Must Watch: Nous BMX Summer Vacation

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!

UCI World Championships in Abu Dhabi 2024

Out here at the 2024 UCI World Championships on Abu Dhabi, temperatures around 24c. Feels a lot cooler than two years, which is better for riding.

Mellow first day today getting accreditation and checking out the area. Looking forward to a full week of the highest level of flatland riding. Good luck everyone competing, let’s go!  

2024 FLATMATTERSONLINE YEAR END AWARDS: ITS TIME TO VOTE!

It’s that time of year, the Flatmattersonline Year Awards for 2024 are upon us. The readers of FM have around a month to vote, so plenty of time for you to consider your votes for Rider of the Year, Edit of the Year, Female Rider of the Year, Contest Run of the Year and the most difficult one, but a fun one to break down, Line of the Year. As always have fun with it!

Reader Choice:
Rider of year
Edit of Year
Female rider of year
Contest Run of Year
Line of Year 

Editorial Vote:
Rider of year
Must Watch Edit of year
Outstanding Contribution
Breakthrough Rider of year
Brand of the Year

How do you vote?
Send your votes through to: effraim@flatmattersonline.com – entitled Flatmattersonline Year End Awards 2024.
Please vote only by email, it gets too complicated with DM’s, facebook messages etc.

When’s the Deadline for voting?
Voting closes Sunday 12th January.

Nominees announced:
Sunday January 19th.

Year end award winners announced:
Sunday January 26th.

Please note:
Voting only counts via email. Plenty of time to go through edits over the new year, and look back via the site on the highlights of the year that will follow over the next few weeks, take your time and good luck and most of all enjoy the process of voting!

Flatmattersonline.

Have a good Christmas everyone, and happy new year!

Thanks to everyone who supported the Flatmattersonline 16th anniversary, by dropping a comment, DM or whatever, I appreciate the love!!

Effraim.

Must Watch: MATSUDO YEAR END JAM 2024

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

Must Watch! Dan Hennig: Inside Out / Just Bangers

As I still celebrate 16 years of Flatmattersonline, it was awesome this morning to get a message from Dan Hennig showing me his new edit. Beautiful quality, camera angles and sharp editing, and plenty of bangers I have never seen before.
From the opening Perverted Rolaid at 00:19 I was intrigued on this one, so great to see Dan visit a forgotten move it feels like, you don’t see many cross foot pedal steams anymore, and Dan unlocks the vault at the 2:01 with a nice cross foot pedal steam to half cab 3’s which he cleans up (I was waiting for the scooter rollback) and it’s not there, to steep decade out to pedals, great line! Worth noting here there’s a big difference in execution with a steep brakeless decade, and one where the front wheel is almost on the floor.

At the 4:00 mark the fakie whooper to brakeless turn bucket to pedals is so clean, loved this one! The camera angles and locations also, I found really cool, he didn’t film any of this edit in his indoor spot, so this feels a little special and well thought out.

Great to see Dan dig a little deeper outside of his contest routine, especially at the 6:08 mark, and the inside ice cream bikeflip to pedals half cab whopper, pure beast, and the final plastic man line mixed in cross pedal steam to half cab 3’s back into half cab to xft steam and ending with regular pedal steam, is solid!

Great work Dan, a man thats battled cancer and has come out swinging. This edit has elevated Dan’s riding and that’s what edits and filming video parts are all about. I’ll be back to watch this one again, stoked!!

16 YEARS OF FLATMATTERSONLINE!

“To document, share and progress”, the mission statement if you like of Flatmattrsonline has remained consistent since FM’s birth in 2008. As I wondered what I can produce to celebrate our 16th anniversary, I asked around a few friends as I always do for some feedback. One of the ideas was to showcase 16 highlights throughout the years, that idea stuck in my head for a few days before I started going through the archives and thinking this had a nice feel to it.
I enjoyed going through content I had forgotten about, and I thought you at home would do also.

It’s hard to fathom its been 16 years being Flatmatters, I appreciate all the support I have been receiving especially recently. It seems as I am pretty much the only consistent the only flatland website, riders seem to appreciate the work that goes into running the site much more.

It would be interesting to hear back from you at home, what are some of your most memorable moments?

*The actual anniversary was Saturday 30th November, which I missed being at work all day.

I’ve added website links and videos as well for a reference for you all.
Here we I go! Thank you Flatland for 16 amazing years!

Flatmattersonline To document, share and progress!!

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James White & Mario Carelse win 2024 U.K. CHAMPIONSHIPS in Elite & Expert Class

It’s been a good weekend at Adrenaline Alley in Corby for the 2024 U.K. Championships as part of the Backyard jam series.

Congratulations to James White taking the win in the Men’s Elite class followed by Yinka Thomas who had the run of his life, followed by Matti Hemmings on the podium, with Dan Margetts in fourth place.

Congratulations to Mario Carelse taking the win in the Expert class followed by Mike O’Connell and Kai Coleborn in third, closely followed by Ellis Morgans and Steve Rooke. Kai had to leave before the prizegiving, thanks Johann for the photo.

Great weekend in Corby, so good to catch up with some of the U.K. flatland community once again and be right in the mix with the rest of the U.K. BMX scene.

Thanks Greg, and Diane at British cycling for having us, judges with Johann Chan and Phil Dolan. Hank, Stuart and Colin and everyone involved. All the riders that made the effort to attend and support.

Till next time.

DISCUSSION POINT: Is Flatland an Artform or a Sport?

Watching George Mano’s last video part “Adapa”, I thought to myself shall I ask the flatland community on the FM IG. Is flatland an artform or sport? The response was amazing, and I definitely wasn’t expecting George to write about in on his FB account, and just like that a new DISCUSSION POINT section is born here on Flatmattersonline. Over to George, let us know what you think in the comments. Love how this happened, so organically. Thank you to George for sharing his thoughts with us…

Text & Photos: George Manos.

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