The annual Vienna jam is just a few months away, last years jam looked absolutely amazing! Fancy a trip to Vienna, Austria? 28/29th March is the date, get this one booked up. More details to follow soon….
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Chimera A-Side Final Battle: Jean William Prevost vs Yohei Uchino
If you missed the final battle from the Chimera A-side contest early today on Instagram. Here is the final battle, Jean William Prevost vs Yohei Uchino! 90K up for grabs, hit play and watch this one unfold……
Yohei Uchino wins the 2020 Chimera A Side!
The BIG news today, Yohei Uchino just win the Chimera A Side contest in Japan, in a tense final battle with Jean William Prevost. Ucchie takes the 90K home, absolutely killing it. Congratulations Ucchie!
The 2019 Flatmattersonline year end award winner, Kio Hayahawa let everyone know he has arrived on the contest scene beating Moto Sasaki in his semi final battle to take third place. If you are quick you might still catch the battles on York Uno’s story on Instagram, hopefully the battles get published on YouTube, epic contest!
Yohei Uchino takes the top qualifying spot in Chimera A Side
Just back from an epic trip out to San Francisco, and Martti Kuoppa hit me up with the qualifying results from the Chimera A Side contest, which determines the order for the 16 invited riders. First battle heats are below the qualifying results… Good luck to everyone competing out there in Japan. Congratulations to Yohei Uchino for the top spot. Finals tomorrow…
The last days of the San Francisco Trip!
Wednesday and Thursday, the last full days of my trip out here to San Francisco. I missed the last few days updating the diary of my trip so f-it. You get a double day update in one post, Monday was by far my most productive day of the trip so far. Getting two clips really got me in the mood to capture my riding again, and on Wednesday I got another two clips! This trip has, despite my knee injury been the best yet.
Pete as always was in attack mode, right from the off at the Clocktower murdering the spot whether it was dialled lines, or brand new stuff. Because of his level of consistency, he’s able to have brand new tricks dialled almost instantly, it’s quite amazing to see in person and understand the process of how that happens.
The return of the Flatmattersonline exclusives with Pete Brandt!
To document, share and progress!
We are back doing the Flatmattersonline exclusive clips, and who better to start out with than San Francisco Flatland legend, Pete Brandt.
The whole idea, behind the FM exclusive clips is to push your own level. I have been out in SF for two weeks and watched Pete do Hitchiker dark side to halfpacker almost every go. So I said “Hey Pete, why didn’t you throw some hitchhiker turbines in there and make this line a little bit more tough for you?” Around 15 tries later, here we have Episode 1.
Pete is a savage!!
Who’s got the next clip, I’m putting this out to the flatland community?!!
Have you got a clip, maybe we can feature a clip of you on the site next week? Drop me a message and let’s get this rolling!!
Yohei Uchino: Flatmattersonline exclusive 2010
This FM exclusive clip with Yohei Uchino just popped on my feed this morning, 2010 at the Jomopro contest. Maybe I should start these FM exclusive clips back up again? Let’s hear in the comments section, yes or no…
York Uno – How-to Funky Chicken
York Uno never forgets the grassroots, and just uploaded this nice how-to with English subtitles for all of you out there starting in flatland. Its time to learn the funky chicken, a staple flatland scuffing trick that help build your skill set.
Ed Jodie – One Line @ One Love Jam
Yesterday was a rainy day in SF, no Day 9 update but instead let’s see what’s going on around the world. Starting with this nice capture by Jim McKay of Ed Jodie at the One Love Jam last weekend.
San Francisco Trip: Day 8
Yesterday was by far the most productive day of the trip so far for me personally, fresh back from the One Love Jam. It was time, to start working on new tricks and try to capture clips for an edit I am working. Pete had the day off work, and it was a nice day in SF. That only means one thing, Clocktower!
Right from the off, Pete was smashing the Clocktower a new one. I got my fix of tea from across the road ay Starbucks and started chasing clips. Half hour into the session I bagged one, then Pete pulled his straight bar steam bar varial to pedal steam line, and the session started going off! I got inspired by Pete’s turbine hikers and started working on them again.
After about ten minutes I started to get into them and figured out how to get speed out of the turbine hikers without pumping. Once the technique was there, I got an idea that I have never thought of before, and an hour later the line I wanted was captured with around 10% left on the phone battery. To say I was stoked was an understatement, it’s absolutely amazing to get to ride with someone like Pete on the daily, and both go after tricks. That feeling when you get something new and see Pete get his will never get old to me.
This was the best session I have had yet at the clocktower, today it’s raining so its a forced chill day for me. The forecast looks good for tomorrow, so I cant wait to be out there again nd chase a few more clips, super stoked to be progressing again after a month off with this knee injury. The KT tape I am using on my knee is working much better than the knee support I was previously using. We ended up the day with a couple of beers, and hung out with the SF Skater locals and called it a day. What a day, everything I love about flatland happened in 24 hours. Absolutely buzzing, and still a few days left of my trip out here…