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Following Daniel Dhers and his pro approach to the BMX contest realm last week, we present Detroit-area ripper Brandon Dosch. 21-year-old Brandon won the year-end 2010 Dew Cup in BMX Dirt, and more recently, won the 2011 BMX Games in Australia. Sponsored by Metal Mulisha, Redline Bicycles, Albe’s, Arma Energy Snacks, Nike 6.0 and Alienation Components, Brandon is coming into his own as one of the top competitors in BMX park and dirt, and he’s only getting started on his path to contest domination. But he wasn’t cherry picked from the local skatepark and thrown into the pro spotlight. Instead, Brandon raced (for a long time), and when he tired of that, he made the jump into park and dirt, working really hard on his own to reach the pro level.

In the grand scheme, Brandon is part of the younger generation of BMX pro that saw what he wanted and worked his way towards that goal, without the push of sponsors or a supportive amateur series. And because of that internal drive, he’s taken the short route from unknown newcomer to respectable pro. Recently, while Brandon was on the road and headed to Woodward, he spoke with us about the workings of a BMX pro and the route he took to get there. Here’s Brandon.

When did you first consider yourself a pro in BMX?
Dosch: I think the first time I realized it was when I got signed up for the Dew Tour, and I was riding with all of the really good guys, the guys I’ve looked up to forever. It was a good feeling.

Where was that?
It was the Cleveland stop in 2007.

Did anyone push you to ride pro or was that your own decision?
It was more so a general push. I had a lot of help from my family, and Mark Flippowicz at Albe’s.

What do you think defines a pro in BMX?
BMX is initially what you make it. I would say that if you’re getting a lot of coverage in magazines, and you’re producing a lot of Web videos, and your name’s getting out there, and you’re doing contests and getting sponsors, I think that’s when you could consider yourself a professional. And when it’s your “job” as well.

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Brandon Dosch packed his bags, BMX bike and charged out to Cam White’s 5th annual Hillside Dirtjam and the 2011 BMX Games Pro Finals in Australia. Dosch was up against a huge international rider line up with nothing but s#itty weather. Brandon definitely stepped it up, and had some incredible runs in both contest. Dosch had a 1st place finish on the podium in the 2011 BMX Games Pro Final and it came down to Dosch pulling off a transfer triple whip, which put him in for Best Trick at the Hillside Dirtjam. Congrats Brandon for your solid finish at the 2011 BMX Games Pro Final and Cam White’s 5th annual Hillside Dirtjam!

Started from the ground up in 1999 by Deegan and Linkogle, the Metal Mulisha has grown into the biggest, best and most bad-ass action sports team in the world. Not only do we kick ass, but we have the best Freestyle Motocross team in the world, MMA Championship Fighters, Offroad Race Truck Drivers, BMX Cup Winners and many more fields of athletes ready to become part of the Mulisha Domination. Metal Mulisha is an unstoppable force that is blanketing it’s way around the world and with the support of our loyal and dedicated fans, we will continue to dominate anything in our path!

For the year of 2010 with the Metal Mulisha a lot went down for the team. Trying to sum up a year on nothing but bad ass things would take forever. We are going to sum up this year with some of our video highlights of Metal Mulisha Domination in 2010. In the beginning of January we kicked off this crazy idea we had… our 2010 Poaching Campaign, which spread us around the United States getting tickets, chased and sometimes arrested, making a successful year of Poaching!

We also started to film for our new Metal Mulisha film Black Friday. As 2010 continued to pass into other months throwout the year, we continued to film at some really remote locations and captured some of the sickest tricks on natural terrain! Here are a few scenes in this video from the first few spots we have been to.

After January we continued to take on the year on heading out to locations all over the world. We even got to make a stop and kick it with the Blue Angels at the El Centro Airshow. That was pretty sick and they took Fluffer & Agee up for a full on TOPGUN status ride along.

February 9th, 2010 marked the one year anniversary of the passing of our teammates and friend, Jeremy Lusk. The whole team arrived early at the Mulisha Compound to spend the day together and remember Lusk’s legacy. The guys couldn’t wait to ride, so they quickly geared up and went straight for the ramp for a good remembrance of Jeremy.

We also lost a good friend and Metal Mulisha family member this year. Mark Smith, passed away Friday May 14th, 2010, at his home in Maui, Wailuku, Hawaii. This tragedy and loss will never be forgotten. Mark will always be in our hearts now and forever. RIP BEAR watch over the rest of us as you will always be in our thoughts and prayers.

