Privacy: Our parents, at least in the Western world, had a right to hold private conversations face-to-face, whether out in public or in the sanctity of their home. This is all but gone for our digital children.

Not long ago, it was the thing of horror books and movies that there would actually be widespread surveillance of what you said inside your own home. Our analog parents literally had this as scary stories worthy of Halloween, mixing the horror with the utter disbelief.

“There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being surveilled at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual device was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they listened to everybody all the time. But at any rate they could listen to you whenever they wanted to. You had to live — did live, from habit that became instinct — in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard.” — from Nineteen Eighty-Four

In the West, we prided ourselves on not being the East — the Communist East, specifically — who regarded their own citizens as suspects: suspects who needed to be cleansed of bad thoughts and bad conversations, to the degree that ordinary homes were wiretapped for ordinary conversations.

There were microphones under every café table and in every residence. And even if there weren’t in the literal sense, just there and then, they could still be anywhere, so you had to live — did live, from habit that became instinct — in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard.

“Please speak loudly and clearly into the flower pot.” — a common not-joke about the Communist societies during the Cold War

Disregard phonecalls and other remote conversations for now, since we already know them to be wiretapped across most common platforms. Let’s look at conversations in a private home.

We now have Google Echo and Amazon Alexa. And while they might have intended to keep your conversations to themselves, out of the reach of authorities, Amazon has already handed over living room recordings to authorities. In this case, permission became a moot point because the suspect gave permission. In the next case, permission might not be there, and it might happen anyway.

Mobile phones are already listening, all the time. We know because when we say “Ok Google” to an Android phone, it wakes up and listens more intensely. This, at a very minimum, means it’s always listening for the words “Ok Google”. IPhones have a similar mechanism listening for “Hey Siri”. While nominally possible to turn off, it’s one of those things you can never be sure of. And we carry these governmental surveillance microphones with us everywhere we go.

If the Snowden documents showed us anything in the general sense, it was that if a certain form of surveillance is technically possible, it is already happening.

And even if Google and Apple aren’t already listening, the German police got the green light to break into phones and plant Bundestrojaner, the flower-pot equivalent of hidden microphones, anyway. You would think that Germany of all countries has in recent memory what a bad idea this is. It could — maybe even should — be assumed that the police forces of other countries have and are already using similar tools.

For our analog parents, the concept of a private conversations was as self-evident as oxygen in the air. Our digital children may never know what one feels like.

And so we live today — from what started as a habit that has already become instinct — in the assumption that every sound we make is overheard by authorities.

Europe: Slack has updated its Terms of Service to let your manager read your private conversations in private channels. Our analog parents would have been shocked and horrified at the very idea that their bosses would open packages and read personal messages that were addressed to them. For our digital children, it’s another shrugworthy part of everyday life.

The analog plain old telephone system, sometimes abbreviated POTS, is a good template for how things should be even in the digital world. This is something that lawmakers got mostly right in the old analog world.

When somebody is on a phonecall — an old-fashioned, analog phonecall — we know that the conversation is private by default. It doesn’t matter who owns the phone. It is the person using the phone, right this very minute, that has all the rights to its communication capabilities, right this very minute.

The user has all the usage rights. The owner has no right to intercept or interfere with the communications usage, just based on the property right alone.

Put another way: just because you own a piece of communications equipment, that doesn’t give you any kind of automatic right to listen to private conversations that happen to come across this equipment.

Regrettably, this only applies to the telephone network. Moreover, only the analog part of the telephone network. If anything is even remotely digital, the owner can basically intercept anything they like, for any reason they like.

This particularly extends to the workplace. It can be argued that you have no expectation of privacy for what you do on your employer’s equipment; this is precisely forgetting that such privacy was paramount for the POTS, less than two decades ago, regardless of who owned the equipment.

Some employers even install wildcard digital certificates on their workplace computers with the specific purpose of negating any end-to-end security between the employee’s computer and the outside world, effectively performing a so-called “man-in-the-middle attack”. In a whitewashed term, this practice is called HTTPS Interception instead of “man-in-the-middle attack” when it’s performed by your employer instead of another adversary.

Since we’re looking at difference between analog and digital, and how privacy rights have vanished in the transition to digital, it’s worth looking at the code of law for the oldest of analog correspondences: the analog letter, and whether your boss could open and read it just because it was addressed to you at your workplace.

Analog law differs somewhat between different countries on this issue, but in general, even if your manager or workplace were allowed to open your mail (which is the case in the United States but not in Britain), they are typically never allowed to read it (even in the United States).

