Congratulations to Yu Katagiri winner of the 2022 Chimera A-side contest in Omiya Japan! Followed on the podium by Kio Hayakawa, and Yohei Uchino. What an intense contest with so many crazy battles and that final!!!
Let’s mix things up for Day 2, rather than a lot of text and photos. I thought I Would try my hand at a raw practise footage edit to give you all a good idea of what’s going on out here at Chimera A-Side (it turns out Hiroshi had the same idea), it does give you more coverage to fuel your session. You don’t want to miss this raw practise edit full of bangers from yesterdays practise session before qualifying!
Featuring in order:
Jean William Prevost
Yu Yamamoto
Yu Katagiri
Sieste van Berkel
Ryo Katagiri
Kevin Nikulski
Kio Hayakawa
Terry Adams
Viki Gomez
Hiroya Morizaki
Yohei Uchino
( a couple of riders have multiple clips, Dub, Kio Hayakawa, and Yu Katagiri! )
Enjoy the level!!! Get stoked, go ride!!
Hiroshi at 430 was on hand yesterday filming clips from practise for you all to see at home! The level of riding is off the charts and later on today the finals are going down at 5pm. Just downloading clips for a raw footage edit that I will drop shortly. For now enjoy this one!!
Just finished judging the Chimera A Side contest in Omiya. The Katagiri brothers took the top spots, Yu and Ryo! Followed by Sietse van Berkel, and Kio Hayakawa. Top 4 miss the first round of battles tomorrow!!!!
Repo + Photos: Effraim + Jean William Prevost.
Hello everyone!
** As some of you will know, I like to do day to day repos whilst I’m away judging events. I have already a lot of questions about a livestream, I will do my best to answer those in the next few days before the contest goes down!
From Puerto Rico to the York Jam, USA! Ramon and the homies made the trip to the home of the Plywood Hoods, and put together this great edit that captures the York jam vibes, enjoy!
Repo + Photos: Effraim, Matti Hemmings, Miguel Pargas.
It’s hard not to get nostalgic going back to The Green Mile, it turns out it’s been 5-6 years since I was last at this legendary riding spot for the UK flatland scene (search TGM on the sidebar of the website to see what I am talking about.
Yinka Thomas threw down a jam last weekend, with the help of Jason Forde and my schedule was for once free so attending the jam was a no brainer.
The forecast wasn’t looking too great, but it was worth the risk as it os October after all you just never know. As it turns out the weather forecast was pretty much bang on, with two heavy showers throughout the day enough for the ground not to dry all day.
Two Flatland Assassins, Chris Young & Pete Brandt took over the Clocktower in San Francisco, California recently for a session in the Fall whilst Chris was in town. Flatland is all about different styles, and friends pushing each other, and this comes through right here with Chris’ glass smooth flow across the granite marble riding surface, and Pete’s attack mode on both and front/back wheel make this one a fun watch, look out for Pete’s last line at 2:58!
It’s Flatland Assassin Friday today on FM, first up this great edit from Flatland Meme master, Joe Cicman! Joe is a master of multiple hitch jugglers, multiple Jaffa whips (love the line at 1:57!), and looks like he’s been putting in a lot of work dialling in his original lines at the Terradome this past year. I’ve often thought about having an edit with one set camera angle, Joe’s done. Kudos Mr Cicman, go watch this one!
You fed up of smashing your knee on your stem? @heresybmx have the answer, this stem pad is clean! Got to see this in the flesh at @fiseworld Montpellier, and this product is now available at all good bike shops or direct from the HY website!
