Contest season is in full bloom right now, AFA Round 3 at the Huff Jam in Winston Salem, North Carolina USA this weekend (July 29th).
Bryan Huffman has put a ton of work into making this happen, look at those sponsors! Looking forward to the footage from this one. Good luck to everyone competing!
We just wrapped up the U.K. National Championships at the Backyard jam at Junction 4 Skatepark.
Congratulations to Matti Hemmings, crowned the British Champion followed by Lee Musselwhite and James White on the podium.
Great day for U.K. flatland. The UCI Worlds in Glasgow next up in a couple of weeks, stay tuned for the runs this coming week on Flatmattersonline.
1. Matti Hemmings
2. Lee Musselwhite
3. James White
4. Yinka Thomas
5. Murat Ozadimir
6. Reese Thomason
7. Dino Jeffers
8. Amos Burke
I have mixed emotions after watching Sebastian Grubinger’s new “Finale” edit, you can of course talk about the unmatched level of his riding, but the fact he’s losing his riding spot…..
This edit really communicates the feeling of a flatlander losing his spot, many of us I am sure can relate.
I’m sure I will be talking about this edit at the end of the year, go watch it!
“Heldenplatz has been my second home since I moved to Vienna 2000. Unfortunately the spot will be reconstructed and from what we know it won’t be rideable anymore. It hurts.
I spent the past months filming my last clips there. Now it’s over. It’s time to move on. It’s alright.”
Sebastian.
I missed this one when it dropped, Mateus Beckmann is recovered and back from his knee injury and delivers a 8 minute part full of amazing flatland and street clips and blends the two so well. Don’t sleep on this, like I did. Welcome back Mateus!
Markus Wilke was on hand to document the flatland finals at the German Championships in Duisburg, congratulations to Dustyn Alt for taking the win. Watch it here right now!
From AI technology, to a raw, hard hitting Dorkin’3 section featuring Marc McKee filmed in Venice Beach, Beach California 1989. This was groundbreaking at the time, and is still a great watch. Thank you Mark Eaton always, and Snakebite BMX for reposting up.
Today is a good day on Flatmattersonline, let’s kick things off with something different. Matt Wilhelm teamed up with Dennis Schmelz using AI technology to bring us all something new and refreshing to watch!
It’s been a while with OSS, and something a little different right here to get back in the swing of things rather than a contest run. Get educated on SF’s Curb Dog pioneer, Maurice Meyer and whilst your at it, go subscribe to one of the best BMX podcasts right now.
Enjoy this one when you have three hours to spare!
Here’s a name we haven’t heard from a while here on Flatmattersonline. Joel Schallhorn was a regular feature on the site around 2018/19. Want to know more about Joel, read on below not to mention check out his unique riding style.
“I view my time in China as a hiatus from real riding. I was burned out in 2019, came home from a contract and put the bike in storage and moved to the mountains, off to beijing I took my dirt jumper. In time I got a stock street bike, just something to satiate the habit of rolling around on 1 wheel but I never took it serious for any real length of time in Beijing.
A street bike is made for street riding, not the rig of choice for anyone riding flat. I did a mix of all while there. I had spurts of motivation every few months where I’d go pretty hard and fight that uphill battle for hard tricks tech tricks on a street bike. I did it, it was hard, and I am proud of that. When I did ride I had fun but it wasn’t often. Hence there were only 2 edits from my time in Beijing.
Fast forward past the dark era I have my flatland bike again and living in Singapore. I’ve come to realize that that bit of street bike training has had some interesting benefit. I did end up adjusting to a street bike and dialed in some heavy stuff, coming back to to the flat bike there are tricks I haven’t done in those years that before we’re tremendously difficult and now are much easier and fluid.
Maybe street bike flatland is the equivalent to high altitude training? I don’t know. But this past weekend I worked on getting some baseline tricks back to move forward from. I wanted to test where I’m at after this hiatus, I’m pleased with the result of these few days and look forward to seeing what I’ll learn here in Singapore.
It’s good to be back!”
For the last three winters Jean-François Boulianne has escaped the unforgiving harsh Canadian winters, for the Southern Californian sunshine and he does it all with just his bike and his van. Check out out this great edit produced by Joel Moody that really communicates JF’s lifestyl, not to mention some great riding to boot.
