Golden footage from the archives around the 2010 period, from one of the best to ever do it. Non other than Ross South, double rolaids, check, double straddle-ronis, check, backwards xft-ed hitch jugglers, its all here! Ross is one of the masters of feathering the brake, a technique sadly lost and overlooked in the brakeless era!
Category Archives: Edits
Must Watch: Dez Maarsen / Riding Days
Oh, how I love surprises running the Flatmattersonline website. And yesterday, when my phone started blowing up I knew something good just dropped from Dez Maarsen.
There’s something Dez touched on in his description that made me say out loud “yeah!”, he chose to document his riding over the last few months and rather than throw out line by line on social media, he put it together in edit form.
So much depth in this edit, from who in my opinion is one of the most skilled riders in the flatland scene right now, Dez can handle business front and back wheel.
Great camera angles, and the editing is on point too, edits in my opinion can help inspire and grow flatland grow again in my opinion, and help give us all motivation as we lean into the winter months.
Let’s talk about the riding Effraim!
The Must Watch concept for me, is something as simple as something that makes me hit the rewind button, and quite a few times I hit the rewind button watching “Riding Days”.
The line at 1:53, steam backwards spinning crack step over one footed backwards spinning half packer pivot inside foot steam pivot spinning hitch is one of the most technical lines I’ve seen all year.
2:47: only a move I’ve seen Hiroya Morizaki do, opposite steam step into half packer pivot inside switch foot spinning steam at the blink of the eye then out to straight line opposite backwards switch foot Karl!
I like how Dez mixes, all styles of riding, which of course you can with one of the most vast tricktionarys in the game, this is one of the best edits of the year so far.
I could ramble on, but let’s as I say grab a cuppa and talk about this one, share this one on your socials nd let’s grow flatland!
Thank you Dez!
Must Watch! Heresy Goin’ Down Mixtape
Alexis Desolneux, Matthieu Bonnecuelle, Jigen Omotehara, Sebastian Grubinger, George Manos, Jeanne Seigneur, Takahiro Enoki and Peter Olsen get together to bring you Heresy’s second mixtape. Love this quick fire format, and am already hitting the rewind. Must Watch time!
Congratulations to Heresy team, with Sevisual in the mix. Why break a winning formula?
Nora Cup Flatlander of the Year Nominees are:
The Nora Cup nominees for 2025 are in for Flatlander of the Year, the nominees are Julien Baran, Kio Hayakawa, Yu Katagiri, Yohei Uchino and Yu Shoji! Who does your your vote go to?
Must Watch: Lee Musselwhite / Entropy
Lee Musselwhite just came through with a banger edit to start the week here on Flatmattersonline, after numerous watches in my opinion, I think this is some of Lee’s best work to date.
From the opening move at 00:12 with the multiple crashes, you know Lee has put some work into this “Entropy” edit.
No filler in this edit, my favourites being the forwards no-footed backyard one handed, aka the “Minesweeper” body varial out at 00:12, 00:42 the pivot out of another of Lee’s signature moves the Phoenix, the minesweeper pivot ending in two footed forward death truck out opposite at 1:42! Mix it all in with Lee’s spider glide move nailed to perfection.
The Wu Tang track goes hard with Lee’s riding too.
Thank you Lee for taking the time on this one, edit of the year just went up a notch.
George Manos: Kybanario
Always curious to see what George Manos is up to, and something that’s not said enough is it’s great to see riders just out their having fun. Ultimately what this whole BMX thing is all about, and George manifests this really well in this new flat/street jib edit, “Kybanario” that gives me shades of Simone Barraco.
Must Watch: JIGEN OMOTEHARA – WELCOME TO HERESY
Yesterday, I got a surprise from Alexis Desolneux over at Heresy HQ!
Jigen Omotehara is the latest addition to the Heresy team, that is growing again, that is pretty amazing news in the current climate.
Not only the news, but also a great, short and sweet edit to boot that Heresy and Jijen managed to keep quiet until this release.
Jigen has a unique style and flow to his riding, the edit is around 2:20 long, so this is a easy one to digest.
The line at cross foot crackpacker pivot line at 1:46, had me hitting rewind quite a few times, all of his lines are unique, love the switch pedal 5 footjam and flips steam at 00:35.
Sevisual on the editing skills, nice track, great to see a good riding edit in the middle of summer. Totally not expecting this!
Get used to the name, Jigen Omotehara has a big future, kudos to Heresy for having the foresight to pick him up!
Yohei Uchino wins X Games Osaka 2025
Congratulations to Yohei Uchino who took the win yesterday at the X Games in Osaka, Japan followed on the podium by Moto Sasaki and Yu Katagiri. Best trick format for this years event, you can watch the full flatland event from the 1:31 mark on the livestream video below…

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FULL RESULTS:
Yohei Uchino
Moto Sasaki
Yu Katagiri
Kio Hayakawa
Viki Gomez
Alex Jumelin
Matthias Dandois
Terry Adams
Jean William Prevost
Julien Baran VS Jigen Ometehara: GAME OF BIKE
After Fise Montpellier, Julien Baran met up Jigen Ometehara in Paris, and in between sessions filmed this high level game of bike. This is a fun watch!
Danny Nghieu: Spice of Life
Great to receive this video edit in my inbox, I’ve seen Danny riding on instagram, but watching back to back like this is another ball game. Danny lives out in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, and comes from a Flat/street background, as this edit eludes to.
Lots of unique takes on tricks with style to boot, make this one a really interesting watch.
Keep on progressing Danny, and filming, love this!