Lookback: April – The 2016 Flatmattersonline Year End Awards

The clocks go forward one hour, that feel good factor that the extra daylight brings, more riding time equals more time filming and documenting what you do. April was a busy month!

Deco’s Chad Degroot kicked off the month and had this to say:

“Since I starting riding my head wants me to learn as much as possible and this includes bars backwards tricks. The beginning of this link I learned this day so to make more smooth flow and no scuffing. The middle has been a gem and great feeling to whip the backend around with no brakes and keep speed. The end is bars backwards and played a huge head game for a bit because I had to push so much momentum to get into the backyard position and pump to keep speed. Real excited to move past the 15 second persona and get onto the longer story of this trick.”

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Lookback: March – The 2016 Flatmattersonline Year End Awards

March is always a good month, springtime is coming and after a long winter its nice to be able to ride outside again. Not to mention generally there is a whole lot more content coming through from riders worldwide.

On the first day of March, Paul Chamberlain just dropped a real nice promo for the Down Underground 2016 series, filmed at his local riding spot in Summer Hill. Plenty of awesome hang 5 variations in signature Paul Chamberlain smooth style, well worth watching again.

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Landscapes Review

Review: Effraim.

DVD’s in the modern era are a sad rarity in our scene from my perspective, during the last two years you can count those on less than one hand. Dane Beardsley’s Same thing daily project and IGI’s travel video are all we have had. Stewart Munro from Australia stepped up to the plate with an ambitious project to collect and edit together rider sections from all the planet, when you think about that in the modern internet culture and free edits available everyday it almost seems like a thankless task.

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Thankfully Stewart stuck to the task which being so far away from all the other riders is I can imagine a tough task to collate together. The downloadable video straight to your laptop is catching on in other sports such as Skateboarding, more recently massive companies such as Adidas are releasing their projects for a small fee online. Will it catch on to what is essentially a small flatland audience? Only time will tell…

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Bene BMX – Cali Winter Part 3 & 4

We published Part 1 & 2 of Bene Pfriem’s winter trip to California just the other day, and Bene is already back with the 3rd and 4th parts with great riding from the likes of Sean Fontenot, Bobby Carter, Bene himself, Lalo Jimenez, Todd Carter and the real stand out for me Pedro Melo, his part starts around the 2:02 mark on Part 4 plus many more riders soaking up the Cali sunshine. Awesome!

St Martin California Trip

St Martin California Trip from ART BMX MAGAZINE on Vimeo.

St Martin head honcho’s Alain and Manu Massbova made the trip from Paris, France to LA, California to ride with legends Chase Gouin, Jesse Puente, Ahmed Johnson, Bobby Carter and many others, with riding footage shot at the SM jam in Newport Beach, enjoy this great edit from JC Pieri!

Aloha Jam 2015 – The Magic Island Part 1

ALOHA JAM 2015 – THE MAGIC ISLAND [Part 1] from Diversion TV on Vimeo.

Aloha Jam BMX holiday is more than just a jam. It’s an adventure! Join a crew of international riders as they take over a mansion on the island and explore paradise. This is part one of a video trilogy so stay tuned for part two, “Valley of the Temple.”

The 3rd Aloha Jam is June 24-26, 2016. We have rented out a flatland beach house again.
Booking information and Jam details are at alohajam.net
Instagram: @bmxalohajam
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Doses 3

Every so often something gets through the radar, and this would be one of those videos. Doses 3 dropped on August 31st of last year, full videos are nowadays rare as you like! Big respect to Adam Guild for pushing through and making this project, featuring Lindsey La’akea Bode, Mitchell Hall, Erin Fricke, Louis Orth, Brett Middaugh, Ryan Nunies, Christopher Caylor, Jon Dowker, Bobby Carter, Les Butler, Roosevelt Taylor Tony DiPaolo, Rodney Morweiser, Jim Dellavalle, Junior Polanco Abreu, Barry Johnson, Fernando Novak, Will Danner. Doses 4 is scheduled for a sum me release.

Lookback: October 2015 – The Flatmattersonline 2015 Year end awards

October was all about Flatark, all eyes on Kobe, Japan! But besides that what else happened in the month of October? Take a lookback…


On October 4th, Canadian Powerhouse Jason Plourde dropped a powerful back wheel line, as he warms up for Flatark in a few weeks, hit play!


A while ago we dropped the news Fabien Stephan was riding for Far East Cycles along with Dub and Benjamin Hudson. Now check his Welcome to edit, signature SF styles and amazing production in this one! Hell yes!


What a nice video to wake up to on October 7th! Heresy just released this amazing trick, no handed turbine whiplash anyone? Matthieu Bonnecuelle just unlocked a new door, the possibilities are endless!

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Aloha Jam – BMX Holiday 2014

Aloha Jam – BMX Holiday 2014 from Diversion TV on Vimeo.

I’ve been waiting to see this Aloha Jam edit, Bobby Carter explains all:

Aloha is the essence of relationships in which each person is important to every other person for collective existence. Aloha Jam is not a contest, it’s a BMX Holiday to enjoy the craft and the magic of the Hawai’ian Island of O’ahu.
All are welcome, as all are important….as you can see in the video we have old school freestylers, mid school, and new school flatlanders. We also have street riders on the scene sessioning a nice manual pad and working on flatground techniques.
BMX not only brings us to together to share in the art, but it also brings us together as friends – as a family – to share life experiences. The day after riding everyone went on a snorkeling adventure at Hanauma Bay, which is the base of an ancient volcano.
For those who attended, the Aloha Jam BMX Holiday left incredible experiences that will be remembered for a lifetime! See you at the next event!
Aloha and Mahalo!
Thanks to Derek Takemoto, Duane Franklin at Bike Factory, Kala Yasuda, and all the riders that helped make this event possible! SHOOTS! \m/