In contrast, with electronic mail, your managers don’t just read your entire e-mail, but typically has hired an entire department to read it for them. In Europe, this went as far as the European Court of Human Rights, which ruled that it’s totally fine for an employer to read the most private of correspondence, as long as the employer informs of this fact (thereby negating the default expectation of privacy).

Of course, this principle about somewhat-old-fashioned e-mail applies to any and all electronic communications now, such as Slack.

So for our digital children, the concept of “mail is private and yours, no matter if you receive it at the workplace” appears to have been irrevocably lost. This was a concept our analog parents took so for granted, they didn’t see any need to fight for it.

Today, privacy remains your own responsibility.

Privacy: In a series of posts on this blog, we have shown how practically everything our parents took for granted with regards to privacy has been completely eliminated for our children, just because they use digital tools instead of analog, and the people interpreting the laws are saying that privacy only applies to the old, analog environment of our parents.

Once you agree with the observation that privacy seems to simply not apply for our children, merely for living in a digitally-powered environment instead of our parents’ analog-powered one, surprise turns to shock turns to anger, and it’s easy to want to assign blame to someone for essentially erasing five generations’ fight for civil liberties while people were looking the other way.

So whose fault is it, then?

It’s more than one actor at work here, but part of the blame must be assigned to the illusion that that nothing has changed, just because our digital children can use old-fashioned and obsolete technology to obtain the rights they should always have by law and constitution, regardless of which method they use to talk to friends and exercise their privacy rights.

We’ve all heard these excuses.

“You still have privacy of correspondence, just use the old analog letter”. As if the Internet generation would. You might as well tell our analog parents that they would need to send a wired telegram to enjoy some basic rights.

“You can still use a library freely.” Well, only an analog one, not a digital one like The Pirate Bay, which differs from an analog library only in efficiency, and not in anything else.

“You can still discuss anything you like.” Yes, but only in the analog streets and squares, not in the digital streets and squares.

“You can still date someone without the government knowing your dating preferences.” Only if I prefer to date like our parents did, in the unsafe analog world, as opposed to the safe digital environment where predators vanish at the click of a “block” button, an option our analog parents didn’t have in shady bars.

The laws aren’t different for the analog and the digital. The law doesn’t make a difference between analog and digital. But no law is above the people who interpret it in the courts, and the way people interpret those laws means the privacy rights always apply to the analog world, but never to the digital world.

It’s not rocket science to demand the same laws to apply offline and online. This includes copyright law, as well as the fact that privacy of correspondence takes precedence over copyright law (in other words, you’re not allowed to open and examine private correspondence for infringements in the analog world, not without prior and individual warrants — our law books are full of these checks and balances; they should apply in the digital too, but don’t today).

Going back to blame, that’s one actor right there: the copyright industry. They have successfully argued that their monopoly laws should apply online just as it does offline, and in doing so, has completely ignored all the checks and balances that apply to the copyright monopoly laws in the analog world. And since copying movies and music has now moved into the same communications channels as we use for private correspondence, the copyright monopoly as such has become fundamentally incompatible with private correspondence at the conceptual level.

The copyright industry has been aware of this conflict and has been continuously pushing for eroded and eliminated privacy to prop up their crumbling and obsolete monopolies, such as pushing for the hated (and now court-axed) Data Retention Directive in Europe. They would use this federal law (or European equivalent thereof) to literally get more powers than the Police themselves in pursuing individual people who were simply sharing music and movies, sharing in the way everybody does.

There are two other major factors at work. The second factor is marketing. The reason we’re tracked at the sub-footstep level in airports and other busy commercial centers is simply to sell us more crap we don’t need. This comes at the expense of privacy that our analog parents took for granted. Don’t even get started on Facebook and Google.

Last but not least are the surveillance hawks — the politicians who want to look “Tough on Crime”, or “Tough on Terrorism”, or whatever the word of choice is this week. These were the ones who pushed the Data Retention Directive into law. The copyright industry were the ones who basically wrote it for them.

These three factors have working together, and they’ve been very busy.

It’s going to be a long uphill battle to win back the liberties that were slowly won by our ancestors over about six generations, and which have been all but abolished in a decade.

Our children are right to demand Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights — the civil liberties our parents not just enjoyed, but took for granted.

I fear the failure to pass on the civil liberties from our parents to our children is going to be seen as the greatest failure of this particular current generation, regardless of all the good we also accomplish. Surveillance societies can be erected in just ten years, but can take centuries to roll back.

