I wish that I got more than just the short impression of Jeff Evans that I received a couple years ago. In BMXFU’s That Counts era, I made a quick little trip down to the Niagara region to ride X-Wheels with Chijioke Okafo and Chris Silva. I slept on the floor of a FU house with no pillow and no blanket and I don’t think I could have been happier. I had heard that Jeff Evans was super good, but I only heard it after an entire day of riding with a crew that included the doesn’t-really-have-a-switch Jetty. We sessionned a huge amount of spots (or so it felt, coming from pretty much nothing) and all I saw Jeff do the entire day was kickflip out of a tiny bank at the very popular Battlefield sub boxes. So I saw a preview of his section in BMXFU’s first video I was obviously blown away, and I think it was one of the first times I experienced an undercover shredder – and I think it influenced my huge appreciation for them as well.
Evans has gone on to produce awesome sections in !!! and it’s an absolute shame we don’t see as much of him anymore. Let’s just be thankful for a quick glimpse in this split edit with Isaac Barnes, and keep our fingers crossed that Jeff’s working on some sort of super secret super-section. FU3: Return of the Jetty would have been perfect, but we can’t have everything.
