Last year, Sam Foakes made his return to the contest scene with a second place finish at the UK Flatland Championships. This year, Sam was much more focused on his riding and had two great runs, his second one in particular pushed Dom Nekolny hard for the win.
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Benjamin Hudson wins OctoBiker Fest
Congratulations to Benjamin Hudson who won the OctoBiker Fest contest in Trois-Rivières, Canada this past weekend followed on the podium by Bruno Zebu from Brazil, and third place went to Austin Luberda.
UK Flatland Championships Photogallery
Photos: Matti Hemmings.
Kevin Browne progressed a lot, and had a good day at the UK Flatland Champs taking home 4th place in the AM class.
Ultimate Freestyle Flatland Contest – Sunday November 3rd
Keelan Phillips just hit me up with news of a contest he is having on Sunday 3rd November at the International Centre in Telford, UK.
If you can’t make the Fise and UCI world Champs this one could be for you.
Keelan says “The idea behind this comp is to bring back the excitement and fun, no judging for consistency, riders wont be marked down for attempts only for what they land, quality over quantity. The comp will be held on November 3rd, one class to see who the ultimate freestyler is. Qualifying will be 2 x 2 min runs, finals will be 1 on 1 battles. Hotel at a discounted rate if needed. And held at one if the biggest car shows in the UK! For any info please get in touch with Keelan on his social media or insta page @ultimatefreestylecomp.”
UK Flatland Championships
Back home after the UK Flatland Championships, and there is already an edit up from the event with great riding from the likes of Dino Jeffers, Steve Green, Erik Soares, Dan Margetts, Dom Nekolny, Sam Foakes and Pedro Nascimento. More coverage to follow throughout the week.
Owen Bohn wins Round 3 Master of Creativity & Year End Title!
Congratulations to Owen Bohn who won the Round 3 of the 2019 Master of Creativity online competition dominating the event this year winning every round, Tomaaki Yoshimura too the second place spot and also second for the year end, and Chris Woodling took third place in Round 3 and third place in the year end ranking. Head over to the Master of Creativity instagram and enjoy the videos.
Dom Nekolny wins UK Flatland Championships
Congratulations to Dom Nekolny taking the win today at the UK Flatland Championships at the Cycle Expo in Harrogate, Yorkshire with a flawless first run, that’s four years in a row as the UK Flatland Champion for Dom! Closely followed by Sam Foakes who had an amazing one touch second run, and Pedro Nascimento in the third place.
In the AM class Gregory from Greece took the win followed by Mizo from Ireland, and Michał Pietruszewski taking the third place podium spot.
Absolutely shattered, more updates soon….
UK Flatland Championships Day 1
Repo: Effraim.
Photos: Matti Hemmings.
On Thursday morning I made the trip to Bristol to meet UK Flatland Championship organiser, Matti Hemmings to travel up to Harrogate, Yorkshire in the north of the UK.
Yesterday, myself and Matti set up the arena which is located in a different hall than last year.
Must Watch – Matthias Dandois / The Instagram Side of Things
We are getting to that time of year, where the banger videos are coming in thick and fast. This new one by Matthias Dandois, that is full of clips from Instagram wouldn’t normally get the “Must Watch” tag as I have obviously seen it before. Matthias Dandois posts a lot of great videos online, and watching Instagram sometimes becomes a blur for me with so much content coming so fast, swipe and can be forgotten easily, and in truth I forgot half these videos which I realised Matthias filmed across the globe when he had a break from his work life (whilst the norm would be to stay at home and film), the man and his work ethic is literally quite amazing. Watching all these together is a treat.
At 7:57 mins long there is a lot to highlight and my UK Champs weekend is about to begin but I will highlight some of what stood out to me. The rest we can discuss on the site…
00:18: Switch handed spinning two footed steam x-hand pivot round bars to xft steam without holding the seat, super nice switch that I could Matthias taking to the contest floor!
00:57: Nose half cab nollie to nose, this one must be crazy hard on the wrists, whole lot of techniques going on through out this edit that ticked a different Must Watch than for example James Whites “Eye of the Tiger” edit. I love all the styles Matthia shows, and his tricktionary is vast, the hitch kick flip thrown in is a nice touch.
1:34: 180 hop to xft steam turbine flowing into spinning half hike dragging the bars that brought back memories of Darren Pelio in the 80’s hitting the bars on backwards Karls.
2:54: I had to rewind this clip a fair bit to understand it, backwards flail to backwards 5 for a moment, downside whip out to pedals. Possibly my favourite clip from the edit.
3:27: Xft pedal mega spin body varial two footed backyard, this is a good example of a clip I forgot all about and the tricks keep coming.
Like I already said, plenty more to discuss about this edit, and I am always left wondering. Which lines will appear at a contest soon?
For now let’s pay respect to Matthias who works so hard to be where he’s at. More power to him.
Chimara A-Side 2nd Kobe
CHIMARA A-SIDE 2nd KOBE Flatland BMX from LiLt on Vimeo.
Snappy edit from the recent Chimara A Side contest in Kobe, Japan, and by the look of it, what a great event for all levels. If anyone has the battles from this event, get in touch…