FAT BMX is def one of the best sites in the game! Still covering flat, and actually all forms of BMX! Today they have FF’s with Luke, check it out! Cheers for the shoutout Luke!

http://www.fatbmx.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=13497

This year at Jomopro, Matt impressed the hell out of me, right before his battle with Terry, he asked me what he should do trickwise, I pretty much told him to come out guns blazing, which is what he did! This last year, Matt’s riding has gone up a few notches, it got me psyched to see someone pushing hard for the win! It didnt work out for him that day, but it will, and real soon! A Big win is around the corner! Nuff respect due!!

Riders of all time:

1.Mat Hoffman
2.Martti Kuoppa
3.Kevin Jones
4.Chase Gouin.
5.Chad Degroot

Riders to ride with:

1. Ron Monis
2. Todd Gully
3. Ed Egawa
4. Dave Petrin
5.Terry Adams

Spots to ride:

1. My Warehouse
2. Downtown Chicago when you don’t get kicked out
3. Long Beach California
4. Anywhere in Florida
5. Yokosuka Japan

DVDS:

1. Ells Bells “Release the Grease”
2. Dorkin 5
3. Baco 6
4. Intrikat LandEscape A
5. Made You Look

Web edits:

1. Matthias Dandois & Adam Kun “Hyperspeed Johnny”
2. Moto Sasaki “3-minute combo”
3. Any Martti Kuoppa Ground Tactics Video
4. Mingle Videos
5. Videos of cats

Places to visit:
1. Siesta Key Florida
2. Parents house for dinner
3. Mexico
4. Any place with cats
5. Chicago White Sox games

Gadgets:

1.iPhone
2.Sirius Satellite Radio
3. GPS
4. PSP
5. Laptop

Contests:

1. Circle of Balance 2004

2. Fight with Flight 2010

3. Worlds in Cologne

4. Voodoo Jam

5. 1994 BS Finals in Chicago

Websites/blogs:

1. Flatmatters is the best site on the web, and I’m not just saying that!

2. Global-Flat

3.ESPN Fantasy Football

4. Ride BMX

5.Twitter (Follow me: @mattwilhelmbmx)

Inspirations right now:

1. Good weather

2. Try to win a couple more big comps before I get too old

3. New Tricks

4. Want to make the most of the skills I have been given

5.See how good I can be

Reasons to leave your town/city:

1. Winter

2. Traffic

3. No palm trees

4. That’s it. Chicago is awesome.

Playlist:

1. DJ RyB Podcasts
2. Sirius Satellite Radio-
3. Sirius Satellite Radio “Backspin”
4. Sirius Satellite Radio “Coffeehouse”
5. Sports Talk Radio

Albums:

1. Kanye West, Graduation
2. Joshua Redman,Freedom in the Groove
3. Metallica – Death Magnetic
4. Sara Bareilles, Little Voice
5. Steely Dan

Tricks to do daily:

1. Basics and warm up tricks
2. Individual hard switches I’m working on
3. Try to put the new switches into longer combos
4. A few contest tricks I already have consistent
5. Monkey around and brainstorm with new tricks

Tricks you cant do, but wish you could (ideal wishlist):

1. Upside down Megaspin Whopper
2. Cross foot Whiplashes
3. Quad Decades
4. Bar Ride to Backflip
5. 540 Body Varial Caboose

Magazines:

1. Ride BMX
2. BMX Plus
3. Sports Illustrated
4. Dan’s Comp Catalog
5. Money

Movies:

1.Office Space
2. Shawshenk Redemption
3. The Hurricane
4. The Fountain
5. The Notebook

Bike Brands:

1. Hoffman Bikes
2. Profile
3. Ares
4. Suelo
5. Odyssey

Non bike brands:

1. Dodge
2. Apple
3. Chipotle
4. Sony Playstation
5. Any Gluten-free food brands

Things that piss you off:

1. Signing an autograph for a security guard and then getting kicked out by the same security guard
2. Lack of organization in BMX. How can there be no World Championships?
3. A kid sees me do my hardest trick and then asks if I can do a fire hydrant. He doesn’t realize that I am the guy from the how-to video on YouTube, which is the only reason he knows about that trick in the first place.
4. The new KOG Format. It’s basically a best trick contest now, and they only count 1 of your combos during the battle. Kind of weird huh?http://www.vimeo.com/13900333

Steve Mulder has for a long time been one of my favourite riders, I can remember like it was yesterday being in total awe of his riding during the 99 X trials/X games season, the man was way ahead of his time, less is more! Mach ten whoppers, fast 180 rollback rolaid, 360 bike flip to switch-b, and uber dialled!! What a great person to kick this top fives off with! Legend!!!

Riders of all time:
1) Dennis McCoy (biggest inspiration on my riding)
2) Kevin Jones
3) Chase
4) Martti Kuoppa
5) Ross Smith

Riders to ride with:
1) Roman Schivarelli
2) Perry Mervar
3) Bill Nitschke
4) Kip Williamson
5) Andy Cooper

Gadgets:
1) Blackberry
2) Dell Laptop
3) Sprint Air Card
4) Ipod
5) My car’s bluetooth

Websites/blogs:
1) Flatmatters
2) RideBmx.com
3) MasterBlasterPlanet.com
4) Vitalbmx.com
5) Handful of daily business sites I use.