Privacy remains your own responsibility today. We all need to take it back merely by exercising our privacy rights, with whatever tools are at our disposal.

Image from the movie “Nineteen-Eighty Four”; used under fair use for political commentary.

Pirate Parties: This past weekend, elections were held in Luxembourg and the Czech Republic. The Pirate Party of Luxembourg tripled their support and entered the Luxembourg Parliament with two MPs, and in the Czech Republic, the Pirate Party increased their support further – now receiving a full 17% in Prague.

With 6.45% of the votes of the final tally, the Luxembourg Pirate Party is entering its national Parliament, being the fifth Pirate Party to enter a national or supranational legislature (after Sweden, Germany, Iceland, and the Czech Republic). This may not seem like much, but it is a very big deal, for reasons I’ll elaborate on later. A big congratulations to Sven Clement and Marc Goergen, new Members of Parliament for Luxembourg!

Further, the Czech Republic has had municipal elections, and the Czech Pirate Party showed a full 17.1% support in Prague, the Czech capital, making the Pirates the second biggest party with a very narrow gap to the first place (at 17.9%). This may or may not translate to votes for the Czech national legislature, but is nevertheless the highest score recorded so far for a Pirate Party election day. I understand the Czech Pirates have as many as 275 (two hundred and seventy-five!) newly-elected members of city councils, up from 21 (twenty-one). Well done, well done indeed!

For people in a winner-takes-all system, like the UK or United States, this may sound like a mediocre result. In those countries, there are usually only two parties, and the loser with 49% of the vote gets nothing. However, most of Europe have so-called proportional systems, where 5% of the nationwide votes gives you 5% of the national legislation seats. In these systems, the parties elected to Parliament negotiate between themselves to find a ruling majority coalition of 51%+ of the seats, trying to negotiate common positions between parties that are reasonably close to each other in policy. This usually requires a few weeks of intense negotiations between the elections and the presentation of a successfully negotiated majority coalition.

Further, it could reasonable be asked what kind of difference the Czech Republic or Luxembourg could possibly make on their own in the global information repression. The answer is, a whole lot. The key here is realizing that one country is sufficient to break the global repression of information; the repression is completely dependent on every single country keeping watertight doors. If one single country decides to allow the free movement of culture and knowledge, then all such distribution will immediately be based there. The copyright industry lobby in other countries will protest, quite loudly, but there’s not really anything they can do about it.

And since the problem from a policymaking standpoint has been that the industry-age era politicians consider the Internet-related policy areas completely peripheral in the first place, conceding those policy areas will be seen as very cheap price to bind those votes to a majority coalition.

“One country is sufficient to break the global repression of information.”

A relevant comparison is how Canada has now legalized cannabis at the country level, following many state-level initiatives here and there in the world, and at once, the floodgates are open. Not just for the illegal distribution networks, but more importantly, for legalization everywhere else. As a German politician dryly said today, “what’s possible in Canada is also possible in Germany”, proposing that cannabis should be legalized outright in Germany. I would imagine the tone is similar in most places — or, importantly, many enough places.

The Luxembourg and Prague coalition talks have just started, with an outcome typically expected in a few weeks.

Bitcoin: As the dust settles after the November 15 bitcoin upgrade, the roadmaps have been updated with the new state of the protocol and people are starting to looking ahead to the next set of features. I thought I’d take the opportunity to give my view on it.

The new set of features ahead has been published on bitcoincash.org, which is for the most part spearheaded by the Bitcoin ABC implementation, but where Bitcoin Unlimited also deserves significant credit for research and development.

This is the current “you are here” map as of end-2018:

I like this roadmap for two reasons. Or rather, for two levels of reasons.

The first is that I see bitcoin as the path to a world currency. In order to be so, it will need to carry an insanely heavier load, and because of the typical velocity of money, each bitcoin must be valued far higher than it is today — to a point where single satoshis are no longer a small unit, but represent maybe a few cents. That quanta (smallest possible discrete value) is not small enough to provide frictionless automated microtrade, which is why I’m looking forward to — and have been discreetly applauding — the fractional satoshis on the roadmap. The bigger footprint a network gets, the more inertia it takes to change something, so getting these two items in with reasonable speed is something I regard as key.

The third key item is extensibility — the ability to extend the protocol without asking permission, akin to how early browsers started supporting random new HTML markup tags left and right. This drove the standards forward and allowed for rapid feedback cycles with the user community, and something similar will be needed for permissionless innovation on top of bitcoin to really take off.

