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Written by Goba
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Welcome to the
website of Grant “Goba” O’Brien. I am a photo journalist from Australia based in Northern NSW who specialises in capturing the action and lifestyle of motorcycle related sports. I am also passionate about music, adventure, travel, extreme sports, nature, people's stories, and am available for photography/journalist work covering all of the above so if you need a moment captured in either medium then please contact me at gobadirt @ gmail.com (no spaces) or phone
+61466598525 to talk further. I look forward to hearing from you … Enjoy the
site!
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Homegrown Maniacs TV Airing Soon |
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Written by Goba
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It’s been a while coming but the Australian Home Grown Maniacs TV series that aims to capture the Aussie extreme sports culture, including sports freestyle motocross, skate boarding, surfing, and BMX, will officially air Down Under on Fuel TV, July 4th.
The driving force behind the HGM series is West Oz photo/film/journo Leith “Holtzy” Holtzman. Holtzy is the man largely responsible for unearthing many of Australia’s early FMX riders when the sport took off here more than a decade ago. His road-trips discovering new talent inspired him to produce the first full-blown FMX movie in Oz named “Homegrown Maniacs”, and he has also contributed feature stories to Freerider MX magazine since its humble beginnings in 2000 to now.
I recently caught up with Holtzy to get the low-down on his latest venture, what inspired him to produce it, and to find out just what Aussie fans can expect when they tune into the new HGM series. 'To read interview click here'
The HGM crew party in style. Pic courtesy HGM
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"Why don't I feel excited", I thought to myself as I walked away from
the Crusty Demons 'Beyond the Apocalypse' show held at Sydney's Acer
Arena. All around me there were thousands of people that obviously
were, and so they should be as they'd just seen some of the world's
best riders perform the latest and greatest and most insane FMX tricks
known to man kind. 'To read more click here'
At times I wondered who were the stars of the show?
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Four days before the first round of the 2009 Redbull X-Fighters freestyle event went down in Mexico City the relatively unknown Kiwi Levi Sherwood said, “This is one event I've always wanted to ride in and hopefully I'll do good.”
Filling in for Jeremy “Twitch” Stenburg was a dream come true for Levi and the boy did more than good, he killed it!
 Levi Sherwood has the big tricks and he executes them with mad style. Photo credit: Jorg Mitter/Red Bull photo files
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Written by Goba
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Online magazine 'Smoothness', dedicated to FMX sequences, have run a two-part feature highlighting several of my sequence photos taken over the last six years. Smoothness features photo sequences from photographers world-wide and Tobias Hanig, originator/editor of the magazine, does a sweet job of putting it all together.
You can check out part 2 of my feature in the latest issue by 'clicking here' ,and check out part 1 by clicking the January issue in 'Archives' on the Smoothness site.
My sequence of Mat Rebeaud ran on the January cover of Smoothness
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Fresh off the NZ Crusty tour and injury free Bilko plans to spend over a month in the US riding with mates, catching up with sponsors, and basically having fun — as he does, wherever he goes. Bilko's experienced some of his highest and lowest moments of his FMX career while in America and he plans to build on his strength over the coming months to ensure he makes it through the season injury free.
Bilko and Sincs on NZ Crusty Tour. Pic courtesy of Bilko22.com
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