{"id":12425,"date":"2023-01-07T14:44:03","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T21:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12425"},"modified":"2023-01-07T14:44:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-07T21:44:03","slug":"gymkhana-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2023\/01\/07\/gymkhana-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"Gymkhana Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedrive.com\/news\/how-ken-blocks-gymkhana-series-changed-car-videos-forever\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Drive<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How Ken Block\u2019s Gymkhana Series Changed Car Videos Forever<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Step into the world of mid-2000s car culture and you\u2019ll understand exactly why Ken Block\u2019s driving videos blew our minds like they were Subaru head gaskets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BY <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedrive.com\/author\/andrew-p-collins\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ANDREW P. COLLINS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ken Block Tells Us His Top 10 Gymkhana Tricks Ever!\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GK23NOSVGO8?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedrive.com\/news\/goodbye-ken-block\" target=\"_blank\">Ken Block<\/a>\u2019s fans, followers, and family mourn his\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedrive.com\/news\/ken-block-dies-in-snowmobiling-accident-at-55\" target=\"_blank\">tragic passing<\/a>, many have remarked on how innovative he was as both a racing driver and an entertainer. Without a doubt, his body of work is its own evidence of its epicness. To help us and future readers appreciate exactly what made his stunts and style so special when they first came out, let\u2019s take a look at the debut of Block\u2019s Gymhakana video series in the context of its time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Block&#8217;s life and professional origins have been beautifully articulated by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedrive.com\/news\/the-world-reacts-to-ken-blocks-death\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">so many major industry names<\/a>\u00a0and our own\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedrive.com\/news\/goodbye-ken-block\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jonathon Klein<\/a>. Check out those tributes to learn why Block was such a special person. Here, we\u2019re going to focus on the early days of Gymkhana as car nerds know it, and how the timing of Block\u2019s emergence in the car scene lined up perfectly with the culture and technology of the mid-2000s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the inventor of\u00a0<em>Jalopnik<\/em>, a major player in the \/Drive YouTube and TV efforts, and a big part of the evolution of this site you&#8217;re reading, Mike Spinelli is a certified OG of online car culture. His insights on the impact of Ken Block\u2019s first videos are particularly interesting because he\u2019s been both a participant in and observer of car media, professionally, as it evolved from magazines to forums to videos to the rich multimedia melting pot it is in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedrive.com\/news\/how-ken-blocks-gymkhana-series-changed-car-videos-forever\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at The Drive<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Drive How Ken Block\u2019s Gymkhana Series Changed Car Videos Forever Step into the world of mid-2000s car culture and you\u2019ll understand exactly why Ken Block\u2019s driving videos blew our minds like they were Subaru head gaskets. BY ANDREW P. COLLINS As\u00a0Ken Block\u2019s fans, followers, and family mourn his\u00a0tragic passing, many have remarked on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}