Inspirations right now:
1) My family.
2) My age.
3) Watching street edits.
4) Doing a personal video edit
5) the JA!

Playlist on itunes: or what you listen regularly at the moment:
1) Krs One “Murda Ya”
2) Rakim “Holy are you”
3) Gang Starr ” So Whassup?”
4) Judas Priest “Hell Patrol”
5) Rakim “Euphoria”

Tricks to do daily:
1) Backward 360 manual (so fun)
2) Regular whopper.
3) At least one 360 bike flip variation.
4) Handful of rolaid variations.
5) touch as many of my tricks in the works as possible.

Magazines:I didn’t know there were 5 magazines? Ha ha
1) Cream
2) Ride Bmx

Movies:
1) Gladiator
2) Stripes
3) Caddyshack
4) Super Bad
5) The hangover

Bike Brands:
1) S&M
2) Shadow
3) Bulldog Bikes
4) Sick Child
5) Sputnic

Beers:
1) Peroni
2) Negra Modelo
3) Guiness
4) Fat Tire
5) Red stripe

Contests:
1) 99 X-Games (ha ha)
2) Oceanside BS Comp
3) Roots Jam/Contest
4) Nashville X-trials
5) All the AFA Ohio King of Flatland!

Riding Memories;
1) Pulling my first 360 bike flip.
2) Seeing Woody Itson ride flat when I was a dweeb.
3) Seeing Matt Hoffman’s first contest back flip on Vert @ N-Orbit
4) Seeing Jim Crafton pull the first “Jump of Doom” way back (frame stand to grip ride)
5) Jay Miron’s perfect run @ the Nashville CFB contest.

Check out Steve’s riding here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MwiRHHoZFA

This weeks first “last times” is with Korean rider Kwon Seongtaek, Kwon now lives in Finland with his wife, I met him at the groundtactics final, always nice to put a face to a guy I chat to a few times a week. Kwon rules, super tech riding style.Keep an eye out for an edit soon..

Last time you competed:
The last one was King of Finland 2010, a national BMX championships which I won the title. As I started rather serious pratice this year, I anticipate more from next year. Hopefully the KOG series in Japan as well.

Last time you were drunk:
Extremely rarely I get drunk though as I am gifted to have ability to digest alcohol faster than others.

Last time you rode in the rain?
I never wanted to ride in the rain before but I happened to read someone’s interview from Flatmatters that flatlanders from U.K. do rolling tricks more as it’s all the time wet there. I realized that there’s no need to whine and hate rain when you can actually go out and ride in the rain. So yesterday I did it lil’ bit but it was only for testing my new bike setup.

Last time you rode with Martti Kuoppa?
It was Ground-Tactics times. When I came to Finland, I was so excited to meet Martti Kuoppa and expected to be riding and have some parties together. But maybe because of the fact that I always lived too far away from his place? I rarely even see him here.

Last time you got a puncture?
I rarely get any flat tires. But yesterday, my brand new tire was faulty and a surface of it got ripped.

Last time you threw your bike?
Not today but my last sesh. Just to look tough.

Last time you checked flatmatters?
Today. It’s a routine.

Last trick you learnt?
Backward whiplash today. Hopefully get used to it fast so I can do it with other tricks soon.

Last trick you invented?
If the links are not concerned, the trick is one foot in another side of frame pumped blender.

Last phonecall you made?
Last Saturday.

Last bikepart your brought?
In fact I am putting the front brakes on after being brakelss for ten years. So I got now KGB space2 fork with upside down v-brakes set, pedals, chain, seat, grips, barends, tires, and stem. Now I am expecting a new frame all the way from South Korea.

Last time you did a double decade?
I haven’t learned it.

Last music track you listened to?
DJ DOC – Street life

Last flatland dvd you watched?
KGB “Impulsivity”.

Last movie you watched?
I sometimes watch random one from TV and last one I half watched is Johnny Depp movie some pirate odd stuff.

Last online edit you downloaded?
Last one was some European competition footage many years ago. Nowadays I watch it directly from Internet.

Last time you were home in Korea?
It was February 2009 just for fun. My friends from Finland joined me too. Daily party. A way to go!

Last time you filmed a combo?
10th September.

Last time you worked out?
A few years ago. Push ups.

Last time you got injured?
If the ordinary shin wounds aren’t counted, about 12 years ago head skin ripped by a handbar of a road bike on the way to school.

Last time you went to Helsinki?
10th of September. I wanted to see Aleksi Ritsilä’s new trick and it was a day for a sudden jam a day before Finnish crew’s trip to Estonia for a jam. I didn’t go to Estonia but I had a lil session with local riders there.

Last time flatland made you smile:
Simon’s Dejavu trailer/leftover edit.

Last jam you went to:
Helsinki jam as mentioned above.

Last time flatland amazed you:
Simon’s Dejavu trailer/leftover edit published dates which was weeks ago.

Last person you rode with:
Aleksi Ritsilä, Jussi Laukkanen, Julius Salo, and Asko Relas.