These three taken together happen to represent the final phase of the three tracks that the roadmap lists. I have some understanding that each of them have necessary prerequisites that are being filled in some sort of logical order.

This brings me to the Law of Two Feet.

You see, it doesn’t really matter what I think of a feature, whether I like it or not. I am a diehard proponent of the Law of Two Feet: It simply means that if you don’t like something, then it is your responsibility — both toward yourself and the community you don’t like — to walk to a place you do like.

(Just to be clear, the Law of Two Feet is inclusive. It also applies to people who don’t have two actual feet.)

This is what I worded as the Freedom of Initiative and the Freedom to Follow, and it is absolutely key for permissionless innovation. You don’t get that the moment somebody is trying to give somebody else permission on what road they may choose.

Each of us have the freedom to take any initiative we want.

Each of us also have the freedom to follow any initiative we like.

But no one of us may tell another what they must or may not do.

I happen to very much approve of the above roadmap from where I’m sitting. But even if I didn’t, the freedom of initiative and freedom to follow are far more important than my opinion on this particular initiative.

Activism: In the ever-evolving landscape of politics, we often find ourselves confined to the traditional left-right spectrum. This binary view, with its emphasis on economic and social policies, sometimes obscures deeper motivations driving voter behavior and political trends. As a result, we might miss crucial insights that could enhance our understanding of why people vote the way they do, why political movements gain momentum, and why some ideas resonate while others falter. I have found an alternative framework to be far more helpful: the Maslow Pyramid.

Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, typically illustrated as a pyramid, categorizes human needs into five levels: physiological, safety, love/belonging, esteem, and self-actualization. Maslow famously hypothesized, that a lower-level need must be satisfied before we start attempting to fulfill the needs of the next level — as an example, while we’re starving and live in fear of being robbed (level one), we’re not so much concerned with having the respect of the community (level four). By examining political trends through this lens, we can gain a richer, more nuanced perspective on what drives societal shifts and voter preferences.

Physiological Needs and the Politics of Survival

At the base of Maslow’s pyramid are physiological needs: food, water, warmth, and rest — as well as immediate physical safety. In times of economic crisis, political discourse often gravitates towards these fundamental concerns. Populist movements frequently gain traction by promising to address the immediate needs of the people. For instance, during the Great Recession, there was a surge in support for policies focused on job creation, healthcare access, and basic economic security. Politicians who can convincingly address these basic needs often see significant support from constituencies facing hardship just getting from one day to the next without getting beaten, robbed, or starved. Fear of getting to this state (fear of getting robbed on your way to/from work, school, etc.) will also suffice to place oneself at this level.

However, if established parties fail to address these concerns, voters will inevitably turn to whomever offers a solution, even if it’s an atrocious one. It’s like choosing Comcast for your Internet connection when no other provider is available—you know the service is subpar, but having some connection is better than none. Similarly, in politics, when mainstream parties neglect the foundational needs of the populace, fringe or extremist parties can gain support by simply acknowledging and addressing these unmet needs — and that is regardless of how flawed their solutions to said problems may be.

Safety Needs and the Demand for Stability

Moving up the pyramid, once the physical needs are met, then safety needs encompass longer-term personal security, employment, and health. Political rhetoric around law and order, immigration control, and national security taps into these safety concerns. When people feel their safety is threatened, whether by crime, terrorism, or economic instability, they are more likely to support policies and leaders who promise to restore stability and protect them from perceived threats. The post-9/11 era (just after 2001), with its heightened focus on national security, is a prime example of how safety needs can dominate the political agenda.

Yet again, if traditional parties fail to provide a sense of security, voters may gravitate towards any party that promises to deliver it, even if their methods are draconian and/or frankly ridiculous.

Love and Belonging: The Politics of Identity

The middle tier of the pyramid addresses social needs: relationships, friendships, and a sense of belonging. Identity politics, which includes movements advocating for the rights of specific social groups based on race, gender, sexual orientation, and more, finds its roots here. Political movements that foster a sense of community and belonging can galvanize supporters by addressing these intrinsic needs. The LGBPQRST+ rights movement, for instance, not only fights for legal rights but also seeks to create a supportive community for its members.

When mainstream parties overlook these social needs, people will seek out any group or party that offers them a sense of belonging, even if that party’s overall agenda is problematic. It’s a matter of seeking connection where it’s available.

