Gymkhana Is Back And Ken Block Is Still The Man

One of YouTube’s most exhilarating web series has returned for its eighth installment. Gymkhana, in which DC Shoes co-founder and stunt driver Ken Block drifts his way through an automotive gauntlet, has launched a new video that takes place in the desert landscape of Dubai.

Block’s Gymkhana series stands as YouTube’s answer to the Jason Bourne film series: Each episode is a nonstop wave of action, and recent ones have tended to feature major cities as their backdrops. After ‘Gymkhana Seven’ brought Block to the streets of Los Angeles, the series’ eighth round sends him to Dubai, where he blitzes down lonely highways, dances with glittering skyscrapers, and weaves his way through grand housing developments. At certain points, the new Gymkhana

episode is almost balletic in nature; other times, it forcefully bursts its way forward.

This particular edition of Gymkhana, co-produced by Ford Performance, XDubai, and Block’s company Hoonigan, doesn’t break any terribly innovative new ground, but that doesn’t really matter; the series is great, Block is great, and action junkies, who have showered previous Gymkhana episodes with tens of millions of views, will surely eat this one up as well. We look forward to the Block’s next stunt-driving adventure, which, if his previous schedule is any indication, will arrive sometime in 2017.