Whilst Alejandro Marques has been out in Spain visiting his parents he’s been documenting his riding. Hit play for the latest episode right here. Good work Alejandro!
Category Archives: Edits
Yu Katagiri – 5th year
Five years into riding flatland, Yu Katagiri already possesses god like skills on the back wheel. Just go and watch this edit right now, jaw dropping good! 12 years old and pro level techniques, this year he took the Am title at Voodoo and Flatark. You will see why!
Must Watch – James White / Critical Beatdown
Critical beatdown from James White on Vimeo.
James White is like flatland royalty, so when you see on Facebook that the man is dropping a new edit with a classic Dorkin’ reference to boot you know it’s going to be good. This one hit me in a different way than previous “Me summer 2016 bits” and “The adventures of James White on the wheels of steel” did, James hit a spot that I feel has been missing in flatland edits over the past few years despite regularly posting on instagram these lines remain fresh.
The emotion I got out of watching this was like a Dorkin’ part watched for the first time with no idea what’s going to go down, mixing all the the flatland eras James has gone through into a 3:38 edit and have this real hype quality that James seems to always have. And the major factor James always seems to communicate is that this was pure fun and returns t the feeling of watching a video part we used to pay for back in the day…
As always with Must watch edits I like to talk about what stood out to me:
– The backwards xft peg wheelie full scuffless gerator body varial at 00:43.
– The triple two footed and dump truck walkarounds at 1:21 and 1:46. This is years of riding to get these so smooth, amazing control!
– The no handed sliding hitchhiker (what do you call that?) to no handed pivot out at 2:26, creating something new out something old. Pure class.
– Full body varial back wheel sliding half lash at 2:53 in the wet no less.
– My favourite line of the edit without a doubt, the whiplash body varial whiplash out at 3:12 is one of the best tricks of the year hands down!
– And the ender, is pure skills. Opposite dump pivot xft backwards ice cream pivot regular dump out at 3:23.
Hitting the rewind again, great stuff from Whiteski!
Rad Dad’s 50th Birthday Jam
Happy 50th birthday to Rad Dad, feel the birthday love in this new short birthday jam edit with some of the Texas riders celebrating the day in style.
Alejandro Marques – España
Alejandro Marques is out in Spain visiting his parents, and threw down some of his signature lines in this opening edit. Hopefully we will see more from his trip shortly…
Throwback Thursdays – Ross Smith Intrikat Connect 2000
This weeks TBT is dedicated to one of the best to ever do it, one of my personal favourites Ross Smith… This section from Chad Johnston’s Intrikat Connect video that dropped in 2000 I believe still hits hard today. The opening fire hydrant body varial to backwards backwards backpacker pivot xft hitch out is so good not to mention everything he does actually. Go watch it, get inspired!
George Kikos – One Session
Winter sure does look good over in Greece, just look at that marina riding spot George Kikos has, with of course some sweet front and back wheel lines thrown in for good measure here.
Bert Ribul – Mexico
Getting back to normal post routine today, and Bert Ribul just sent in this nice raw edit killing it in Mexico whilst he was out there doing shows for BMW. Look out for the hang ten pivot backwards facing spinning circle k type spin line at 00:39 and the stomped half cab whopper at 1:25 is so good!
Effraim Catlow – One Session
It’s been a long time coming, three years in fact since my last edit with Ollie Denny. During that time, I have been battling injuries off and on the bike, it’s been hard to get any rhythm. Ironically I just crashed on my roadbike a few hours before we filmed this.
Matti Hemmings popped down this past weekend, and the session quickly turned from “Let’s get a few tricks” to “might as well film an edit Effraim?”. In one session I did 7 combos I was pretty happy with, the ender though got corrupted. So That will have to wait for the next project.
If you listened to my interview with Scott O’Brien you will have heard me talking about this idea of releasing clips like EP’s before the LP. Let’s call this the One Session EP.
Thank you Matti Hemmings for taking the time to film in this “One Session” edit.
Renaud Laspeyres – 2017
Renaud Laspeyres just dropped his annual edit tearing it up on the streets of Paris, France. If you have been paying attention to Renaud’s has been refining his lines over the past few years, the edit opens with his signature spinning forward death spin overtaker out, what you notice right away is the speed he is going into each line. It’s not too often we see kick flip hikers anymore, so it feels like a breath of fresh air to see Renaud’s x-ft hitch kick flip to regular hiker at L’Opera followed by turbine version. Towards the end of the edit, Renaud switches to brake set up, give this one a watch!