Facad was quite a surprise. When 'As One' came out no one was quite sure what Facad was about. Who are these two grimey looking young rippers from the Northwest? Seth Kimbrough was working on something? How do you pronounce it; fuh-saude or fay-kade? And most of all what happened to Bruce Crisman?!

I don't mean that in a bad way. It was just that prior to this Bruce was the 2001 X-Games Park Gold medalist. He won over the crowd favorites such as Nyquist and Mirra, who absolutely dominated that era. It was just strange to see an X-games medalist make a complete turn around and strip his bike down to bare minimum, ride a freecoaster on street. Who even cared about freecoasters at the time, outside of flatland and a few weirdos. I guess what I'm trying to say is most people just expected Bruce was at some foam pit somewhere learning flip whips for the next X-Games. Nah, this section is what we got.

It's not even the type of street riding that you associate with park riders like back rail fufanus, big rails, and big stuff. His 'As One' section showed a more line oriented technical style with a healthy(or actually unhealthy) dose of big drops going fakie. No one even bothered to try those outside of a handful. Plus who didn't freak out when they saw that fakie to fakie Ruben. That was the it-trick that every coaster pro jocked like a few years later. It was hard not to be taken back a little bit by all this but in the end it was a pleasant surprise that definitely shaped BMX in a substantial way today.

Bruce Crisman

Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday by Stevie Wonder

Facad - As One(2006)