The Chairman and The (BMX) King

Alden Olmsted
14 min readFeb 3, 2024

Chapter Six of my Indie-Journal A Virus Ate My Movie!

Huntington Beach, like a lot of L.A. — with no natural landmarks and its huge swath of bland coastline — can be so severe in its extremes it’s uncanny.

It can feel dead on a morning in June when it’s overcast and only the homeless are hanging out, or it can feel like it did the day we thought we’d grab some b-roll footage of the ex-pro BMX and freestyle riders who…

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Alden Olmsted

I was born in a small town in Northern California just another latch-key kid obsessed with BMX and Tom Petty. Now I make films and travel and write when I can.