BONUS from OneLoveBmx on Vimeo.
Robert Reilly, Rich Slezak, Dane Beardsley, Ruben Castillo, Pete Brandt, Misael Mizo, Lincoln Harberger, and Frank Ruiz feature on the Bonus edit from the One Love jam a few weeks back. Jamming to the sounds of Bodycount!
Sebastian Grubinger hit me up today with some jam news for your flatland calendar. Here’s what he had to say:
“We will have 1500€ price money. 500 for the cash for tricks Jam on Saturday where everybody gets some euros for the tricks he lands. And then on Sunday the best trick contest. 600 for first place. 300 for second and 100 for 3rd.
Also we have workshops for whoever wants to try flatland with Viki Gomez and myself.
It all takes place during the Vienna bike festival with a lot of other events thrown in.
It’s the 20th birthday of the event, in the past years with around 100,000 visitors on the weekend. So quite a big audience to promote flatland with a jam.
More news soon.
In my younger years, I must have watched this AFA Masters Finals: Socco Freestyle Championship contest on VHS thousands of times. Interviews with RL Osborn, Martin Aparijo and Dennis McCoy going into the finals for the year end, who won this one? If your into the old school, you’ll love this one! At 49:59 long, save this one for a quiet day.
Awesome clip to start our sunday posts, here on Flatmattersonline! Marcos de Jesus with a half lash to rollback smith, respect!
Exciting news today, James White dropped a few hints in his bike check earlier in the week about starting a new company and here it is! Is this the return of Level Vibes? Stay tuned for further updates…
“Level Vibes = L.V. = ‘ElleVee’. A new company purely created to support Flatland. Keep your eyes peeled for limited edition merchandise and team announcements. All proceeds go towards Flat happenings…”
7:10 of creative ideas from the one and only Giannis Caternellis, look out plenty of flat moves using the environment around much like Martti Kuoppa, and Joel Schallhorn have done previously and check out the last move that Giannis calls the Vandertroll. Good fun watching that, thanks for sharing Giannis!
Paul Chamberlain hit me up with some jam news for the Australian scene and all I could think of was why would you look at that riding spot?! Here’s what Paul had to say:
“We’re going to have a bit of jam on February 17th at this spot. No prizes, no schedule, just riding. Erik Laev is in town. That’s him in the picture. He’s got some amazing tricks and it’s always good to hang out with someone from another scene. He’s so far away because I wanted to capture how epic the spot is to show people that it’s worth travelling for. We rode here once years ago, but it was dirty and we never went back. It’s clean now, and it was sick today! We must be crazy to not have given this spot a second shot! Flyer doesn’t have much info, so just tell people to hit me up. It’s under the Harbour Bridge, it’s called Bradfield Plaza.”
Intro/Interview: Effraim.
Photos: Alex Capecelatro and Cody York.
The One Love Jam has become one of the biggest events on the flatland calendar, organised by Darin Wright. I wanted to catch up with the man behind this event and pick his brain about why this event is becoming a staple for flatlanders all across the globe to visit.
The annual Toronto contest is taking place this year on March 2-4th at the Better Living Centre Exhibition Place. $4500 Pro Purse up for grabs, Jean William Prevost, Dominik Nekolny, Bo Wade, JF Boulianne already confirmed. Go get involved in one of the longest running contests on the flatland calendar.
For this weeks Throwback we go back to 2002, it maybe the time of year but lately I’m watching a lot of full lengths videos rather than edits and that is reflected in my choice for this weeks TBT! Grab a cuppa or whatever you drink and enjoy this one, featuring great footage from the Ham Jam, CFB New York, EXPN Grand Prarie and Atlanta, a rad Nathan Penonzek interview, Atlanta and Athens Scene report, there’s something for everyone in this one and so much good riding to boot! Man, I miss the Manifesto videos…
