Jay Marley was invited this year to design the 27th annual York jam flyer by Mark Eaton. And if you paying attention to flatland jam flyer designs Jay is killing it and did a great job with this year York jam flyer scheduled for June 2nd pre jam and the main jam on the 3rd. Kevin Jones on the flyer, get there if you can and ride with the Plywood Hoods!
Photo: Matt Coplon.
Writer, and rider Roy Christopher became a fan of Heresy a few years back like we all did, bought the bike and had to know more about where Heresy came from and much more. Head over to Roy’s website for a nice interview with Heresy Head honcho, Alexis Desolneux.
The archive keep coming, another great blast from the past today that many of you might have seen but need to. Shane Neville did an amazing job with Flatland Manifesto, issue 1 has great coverage from the La Revolution contest in Toronto, Houston Texas scene repo, Art Thomason, How to pinky squeak with Cory Stratychuk, and a amazing Anaheim B3 contest edit: look out for the xft hitch backwards backpacker line from Martti Kuoppa at 32:34 mark that just keeps going. 16 years later this still rules!
Veres BMX Jam March 11th 2017 from Sport Zone on Vimeo.
The first BMX Flatland Jam went down this past weekend at the new multipurpose sports room Sport Zone in Veresegyhaáz, Hungary. Owned and hosted by Andrea and Rob Alton, hit play for a great edit by Sevisual featuring Rob Alton, Peter Miklosi, Pal Gyenes, Balazs Csaszar, Denes Katona, Tamas Varga, Csaba Bozso, and many more. Good vibes from Hungary, well done Rob!
Highest Bunny Hop: Gyenes Pal
Most Whiplashes: Katona Denes
Most Pinky Squeaks: Császar Balázs
Best front wheel combo: Miklósi Peter
Best back wheel combo: Bordás Ákos
Longest Mega Spin: Gyenes Pal
Rob had this to say: “Sport Zone Veresegyhaz is a new project for me and my wife. It’s a multipurpose sport room where we will have BMX Flatland club/workshops, circus arts, gymnastics and all kinds of workshops. I would like to let the European Flatland Community know that I would happy to hold any International contests or Jams here. As I said we were 17 people and it was fine in Jam format. The space about 120m2 with OSB floor. So if anyone is interested let me know (via FB)!”
Sponsors: Flatland Fuel, ODI, Velvart, 4pegs, Monster Energy, Vocal and Customriders.
Photo: Timea Bodnar.
It is great to see flatland is still alive and well in Hungary, congratulations to Laszlo Tivadar who took the win in the pro class at the Hungarian Freestyle BMX Championship that went down in Miskolc this past weekend. Laszlo was followed on the podium by David Nagy, and David Szabo! Check the rest of the results below:
Pro
1st Laszlo Tivadar
2nd David Nagy
3rd David Szabo
4th Fulop Vidakovich
5th Denes Katona
Master
1st Lajos Sinko
2nd Rob Alton
3rd Tamas Koncsecsko
Amateur
1st Istvan Turi
2nd Akos Bordas
3rd Peter Miklosi
4th Csaba Orosz
5th Tams Varga
6th Balazs Csaszar
Chris Böhm is out on tour in the Philippines April 19-26th, and on the 21st April to celebrate Chris is hosting a contest in Cebu City, Philippines. The top 3 riders will receive a special gift from the man himself.
I was joking yesterday when I said in the “A Collection of ABD’s Part 2” post will there be a part 3 tomorrow. Well here it is, and I’m not entirely sure but it seems like this is some kind of record, I certainly don’t recall three edits in three days for anyone else. Joe Cicman has certainly been putting in a ton of work over at the Terradome this winter, respect!
It’s a busy weekend for contests in Japan with two events going down, congratulations to Yuki Itoh who took home the win at the Derauma Cup in Nagoya, followed on the podium by Hidenori Ishizaki and Yoshihiro Shinde.
Bikes Hiroshima 2017 was won by Shinichi Kiba closely followed by Keisuke Tanigawa and young ripper, Takumi Isogai. Congratulations to all! Hopefully we will see some video from these events shortly.
Joe Cicman is full of surprises, another day another edit! Today we have Part 2 in his “A Collection of ABD” series, by the loo of it Joe has put in a ton of work refining his riding and tightening up what I call the “details” to make his lines stand out more. Especially liked the jaffa whip rebate banger at 1:39! Part 3 tomorrow?
The term “classic” does get thrown around a lot these days, but this is Baco 7 “Prode” does truly rank as a classic. Timeless riding, humour and style from the likes of Chad Degroot, Kerry Gatt and the rest of the Baco crew. Well worth sitting down and watching or in most cases I would presume rewatching this one!
