Woke up today to a nice surprise, the Surfer For Life Podcast dig deep into Martti Kuoppa’s riding career, from his start in riding through to current day. This is pure gold, don’t miss this! Hit the link below to tune in:
http://shoutengine.com/SurferOfLife/bmx-flatland-legend-and-x-games-winner-martti-kuop-43394
Frank Lukas – Trailer from Neuland on Vimeo.
I am sure I have said this a million times over the years of running Flatmattersonline, so I am sorry if I sound like a broken record. One of my favourite parts of running the site is the unexpected surprises, not knowing day to day what will be online for the world to see. Frank Lucas just dropped an amazing trailer for an up and coming project that will drop in a couple of weeks, here’s what he had to say about it:
“Here’s the premier teaser for an exclusive upcoming flatland film project I’ve been working on for a few months. I teamed up with @neulandfilms who share the same level of passion for filming, cutting and creating as I have for flatland bmx. This was a big opportunity for me to feature the sport that I love and have been practicing for 25 years in a whole new perspective. When I’m not sitting behind the judges’ table, this is what I’m doing. Still the same Frank Lukas on a small bike – just a little different.”
Every so often I like to post something that perhaps does not seem to be flatland related, but it does cross over and you can really take something out of this. I’m a big fan of the Epicly Later’d series and caught this amazing episode with Spike Jonze yesterday, who when I was younger was one of the main photographer’s for Freestylin’ Magazine, now of course he has been awarded an Oscar, countless feature films, but yet still remains grounded to his roots in BMX and Skateboarding. Brilliant insight, grab a cuppa and enjoy this one!
Photo: Fat Tony.
Hector Garcia catches up with Terry Adams over on the TCU to discuss Terry getting his competitive drive back, and what we can expect in future, enjoyed this one. You may do to, hit the link below:
http://thecomeup.com/interviews/tcu-exclusive-terry-adams-interview/
Photo: Fat Tony.
Viki Gomez just signed up with Ares Bykes, and confirmed he will have a signature frame and bar coming out shortly.Many of you will already know the news if you are paying attention to Viki Gomez’s bike. For the past month or so, Viki has been riding an Ares frame and now the news is official. Congratulations Viki!
Gilles Van de Sompel dropped in some information on a contest this weekend, details below:
144m² of contest floor
3 judges
riders from all over Europe
1750€ prize money
a huge afterparty
sunny 22°C weather forecast
a beautiful location (Het Steen, Antwerpen)
Steven Lapsley just uploaded a whole bunch of older footage onto his account, including this gem featuring Jean William Prevost aka Dub and Ahmed Johnson jamming in Philadelphia. Well worth a watch…
Back wheels shredder, Masashi Itani won the Umikaze Jam over in Japan this past weekend, check out his winning run right here.
The annual Battle in the Rockies contest is confirmed for November 18th in Denver, Colorado. This year the event has a new venue, the Rackhouse. The BITR contest is also the finals for the AFA 2017 contest series. Great flyer featuring Will Redd!
Congratulations to Matthias Dandois who last night won the Fise World contest in Edmonton, Canada followed on the podium by Jean William Prevost and Benjamin Hudson taking the third place spot, you can check out the top three runs below plus the whole finals featuring the top 6 from the semi finals.
