Events are being postponed, and cancelled it seems almost daily with the worldwide spread of the Corona virus pandemic.
Thankfully flatland can be something some of us can do in isolation, if you have a home spot or something close to that.
When I started the fm exclusives back up again, I was talking to Kio Hayakawa about producing a clip. Two months in, and Kio comes up with a clip that will make your head shake like it did mine.
The 2019 Flatmattersonline most progressive and breakthrough rider delivers us all a treat! Anyone wanna go riding after watching this?!!!
Thank you Kio for contributing, whose got the next clip?
Ederson Ferreira & Bruno Zebu made the trip to Florida for Round 1 of the 2020 AFA series which was unfortunately cancelled because of the COVID 19 pandemic. Ederson and Bruno made the best of the situation and the good vibes shine bright in this well produced edit from Jim McKay. Don’t miss this one!
It’s going to be a good day for edits, are you self isolating at home? As the Conora Virus pandemic affects all our lives across the globe. Giannis comes through with 8:56 of amazing riding, episode 108 features a whole lot of backwards backpacker variations with intricate little details to each one. If you have the time, sit down grab a cuppa and enjoy this one!
Classic Monday’s, it’s been a while! And we return with a certified classic, Madd Matt produced by Mark Eaton back in 1995. Great sections from Day Smith with an amazing soundtrack (7:23) and James White in York, PA (21:03) and plenty more with little flatland clips thrown in here and there.
Scotty Cranmer and Big Boy met up with Kip Williamson, Chad Degroot, Marco Dejesus and Scott Weaver to try and conquer some of the moves from the 101 Tricks freestyle book at Degroot’s shop as he was moving out. This is a fun watch, and with Scotty’s YouTube following, it is great Scotty is covering flatland!
The Flatmattersonline exclusives are becoming a thing, and Heresy rider Sebastian Grubinger just came through with a belter!
Sebastian’s riding always commands my attention, whether it is a must watch video part or a too good for Instagram clip. His riding is always fresh, and I love that he put in some work into getting this clip done for episode 7, (watch the failed attempts, the fact he shows the falls is awesome!)…
We went back and forth discussing the bar flip ride-out, as I was trying the bar backwards hang 5 to bar flip out. I got injured whilst Sebastian was trying to get this clip done, and as you can see he makes it look easy and not only that adds in an awesome ride-in that flows so well with rideout, and middle part of the line before getting to the rideout is so technical. The whole line together like that is ridiculous, and something we have come to expect from one of the best video riders in the game!
Thanks Sebastian for contributing towards the series, episode 7 is in the bag.
The response since I announced the Flatmattersonline exclusive clip will be a year award has been amazing, and already a few heads are working heavy clips for future episodes.
Who’s got next weeks clip? Episode 8 is on the horizon, same time next week….
Elbow Glides seem to be back, Brian Tunney just threw down some awesome invisible hand variations in this new February edit. Hit play and give this one a watch, glass smooth as always!
Jean-Michel Chauvel: just dropped this instagram compilation edit from last years documentation during his lunch break at work. Always fun to watch Jean-Michal ride and do his thing…
In life, I always hear people say “be yourself”, “dare to be different”. Rob Ridge was ridiculed for years by the BMX fashion police, and now he’s become I would say a BMX cultural icon. He’s loved across the board. It is interesting how things like this develop over time.
I have known Rob for years, and I am sure I must say the same thing this with every post. You can see his flatland skills shine bright throughout his latest masterpiece. No one cares about about his bike set up, the use of the locking lever, and so on. It’s all about what Rob is doing on the bike, there are so many NBD’s in this I will just leave this one for the comments section. What’s your favourite move?
I will say this though, Rob is probably the most technical lip trick rider on the planet right now! And this comes from his highly skilled flatland background….
