This week I’ve been randomly checking through old Flat Web Tv episodes, when I got to the 2012 Red Bull Circle of Balance Post Game Show I knew my TBT was dialled for this week! The FlatWebTV crew recap the event and get some inside perspective from guys who were actually there like: (myself) Effraim Catlow, Scott O’Brien, Moto Sasaki, Dez Maarsen, Jean-William Prevost, Michael Steingraber, Kerry Gatt and the eventual champion, Viki Gomez.
Yearly Archives: 2017
Lindsey La’akea Bode – StemWhip Celebrity Status
Footage is trickling coming out from the One Love Jam, here’s a fun one of Lindsey La’akea Bode being overwhelmed with riders filming, thanks to Sean Fontenot for capturing this one.
Fülöp Vidákovich – end of 2016
It is common knowledge that Hungary has one of the best flatland scenes in Europe, and it is great to see the generations of heavy hitters keep coming. At 20 years old, Fülöp Vidákovich is already armed with a big bag of tricks, grab a cuppa and sit down and enjoy Fülöp do his thing.
Khaled Huerta – Flatland Estado de Méxic
Rodney Williams sent in this awesome back wheel line from the up and coming, Khaled Huerta! Hit play if you haven’t already seen this one!
Viki Gomez & Kilian Martin – The Common Wheel
The 2016 Flatmattersonline Rider of the Year Viki Gomez teams up with freestyler skateboarder Kilian Martin to produce a visual story about the harmonic coherence between them both. Enjoy!
Tyler Gilliard – Pedal Power
Hit play for a snappy pedal 5 line from Tyler Gilliard at his underground riding spot in Lakeland, Florida.
Top 5 Highlights – World Circuit / Rio de Janeiro 2016
Gilberto Rocha just published this nice highlights edit of the top 5 from last years World Circuit round in Rio, featuring Viki Gomez, Yohei Uchino, Benjamin Hudson, Romulo Guerra, and Moto Sasaki. Enjoy!
Bruno Zebu – Gopro bicycle Seatpost POV
To be honest I am not the biggest fan of Go pro videos, but I enjoyed watching this heavy POV clip from Bruno Zebu!
Venice Beach Session
Plenty of people still in LA after the weekend’s One Love jam, peep this short edit by Benedict Zartost from yesterdays sunset session at Venice Beach featuring Lindsey La’akea Bode (00:11 Xft whiplash jump to stem lash – so good!), Joel Moody, and Mario Contini.
Must Watch – Sebastian Keep / Walls
Amazing behind the scenes footage of Tall Order’s Sebastian Keep embark on a mission to find the biggest wall rides possible on set ups that for 99% of BMX do not exist. Baz is that 1%, as the project grows you can see how they learn from each set up, check the size of the last ramp used compared to the first used. Here’s what Baz had to say:
Photo: George Marshall.
“The idea started with lets take 2 small ramps to the city centres to jump off multi storey car parks and bridges land on buildings and wall ride down them. We knew that what we were doing wasn’t exactly legal so we decided to wear high vis jackets and hard hats and try our best to disguise ourselves as road workers so that people would leave us alone and It worked!
The spots we found on Google earth were bigger than we anticipated
and so we tried to build practice set ups to help get used to the gaps.
At the spot in Croydon nobody knew if it was possible to ride down 20 feet of vertical wall and after speaking to various pro riders who didn’t have an answer for us we decided to try it…
This video tells the story of how we rolled into city centres in the early hours disguised as builders with vans holding huge ramps set them up and filmed our attempts at some of the biggest wall rides we could find…”