airin roso

when i was growing up riding bmx i used to go to a skatepark in Southbridge Massachusetts. there was this guy that rode there that could 360 the box,back flip, and do some other stuff but thats all i remember. he said he was a professional bike rider and he rode for hoffman but i heard stories that that wasnt true (i have no idea). he has a tattoo of a bmxer breaking through a brick wall on his entire back
  his name was aaron roso. i didnt see that guy for so many years after that. then i heard through the grapevine that he changed his name from "Aaron" to "Airin". i was seriously stunned! but then again i didnt hear about him for another bunch of years.
   i was at the dayville park last summer and Airin showed up. i didn't see him do anything on his bike except try a 180 disaster on the quarter and throw his bars in an attempt to maybe do  500 barspins?? unfortunately it did about 3 and a quarter and he came up on the deck and sat next to me. he then told me "if i had a rake i would rake out that bank and 360 out of the 10 ft slant wall into the bank." i dont know if you have seen the slant wall at dayville skatepark? but if you have you know how ridiculous that is. i offered to go get a rake but nothing came from it. after that i took a run and chuck made a joke saying"oh here goes erics "pro" run " or something like that. Airin heard him and was quick to say "What? that guy thinks hes pro? tell him theres real pros here now". he left and the illusive airin roso went back into what i thought was going to be another 3 year hibernation..until last night!


if you ride bmx you know who Aaron Ross is. with a similar name to the legendary  Airin Roso, they are nothing alike. i became pretty good friends with aaron when i was in austin and he sent me message on facebook last night. it just said "miss ya buddy" . maybe a little weird bromance going on but it was no big deal. i wrote him back and that was the end of it. until this comment appeared...