Joomla! site syndication http://jessepuente.com 2010-09-06T22:50:37+01:00 http://jessepuente.com http://jessepuente.com/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png text/html 2007-05-16T22:50:10+01:00 http://jessepuente.com http://jessepuente.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12 Greetings to everyone that's visited my website lately. I'm hard at work promoting flatland along with all forms of BMX along with other organizers/pro riders like Trevlon Hall, Eric Hough and Pete Brandt. We have done good things to build the industry of bmx as one, and we have also combined with innertwineclothing.com so look out for a worldwide tour in 2010.At this time I'm focusing on shows at Great America and will be living here until August 16, 2009. If I have some spare time Pete Brand and I are building protype bike parts with KHE Bikes and ProWheels. It's definitely not easy but we love flatland and we will make sure the products are made correctly. I recently was in a music video for Abstract Rude's new song I think eye can , be sure to look for that on MTV and Youtube.Also Coming out in Jan 2010 is Jackie Chan's new movie The Spy Next Door in which i'm doing stunts for him.I will continue to report on what's up so keep in touch and I will keep on promoting BMXTake care and ride on!- Jesse About Jesse Puente Jesse Puente was originally born in Oregon but moved to Los Angeles when he was 16 years old. He started riding BMX at age 12 and began competing two years later with BMX racing and jumps. But still he did not feel it was the right discipline for him. Eventually, he branched off to ramps and street but noticed something more creative in the BMX scene…Flatland. Slowly flatland began to get more coverage in magazines and videos. He saw riders displaying flatland and noticed the artistic, technical and creative energy that was invested in flatland which came to be the most innovative segment of BMX. His artistic ability soon lead to a career path that will change Jesse’s life forever. In the 90’s, Jesse began competing and landing magazine covers and interviews such as Ride, BMX Plus, Transworld, and Go. In 1994, he placed 2nd in the world at the Worlds in Germany. Then landed a deal with KHE bikes (German based bike company) and designed the Premium Lagger Jesse Puente signature frame. It ended up changing the way flatland frames looked forever with its pure flatland specified geometry. Every detail has been tailored for flatland. Additionally, Jesse has worked with several companies as a design freelancer for the BMX flatland specific shoe and advanced bike systems. For the past decade, Jesse has been competing worldwide with high rankings to countries such as Germany, France, Japan, Amsterdam, Trinidad, and Canada. In 2006/07, Jesse designed his signature frame named the Equilibrium with KHE bikes. Currently, Jesse is still the one of the top BMX Flatland professionals in the world and will continue to compete worldwide. text/html 2004-06-12T11:54:06+01:00 http://jessepuente.com http://jessepuente.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1&Itemid=2 Welcome to Jesse Puente.com! Fansite dedicated just for Jesse Puente. Jesse the crouching tiger Puente interviewed!Big thanks Props to CREAM Magazine (http://www.cream-bmx.com/)!Also, check out this EXTREME SPORTS newspaper article (http://www.khebikes.com/2006/flatland/team/extreme.htm) about Jesse!Who are you, where you from ? What's your life ?I originally was born in Oregon City, Oregon but I moved to Los Angeles when I was 16 to live. I started riding when I was very young but I started to get serious about riding was when I was 14 with BMX racing and jumps and then I started to try ramps and flatland. I looked in the magazines and I saw riders do How-To's and showed flatland tricks, I watched videos of Kevin Jones and Mark Eaton. There were a lot of contest in Oregon and California, I saw riders like Aaron Dull, some guy name Fish, Pete Brandt, Eric Emerson, but in California (late 80’s – early 90’s) alone there were so many dope riders I can’t name them all, the just the Southern California area had dope riders that I rode with like Edgar Plascensia, Richard Zabzydar, Sean McKinney, Ivan Plascensia, Leo Dumlao, Steffon Shultz, Day Smith, Andrew Arroyo, Mark Makee, Chad Jhonston, Stewart Arragon, Chris Day, and that’s just to name a few riders from back in the day. Some still ride and some don’t but their styles I can’t forget. They are the ones that influenced me in many ways, at the same time they pushed me to be more unique because they were. There were a lot of unique riders I came in contact with people that mirror the way European contests or jams are today. Back then, the people were very hungry to learn new tricks and express themselves with style. There wasn't as much attention focused on flatland in the media, almost how like it is looking right now. Less publicity is what pushed flatland to be more unique. I would ride in cold rainy weather in underground parking lots all night. Late nights is when we were at our best, it was all about bringing something to the group that was constructive it wasn’t about jealousy. It took me years to find riders that I can feel comfortable with new tricks and concepts without worrying about someone taking from the group or myself, we always had each others back and that is what kept us inspired.Why the BMX, why the flatland ?The reason why I chose Flatland over any other was because I wanted to try something new that was different in BMX. Now I have no regrets because flatland has become the foundation of ramps and street. A lot of tricks and concepts actually came first from trying it on flat groundwork incorporating it with the laws of physics. Flatland is like science, humans learn through trials and tribulations. Through physics we learn the right balance point and in turn it helps us balance out our lives through artistic creation or by imitating it. Credit: KHEBikes.com text/html 2007-08-08T14:58:24+01:00 http://jessepuente.com http://jessepuente.