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Are you looking for a new event to hit up this summer, perhaps a lil’ holiday? How about the Flat and Wind contest in Zaragoza, Spain.
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Dustyn Alt wins Best Trick at Vienna Jam
The Vienna jam went off this past weekend, organised by Sebastian Grubinger. The jam takes place on the Rathausplatz in the Vienna City Centre, during Europe’s biggest bike festival with over 100,000 visitors on the weekend. Cash for tricks jam took place on the Saturday with 35 riders and 11 nations represented.
On the Sunday, Dustyn Alt rode first as he had to leave directly after his run to get home for rower and nailed his amazing backwards pedal time machine line to take the win (hence why he is not on the podium shot).
Dustyn was followed by George Manos, Gilles van de Sompel, Wolfgang Sauter, and Frane Granic. 19 riders in the best trick with 11 nations representing. Great work Sebastian pulling this off, look out for a repo soon,
Must Watch! Jean William Prevost / Puro Flat #1: Winter
PURO FLAT #1 : WINTER from IGI BMX on Vimeo.
When Jean William Prevost titles a video “Puro Flat”, I am already intrigued as I hit the play button. The title implied to me that this would feature lines that Dub does not do in contests, would it live up to the hype that I have just built up in my head from the title?
“The PURO FLAT 2018 Series is my intention to stay true to the artform that comes through Flatland before simplification for competitions and all other forms of it may it be shows or whichever…this is just me and the camera for the sake of the artform!!!”
My immediate thought without even reading Dub’s description wasn’t far enough, and of course you have seen the Must Watch title so you already know this is a belter!
When a rider such as Jean William Prevost is at the top of his game its a beautiful thing for him to share with us all what he is capable of away from the contest light.
And boy does he deliver, I am on my third watch already before I start highlighting what I love about this edit.
1:06: I am hitting the rewind on this one, short and so hard and never been done! flip to gliding gerator or lard yard whatever you care to call it two footed rolling undertaker out. The execution!!!
1:12: The development of the spinning inside switch undertaker now into a line is just ridiculous. Wait for the ride out, total bike mastery. This might be a contender for line of the year already??
3:11: Multiple antrider turbines direct to the spinning switch b spinning undertaker to backwards wheelie, and the part i loved the most. Showing the realness, just kicks off the wall. So raw and uncut, personally loved that he chose to show that.
3:22: The last two rodeo lines are just absolutely out of this world, ok this might be the line of the year also. What the hell!
Like I already said it’s an amazing thing to see riders at the top of their game share the behind the scenes stuff they are working on. Everyone needs to watch this! Top marks, and another contender for edit of the year and it’s only April! Let’s talk about this one in the comments section….
Yuki Itoh “N Code” Far East Cycles Signature Bar
Yuki Itoh just dropped some exciting product news, he just got a well deserved “N Code” signature bar with Far East Cycles. Nice to see something a little different than the usual 2 piece bar design. Specs can be seen below.
Forget What you Heard is available to watch and download!
Forget What You Heard from Diversion TV on Vimeo.
We live in an era where social media makes seeing daily BMX videos easy. So we set out to do something that wasn’t just a flash in the pan Instagram clip or quick YouTube video. Something that all the riders really took their time to film.
The goal was to present something that had a wide variety of styles and personalities from riders who don’t normally release full parts often, if at all. We attempted to create a certain vibe from start to finish. Something different than what you are used to seeing.
Forget what you heard…
A film by Steven Lapsley. Featuring full sections by Ahmed Johnson, Gurvan Le Bloc’h, Hirokazu Miura, Jérémy Brosset, Joris Bretagnolles, Mateus Beckmann, Naoto Tamaru, Rodolphe Clavelier and Yorihisa Shiota.
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Download it:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/z9hamxi6dgmumrt/FWYH.mp4
Steven Lapsley “Forget What You Heard” Interview
Intro/Interview: Effraim.
In this day an age it is really refreshing to be surprised with a brand new video with a heavy stack of riders to boot. This was the case when Steven Lapsley dropped the news “Forget What You heard” dropping tomorrow. Like whoa, where did that come from?? I wanted to catch up with Steven, who kindly sent me a pre release copy to talk about the project and get his thoughts on picking the riders, making the video, getting fresh Miura footage and much more. Without further a due, let’s get right into this!
Must Watch – Chad Johnston / S&M “Hot Dogs” Section!
I don’t know if it’s just me or has the level gone up a notch or ten this year. It’s not normal that I give a video part section a Must watch. But it’s Chad Johnston, and in my eyes we don’t see enough Chad. Not only one of the most inspirational riders, but look what he has done for riders such as Martti Kuoppa, Viki Gomez, and countless others.
Chad hits it hard in the Long Beach underground in this S&M “Hot Dogs” Section, from the opening backwards elbow glide on the forks at 00:16 to double footed karl BB bar flip out I’m literally having the feeling of watching one of his intrikat videos for the first time.
00:27: pegless undertaker with a wild wheel stand lawnmower type ride out! This might be one of the moves of the year already! It’s april!!!
00:33: Bars regular bar twist to bars backwards nose ET nose to set up Scarlo squeak whips to double karl bar flip out! WTF!!!
00:53: Scarlo squeak to chick whip double footed karl to 360 BB flip out!
1:17: Seat stand megaspin to xft pedal megaspin step over one foot pedal manual pedal death to blender, bare in mind no pegs! Absolutely insane, and like a fine wine Chad just keeps getting better and better. Beyond stoked, contender for edit of the year? Let’s discuss this one in the comments, pure flatland at it’s best! Look out for an interview soon right here on FM!
Matthias Dandois wins Semis at FiseWorld Hiroshima!
Matthias Dandois took the win in the Semis at the FiseWorld in Hiroshima, Japan earlier today. Top 8 make finals, congratulations to all the finalists. It sounds like its been a full day for the flatlanders today battling the weather in Japan.
Jean William Prevost qualifies 1st FiseWorld Hiroshima
Jean William Prevost qualified 1st earlier today in the preliminary qualifying event at FiseWorld in Hiroshima, japan out of 35 riders. Full results below!
Must Watch – Dane Beardsley / This and that
From the opening xft 180 bunny hop jump back to regular stance backwards manual across the Newport Beach riding spot I was glued to this one from Dane Beardsley. A rider I feel like is totally overlooked by the flatland scene, and a rider with a lot of depth in his riding. As always with “Must Watch” videos I like to highlight what stood out for me with some detail about what is going on also.
00:27: Bars backwards whiplash to forward karl/one handed karl in circles kick one handed backwards half hiker backwards karl freak squeak scuff whiplash to hitch whiplash out! Absolutely amazing, and I really like how Dane mixed some old tricks and made them new, such as the freak squeak, and having down a lot of one handed karl lines I know how difficult that one handed karl in circles to one handed karl backwards hitch is….
00:51: Half boomerang step same foot xft backwards fork wheelie to x-ft backwards hitch x-ft backwards half hiker fork wheelie shove it switch handed forkwhewlie to double backwards crackpacker walk around back jump forwards karl out to pedals. No one does this stuff, refreshing!
1:47: Multiple backwards x-handed whiplashes to regular backwards whiplashes, unreal bike control right here!
2:10: And the ender, half lash to multiple forward rope opposite side walk around to two footed backyard dropped down to opposite half lash out!
I get the real sense that Dane is literally playing on his bike, I have always been a fan of the quirky ride-ins and ride in’s he does, and the fact it really does look like he’s having fun. (no pun intended!). Top stuff!