The film offered an inside look into the life of the creator
of freestyle motocross and founder of the Metal Mulisha, and also gave an
in-depth and fairly unbiased view of how the FMX industry began. The film’s
strength was in a collection of fascinating interviews with the best pros, past
and present, as well as Linkogle lovers, haters, family, and friends. The only
interview blatantly missing was that of Metal Mulisha co-founder Brian Deegan. While
the documentary didn’t tiptoe around the pair’s rocky past, Deegan’s point of
view was, for better or worse, excluded.
Linkogle’s love for the sport and hate for the rules were
the backbone for a life story littered with drug abuse, anarchy and kick-ass
riding. When asked what the most exciting part of making this film was,
Linkogle, without hesitation, responded that it was going through all the
archived footage, some of which had never been seen.
The footage was gnarly and
raw, from freeriding at Ocotillo Wells to FMX’s first appearance in X Games.
There was even some jumping off a makeshift ramp Linkogle built recently. There
was plenty of riding footage for any adrenaline junkie. There was also, as
producer Heather Santora stated, plenty of story and heart to bring along your
average, non-riding audience. If you don’t know who Larry Linkogle is before
seeing this film, you not only will know who he is in great detail after seeing
it, but you’ll care.
The whole concept for this film began when director Adam
Barker worked with Linkogle on an episode of the freestyle motocross show M80
on FUEL TV. From there, Barker cast Linkogle in a short horror film Hotchkiss
Meats, and the two decided it was time to
join forces to tell the high speed life of Linkogle.
The event itself was low key and attracted a motley but
legendary crew. Besides Linkogle himself, the Godfather of FMX Mike Metzger,
surfing legend Christian Fletcher, skateboarder Duane Peters, and motocross
racer Mickey Dymond were in attendance, all of whom where a part of the film.
Linkogle’s son, Lynkin, who contributed his own film footage to the movie, made
his rambunctious red carpet debut. Like father like son.
The film will continue to run the festival circuit through
the rest of the year and into 2010. The next stop will be the Mammoth Film
Festival, December 9-13 2009 and the rest of the schedule can be found on
lonegutproductions.com. The film will be released by Video Action Sports
Entertainment on DVD and Video On Demand in February 2010. The DVD will include
extended interviews, rare archival footage and the short horror film Hotchkiss
Meats.
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