Mikio Kuroki just dropped this great compilation of all the entries for the Bicycle Beat Flatland Battle. Featuring the following riders:
Toshiaki Seki -Gero city
Yasushi Kajiwara -Takayama city
Takuma Mori -Minokamo city
Kazuaki Saeki -Kawabe town
Chihiro Okumura -Kani city
Naoki Imori -Gujyo city
Junpei Goto -Tsu city
Akira Muramatsu -Gero city
Let’s kick off Friday’s posts with this fun edit of Matti Hemmings throwing a few moves onboard a Rocker BMX at Spit and Sawdust in Cardiff. Hit play!
Stoked today to see an edit out of Bryan Huffman from Winston Salem, North Carolina. Bryan has been in the game forever and as you would expect owns a huge bag of tricks, stand out for me in this Purple Winter (Great title Bryan) included the Guillotine combo at 1:19, the Side Scuff to No handed Cowboy at 2:50, and the two footed death truck turbine line where Bryan comes out straight death truck was awesome! Looks like Bryan has been putting in some work for the up and coming contest season!
Hit play for a chilled new edit from Alejandro Marques out of Venezuela! The public spot he is riding at looks amazing! Deco represent!
Canada is deep in snow right now, Steve Bergeron just dropped this awesome new winter edit. Making it happen in his basement, plenty of skills front and back wheel! Must be so dope having your riding spot on your doorstep, who else has a set up like this?
There are not too many riders in the World that can hang in every discipline, by the look of this edit and what I have seen before. Ivan Makushev is one of those riders! Hit play for his new awesome edit filmed at the World Expo Park in Yekaterinburg, Russia.
After nearly three decades off his bike, Gary Knecht shares some of his experiences growing up as a BMX freestyler and finding his passion to ride again. His story is interwoven with images from BMX’s history, illuminating how BMX has evolved in the past while at the same time providing a guide for the next generation of riders.
Dope new clip out of Raul Puccio from Peru, really nice technique on the back wheel with this spinning dump truck full body varial pivot back to spinning mega spin!
A lil’ rain did not stop the annual Georgia State Flatland Championship, hit play for a sweet edit featuring the likes of Dane Beardsley, Aaron Behnke, Mitchell Hall, John Yull (look out for the double foot jam decade at 1:14) and the GSFC Lincoln Harberger! Good times in Georgia!
Let’s kick this off! The first category for the 2014 Flatmatters Online Year End Awards is Readers Choice for Breakthrough Rider of the Year. This award is about recognising that rider that broke through to the elite of our sport, pushing himself and rising up to the cream of crop, and arriving on the big stage.
The 2014 Breakthrough Rider of the Year by a landslide vote goes to Far East / igi rider Benjamin Hudson from Santiego, Chile! The 18 year old prodigy literally won this award by a landslide of votes!!!
Dub gave us all a small taste of Benjamin’s talent on the “Against the Current” edit back in May, but really shot to fame in his Welcome to Far East Cycles that dropped on the 5th of September.
Dub really took Benjamin under his wing during the last year or so and showed him the way. Aside from those two amazing edits, Benjamin made his way onto the international contest scene taking second place at the IOXC Contest in Semarang with his mentor taking the win, and for many of us confirming he is the real deal with a strong 4th place finish at the Battle in the Rockies contest!
The future is bright, and we all cannot wait to see what this phonemeonal talent has in store for us all!
Congratulations Benjamin Hudson, you are the 2014 Flatmatters Readers Choice for Breakthrough Rider of the Year!
Runner up: Quentin Pelorson.
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