Esteem: The Quest for Recognition

Esteem needs encompass respect, self-esteem, status, and recognition. Political leaders who can validate the contributions and worth of their supporters often build strong, loyal followings. This is evident in political campaigns that emphasize the dignity of work, the importance of patriotism, and the recognition of personal achievements. Policies aimed at rewarding hard work and providing opportunities for personal advancement resonate deeply with voters seeking validation and respect.

Self-Actualization: The Pursuit of Fulfillment

At the peak of the pyramid is self-actualization — the realization of one’s potential and the pursuit of personal growth and fulfillment. Politics at this level involves visionary thinking and appeals to higher ideals. Environmental movements with or without solutions based in reality, space exploration initiatives, and educational reforms often engage this need. Leaders who inspire through their vision of a better future, who challenge citizens to think beyond their immediate concerns and contribute to something greater than themselves, tap into this highest level of human motivation.

It’s rather telling that the biggest telltale sign for voters (and media), who are personally at this level of human needs, is that they often and happily paint the political parties and movements answering to level-one and level-two human needs as brutish, uneducated, simpleton and backwards — when in reality, what such name-calling voters who pretend to hold themselves to some sort of higher standard are really doing, is disacknowledging that other people’s most basic needs are simply not being met. Talk about being overprivileged in ivory towers! “Let them eat cake”, anyone?

If mainstream political parties neglect to engage voters at this level, people will align with any party that inspires them, even if the broader agenda is not entirely sound. It can be somewhat like signing up for a self-help seminar led by a guy who lives in his mom’s basement because he speaks so passionately about “unlocking your potential.”

A Holistic Approach to Political Analysis

By applying the Maslow Pyramid to our understanding of political trends, we gain a multi-dimensional view that goes beyond the simplicity of left versus right. This approach allows us to see how different policies and political messages resonate with various segments of the population based on their current needs and aspirations.

For instance, a comprehensive healthcare reform policy can address physiological needs by ensuring access to medical care, safety needs by providing financial security, love and belonging by reducing social disparities, esteem by recognizing healthcare as a right, and self-actualization by promoting a healthier society capable of achieving its full potential.

It’s further important to realize that an individual voter would vote for completely different parties, even at opposite ends of the traditional spectrum, depending on where they feel the most urgency in their personal needs at the moment, and that this is not a contradiction or uncertainty on policies.

In conclusion, the Maslow Pyramid provides a valuable framework for understanding the complex and dynamic nature of political trends. It reminds us that politics is fundamentally about people and their needs. By considering these needs in our political analysis, we can develop more empathetic, effective, and inclusive strategies that resonate deeply with the human condition. And crucially, we must remember that when these needs are ignored, voters will turn to any party that promises to meet them, even if it means accepting a deeply flawed solution. After all, in the absence of better options, you might just end up with Comcast.

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Actually it's very easy to change the chain of a BMX bike. As well it's not a big thing to make the chain shorter. But without some little tricks it can be a long way to solve this work. That's why you should watch the kunstform?! BMX Shop - How To put a chain video!

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If you decide for a new crank and you don't know how this to install, then you look at this video. It differs they in reference of structure. There are one piece, two piece and three piece cranks then again have various lengths and various axles. The axle are different from the material, the size and numbers of notchs (splines).

It will happen in the course of time, that's your bottom bracket broke down. If you do not know exactly how you should install a new bearing, then you look at this video! Basically, the bottom bracket differ in "loose ball" and "sealed bearing". The loose ball bottom bracket are installed in many cheap beginners bikes. The bearings in turn differ in different sizes. Starting with the largest outer diameter are US-BB, MID-BB, SPAN-BB and EURO-BB. The EURO-BB you recognize the screw thread and are rarely built on a BMX frame. This is important, first you have to check if you have a 19mm or a 22mm axle crank!

As the last years we are proud to anounce we will have a huge booth at the BMX CGN Conest formaly known as BMX Worlds this year again (18th - 20th of July 2014). At the kunstform?! booth you can get nearly everything a BMX rider could imagine. Come and visit us on over 125sqm to shop the best bmx parts and check out some specials and goodies.

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We have send all our staff from 15 May 2015 - 17 May 2015 to the Highway to Hill BMX festival in Berlin Mellowpark. They will recharge energy and motivation that's why kunstform?! BMX Shop will be close on Friday, 15.05. and Saturday, 16.05. At Monday we will be back with new power.

Thank you for your understanding and we would be happy to see one of you there.

