The new Dakota Roche edit up on the fit website is really good. You should watch it. http://www.fitbikeco.com/MEDIA/dakvid2.html.

Street has gone in such a crazy direction in the past seven years. Its awesome, for lack of a better word. I am really excited by some of the tricks and lines that have been in videos lately. Since Edwin Delarosa's part in the first Animal video it has become apparent that street is probably one of the purer (I use that word lightly) disciplines of "freestyle bmx." While there have definitely been some new tricks thrown down lately, I'm also really digging the use of tried and true tricks like 180's and 360's, either when they're the stylish banger at the end of a part or utilized as a filler for a good line. There are a lot of good riders out right now who make all of those tricks look fantastic.

Some of my other favorite tricks at the moment...

-smith to hard 180 out (I never thought I'd see that one growing up).

-luckie (sp?) grinds across ledges. Dakota does a really good one to 180 out in that web edit posted above.

-short manuals to 180s. I've been catching a lot of clips of dudes just manualing concrete blocks no wider than their wheelbases to 180 out. I can't do it myself, and I imagine its somewhat difficult. And if it isn't, it still looks damn good.

There are others too, but those are the ones I've been thinking about mostly. Obviously I really like any trick to 180.