Odyssey BMX | SWAMPFEST 2024 w/ Aaron Ross

Once again, we handed Aaron Ross a microphone and sent him out to Swampfest ’24 in Florida. His mission was to get the inside scoop on the event while avoiding explosions, flying skateboards and getting stuck in mud. Sit back and enjoy various interviews, assorted riding and overall general craziness.

Thank you, Trey Jones and the rest of the crew, for another incredible event to remember!
Video by Zach Krejmas

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Oh can we have theme music and on it up Titanic hi and welcome to the 2024 swampfest in Waldo Florida where really really really chill things are going to happen for the next two days dude what’s up it’s day one we’re in Waldo Florida at swampfest as you can see there’s a

Circle K for all your important things we got an alligator and over here we have the Pirates of Caribbean uh you know vert walls I guess um anyways this is swampfest last night they were up to like 5: in the morning covering everything because they’re expecting rain tonight and tomorrow so this thing

Is running rain or shine doesn’t matter it’s going to get insane I hope you guys brought rain boots or if you’re watching this at home I hope you enjoy the Mudfest we’re going to take a poll real quick between these two does anyone make it over over the roller coaster

Rail I think no I I can’t imagine like the Run up’s not it’s all crookedy yeah yeah someone will make it that I mean someone did the Jase has not been here in previous years he has not seen someone did the loop ain’t nobody getting over that do you think anyone

Does it maybe we got one maybe is this like your seventh uh swamp Fest it actually is yeah so like I been to everyone everyone yeah no not except the first one have you ever jumped in the water no [ __ ] no dude we need more Gatorade baths in BMX I think that would

Be maybe that’s the start maybe I’ll go get some Gatorade put a big thing together and we’ll dump it on your head well they’re riding men now so much has changed it’s uh all inclusive now men with wood hey how are you today I’m doing well by yourself you look very

Strong and sturdy are you feeling that way I yeah I’m feeling best you know I have in my life you know I’m feeling pretty strong right now and uh I think today is going to be really great so do you travel with the piece of wood or did

You find it here uh today I brought it here here uh on my back I walked you know quite the far distance but usually I usually have a few ready everywhere I go have you ever ridden a man before no and it he’s really surprisingly holding

Up but have you ever ridden and like ended up in the water here or anywhere else yeah everyone knows that that’s terrible please insert clip here I’m coming to interview you oh yeah I heard you’ve been to swamp best before uh last year I also heard you’re from

Kentucky yes so this is about the same kind of what’s been your favorite part so far uh that little LED’s fun uh just going back to back uh the step Up’s fun too what what who what were you most excited about seeing uh I don’t know the

Homies the Odyssey homies there you go look at that yeah so you run a contest every year it’s very similar to this I feel like kind of aesthetically it’s about the same so are you going to take any obstacles from here and you know apply it to your own contest I hope so

Cuz this is awesome I think you should take the lake um we it doesn’t rain into California I heard it’s been flooding that’s fake news perfect extremely honored the only wanted a signature from is you oh look at us we’ve done it how do you like that shirt I like it

Nice did your mom buy that for you yeah are you prepared for the amount of rain that is coming yeah did you bring rain boots no Dick Sporting Goods Dick Sporting Goods here 30 minutes away but they have got fantastic ponchos do you do you have dicks in England big dicks nice

First uh what did you throw on the ground and what are you what age are you Kors light 24 24 this kid lives in my neighborhood actually he doesn’t but he did he was next door neighbors to my cousin and um definitely of age this is true matching shirt so did you match

This on purpose well the bike matches the sticker too the thr on the bike dude look at that who’s your favorite bike rider Matt Hoffman nah how are we today is this your uh first swamp Fest uh it’s not but it’s been like four years since

I came out here so this is uh pretty wild to see how big it’s grown you know I see you getting through the trails looking all good are you um uh what are you most excited about seeing um that’s a great question I actually tried to like cut out all expectations because