You can get more information about the event here: Highway to Hill Mellowpark / Berlin

We are very happy to announce officialy the kunstform BMX Shop Team for the season 2015/2016! Our focus with the choice of riders is to cover every BMX Freestyle disciplines like BMX Park, BMX Street and BMX Flatlen and to give them support and motivation. For BMX Flatland we could get Kevin Nikulski and John Krämer. Shawn Hammer from Berlin and Miguel Franzem from Sindelfingen represent BMX Park. Both of them have a very nice attitude! For BMX Street is riding David "Arthur" Biedermann, a local rider from Stuttgart and Robin Kachfi who won the kunstform "Can you Sponsor me" Video Competition. Jonas Bader and Miguel Smajlji feeling home everywhere! We have planned some projects, so stay tune!

kunstform BMX Team at HipHopOpen BMX Jam in Stuttgart

WETHEPEOPLE X kunstform BMX Shop - Get in the Van Tour 2015

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We went with few BMX riders of our team to Darmstadt to run our first sunday session! Darmstadt is very close to frankfurt and have a very nice skatepark runnin by riders! It was a lot of fun to spend a good time together!

Rider:
Shawn Hammer
Miguel Franzem
Miguel Smajlji
Robin Kachfi
Vincent Doczekala
Daniel Fuhrmann

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Robin Kachfi & Vincent Doczekala

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Foxwedding - U Should Chill

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Robin Kachfi - Skatepark Mannheim - BMX Edit 2016

Robin Kachfi is on fire right now. His progress is just awesome! His new Video was taken in his local Skatepark in Mannheim (Germany) and he says about it following words:

"I finished finally my video for kunstformbmxshop & my Crew at my local skatepark in mannheim germany. Thanks to everybody for the additional filming! This is dedicated to a legend of our time! Ride in peace Dave Mirra"

Channel sub: https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/robinkachfi

Follow him on:
Instagram - http://instagram.com/robinkachfibmx

Also follow his mazzakacrew crew!
Channel sub: https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/mazzakacrew
Instagram: http://instagram.com/mazzakacrew

Robin Kachfi X kunstform BMX Shop - BMX webedit 2016

Ladies and gentlemen,
we're very proud to show you the new webedit of our bro and BMX team buddy Robin Kachfi from Mannheim (Germany)! It's so amazin to see his progression and motivation! He used the winter time very usefull and got ready for upcomin BMX Season 2016! #robinforpresident :-)

Channel sub: www.youtube-nocookie.com/user/robinkachfi

Follow him on:
Instagram - www.instagram.com/robinkachfibmx/

Also follow his mazzakacrew crew!
Channel sub: https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/user/mazzakacrew
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mazzakacrew/
Music: Music: Ryan Little - thank you for playing god speed

BMX Dirt - Simon Moratz X kunstform

We're very proud to present you here a BMX Dirt edit of Simon Moratz. Simon is a real awesome buddy with a very positiv attitude. He runs his own dirtpark in Unterholzhäuseln a nice village next to munich which you will see in that edit and push BMX with his mobil ramps on nearly every bike festival. Simon Moratz was reppin kunstform BMX Shop for the season 2014/15 and our friend Marcus Adam from www.eyetrip.de took some footage of that time and created that Simon Moratz X kunstform clip. We're very happy that we could support on of the finest BMX Dirt rider in germany and wish you a lot of fun with that edit.
If you're interessted to run a BMX Ramp / Dirt Show at your BMX festival, then you should checkout the page of www.showtimebmx.de

Follow Simon Moratz on:

Instagram - www.instagram.com/simonmoratz
Facebook - www.facebook.com/SimonMoratzOfficialFanpage
Web - www.simonmoratz.com


Kamera & Edit: Markus Adam (www.eyetrip.de)
Rider: Simon Moratz (www.simonmoratz.com)
Music: MYNTH - NIGHTLIGHT (https://www.facebook.com/mynthmusic)

Göppingen - Skateopen 2016 - BMX Contest

Last weekend (18th of june 2016) was the famous Skateopen in Göppingen which is a BMX, Skate and Scooter event at the Skatepark in Göppignen! All the guys from S.I.S. eV - Skateverein Göppingen did an amzing job with the contest, program and music in the evening! Our friends Miguel Smajlji & Daniel Fuhrmann visited that event and the video is about there trip to Göppingen! Even rain could not stop the positiv vibe and it was a pleasure to be there! Props to Huddl for that awesome day! Visit and support BMX events! #bmxfamily

Shoutout an die Close Up BMX Crew from Ulm https://www.facebook.com/CloseupBmx and all Göppinger Locals!