Deegan has really taking on the year of 2010. From XGames 16 Speed & Style / Rally & SuperRally, his new appearance in NASCAR, Lucas Oil Offroad Racing, Driver of the Year Award, Deegan VS Deegan, and many more … the General has no limitations on stopping and continues to Dominate everything he touches!

The 2010 Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival Tour straight up kicked ass! The tour stretch across the USA hitting major stops of chaos when we went ramp-to-ramp to live music in the middle of the pits in front of thousands and thousands of fans! Here is a little taste of how it went down.

For XGames 16 Mulisha Nation was tagged all our Los Angeles, CA. The Mulisha team defiantly made our presence known in all of the competitive categories.

There was a unfortunate mishap with Jimmy Fitzpatrick before his XGames 16 appearance. Check out the video on what happened with Fitz 9 days before X.

As far as kicking ass… here are the 2010 Metal Mulisha X Games 16 Results:

Best Trick
Cameron Sinclair – GOLD
Robbie Madison — SILVER
Taka Higashino — BRONZE

Best Whip
Todd Potter – GOLD
Jeremy Stenberg — BRONZE

SuperRally
Brian Deegan – SILVER

Rally Racing
Brian Deegan — SILVER

Speed & Style
Jeremy Stenberg — BRONZE
Ronnie Faisst — BRONZE

Super X – Men
Josh Grant — GOLD

Deegan, Hailie Deegan, Twitch, OX, Cameron Steele, Justin Smith took on a great 2010 season of Lucas Oil Offroad Racing. Deegan suits up for Pro Lite and also took late in the season a spot in his new #38 Pro2 truck! Check out the final video we put together of the last 2010 LOORS race in Arizona.

We had a huge model search going on for some more Metal Mulisha Maidens! Here is some leaked footage from our last photoshoot with many more to come.

Dominick Cruz destroyed Scott Jorgensen at WEC 53, winning an easy unanimous decision to defend his World Extreme Cagefighting Bantamweight title and enter the UFC as its first bantamweight champion.

History Is made! Metal Mulisha’s Dominick Cruz is the final WEC Bantamweight Champion and First-ever UFC Bantamweight titleholder! CONGRATS CRUZ!

Jay Schweitzer & Mike McEntire are at it again with another insain video of epic riding only seen in On The Pipe 6! It seems to only get better and better every new OTP films and without a question, OTP6 kicks ass!

The list of how bad ass we are can go on for days. The year of 2011 is going to be straight up insane and nothing but pure thrill for all our Metal Mulisha Troops out there! Make sure to check back with us for a sick update on Josh Grant, a new never before scene interview with Brian Deegan, behind the scenes training and practice footage of the 2011 Nuclear Cowboys Tour and a whole bunch more! To get more of a idea on how 2010 went down check out, photogallery & video section to see the rest of the 2010 year.

Axtion Magazine is killing it with content and has covered Deegan, Lusk and this month’s latest issue which featured Metal Mulisha’s BMX DEW Tour Dirt Champion Brandon Dosch! Check out Axtion’s virtual magazine layout and get the chance to read up on how it all went down for Brandon and his DEW Tour win and Deegan, Twitch and OX at the Lucas Oil Offroad Racing Series.

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The 2010 DEW Tour Finals were held at the Hard Rock Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. Ronnie Faisst and Twitch both were competing in the DEW Tour’s FMX Best Whip contest.

Twitch, Faisst, Myles Richmond, Destin Cantrell, Lance Coury, and Jarryd McNeil all geared up for the competition and battle it out for the $7,000 purse.

Both Faisst and Twitch unloaded their bag of tricks for all the DEW Tour fans giving them a taste of the Metal Mulisha . Faisst threw down some insane lookback whips and solid backflip tricks. Twitch was right behind Faisst making a huge entrance cranking out some heavy whips, huge Nac-Nacs, and Indian Airs!

Mulisha BMX rider Brandon Dosch competed in BMX Park and BMX Dirt. Brandon finished BMX Park in 9th place but that did not hold him back in BMX Dirt as he came in with a second place lead.

Dosch packed each run with huge tricks; including a triple whip, opposite 360 lookback, and a corked 720 to steadily increase his lead over the rest of the competition.

Brandon’s win, followed by his pair of second place finishes at other stops during the 2010 Dew Tour season, allowed Dosch to jump to the top of the year long standings. Earning his first Dew Cup Win of his career.

“I was coming in here in second place, and I wanted to take what was mine, and that was the Dew Cup. This means everything to me.”

