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The Flatmatters Year End Awards 2014 / The Must Watch edits of June!

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Only a couple of days until we announce the nominations for the 2nd annual Flatmatters Year End Awards! Like I did for the month of May after a few requests, I have included contest runs, and honourable mentions including a bit of shameless bit of self promotion for myself, enjoy the Must Watch edits of June. I hope these reposts are helpful jogging your memory before you vote.


Check this nice highlights edit featuring Alex Jumelin during the pro final battle!


Hitting the rewind right now, Quentin Pelorson delivers one of the best edits I have seen in quite a while! Hit rewind if you haven’t already!
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The Flatmatters Year End Awards 2014 / Must Watch edits of May

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After a few days off for the Christmas period going through a years worth of edits for the 2nd annual year end Flatmatters awards we are back on it today with the month of May. A few people asked to include contest reminders for best runs/battles as well as honourable mentions to help with voting, so this begins in May.


Short and sweet Junglerider promo right here from the man, Denes Katona! The x-handed brakeless smith to end this. Can’t wait to see what Denes has in store for Same Thing Daily 3! Continue reading →

The Flatmatters Year End Awards 2014 / The Must Watch edit(s) of April

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In April I made the decision to make it harder to get that “Must Watch” tag about a month or so ago, one man noticed and understood (James White), it’s one of those things I can’t win really. Sometimes in the past via feedback from a broad spectrum of riders I have been too easily giving that “Must Watch” tag away. With amazing videos such as Moto’s, Dub’s, and Owen Bohn. I left them at the top of the site for the day, thats my way of saying, “Hey flatland world, this video is awesome, check it out! I’m more thinking unless it is something I think is completely off the charts, and never been done before, edits only will get that tag. It’s great to see/hear riders are striving to get that tag, nice to know people are taking notice.
Hope that explains my way of thinking.

With that being said, here is the video I picked out this month as standing out and pushing new ground, particularly the spinning karl on pedal at 1:10, and the two footed backwards steam on the pedals jump to regular steam at 2:44. As always there maybe other edits that stand out for you, so take a look through the archive to right hand side of this post for all what went on in April!

Flatmatters Awards 2014 – hit the link below.

https://www.flatmattersonline.com/flatmattersonline-2014-year-end-awards

The Flatmatters Year End Awards 2014 / The Must Watch edits from March

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I have already received a ton of votes for the 2nd annual Flatmatters Year End Awards, thank you to everyone who has taken the time to vote so far! Last year I spent hours and hours going through the site checking every video, this year I started logging edits as they dropped to make life easier, well at least try to! It’s fun going back through the year and seeing how things developed. Today I go through the Must Watch edits from March 2014!


Dub was working on this at the Guru Jam in 2013 and now has it down! Amazing balance point on this two footed death truck on the pedals! Dub is always pushing so theres no telling where this Forklift move will head? You definitely don’t want to miss this one! Continue reading →

The Flatmatters Year End Awards 2014 / The Must Watch edits of February 2014!

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Yesterday I began the mammoth task of going through the year month by month selecting the best edits, today we move onto February. How are you finding this month by month breakdown, is this helpful towards voting?

Last years Flatmatters Online Editorial Choice for Rider of the Year and Readers Choice for Most Progressive Rider came through with an amazing edit for his Awards Interview! And by the looks of it right now he is continuing his personal progression at an amazing rate! There is so much to rave about, but the backwards manual whopper out at 1:07 and the hang five pivot xft steam pivot circle k at 1:40 is incredible! Continue reading →

The Flatmatters Year End Awards 2014 / The Must watch edits of January 2014

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As I start going through the selection process for shortlisting the nominees for the 2nd annual Flatmatters Year end awards I thought it would be a good idea to refresh peoples memories on what has dropped in 2014 as there has been so much great riding this year! So today, we begin with the best videos from January 2014.

It was fitting that the first Must watch edit of the year went to Flatmatters editorial vote for Rider of the Year 2013! Mateus Beckmann continues where he left off, plenty of new whopper/decade variations – check 1:59 Rollback candybar stem decade anyone? Enjoy this incredible talent do his thing! Flatland is all the better for it! Continue reading →

Must Watch! Alex Jumelin – BMX Winter Part 1

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bmx winter edit part 1 from alex jumelin on Vimeo.

It really does not look like winter down in New Orleans, make sure you don’t miss this new edit out of Alex Jumelin who drops a couple of new things I haven’t seen before. On the first watch, the backwards flail to peg to peg boomerang at 00:52, and the cross foot nose manual jump to regular nose manual 2:55 stood out the most, these two combos had me hitting the rewind, and theres a lot more. One of the great things about flatland, you might take something different out of the edit than me, if so, what stood out for you?

Must Watch! Simon O’Brien – Colony 2014

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We are celebrating 6 years of Flatmatters tomorrow, it gives me great pleasure to publish this Must Watch Simon O’Brien Colony 2014 Edit! Everyone knows Simon is one of the greatest flatlanders to ever touch a bike, there was a time where he seemed have a lil’ deadtime and now it is so great to say Simon is back! Just watch this edit, there are so many points that are worth rewinding in this edit, the first that stood out to me was the 360 flip ride in a’la Andrew Faris to backwards halfpacker at 1:22, the nose manual full boomerang direct to backwards backpacker at 2:09, and the forward karl halfpacker stop dead kickflip to backwards halfpacker ender at 3:29 may all have us talking for years + Simon kills it on the deck of the ramps! Does it get any better than this? Simon is already filming for an up and coming flatland dvd with Stewart Munro, I’m excited to see what is next? This is incredible, hit the rewind and thank you Simon for taking the time to do this and share with us!

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Must Watch! Matthias Dandois – The Flat side of things

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“It’s great to do fancy edit with crazy cameras and after effect but sometimes it definitely affects the riding quality. Matthias went back to the basic with this new edit: One tripod, One iPhone and 3 months to film the hardest tricks he can do on a BMX bike. As simple as that.”

Check this latest edit from Matthias Dandois for La Cremerie Bmx, great to see him back riding and starting to create new tricks on his bike, from the 4:00 minute especially stood out for me as Matthias pushes new tricks front and back wheel, and the last two bangers from 4:48 – no handed spinning halfpacker whip to crackpacker and backwards spinning framestand tomahawk to pendulum halfpacker! Stop what you are doing and enjoy this one!

Must Watch! Yohei Uchino – Breakthrough

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Plenty of discussion about Ucchie’s last trick in this awesome “Breakthrough” edit for G-Shock. It’s not too often that I give a video the Must Watch tag for one particular trick. At 2:17 Ucchie drops an absolute banger, rewind time! For all of you that missed this the first time round, enjoy this!!