Favorite Type of Riding? Park
You recently went to a pretty large contest at the Kitchen skatepark. What were the best times there? The whole trip was fun it was my first time away from my parents and my first time out of state for a comp. It was so cool to hang out with Brett and to see him on his bike and how he looks at life. I was really excited to be the youngest to do the step down as it was a huge accomplishment for me it was really scary and pushed me to overcome my fears.
Who did you travel with? I traveled with Daniel Sandoval, Ryan Guttler and my big bro Jared Stone
What tricks are on your list to learn next? I would like to take my double whips to the air and also get my flairs higher and bigger.
Have you had any bad injuries from BMX? Yes I have had a few. I broke my collar bone, broke my nose twice and also fractured my skull.

Seems like you’ve had a pretty good start with BMX. Do you have any goals of what you’d like to achieve in BMX? I like to motivate other kids my age and give them the confidence that anything is possible if you just keep working and pushing yourself. My personal goal would be to go pro and be in xgames when I’m 15 and travel the world with my bike.
Do you have any advice for kids your age or younger who are just starting with BMX? Just find someone you enjoy to have around you and have fun!!! All the tricks will come in time just have fun and keep pushing your limits.
Do you have any shout outs or thanks? I would like to thank the companies that support me VANS, Freegun, ODI and Sunday bikes. Big shout out to Daniel Sandoval for all of his help the past 5 years and to all of the other pros that continue to help me progress. Aj , Ryan, Alex and many more.

Thanks Kaden!

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Age: 13 Where do you live? Campbell River B.C.

What’s the riding scene like there? Pretty good actually. In the small town I live in we have a decent park to ride and Vancouver Island has some jams every year. There is also a yearly contest series in Vancouver, which is about 5 hours away.

What size bike do you ride? 19.8

What size of BMX did you start riding on? 18

How old were you when you started riding and what got you into BMX? Before BMX riding I remember ripping around our skatepark on my little mountain bike and dropping in our bowl when I was 5. When I was about 7, I was out with my dad and we stopped in a local bike shop. We didn’t even plan on it, but I remember coming home with a 18 inch Haro, just stoked on life. I started going to the skatepark to ride every chance I would get (which means when it wasn’t raining!). Luckily I live 5 minutes from the park.

How much time do you spend riding? Weather permitted about 6 hours every day, and I try to get more in whenever I can!

Do you do anything to get stoked to ride? Throw in Markit or Deadline, do some stretches but after 12:00 I’m raring to go.

Funnest times riding? There’s lots to pick from! Riding at Woodward was probably one of my favorite. Meeting the colony team, I thought pros would be like athletes and stuff. Everyone’s friends with everyone like Ryan Guetler? Hes definately someone I look up to after that experience. Also something like Alex Hiam messaging me about remembering me from woodward and stuff, after my edit dropped? That stuff doesn’t happen in soccer.

Lochlainn O’Leary tweaking a lookback air out of a bowl.

You obviously ride a lot of street. What do you like about street riding? Well there’s not too much street around me but I like the style, how chill and casual it looks, it’s pretty good feeling too , it looks so dope and freedom! But I love sessioning parks too!

Do you have any BMX goals for this summer? Hit up another recon tour, Woodward west for sure and film and progress and just have a fun summer honestly.

What is your ultimate BMX goal? Well get to somewhere warm probably, California or Austin, Travel a lot for sure, and maybe pick up a couple sponsors and live my dream, but most of all I want to have fun with it haha

How do you get over the metal barrier or fear of trying a new trick? Work my way up or I just tell myself I’ll be more mad if I don’t try it then if I send it and eat it haha

How do you chill after a good session? Hangout with some friends, mess around my trampoline or just go home and surf the web.

If you could ride with any pro for a day which one would you choose? Most likely Dennis Enarson or Garrett Reynolds, because they’re straight up legends but I don’t even know, haha, they all look like cool human beings and there all mind blowing.

Worst injury? First time and only time at Woodward. High jump competition. Crashed from 10 feet & did scorpion to flat on my head. I got bad concussion and was flown out to a hospital in Bakersfield. I couldn’t ride for 2 weeks!!

What is your best BMX memory? In the past year my favorite memory would be a trip i took to Oregon, to Ride in recon tour. I was really stoked because my buddy’s Nathan and Adam, who absolutely shred, were down there too. I met up with them at Tigard skate park and had good session. The next day I ended up winning recon 12 & under, and Adam took pro first place!!

Do you have any advice for kids your age or younger who are just starting with BMX? HAVE FUN!!! Haha it’s an amazing sport and hobby and lifestyle don’t take yourself too seriously and don’t get into the shady side of it!

Anything else you’d like to share? Nothing really, just thanks to my parents for being amazing and supporting me to go ride small bikes instead of doing soccer and football and everything you do for me. All my friends and whoever’s picked up and camera and got some footy of me or took a photo!

What do you think of BMX Groms? It’s dope place for younger riders to share their riding and to check others out love the support for the next gen of shredders!

Icepick grind down a hand rail. Lochlainn is not even close to average.

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Lewis Cunningham rides street at an unbelievable level for an 11 year old. Watch this edit as he destroys the streets of England. Nose mannys, hangfives, kinked rails… yeah, this is a must watch!

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