In July of 2012 Block again knocked it out of the park with Gymkhana 5, filmed in San Francisco. Gymkhana 5: Ultimate Urban Playground, San Francisco They use what appears to be the same 2011 Ford Fiesta used in the previous video although they did change the Livery. Using Hollywood level special effects, Directors, Producers, as well as having Universal Studios as the backdrop, Block goes way over the top with what they called a “megamercial”. Gymkhana 4 was easily the biggest production they had done up to that point where they head back to the good ol’ USA, Hollywood California to be specific. This is listed as a Part 2, but the Part 1 is just a music video that can be found here. Nobody knew how the car was going to react on this one-of-a-kind track until the day of filming when Ken just had to go for it. Banking as much as 51 degrees on some of the turns caused a unique issue for Block regarding some of the stunts scheduled for the video. The crew goes overseas, this time, to film at the L’Autrodome which has banked curves that make NASCAR tracks look like they’re flat.
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Like they did with the first video they released, sort of a blooper real, Gymkhana 2.1 featured long-time friend of Block’s and professional Skateboarder turned MTV star, Rob Dyrdek, who is driving a mini version of Ken’s wicked Subbie.Ģ010 bought us Gymkhana 3 where we say goodbye to the WRX and say hello to the 2011 Ford Fiesta pushing out 660hp. He gets a brand new, at the time, ’09 WRX that was built by Crawford Performance, who also built the first Gymkhana car but this one has 566 all-wheel drive horsepower. He used this as an advertisement for his DC clothing company at the time (which he later sold). They also released a second cut of that “Practice” film, almost like a blooper real but also shows more fancy car control.ĭue to the major and unforeseen success of the first videos, Block decided to step up the production value big time with Gymkhana 2: The Infomercial released in 2009. This one is fairly tame compared to the rest of the films, yet still, has some big drifts that leave you wanting more. Here is the first known Gymkhana video that was released in 2008 called “Practice” that started it all. Plus, he co-founded DC shoes back in 1994 which helped slingshot him into the motorsports world where Ken then went on to become the King of a world that he himself created. Oh, let me go play in my rally car and get 500 million views on the Internet, as my hobby, in between a full-time racing career in both the World Rally Championship, as well as the up and coming Rally-cross that is gaining in popularity. He very well may have the best job in the entire world. If you’re like me, the first time I saw one of the videos I went ahead and spent multiple hours trying to find every similar video possible.īlock has figured it out, he learned the secret sauce, or the magic potion because this guy is literally living the dream. After watching even one minute of any one of those videos, you will immediately know why they are so popular. What started out with Ken Block out playing in his rally-bred 2006 WRX that had been tuned up to 530hp on an empty old airstrip back in September of 2008 has now morphed into a social media icon called Gymkhana that has close to a Billion (yes billion with a B) views on YouTube alone over the course of 9 main videos in 8 years. With Gymkhana EIGHT only one quick weekend away we wanted to recap just how amazing the previous Gymkhana videos have been.
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