No Flips, No Whips* - The Vans US Open Style Guide

*Alright, one whip...

3 Aug 2015

  • vans US open bmx brandon means larry edgar
  • vans US open bmx brandon means clint reynolds 2 1
  • vans US open bmx brandon means corey bohan
  • vans US open bmx brandon means dan foley
  • vans US open 2015 bmx brandon means trey jones 2
  • vans US open bmx brandon means matt cordova 3
  • vans US open bmx brandon means matt cordova
  • vans US open bmx brandon means matt roe 2
  • vans US open bmx brandon means steve crandall darryl nau
  • vans US open bmx brandon means kriss fox 3
  • vans US open bmx brandon means tom dugan 2
  • vans US open bmx brandon means tom dugan
  • vans US open bmx brandon means dennis enarson
  • vans US open bmx brandon means dennis enarson 10

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Photos courtesy of Vans / Brandon Means

A lot of wise words were spoken in the classic BF-IT documentary but maybe none more so than those by the infamous Harold McGruther (AKA McGoo) who said, "unlike that flippity-whippity bullshit, style never goes out of style". He's right of course but in recent years BMX has been plagued with bad style merchants at contest masquerading amongst the good, like hangers on a party no-one really wanted to be at in the first place, all elbows up bumping into people and knocking shit over left right and centre. Wether it's been down to the supposed decline in BMX popularity over recent years, resulting in a weeding out of the hangers-on, we'll never know, but most people at this years Vans US Open of Surfing Van Doren Invitational Comp were straight up styling it right out of the park. Here's a few of our favourite and most styish images from over the weekend. Let's see more of this please!

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