Johann Chan recently found old footage of Alexis Desolneux from a trip to Paris in 1994.
Alexis went on to become a pioneer in brakeless riding, so it was nice to re-visit this old (pre-brakeless) footage and re-cut it to music we listened to at the time.
Music: Reclamation by Fugazi.
Category Archives: Edits
Marton Szilagyi: Over 54 Part 1 & 2
Catching up on edits after the Flatmattersonline Year end awards, here are two beauties from Marton Szilagyi, aka OG Marton. This man does not age, and has one of the biggest trick bags in the game, always a treat to see what he’s up to. Well worth a watch!
2024 FLATMATTERSONLINE YEAR END AWARDS: POSSIBLE CONTENDERS FOR LINE OF THE YEAR
As voting closes for the 2024 Flatmattersonline Year end Awards this Sunday, 12th January.
Here is one for the last minute voters, some possible contenders for Line of the Year, theres no way I can include everyone…
Thanks to everyone who has voted so far.
Congratulations to everyone who made the contenders edit.
FLATMATTERS!
Sebastian Grubinger: Year End Medley
Sebastian Grubinger just put together a year end edit for Profile, full of signature SG moves that no one is doing….
Shane Khajehnoori: 2024 Year End Flatland Edit
Shane Khajehnoori adds a little flavour to the Degroot walk around in this sick 2024 year end edit. Great to see some fresh Shane footage, its been a while. He’s still out there smashing it, this is good and worth a watch!
George Manos: Soothenight
It’s been a good year for George Manos, already a couple of edits deep! George’s edits always feel like to me, a sketchbook full of ideas and directional hints of where his riding is going. Really amazing that as he digs deeper more options unfold still in pegless riding.
Couple of standouts here: The slow carved nose manual to stalled nose at 1:22, and the last trick, which is like an ankledeath no handed pedal karl to hang nothing sat on top tube at 1:40.
Looking forward to seeing where this direction goes, and thank you George. Respect!
Jon Knight: December 2024 Progress
Good to see this morning, an old face still at it. Jon Knight from the Dope Lordz just dropped this nice progression edit, filmed in the midst of Storm Bert, nice one Jon!
Must Watch: MATSUDO YEAR END JAM 2024
The Matsudo Year end jam hits a little earlier this year, produced by Jimalog. These edits always have a few surprises, and new faces, and this doesn’t disappoint. Imagine being in a scene like that, old faces, new faces, new tricks and styles each year. Let’s talk about this one in the comments section!
Featuring:
Akihiko Takahashi
Yu Shoji
Takahiro Ikeda
Takayuki Nishimoto
Naoki Watanabe
Shuichi Osada
Shinichiro Hara
Akio Kusumoto
Ren Oshima
Ryuga Matsumura
Moto Sasaki
Must Watch! Dan Hennig: Inside Out / Just Bangers
As I still celebrate 16 years of Flatmattersonline, it was awesome this morning to get a message from Dan Hennig showing me his new edit. Beautiful quality, camera angles and sharp editing, and plenty of bangers I have never seen before.
From the opening Perverted Rolaid at 00:19 I was intrigued on this one, so great to see Dan visit a forgotten move it feels like, you don’t see many cross foot pedal steams anymore, and Dan unlocks the vault at the 2:01 with a nice cross foot pedal steam to half cab 3’s which he cleans up (I was waiting for the scooter rollback) and it’s not there, to steep decade out to pedals, great line! Worth noting here there’s a big difference in execution with a steep brakeless decade, and one where the front wheel is almost on the floor.
At the 4:00 mark the fakie whooper to brakeless turn bucket to pedals is so clean, loved this one! The camera angles and locations also, I found really cool, he didn’t film any of this edit in his indoor spot, so this feels a little special and well thought out.
Great to see Dan dig a little deeper outside of his contest routine, especially at the 6:08 mark, and the inside ice cream bikeflip to pedals half cab whopper, pure beast, and the final plastic man line mixed in cross pedal steam to half cab 3’s back into half cab to xft steam and ending with regular pedal steam, is solid!
Great work Dan, a man thats battled cancer and has come out swinging. This edit has elevated Dan’s riding and that’s what edits and filming video parts are all about. I’ll be back to watch this one again, stoked!!
George Manos: ADAPA / Profile Bmx
New fresh George Manos material to get your head round, this is short and very sweet. Love the first line at 00:01, what’s your favourite line in this one. Enjoy!