What Ken Block meant to us all. TheSmokingTire
Quiet, thoughtful, and somewhat of an introvert, Ken spoke with his hands, feet, heart, and cojones, all strapped to creatively aggressive thousand-horsepower builds, which he sent sideways through buildings, or flying through fire.
Ken didn’t invent Gymkhana. The term wasn’t even coined in reference to cars. It originates with horses and goes all the way back to Genghis Khan. But I’d put big money that nearly everyreader’s first experience with the term was somehow related to Ken Block. The first video “DC Shoes: Ken Block Gymkhana Practice” dropped on November 11, 2008, in the very early days of YouTube, and now has over 16.5 million views.
But then he’d bring you and your non-mainstream idea of car culture right in. Lowriders, donks, hoopties, Segways, ATVs, lead sleds, and bro-dozers made cameos in Gymkhana videos, always with a respect to the culture, never with shade. Culturally, Hoonigan Industries was one of the most multicultural car-based entities around, welcoming to anyone willing to send it, no matter what they looked like, who they loved, or what their pronouns were.
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