Video & Edit: Albi
Webisode supported by www.kunstform.org

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Cologne - BMX CGN BMX Contest 2016 - Miguel Smajlji & Robin Kachfi & Kevin Nikulski & Oliver Frömter

We send our new trainee Oliver Frömter (@oliverfroemter18 ) and our team riders Miguel Smajlji (@smilesridesbikes), Robin Kachfi (robinkachfibmx) and Kevin Nikulski (@kevin_nikulski) to the famous BMX Contest in Cologne which is called that time #bmxcologne! So that video is about the trip to cologne, as well some impression of the #bmxcologne and flat tyre of oli's car!

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We are very happy to announce officialy the kunstform BMX Shop Team for the season 2016/2017! Our focus with the choice of riders is to cover every BMX Freestyle disciplines like BMX Park, BMX Street and BMX Flatland and to give them support and motivation. For BMX Flatland we could get Kevin Nikulski, John Krämer and Markus Schwital. Shawn Hammer from Berlin and Miguel Franzem from Sindelfingen represent BMX Park. For BMX Street is riding David "Arthur" Biedermann, a local rider from Stuttgart and Robin Kachfi who won the kunstform "Can you Sponsor me" Video Competition. Jonas Bader,Miguel Smajlji and Sven Avemaria feeling home everywhere! We have planned some projects, so stay tune!

BMX Instagram Compilation 2016 - Sven Avemaria

Here's a short Instagram compilation of clips we posted at our instagram account kunstformbmxshop about our bro Sven Avemarie from the last couple months. We hope you'll like it!

https://www.instagram.com/kunstformbmxshop/ https://www.instagram.com/svenavemaria/

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BMX Instagram Compilation 2016 - Miguel Smajlji

Here's a short Instagram compilation of clips we posted at our instagram account kunstformbmxshop about our bro Miguel Smajlji from the last couple months. We hope you'll like it!

https://www.instagram.com/kunstformbmxshop/ https://www.instagram.com/smilesridesbikes/

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BMX Instagram Compilation 2016 - Robin Kachfi

Here's a short Instagram compilation of clips we posted at our instagram account kunstformbmxshop about our bro Robin Kachfi from the last couple months. We hope you'll like it!

https://www.instagram.com/kunstformbmxshop/ https://www.instagram.com/robinkachfibmx/

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Simple Session 17 - Public Viewing, Stuttgart

Simple Session 17 - kunstform BMX team - Webisode practice, qualification & party

kunstform BMX Shop team riders Miguel Smajlji, Miguel Franzem and Robin Kachfi entered to Simple Session 17 in Tallinn Estonia. This video is about there time at one of world's most iconic action sport event. Riding with one of the best BMX riders, watchin the new wethepeople foundation dvd and party.

Kamera & Edit: Robin Kachfi
Music:
Ryan Little - Drowning
JI Beats - DBZ


Supported by kunstform BMX Shop https://www.kunstform.org

Contest Simple Session 17 http://session.ee

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https://www.instagram.com/robinkachfibmx/

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BMX Street Session in Stuttgart 2017 - Felix Prangenberg, Miguel Smajlji, Robin Kachfi

Felix Prangenberg and Robin Kachfi have visited Miguel Smajlji for a few days in Stuttgart to work on their BMX video projects. Before the BMX street session starts the boys had a little warm up session in our BMX stock room. What else they have done you can check here. All the best your kunstform BMX Shop Team

Kamera & Edit: Robin Kachfi
Music: JI Beats

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BMX Best Trick Contest 2017 - Skatepark Mannheim

On saturday, 29th April 2017, the season openinng contest took place at the skatepark Schönau in Mannheim. In addition to a skate contest, there was also a BMX best trick contest in addition with a few warm up BMX games. Over 20 riders were at the start and the mood was super good! Thanks to all who've participated. Props also to Titus, Wolftrap Brand, SAM - skater aus Mannheim and of course the city of Mannheim! All the best your kunstform BMX Shop Team

BMX BEST TRICK CONTEST:
1. Robin Kachfi
2. Marco Günther
3. Georg Senger
4. Jan Mihaly
5. Leon Schader
6. Tobias Eul
7. David Kerscher
8. Mirko Wiedemann
9. Alex Gravemaker
10. Thorin Huschak
11. Jason Hörner
12. Leo Tietz
13. Fritz Fimpel
14. Lotta Grüber
15. Yoshi Kobayashi
16. Nik Drugcevic
17. Richard Christ
18. Sebastian Held
19. Arthur Krenkel
20. Leandro Bühn
21. Luca Meissner

filmed & edited: Robin Kachfi

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BMX Roadtrip 2017 - Miguel, Felix, Robin, Tim

