So Tuesday night I was lucky enough to attend a sneak peek of the new FMX show Nuclear Cowboyz at the LA Sports Arena. Now there have been mumblings about the show for quite sometime now but if you haven't heard of it, it's the best of the best, on tour, doing shows across the country. So who's all on this impressive roster? The show stars Nate Adams and Jeremy "Twitch" Stenberg as leaders of opposing tribes, to round out their tribes Adam Jones, Mike Mason, Ronnie Faisst, Todd Potter, Beau Bamburg, Nixey Danielson, Jim McNeil, Dustin Miller, Matt Buyten, Brian Foster, Jimmie McGuire and Jackson Strong join the cast.
Now before I get onto the press conference, the show and all that other stuff, let me get some
exciting news out first. This was the first event I covered solely for Lil Miss Moto! That's right, check those credentials, whhhaaat! So legit.
Any way, back to what you came to read about. The panel consisted of Nate Adams, Jeremy "Twitch" Stenberg, Kenneth Feld (owner of Feld Entertainment and producer of Nuclear Cowboyz), Barry Lather (Director/ Choreographer) , Mickey Dymond (Famed motocross racer and stunt coordinator for Nuclear Cowboyz) and Todd Jendro (Senior director of operations).
They broke down their visions for the show and how it all came together. Feld who acquired Live Nation Motorsports about a year ago said that he felt FMX had "a lot more potential" and described the show as "performance art on motorcycles."
Twitch and Nate were pumped on their upcoming tour, talking about how doing a choreographed show for fun was a nice change of pace from the competition world. "This is what's fun for us," said Twitch, "You get to go out and ride with your buddies." And with a lineup like that,there are definitely no shortage of buddies around. However, they both admitted that their competitive drive was still strong and despite no trophies or prize money up for grabs they are constantly trying to one up each other, but that's what makes the show so good, no one is slacking off.
I asked how this would be affecting their training schedules, being on tour for the first four months in 2010. Twitch said that the tour was like being paid to practice, where Nate, who has been training for another attempt at Supercross this year, looks at the tour as a break from his rigorous schedule after he's done with the first two supercross stops.
With that, the boys had to get ready for that evening's performance and we were taken around to look at the set which was far from a usual competition set up. The setting of this story was in a "post-apocalyptic after world" and ramps that were made to look like dilapidated buildings and junk piles set the scene perfectly.
One of my partners-in-crime, Bita Masjedi, and I took the opportunity to play around a bit because, let's face it, when there's an opportunity to take fun pictures we never pass it up!
Then it was show time! The show had everything an FMX show promises, fire, half-naked girls, hard rock music and killer synchronized riding. Understanding the actual story was a bit of a stretch but the riding was gnar and that's all that matters! The two "tribes" I mentioned earlier one lead by Nate Adams and the other by Twitch represented a sort of good vs. evil struggle (Twitch's Mulisha riders being the evil "We're always gonna be the bad guys") which created interesting dynamics as the two sides crossed each other and battled it out in mid-air.
The show is fun and with such amazing riding it's def worth seeing. But don't take my word for it, go check em out at a
stop near you!
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