Full coverage from the amazing contest series that keeps giving us treat after threat, Chimera A Side in Tokyo popped off, enjoy the footage! With Takatora Hishikawa coming out on top, followed by Ren Oshima and Yu Shoji on the podium. This is amazing!
Sam Foakes & Sam Anderson win the 2026 British Cycling Championships
The 2026 British Cycling Championships went down at the RAF Hanger 59, in Shrewsbury this past weekend.

Sam Foakes threw down a flawless first run to take the UK Champion title for the second year in a row, full of his signature turbine style, including multiple cliffhanger turbines to backwards cross handed no footed cliffhanger body twist to cliffhanger, and one of the best contest saves I’ve ever seen, stopping dead on a backwards hang 10 to half packer, and somehow riding out backwards.
Sam was followed by Lee Musselwhite who as always scored high on originality, but a few touches kept off the top spot, and Dan Margetts took the third place with a consistent run with a healthy mix of back and front wheel, with Yinka Thomas in fourth.
In the Womens class, Sam Anderson took the win, with last years Champion Kayley Ashworth in second, and Loren Spencer in third place.

Great to see everyone once again, next event up Battleground in Cleveland Ohio, USA!
F(L)ATBMX Battle brings Flatland action to Urban Matterz in Helmond, Holland!
Photos by Aaron Zwaal
Story: Bart de Jong.

Flatland BMX took over the square in front of Museum Helmond on Saturday as part of the Urban Matterz weekend. The F(L)ATBMX Battle brought eight invited riders together for a one-on-one knockout contest, with the riders battling their way through the bracket until only one remained.
The concept was simple: eight riders, head-to-head battles and no UCI points or pressure. Just BMX, creativity and a good time.
Anna Mondics: Welcome to KHE Bikes
The reigning Euro champion Anna Mondics just got a well deserved hook up with KHE Bikes, and threw down a a nice “welcome to” part for good measure. All on board the classic Premium Lager!
Jason Forde & Effraim Catlow: Welcome to Southsea!
Jason Forde was in the area on holiday a few weeks ago, and wanted to link up for a morning flat session at one of my new riding spots on Southsea Seafront. Good times at the SOUBA spot with Jay and his lady, Lyndsey who killed it on the filming.
Worlds Madrid 1999: Andrew Faris, Mike S, & Akira Okamura
Starting off the week with more gold from the Jon Knight archives, Andrew Faris, Mike S, and Akira Okamura Pro qualifiers at the Madrid Worlds 1999.
Worlds Madrid 1999
Jon Knight over at Dope Lordz just came through with this great footage from the archives, Madrid Worlds 1999 featuring Alexis Desolneux, Gernot Ibounig, and Phil Dolan, enjoy this one!
Must Watch: Yu Shoji 2026 by Jimalog
It’s very rare these days, to have my inbox with a couple of full parts to watch and publish on the site. And as you all know, I am a big fan of video parts and what I believe they do to help the flatland culture grow, be shared and be seen, motivate others etc.
So I was very stoked to see Dub share, Yu Shoji’s new edit filmed by Jimalog on the IGI channel, that’s a winning combination right there, that made me think of previous filming partnerships like Tom Sevisual with Adam Kun and Matthias Dandois, and more recently the Heresy team edits.
It’s been 9 months since Yu released his “Welcome to Far East” edit, that helped become the 2026 Flatmattersonline Rider of the Year, in my opinion you cannot solely rely on contest wins to take this award, it takes more than that and Yu delivers yet again, all in the same or very similar outfit and at the same riding spot in Chiba Japan, which begs the question… how long did he take to film this part?
Yu Shoji is of course on top of his game, and further develops what we see him perform under the contest limelight.
Standouts:
00:24: Switch foot mega spin turbines one handed half whopper to switch foot steam without touching the tyre into his infamous blindside body varial to right side halfpacker pivot backwards switch foot switch hand fork wheelie and out to pedals, clean!
1:07: This line beginning with Yu’s signature two xft-ed steam turbines that equally takes on a half hiker position, ending with one footed spinning half hiker jump to crackpacker, and wait for the exit! So good!
2:59: The triple downside boomerang ender is stomped!
Everything hits in this edit, the music and editing are so point! I’m sure in December I will be talking about this edit for the year end awards.
Go show Yu and Jimalog some love, thank you for sharing this amazing work!
Danny Nghieu: Body Language
Danny Nghieu comes through with another solid edit, and I’m here for it! A great mix of flat/street clips, kept this five minute edit interesting for me, and perhaps you at home.
Give this one a watch!
Effraim Catlow At FISE Birmingham 2026
Brant Moore caught up with me at the Fise World Cup in Birmingham, Alabama to talk all things flatland, and judging. Enjoy if you haven’t already watched, and thank you Brant for taking the time and interest to do this!