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13&Itemid=2 early years Jesse Puente :I started riding when I was very young but I started to get serious when I was 14 with BMX racing and jumps. I was riding ABA tracks and then I got into ramps. At 16 or 17, I started to flatland. Jesse Puente : I moved to Los Angeles when I was 16. 1989 5th place, 8 and over expert flatland @ AFA Masters Finals 1989 AFA Masters finals. 1990 1991 Jesse Puente : I met Richard Zabzdyr at the Pete Karney Ride contest, the contest was a riders-judge-each-other contest. Ever since the day I met Richard we were like brothers. Cover : Go september 1991. 1992 Plastic man and Cross-footed hitchiker sequences in BMX Plus! june 1992. Jesse swithed his Mongoose for a Standard (http://www.23mag.com/com/standard/standard.htm) Shorty. Interview : FAT #24 summer 1992 1993 1994 Jesse Puente is the first rider sponsored by Morales (http://www.23mag.com/com/morales/morales.htm) bike company Jesse Puente was featured on the cover of Ride US #10 june july 1994 riding a Morales frame at the 1994 BS contests round 1 in Moreno Valley. Sergio, june 2005 : Jesse won first place in qualifying on Saturday, February 27, 1994. The picture on the cover of Ride #10 was taken during that qualifying run. Flatland finals were held the following morning, Sunday, February 28, 1994. Jesse touched too much and got 2nd Place. First place went to Trevor Meyer, whose near flawless run was a near duplicate of a Chase Gouin/Dorkin' 5 vid. During finals on Sunday, Jesse pulled a slow, one-handed bankroll (only about one rotation), and a spinning stick-bitch perfectly. He started his run with a jump-lash to g-turn on the front peg to rolling junk-yard, to cross-footed lardyard, to backwards peg-wheelie, jumped to lardyard on his normal side, attempted to roll that to time-machine w/ bike backwards, but was going too slow and crashed. It's the same combo you see in Wheelies. The day before (Saturday, when that cover pic was taken), during qualifying, Jesse drove the crowd mad when he g-turned a dump-truck. This move was common between him and Richard Zabzdyr (check out Richard in Ring the Gack ). Jesse did a high-speed dump-truck, g-turned the bike and started rolling backwards holding the front tire with his free hand for control, and then, brought the bike to a dead stop with his scuffing foot and started doing a stick-bitch. The crowd went nuts as it was an improvised move that no one, probably not even Jesse, was expecting. He pulled the stick-bitch and seconds later, he began the combo that included the lardyard which appears on the cover of Ride #10. 2nd place pro flatland @ 1994 worlds (http://www.23mag.com/events/worlds/w94.htm). 3 page spread in Low Down magazine (Germany) July 1994. Plastic Man - 1994 worlds 1995 1996 KHE (http://www.23mag.com/com/khe/khe.htm) Premium Lagger frame designed by Jesse Puente. The Premium Lagger was a new generation of a flatland frame. It ended up changing the way flatland frames looked forever with its pure flatland specified geometry. Every detail has been tailored for flatland. My friend Jon Mata drew the design on paper as I describeed it to him and Sean White put it on CAD. Thomas Goring continued the prototyping. Jesse Puente came to Osaka, Japan. 1997 BS1997 round 4 : multiple one handed whiplashes. 1998 1999 Ride BMX Magazine April/May 1999 : Focus 1 page spread. 2000 2001 2002 First Place @ U.S. Championships of BMX october 2002 2003 BMX Plus Magazine – Inside Scoop March 2003 Fourth Place - @ ESPN Qualification Mat Hoffman's CFB, Woodward Wast, july 2003 Jesse Puente made 11th @ X-Games. 2nd place pro flat and a turbine backpacker @ Flat Time King, Grenoble, septembre 2003. Flat Time King 2004 Interview : Cream #4 february 2004. 1st Place pro flatland @ Metro BMX Jam, march 2004. New KHE Jesse Puente signature frame. Made of SANKO Japan triple butted 4130 CrMo. Jesse Puente : When Richard Zabzdyr of Graveyard products made his handlebars, they had straight tubes -no bends to make the metal weaker. I just tried to think of a design with straight tubes to get clearance on the top and the bottom. Worlds (Germany) June 2004. BMXrider UK #25 cover and 6 pages interview. Featured in Ride BMX July 2004 and Transworld BMX July 2004. 20 questions in Transworld BMX september 2004. Gravity Games (Cleveland, Ohio) Show September 2004 Flat Time King (France) October 2004 King of Ground (Japan) October 2004 Interview in Cream DVD #1. December 3rd, 2004, Jesse undergone surgery on his right shoulder, he will be out from riding for a couple of weeks. Adblock 2005 Cream Magazine (France) – Interview April 2005. BMX Games (Australia) April 2005 Braun Ninja Spin (France) Show April 2005 BMX Worlds (Czechoslovakia) Show June 2005 Braun Flatground (Amsterdam) September 2005 2006 London Bikes – Jesse Puente Signature Bars. DaDa Footwear - Jesse Puente Signature BMX Shoe. www.bmxonline.com, february 2005 : Jesse Puente is designing a signature shoe for a company named Dada. According to Jesse, the owner of Dada saw Jesse riding at the beach and got interested. The yet-to-be-named shoe will be for both flatland and general riding, with a bit more ankle protection than a lot of other BMX-style shoes have. text/html 2007-08-08T15:03:28+01:00 http://jessepuente.com http://jessepuente.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14&Itemid=9 Paris France for Creme Magazine (Interview)