Eaten at me inside for years and years that i never got the invert but on reflection getting this far was more than plenty far enough of a gamble. I've been somehow offered an opportunity to ride the FISE series which has fucked my head up in all sorts of ways tbh.
I'm old as fuck and deep into injury time. I know I can't compete with today's tricks and often share the UK's gnarliest parks with two of british cyclings riders which in my eyes are getting robbed blind by the uci scoring system. (It's not the judging system)
Nobody will give me an honest straight answer why I'm eligible.
I'm calling for everyone's opinions please 🙏hit me with the harshness off your hatred towards either me or the UCI.
I'm 110% not a fan of the current way the UCI handles freestyle BMX, it teaches young riders to only learn the "showman" tricks. At my local there's kids under 14 that can double truck and flip anything, double flairs and other stuff I've ptsd shelfed from witnessing that didn't involve pedals…..you can't blame them though because imagine being young and seeing that the uci is the one direction that is undoubtedly the future of earning from bmx.
Why am I been shoehorned towards it? I'm just a trails rider with a colourful past and addiction problems but am I right or wrong in thinking that if I call out on social media to all 88,000 of you here personally on this bmx reddit community to:
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Tell me your opinion.
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get on your local gnarly mother fucker and get them to apply for a full race elite uci licence then I won't be the only cunt in my boat next year if I follow through with it.
On average for the majority of mtb or bmx UCI events if you finish 28th you will score the 50 points needed to qualify for FISE. It's irrelevant where the points come from. If I'm correct in my understanding you will need to avoid entering UCI C1 and HC category events as their entrants numbers are limited based on uci rank, therefore reducing points available. Correct me if im wrong because it's a minefield.
by rohera4130
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Always been the way, fs managed for years to resist going this way, Hoffman and others all had a better system lined up with their experience from xgames, bs comps and more etc, they were eventually muscled out by the uci when the Olympics came calling.
So what you get is what we see, 100’s of tailwhips and barspins and a lot less creativity in uci points system bmx, hell no one runs pegs or even uses them, let alone a brake related trick. Park riding used to be a lot more varied, but for competition bmx that’s long gone.
My riders have left it all behind and gone off to ride what they want how they want and not chasing uci points, and tbh fair play to them I think they’re having way more fun as a result.
I don’t know you but I’d suggest from your comments here to consider the same.
Fuck the UCI.
Uci is the worst thing that ever happened to bmx