“The best decision I’ve ever made is a no brainer for me because that one decision alone has led me to where I am sitting today, in the exact place I am meant to be. . . . In spring of 2021, I was living in Portland, Oregon working at a Trader Joes. My friends (Corey, Matt, Jason and Kris) came to visit while on a road trip, so I took a week off of work to join them. We rode concrete and camped all week. After some long campfire chats and stories, Corey convinced me to quit my job on the spot, head south with them and try to help take Fast and Loose to the next chapter (selling and designing more merch, editing videos, social media, etc.)… so I did it. I called Trader Joe’s Sunday afternoon before my Monday shift and told them I was not coming back. Not because I had a perfect plan but because I knew exactly what I didn’t want to lose. We traveled all over the world, filming Magnetar, living in our vans, and surviving on t-shirt sales that helped us pay for gas and food. At one point I was printing orders from my phone in the back of Jason’s van. These were some of the best years of my life and I will never forget those times. I couldn’t have been happier getting to travel with my best buds, experience new places and witness the most absurd bike riding I’ve ever seen on the regular. 

As that chapter began to slow down and change pace, we each took our own paths forward. Quitting my job on a whim back in 2021 left me in Colorado where I met my current girlfriend and we have since started to focus on our own goals and start a life together. I am happily working, riding and enjoying the slower paced life and I owe it all to BMX and my friends. It is truly special where BMX has taken all of us 🙂

It sounds silly but its difficult for me to pin point one “bad decision” because I find myself a very optimistic person, so when something doesn’t go as planned or I do make a wrong decision I know that I can always make the best of whatever is thrown in front of me and, we really have no other choice. Life happens, so we have to figure out how to navigate it and be there for our own sanity. I guess one bad decision (If Baker reads this, he will agree) is that I never listened to Tool in my younger years, so I just don’t quite get it yet, but I am dipping my toes in more and more.” – Josh