The videos are so insane um I’m pretty much just excited because there’s a lot of other ladies here we were just all in Cleveland at some gym and then a lot of people last minute decided to rent a car and just Caravan down here so here we

Are and we’re just going to continue the session but here in the swamp so this is sick dude look at that shirt this is my boy shitcock this is my happy home right here dude I’m [ __ ] so stoked to be here just drove about 3500 miles in an

RV with eight smelly dudes I probably smell the worst but it’s whatever okay you’re ripping are we going to see a flip on the dirt bike uh I didn’t even bring a dirt bike dude that was somebody else’s dirt bike I was riding can you flip third dir

Bike probably not are you going AC are you going up and over this rail over here I am scared to death of that thing dude I asked Trey last night I go hey Trey you really think somebody’s going to go over that thing he’s like no they

Do it every year bro they do it every year no one’s getting over that thing yeah that’s what I’m saying it’s [ __ ] Steep and scary as hell boom are you with Odyssey I am with Odyssey dude on the X Games on Instagram yeah good to meet you what’s going onom I got a

Couple X Games medals I’m doing all right what’s up uh it’s been a minute but we don’t need to talk about that um so what are you most excited about seeing um I’m a skateboard at at heart but I love love BMX I want to see the roller coaster rail ain’t nobody getting

Over that no would you get stop at the top you’re toast dude but are you excited this I’m guessing the skater is going to hit this rail oh yeah dude it’s already bike locked cuz everyone already wants to hit it do you think someone makes it Walsh Kyle Walsh we’ll hit it

First try all right deal easy hey guys you heard it here first Kyle Walsh um and here we are in trampoline this has been great later guys thanks for did you bring your bike yeah it’s it’s probably going to stay in the car I did not even

Bring my bike so less less luggage yes I’m here for the interviews swampfest 2024 it’s been a chill chill year so far how are you doing uh I I legitimately almost died like closest one in in a very long time what’s the wildest thing

You’ve seen so far uh I mean the thing I was talking about I didn’t even see it the bike just literally I felt the wind of the bike fall off of there and just and everybody screaming so do you think someone’s going to end up in that no

They put barb wire on the tree there’s literally legit barb wire on the tree so you can’t climb it that’s how you stop people um I think the wildest thing thus far is I don’t know the skaters yesterday were pretty [ __ ] wild dude like the just the way that

They [ __ ] attack the course and how gnarly it is for them and like seeing them like geek out and stuff like I thought it was pretty [ __ ] I don’t know if we’re in danger as much as we’re making people mad yeah U like And subscribe like And

Subscribe is this the um smoothest ramp you’ve ever uh skated dude it’s smoooth as a k were you here last year yeah is this the best contest ever yes it’s now like a 50/50 skate BMX contest which is pretty sick uh yeah it’s about time what’s the wildest thing you’ve seen so

Far so far man ramp over there but I want to see the dragon real have you ran in into anybody today not yet I can’t wait though don’t worry it’s coming all right let’s do this is this your first swamp Fest yes sir this is my first

Swamp Fest why are you here this boy right here top water and you you saw this last year and you thought yeah I thought it would be great to come out and just what are you going to do for us I’m I’m going to dive in there I’m see

I’m going I’m going to ask you a question on the way you ready yeah tell me when you’re ready I’m ready I’m ready are you having the most fun yeah see you best fun so uh your first swamp Fest no it’s my second is this the uniform that you

Wore last time absolutely little upgrade though got the gator skin now see what you got some spray paint no no a little you know starter fluid little starter fluid are you just helping everyone get started what are you doing yeah we’re just getting them going warming them up

You know let’s show us a little bit about what you’ve been messing with welcome to swampfest where anything goes yeah we we got some of that hard knock life I just want to check in with Brett silv’s below deck so here we go does anybody know where I can do a

