.NigelSylvester is giving fans a closer look at his BMX career through a new Rizzoli book.
Sylvester explained the book took roughly a year and a half to put together. The athlete said there were hundreds of photos to choose from for the book from each location where “Go” was filmed. His strategy of laying out the book was choosing photos from major moments in his BMX career that he thought would resonate the most with his fans.
One moment he wanted to expand on in the Rizzoli book was his experience jumping out of a plane on his bicycle in the Dubai, U.A.E., desert. He explained that fans only saw that experience from his point of view in the “Go” video series, so he wanted to include photos from different angles in the book so he could share more insight into the moment.
“Looking at the last six to seven years of my life, particularly everything we’ve done for the ‘Go’ series, seeing the progression and seeing some of the friendships that we’ve made throughout that process and certain people who are still in my life, looking back on where I was creatively then and where I’m at now, it was super cool,” he said. “You know, life moves so fast and I’m always doing 10,000 things, but having a moment to just sit down and reflect and be thankful, it was pretty cool.