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?
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.
Lots to take in here, Owen Bohn ripping Dub’s home riding spot in Montreal, Canada.
From watching this edit all filmed in one session, you get the feeling Owen is a true freestyler, and can do what he likes.
There are a number of highlights I wanted to talk about:
1:52: The backwards rolling power mower (on seat post) which gave me shades off Jesse Puente (another freestyler king) to pedal junkyard, this is a banger!
3:30: Switch foot half lash to switch foot steam jump to pedal junkyard, following this the no handed gliding pedal junkyard balance position must be insane, Owen makes it look easy, and it’s not!
4:28: Two footed rolling frontward in circles bar scoot to multiple body varials, literally just walking around the bike multiple times brakeless, this might be my favourite move of the edit, they are all bangers.
And to get all this in one session, really shows Owen’s level, the man is a true artist. Hitting rewind on this, thanks Dub for putting this together and sharing with us all!
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!
Put one of the most stylish riders in the game, Sietse van Berkel, with one of the best filmers and cinematographers, Tom at Sevisual, and your onto something good!
Especially liked the line at the legendary Heroes Square riding spot in Budapest at 2:03, and there’s much more. Sietse’s riding is easy on the eye, and Toms editing and filming compliments perfectly.
Need some hype for today’s session, here it is…
Great to see some fresh Yu Katagiri and Takato Moriya footage out of Japan, throw in a TEP posse edit and you know your onto a winner. Great mix in styles between Yu Katagiri, Yuta Watanabe, Sota Watanabe, Kota Ikeda, and Takato Moriya.
Yu’s banger at 1:10 had me hitting the rewind numerous times to work what he did, good mixes in styles between all the riders, short and sweet with Takato finishing their visit to Osaka at 2:53 with more back wheel craziness.
I love to see this out of the Japanese riders, we don’t see enough of these guys on the site!
The whiplash road of progression in flatland, not many walk the walk.. Brandon Fenton is one of those guys, that’s taken the time to master the skill, commitment and balance point. Offloading a few years worth of variations, there’s numerous examples to highlight.
2:10: Just off a foot jam, how many backwards whiplashes Brandon can do, not to mention spot envy. 10 backwards whiplashes is so hard, backwards bar variation at 3:09 too!
2:44: Opposite side downside whiplashes might be one of the best looking flatland tricks ever, here Brandon makes it look easy…
4:36: Regular backwards whiplashes rebate to opposite backwards whiplashes.
5:30: Opposite whiplashes turbine no scuff to backwards whiplashes.
And many more like I said, the lonely road of whiplash progression seems few and far between in modern day flatland world. Loved this edit Brandon put together, a pure artist unlocking the codes and his technique is on point. Respect!
Anthony Schneidewind at TS Visual Media put in hell of a lot of work into producing a flatland film together just over an hour long!! Mostly in like mix tape format with a few sections put together that I really enjoyed. The time flew by watching this, loved the Wright brothers part, Will Redd’s part at 39:46 with some unique turbine moves, death truck puppet turbines, locomotive turbines, and much more to boot, to mention all the amazing riders in between throwing a clip here and there.
The highlight without a doubt is Bruno Zebu’s part at 53:00, x-ft skills to pay the bills. His lines are absolutely ridiculous and just keep building, his pivot skills and generating speed mid pivot is something special, I won’t spoil it for anyone who hasn’t watched it yet.
I would say grab a cuppa, and jump on this one as soon as you can. It’s a great start to 2025!
Here’s one that slipped under my radar after Nous released the Summer Vacation on IG a while back. I remember thinking I hope they release this on YT, so much easier to watch and enjoy.
1. It’s really good that Nous BMX made a full production, and are showing their video on all social media platforms, thats the way to do it. This video was part of the Moto Bunka Film Festival in the summer.
2. Great feel, and production, music, locations from their summer tour, camera work all spot on here, gave me the feel in production like Diversion had..
3. Of course let’s talk about the riding, Takatora Hishikawa is an amazing talent, winner of the No Saga run contest this summer shows why with this insane back wheel line at 1:15, so much style from this kid. Nice to see that Nous seem to grow and help the younger generation on their journey to pro level, that’s what sponsorship is all about.
4.I talked about this guy in previous FM year end awards, the up and coming Ren Oshima rips with killer bike flip lines at 2:25, and 6:04. So much power in his riding, big future for all these Nous cats.
5. I’ll be honest, it’s motivating for me to see more high level content going onto Vimeo and Youtube, so we have something to talk about. Let’s grow Flatland, Nous have been smart with this production, I hope others follow!
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