[ __ ] tobogan around here I’m just kidding first swamp Fest this first timer I’ve talked so much [ __ ] to chase for seven years about coming to this contest first what were you most looking forward for everything you know I mean I don’t know I’ve been uh I’ve sat at home and

Watched this online for the last six years you know so I kind of knew what to expect to a certain extent but I don’t know from what I hear it feels like this is probably one of the best ones course-wise um the dirt jumps are amazing you know everything’s

[ __ ] close together you know I don’t know it hasn’t even started yet it has not even started tomorrow it’ll be Mudfest I’m looking forward to it either way how do you feel about the trampoline obstacle and what are your plans uh for when they hold best trick on

It uh my plans for best trick are to put my money on Matt nor the only person that did tricks in like three tries in left the Odyssey wall um super safe he almost missed the whole Landing that was awesome thanks minutes that waset man

Yes what do you have to say that was crazy check check check yeah so far what’s been your favorite thing that’s happened well it hasn’t happened yet I’m waiting on the long jump you’re waiting on or you’re winning on waiting I heard winning waiting winning winning jump over here

Jump over him get out of R let’s go I agree day two super chill everyone’s going to die how’s it going oh yeah bro Michael would be would be doing this dude what is your strategy here fast are you having so much fun yeah time of my life how many tries have you

Gone down uh two how far have you gone uh uh pass the Tall part you look good I like that mud frame dude let’s see it let’s get out there I’m going to go I’m going to get to the end I’ll be there waiting for you all righty I’ll be there

Sick you kind of you kind of [ __ ] that guy over I did definitely what the dude you got one shoe on yeah I’m on one shoe I had to cut my f or cuff my pants cuz uh I was rolling over my ankles a little bit did

You just leave the shoe in the mud it’s like 3T under yeah you were close dude I did a handlebar grind I don’t know if you saw that but I think we invented the four piece grind look how he’s getting me all dirty sorry dude I can [ __ ] all over my

Mouth it looks like you’re a very cold it’s it’s not the typical Florida day I was expecting but how muddy did you think you were going to get today muddier i’ muddier than this it’s you’re doing pretty good yeah getting started I like it go get

It did you do it with the belt on no I left the belt off all I got Gator teeth too uh 10 bucks a pop they’re in an Al lunch box official I got my NBL Grands 1999 t-shirt are you from Florida no actually I’m not I’m just visiting so surprising

Aaron Ross is doing things taking my job taking my job let’s I I don’t want to talk to you no more are you here for swampfest are you here for Daytona tomorrow I’m just womaning up for Daytona tomorrow baby this is a pregame Long Live yes sir Dale

Baby what’s up we’re with Tommy and he is the world 10 time world champion UCI pump track world champion and I’d like to say when you go to those events all around the world and you know win of course how much alike are they like swamp

Pest will we walk around with this y i sure stay ready yes sir are you giving out free hits to people uh not right now oh come on not right now not right now what’s the wildest thing you’ve seen so far uh yesterday they had the guy set

Himself on fire I heard y’all were thinking about stopping it and he told you you’re not going to stop it yeah yeah I guess he was a professional that’s what he told me yeah hi we’re here with Matt Nordstrom um heard he got melted last night on the rail literally

And figuratively yeah so the the rail happened to be on fire which you know it kind of makes it hard to see the rail at night when it like it’s on fire cuz the the Flame’s like a foot wide you’re like I don’t even know where the rail is so I

Missed my front Peg and when you miss your front Peg you try to grab the railing but when the railing is on fire it’s really hot [ __ ] and that was a mortar oh my God and we’re here with my friend Brett and we’re talk we’re just we’re just having

So much fun how are you doing so I I feel I’m not taking them I think I got PTSD now I got PTSD from the rail or from swampfest from the mortars from swampfest from all of it dude I think everyone does shout out to Wingo how many swamp Fest have you been

To this my fav swamp Fest this is his first swamp Fest how’s it going everything is fine I what a crazy event I very love this man is it living up to everything that you’ve ever heard of yeah yeah people just told me like if

