Chris Böhm is fresh back from his recent trip to Japan for Flatark, peep the new edit above plus here’s what he had to say about is trip:
“Japan has shaped me and I am proud that I have participated in the biggest contest in the world. My new BMX combos I did in the training. Unfortunately not in the Contest Run 🙁 However, this trip has inspired me so much, the most beautiful thing in the whole trip was to meet such wonderful people and new BMX faces.”
It’s an early start for me this morning, as I head off to London Heathrow to fly out for the annual Battle in the Rockies contest in Colorado Springs. It seems as good a time as any to re-up this amazing edit from last years contest that Anthony Schneidewind put together featuring great riding from Moto Sasaki, Martti Kuoppa, Jean William Prevost, Jason Plourde, Pete Brandt, Bo Wade, John Yull, James McGraw, Bryan Huffman, Simon O’Brien and many more! See you on the other side, look out for daily updates from the event, as well as your regular posts daily.
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Tomorrow I flight to Denver, Colorado for the AFA Finals taking place at the Battle in the Rockies contest. So it seemed logical to show some old school AFA footage (just for a change…), and this weeks OSS is a battle for the 3rd place spot in the 16 Expert Class between Jay Jones and Danny Meng at the AFA Masters in Columbus, Ohio 1998. Great run off, well worth a watch!
5th to 1st places MASTER OF CREATIVITY 2016! from Martti Kuoppa on Vimeo.
Two Must watch edits in a day, going soft? Not at all, the 2016 Master of Creativity without a doubt has brought the highest level of the year. Congratulations to Pedro Melo who ended taking the final round followed by George Manos, and John Yull, Mateus Beckmann and Thomas Noyer!
Personal standouts for me:
Thomas Noyer: Multiple front yard turbine whiplashes directly to backwards spinning halfpacker at 00:09, one of the moves of 2016!
Mateus Beckmann: Bars backwards X hand half cab foot jam decade at 00:40 + xft backwards pedal manual to decade out no foot jam at 00:57 and the banger if that wasn’t enough: backwards whiplash jump full bar to back pegs foot jam decade out at 1:00! Incredible stuff from Mateus!
John Yull: What a year for John, fresh back from a great performance at Flatark and killing it in every round of MOC! The opening double decade to smith is hard with brakes, but brakeless at 1:09! And it continues with an amazing footage decade to opposite weedwacker stall switch to regular weedwacker stall switch to foot jam decade out at 1:18 and the absolute banger is also like Thomas’ one of the moves of the year, steamboat to backwards bar split decade at 1:31! So good!
George Manos: The opening xft no handed backwards nose manual at 1:44 is another contender for trick of the year, is that a category this year in the FM awards? And the subtle pedal switch mid no handed pedla 5 inside the bike to regular foot no handed pedal had me hitting rewind straight away, did i see that right? Watch at 2:01 and be amazed!!!
Pedro Melo: What a year also for Pedro Melo, who delivered the goods in the final round to take the win at the most progressive contest of the year!Opening with the surfer g-turn at 2:11 I knew this was going to be a string entry, but the one footed grinding hitch kick flip hitch at 2:23 blew me away! WTF!!! And the surfer nosewheelie into brakeless pinkys surfer out, so creative! Pedro is the man!
What an amazing contest, that truly delivered what it was intended to do. Congratulations to everyone that took part and helped take flatland to a better place! Just beautiful!!
This week we go back to 1988 and Rick Moliterno’s sick run from the 1988 AFA Masters in Tucson, Arizona. Enjoy!
13to6 MOC from Martti Kuoppa on Vimeo.
The level went up several notches for the final round of the 2016 Master of Creativity contest, so amazing to see every rider push their level, and ultimately bring a whole bunch of new tricks to flatland! Here is the 13th through till 6th place edit Martti Kuoppa just put together, so proud to be involved in this amazing event for flatland that has without a doubt brought the most progressive riding of the year out and motivated us all! Respect to everyone!!
My personal favourite lines:
Forkone: Fire hydrant chick whips stem lash at 00:28.
Kevin Jacob: Nose stemlash nose g-turn at 00:58.
Hidenori Ishizaki: Xft pedal backwards facing backyard jump to pegs backwards backyard degroot undertaker out at 1:07.
Sakis Doumas: Hitch darkside to no footed dump truck kneeling on pedal at 1:51!
Will Redd: The Mix of the old school with Xft forward side glide to the contemporary 360 pivot to halfpacker + the following elbow glide turbine line is so good!
Sean Fontenot: Xft cab line to decade off the pedals around the 2:57 mark!
James White: Xft lawn flip gliding gerator to whiteski smith decade to xft hitch juggler flip back to xft lawn gliding gerator to whiteski decade out at 3:06!
Kazuya Hirayama: The opening xft backward spinning lawn stubble duck to gliding gerator to forward death truck out at 3:40 is beautiful! Followed by backwards opposite spinning lawn direct to pedal death truck! Wow!
If you missed the livestream and the edit from Global Flat on Sunday, here is the final battle that John Yull kindly posted (along with all the others) between Yohei Uchino and Matthias Dandois! Enjoy!
** Look out for qualification footage when John gets home!
These battles are all about details, and Moto Sasaki’s decision to repeat the hitch kick flip backpacker cost me the win here vs Matthias Dandois!
If you missed this one the first time round, hit play for an intense battle between Yohei Uchino and Dominik Nekolny. As Quentin Pelorson already commented Dom’s line at 7:43 is off the chart! Well worth a rewatch even if you seen already!
Big up John Yull who has killed the updates today over in Kobe, Japan despite heaving a terrible wifi connection. Now it’s Moto Sasaki vs Viki Gomez, enjoy this one it takes few twists and turns.
