Intro: Effraim.
Photos: Trevor Oleniuk.
As you may or not have noticed I have been stepping up the amount of exclusive content on Flatmatters over the winter months, particularly the interviews which I think have been quite in-depth. On the flip side of that, sometimes I am aware they can be heavy reading and thats not everyones cuppa tea so to speak. So with that train of thought, I was thinking let’s bring back the top 5’s feature, and who better to kick this off with than S&M’s Peter Olsen. Let me know what you think in the comments. Thanks!
Riders of all time:
1-Ross Smith
2-Simon O’Brien
3- Martti Kuoppa
4-Garrett Reeves
5- Ruben Alcantara
Riders to ride with:
1-Trevor Oleniuk
2-Brandon Derbowka
3-Cory Stratychuck
4-Kevin Desautels
5-Cory Fester
Web edits:
1-Rich Forne DIG
2-PALACE – TRES TRILL
3-Akira Okamura – Magic Fruits
4-Garrett Reeves / LOTEK
5-Dylan Reider – Gravis
Places to visit:
1-New Zealand
2-SF
3-Southern Portugal
4-Sweden
5-British Columbia, CAN
Websites/blogs:
1-Flatmattersonline.com
2-Defgrip.net
3-Boiltheocean.wordpress.com
4-google
5-Quartersnacks.com
Inspirations right now:
1-More daylight hours
2-The sun’s warmth
3-My wife
4-My cat
5-My bike
Reasons to leave your town/city:
1-Long and dark winters
2-I’ve been here forever
3-I need a change of scenery
4-There is a world beyond this city
5-Opportunities elsewhere
Current Albums:
1-Shlohmo – Laid Out EP
2-Blue Hawaii – Blooming Summer
3-Flying Lotus – Until the Quiet Comes
4-Spectrals – Extended Play
5-King Tubby – Dub From the Roots
Tricks to do daily:
1-Whiplashes (any kind)
2-Walkarounds
3-360 pivot tricks
4-pivot whiplashes
5-Backwards tricks
Tricks you can’t do, but wish you could (ideal wishlist):
1-Cross footed whiplashes in front of the bars
2-Backward facing rolling walkovers
3-F-truck around the worlds
4-Big Wallrides
5-360 Bunnyhop Whips
Bike Brands:
1-S&M
2-Heresy
3-BSD
4-Terrible One
5-Primo
Non bike brands:
PALACE skateboards
Brixton
Emerica
POLAR skate co
HUF
Things that piss you off:
1-Racism
2-Closed-minded folks
3-Narcissism
4-Impatience
5-Materialism
Flatland DVDS:
1-Blend
2-RUM 97-05
3-Made you Look
4-Connect
5-Background
Non Riding Movies:
1-Samsara
2-Shawshank Redemption
3-Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
4-Moonrise Kingdom
5-Bottle Rocket
Gadgets:
1-Ipod Nano
2-Panasonic DVX100b
3-My wicked old computer
4-My old Samsung phone
5-I don’t really like gadgets
Favourite no seat touch combos:
1-Xfooted whiplash 360 pivot to xfooted whip out
2-Xarm switchfoot whiplash to backward hang5 to x arm whip out
3-Xarm whiplash walkaround
4-Turbine Frontyard variations
5-Switch footed firehydrant 360 pivot behind the back to switch foot out
Flatland dislikes:
1-Filler
2-Egos
3-Excess scuffing or pumping
4-Intentionally dropping the back wheel down to the ground in the middle of front wheel combos
5-Changing carve directions in a combo (ie. going clockwise then switching it up and going counter wise in the same link)
*#4 & #5 are generally speaking, but there are exceptions as some dudes that can make both of those look sick
Flatland loves:
1-Solitude
2-Fresh Air
3-Good friendships
4-Rolling
5-Finding out something is possible
Who’s next for a Top 5’s?
no fillers man 🙂
Very Good! 🙂
really style this guy
HAF
The flow of that combo at 1:54 in the vid is just so damn perfect.
cant stop watching this guys edits- such good style! more please
Pete can ride AND has good taste in DVDs… inTRIKat and Wes Anderson represent!!
ride on
Hell yeah Pete!
This Guy is awesome! if you ever want to come to New Zealand let me know! but not many here flatlanders now.
Top 5’s are really cool. Great edit too!
If you get Pete really drunk he might do you a bottom fives. I’d like to read that too!!!
brilliant