Brandon finished up with a high score of 92.62 beating out TJ Ellis, Anthony Napolitan, Gary Young, and the rest of the BMX Dirt line up. Congratulations Brandon, for your first DEW TOUR WIN, and closing out the season with some Mulisha Style! Check out more of the DEW Tour Photogallery here!

Freestyle Motocross was back in competition form in Salt Lake City for the fourth stop of the Alli Sports Dew Tour. This was the first time in nearly two years that there has been an actual competition instead of the demo format that was used throughout 2009. Needless to say, everyone was fired up and hungry to compete in front of a pack house in downtown Salt Lake City on a Saturday night.

The competition was a head-to-head format, with the winner moving onto the next round. Twitch and Faisst were pre-qualified for the event based off of 2008 point standings and a wild card spot. Twitch, Potter, Taka, and Adelberg all eliminated their opponent in the first round, allowing them to advance to the second round.

In round 2, Potter and Twitch did battle to see who would move onto the quarter finals. Both had solid runs with big flip combos, but Twitch just edged out Potter to advance on. Adelberg had a scary get off in his run when he hit neutral as he was approaching the dirt double out of the double double section.

He was unable to slow down in time and had to eject off of his bike. He was carted off with broken tibia and fibula in both legs, a heel, and ankle. Get well soon Adelberg.

The quarter finals featured a battle of master vs. student with Twitch going head-to-head with his good friend and import, Taka. Twitch put in a competitive run with a big flip whip, flip no hander, and a unique transfer line into the double doube section that no one was doing. It was a strong run, but just not enough to take down Taka, who right now is riding the best he ever has.

Faisst nearly had the same crash as Adelberg in his quarter final run, but luckily was able to carve the lip and stay on his bike to flat. These guys make it look easy out there but it sure isn’t!

Taka went up against Mike Mason in the finals to decide who would be crowned the Salt Lake City Dew Tour Champion. Taka had to go first since Mason was already prequalified. This didn’t phase him one bit and came out swinging. Taka unloaded an arsenal of flip combos, such as perfectly extended Cordova, Indian Air, and his X Games bronze-medal winning Double Grab Indian Air flip. Mason gave it his all with a run including a big Hart Attack Flip, huge flip whip, and stylish No-handed Superman, but it wouldn’t be enough to take down Taka.

Congratulations to Taka for winning the Salt Lake City Dew Tour.

In BMX Dirt Finals, Brandon Dosch rode to a second place finish behind Dennis Enarson while making up valuable points on series leader, Brett Banasiewicz. Dosch had three consistent runs filled with 360 tail whips, opposite 360’s, and shocked everyone by landing a Decade 360 off of the last set in his final run.

Brandon now sits just 30 points out of first place in the Dew Cup rankings with just one more stop to go. Way to go, Brandon!

Check out more of the photos from Utah’s 2010 DEW Tour in our full photogallery.

Over this weekend the 2010 Dew Tour stop was held in Portland Oregon! Metal Mulisha BMX rider Brandon Dosch was on a good run during his heat. He was ranked in 4th but after he took a minor crash, he ended up with a 5th place finish and the score of 90.75! Dosch is currently ranked 2nd overall in BMX Dirt and is on his way to the last Dew Tour stop in Las Vegas on October 14-17.

Jeff “Ox” Kargola has a full schedule making appearances at all kinds of events like this year’s X GAMES – 16, Lucas Oil Offroad Racing and the 2010 Sufercross.

Ox returned to the Dew Tour in Portland, Oregon this past Sunday competing in a combo of Best Whip and Step Up. Ox finished up in Step up and Best Whip both scoring 3rd place!

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A hard charger with no hesitation to his riding style, Metal Mulisha Brandon Dosch was going big in BMX Super Park! Check out the video and more photos of Brandon ripping it up at this years X Games 16 Elimination!

After a weekend spent battling both wind and rain for the qualifying rounds of dirt, the finals went off without a hitch, and the crowd of faithful fans was treated to a wild competition as 12 of the world’s best descended on the dirt ramps at the Nike 6.0 BMX Open – Dew Tour 2010

Brandon Dosch’s double tailwhip, opposite 360 lookback and 720 impressed the judges, who gave him two scores in the 90s. With his own cheering section making the drive down from Michigan, Dosch’s final run included a triple tailwhip and a pair of double tailwhips but was also cut short, and Dosch secured second place for the evening.

Results
1. Brett Banasiewicz, 92.94
2. Brandon Dosch, 90.56
3. Luke Parslow, 89.69
4. Seth Klinger, 89.37
5. Andy Buckworth, 88.00