Fly Bikes' Ruben Alcantara does not usually do things that others do. This is well known in the BMX world so I need not elaborate. He could just go around manualing ledges and doing invert airs out of quarter pipes all day but he does not. Instead, he does and creates things that remain in your mind for years and years... so here you have it, Ruben Alcantara's BIG HIP.

Story by Fly Bikes:

"It's been years since Joe, Garret and I talked about jumping a giant
hip. When we were filming for the T1 video we got the oportunity to
build one and got to work really good, so good that we couldn't pedal
even faster to go higher.
Since then i have been curious about how much fun will be to go faster to something like this and see what will happen.
One
day riding at the trails looking at this littlehill next to the jumps i
had the idea and i found this line going between the jumps that will
give you a ton of speed and also ended in a good spot to build "The Big
Hip" and with no much digging involve. The problem was that to make the
landing was a lot of hard work due to it's size done by hand, and one
day while digging at the trails with my good friend Sami (who used to
work with digging machines) called me and told me that one of the
machines was free one weeked and we could use it to make the landing...
When i hang up i was so excited that i stoped fixing this little jump
at the trails and went to start "The Big Hip" and the first afternoon i
almost finished the take off and in a couple of more days everything
was ready except the landing.....then the machine came and, boom!!
there it was!.. over three floors of hill and rollers to get the speed,
a NINE foot tall take off ,and a step landing 30 feet away!! ... sooo
beautyfull!....but then it was the moment to give it a go..... Yes, I
was a bit scared because you had to go really fast and it was huge!...
so, it made me think a lot the first time... I remember having flash
baks of back in the day trying backflips for first time or something
like that ...so fun!... the jump it worked out so good! and I felt like
i was 18 years old again... I won't forget this day, incredible!...and
it's provably one of the best feelings that i ever had on my
bike...but, it's even better seeing my friends jumping it for the first
time with scary faces and after they clear the jump you can tell how
stoked and happy they are seing their faces.... we all agree how good
his jump is and that makes me happier.
Here there is a drawing that gives you a better idea of how the Big Hip is and why is so fun to ride it.
Well, all you guys who ride bikes know how fun is to ride a hip ... so much that makes you think why is that fun?
Small or big, a bank or transition... it doesn't matter.... it's just sooo fun!
It's
hard to describe the feeling but can be compared to a good day in
life... maybe because the different ways to do it? ... because you can
pick the trayectory that you want even if you don't know what is going
to happen?.... because in the middle of it you can correct this
trayectory? ..... because it always gives you a new good feeling?...
yes, it's sounds like a good day in life and because good days exist
big days does too.
Maybe is the reason why i started The Big Hip?... who knows but one thing is for sure is that we all had big days riding it."

"Looking at the last articule at Dig magazine and news about the Big Hip
brought me so many good memories and i miss it a lot because we can't
ride it to the next winter because we need rain to work on it and now
everything is to dry. My best memories is no only riding and jumping,
it's even better to see my friends going full speed and hit this big
thing and getting sent in the air and see them all stocked. Here are
some pictures of all of us and I don't get tired watching this pictures
for the good times and memories that brings to me Thanks for the good
times and your help with the jump... oh! and you are all invited to
ride it next seasson!
I hope to see you next winter."