You go to the SW you’re going to see like a crazy share many crazy so like this and yeah for real it’s real it’s real welcome to welcome to Florida thank you bro uh the amount of people that have came out this year is very exciting

Now however I do feel like we many people here are in danger everyone is in danger I can confirm things are unhinged this year do you love Florida Vegas I love what Florida breaks out in people in their energy what do you think this

Is pure BMX or do you think this is pure chaos this is pure I don’t know what this is but I’m happy to be here so are yall are you bummed that everyone is on your ship or is it like chill I hear you’re from the

High desert um sounds like it would be a place that’s a lot like Florida how how does this compare if we had water we could do this at home this is the King of the Hammers for bikes so it’s in your blood just a little less water yeah how are you doing

You’re born and raised in this beautiful state how’s it make you feel to be back or to be born here both to be born here there’s a sense of Pride to be back here there’s a sense of Shame tell me about this I do nails for a living and I took

Advantage of the theme of swampfest come come look at these things all right here we are we’re at swampfest it looks like you’re ready for actual War um how are you feeling about this entire situation um this something new to me man you know first time for everything hey I love it

Hey as thank you for keeping everyone safe ish ish where are you from and why are you here I’m from the UK because I [ __ ] love swamp Fest I love what what they’re doing it’s the only Festival where no one gives a [ __ ] [ __ ] your friend seems like he’s not he’s like I

Don’t know if I’m friends with this guy anymore this is my uncle this is your uncle this is my creepy Uncle big up swamp Fest we love it here baby have youall been before no never will you be back watched it on YouTube I hope so always wanted to come and we just

Thought [ __ ] it get the plane ticket are you uh going to be at Battle Hastings uh where is it I don’t know in Hastings I didn’t know maybe do y’ all ride bikes used to if we’re welcome with the SCE BMX get us free tickets and

We’ll come out a free bike all right we’re here with the one and only 1080 himself Mike spinner you’re born and raised in Florida uh New York oh I had no idea yeah I I appreciate you doing the research I know you really but he has told me I researched very hard he

Has told me that he’s bunny hopped 42 in in his life time yeah I’m not I think that’s great I thought you would been impressed I know yours is like [ __ ] 60 true 60 sorry we can curse yeah it’s okay do you even curse I curse sometimesy [ __ ] when was the last time

You rode a BMX bike oh oh uh last week I love this when was the last time you did a 1080 oh no that’s [ __ ] your voice sounds way different than yesterday screaming I smoked a carton of sigs last night I’ve been hearing stories that um the legend himself ratty Chase has made

An appearance last night he was out till what time not even that late but yeah [ __ ] we’re tapping into the teenage years for sure yeah look how hard it was for you to what’s up guys we’re out here at swamp Fest I’m getting shot by [ __ ] hey hold

On it’s crazy we’re at the last event the RO roller coaster [ __ ] get over I don’t know whatever the hell it is it’s crazy though we got people riding dirt bikes shooting fireworks it’s raining it’s chaos out here and uh yeah I’m taking over for Aaron he had to go home

He’s got to run a marthon in the morning [ __ ] all right I’m out head up get out of there get out of there get out of there oh God damn it here we go oh there [ __ ] don’t don’t a it in people don’t a it in people pay attention Fireballs down [ __ ] I

Got oh oh good God in heaven Rich Hernandez gets got 500 give it up one more time from poor homie rich you guys all right guys this is Aaron Ross signing out 2024 swamp Fest we’re going to try and burn this down I don’t know if it’s going to happen thank you to

Trey Jones thank you for all the dudes that made this happen um yeah I’m Aaron Ross and I didn’t bring my bike Rusty we’re done huh we’re cut we definitely are it’s kind of a Mudfest now not swamp Fest and uh yeah why don’t you set that

One off just to just to set us off all right guys this has been swamp Fest 2024 thank you Trey Jones love you yeah