Miguel Smajlji and Robin Kachfi have visited Felix Prangenberg for a few days in Roßbach, Germany, to continue their BMX video projects. In these few days they also went to Venlo, NL and Koblenz where they met with Tim Korbmacher for a cool BMX photo session. What else they have done you can check here. All the best your kunstform BMX Shop Team

Video: Robin Kachfi

Music: Ryan Little - chopping the piano

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BMX Street & Skatepark Session - Robin, Miguel & Felix

Miguel Smajlji and Felix Prangenberg have visited Robin Kachfi for a few days in Mannheim, Germany to continue their BMX video projects. What else they have done you can check here. All the best your kunstform BMX Shop Team

Video: Robin Kachfi

Music: JI Beats - Honey Berry

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Robin Kachfi BMX Webisode#11 - Rotterdam BMX Roadtrip 2017

Our bro Robin Kachfi was with his friends in Rotterdam,NL a few weeks ago. They checked out the street spots, Skateparks and even the indoorpark "Skateland Rotterdam" and of course they had a great time there. What else they have done you can check here. All the best your kunstform BMX Shop Team

Video: Robin Kachfi

Music: Ryan Little - Damage

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Robin Kachfi comes from Mannheim, won the Youtube Video Contest in 2015 and till that time he is part of the kunstform BMX Shop Team.

BMX Since: 2010
BMX Disziplin: BMX Street, BMX Park
Hometown: Mannheim
Residence: Mannheim
Sponsors: Radio Bikes, kunstform BMX Shop
Homespots: Skatepark Schönau in Mannheim
Favorite Spots: Skatepark Darmstadt, Streets of Rotterdam und Barcelona
Favorite thing beside BMX: Filming, video editing, chilling with friends and fishing
Instagram: robinkachfibmx
Youtube: robin kachfi

Felix Prangenberg comes from Roßbach and is one of the most talented German BMX riders. Meanwhile Felix is an international pro rider and shreds everything, no matter what, whether skatepark, street or dirt, Felix loves everything!

BMX Since: 2005/2006
BMX discipline: BMX Street, BMX Park and BMX Dirt
Hometown: Roßbach/Wied
Residence: Köln
Sponsors: Monster Energy, wethepeople, eclat, kunstform BMX Shop, ourhouse, Vans, doomed, Vodafone Shop Neuwied, Heimwärtstattoocollective Linz
Homespots: Backyardpark, Salatschüssel Köln
Favorite Spots: hard to say. I like everything to ride, no matter how shabby the spots or the ramps are
Favorite thing beside BMX: drawing, get tattooed haha, listening to a lot of music and traveling
Instagram: felix_prangenberg
Youtube: felix prangenberg

Fabio Etzel is a real rail shredder, who's grinding every rail no matter how high or long they are.

BMX Since: 2013
BMX Disziplin: BMX Street
Hometown: Backnang, Stuttgart
Residence: Waldrems, Stuttgart
Sponsors: kunstform BMX Shop
Homespots: -
Favorite Spots: Schlossplatz in Stuttgart
Favorite thing beside BMX: skating
Instagram: ____fabio

André Bodlin makes Barspin or Tailwhip combos look so easy that you just have to shake your head

BMX Since: 2010
BMX Disziplin: BMX Street
Hometown: Sonthofen im Allgäu
Residence: Stuttgart
Sponsors: eclat via Traffic Distribution, The Fella BMX, kunstform BMX Shop
Homespots: all around Stuttgart & Sonthofen Skatepark
Favorite Spots: Parallel (Barcelona)
Favorite thing beside BMX: motorcycling and watching movies
Instagram: andrebodlin
Youtube: andré bodlin

Robin Kachfi BMX - Webisode#14 - BMX spring session 2017

Unser bro Robin Kachfi has produced a new webisode for his youtube channel at the skatepark in Mannheim Feudenheim in which you feel the summer vibes! If you want to see more of Robin, you can subscribe to his YOUTUBE Channel. All the best your kunstform BMX Shop Team

Video: Robin Kachfi

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David Arthur Biedermann prefer BMX street but he likes park and dirt as well

BMX Since: 2006
BMX Disziplin: BMX Street, BMX Street, BMX Park
Hometown: Stuttgart
Residence: Weil der stadt
Sponsors: kunstform BMX Shop
Homespots: "Kleiner Schlossplatz"
Favorite Spots: "Kleiner Schlossplatz"
Favorite thing beside BMX: -
Instagram: arthur098