They say a photograph can say a thousand words, check out this awesome Part 1 photogallery that Schogn Lee kindly sent in from Round 5 of the World Circuit at FlatDEv in Malaysia.
Matthias Dandois, locked in on his way to a first place finish at stop 5 of the 2016 World Circuit.
Text: Effraim.
Photos: Matti Hemmings.
Nothing but good vibes this past weekend at the UK Flatland Championships in Birmingham. I made the trip up by train on the Friday, with just one change at Southampton, the train is on the doorstep to the Birmingham NEC venue.
When I arrived Matti was already dialled in with banners set up, PA ready, just the floor to clean again, and judging sheets to organise which I was one of my jobs to do. I’m still injured so I watched as Matti, TGM Maz and Chris Brook enjoyed an empty floor. Mario wanted to arrive early and get used to the fast floor, and even learnt a nice new line, flail boomerang to hang 5, looking forward to seeing how he develops that move. in the future. Chris coasted no footed manuals across the floor with ease and Matti who was suffering with a bad back was working on stemrollers.
Yesterday was Day 1 of the UK Flat Champs for myself, Matti Hemmings already made the trip on Thursday to set up the arena, organise banners etc, so when I arrived there wasn’t a great deal this year for me to do unlike Wheels and Finns Festival, the floor is dialled so we are ready to go!
The NEC is an amazing set up where you can fly or catch the train and land on the door step, quite literally!
TGM Maz, Chris Brook, and Matti had a lil’ fun session in between much banter, don’t think I have laughed that much in a long time, check below for a few snaps I took. Expert flatland is on today from 1-3pm, Pros Sunday, will be back later with another update!
Good times here at the NEC!
Chris Brook, no footed manual.
Organiser, Matti Hemmings throwing down some whiplashes.
TGM Maz, carved hitch.
What an epic weekend over at the Wheels and Finns Festival in Joss Bay, Kent. After two days at the event, most of the hard work was done. We woke up to blue skies, and with the festival being so close to the beach, meant only one thing. Chilled breakfast on the beach, before the day really got started!
Day 2 here at the Wheels and Finns Festival in Joss Bay, Kent. It’s been a really long day for myself and Matti Hemmings, up at 6 am to resheet the flatland area. When we arrived on Friday, the floor was just one sheet thick on scaffolding board. When riders rode the floor, the floor would ripple as they rode.
Matti arranged to get some extra 16mm sheets to place underneath the existing top surface, after 4 long hours of solid work we managed to get two sheets on the area, with triple the amount of screws previously. And with the help of the workmen on site, we were able to jack up one end of the flatland area to improve how flat the area was. (see image below).
Myself and Matti Hemmings made the trip to the beautiful seaside town, Joss Bay in Kent today to set up for the weekend here at the Wheels and Finns Festival.
Text: Effraim.
Photography: Effraim and Ged McConville.
Like everyone when the iBMXff World Championships were announced a few months back, I thought “Where the hell is Flatland?”, there were various trains of thoughts from most of the flatland community, but it seemed summed up with “it’s not the worlds without flatland”, emails went back and forth. If I am being honest, I didn’t think Flatland would be included with budgets and all….
Takahiro Ikeda, Xft no handed straddle time machine on his way to a huge second place.
We are back with Part 2 photogallery from the AFA Round 1 contest in Orlando, Florida courtesy of Matt Coplon over at Profile Racing. Enjoy the photographs!
Jean William Prevost aka Dub on his way to his first win of the 2016 contest season in Orlando, Florida.
The rebirth of the AFA association is here, Round 1 of the 2016 AFA series kicked off in Orlando, Florida. Huge props to Chad Degroot, James McGraw, Joe Cicman and everyone involved for pulling this one off. Today we have a sweet photo gallery from the event by Profile’s Matt Coplon. Enjoy the shots.
Dax Wolford made a huge impression in Orlando, taking a well deserved 2nd place with a flawless second run. Great action shot here mid hang 5 to halfpacker.
Intro/Interview: Effraim.
Photos: Matt Coplon, Sevisual.
Welcome to the second in the series of interviews with the winners of the 2015 Flatmattersonline Year End awards. Over the past few weeks I caught up with Heresy head honcho, Alexis Desolneux to get his thoughts on winning the year end brand award, the team, what’s behind the HY brand and so on. Without a further a due, let’s get this started…
