Congratulations to Michal Pietruszeski who today took the win in the Am Class at the UK Flatland Championships in Manchester followed on the podium by Dan Margetts, and Mizuel Mizo. Pro Class is going down tomorrow.
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Scott Powell – Decade Trailer 2
decade trailer 2 from scott powell on Vimeo.
Trailers are all about whetting the appetite, and watching this “Decade Trailer 2” certainly had me wanting to see more. Lookout for the fire hydrant double decade one foot decade at 00:44, and the two upside down decades in one line at 1:15. I know Scott has been stacking clips for a long time, get ready for the full project soon! Today is a good day!
Mateus Beckmann – Sao Paulo Trip Teaser
It’s a good day for edits and teasers today, enjoy this short and sweet teaser by Mateus Beckmann from Role Crew. The double backlash to whopper out at 00:34 is amazing, looking forward to the full edit!
Jean William Prevost – Go Figure : The Dubtaker
Go Figure : THE DUBTAKER from IGI BMX on Vimeo.
Jean William Prevost vibes out with Steve Bergeron at Steve’s home riding spot in new short sharp edit and throws down a new one that he is calling the “Dub taker”, around the 00:34 mark, flow for days. Hell yeah dub!
Throwback Thursdays – Proseed A & B
It has been a few good weeks for the flatland archives here on FM! And today a real treat from the japanese flatland archives, and the history of the King of Ground contest. The Proseed A and B videos by Juicy Vision has to go down as one of the best contest videos ever, featuring York Uno, Hiroya Morizaki, a young Moto Sasaki, Martti Kuoppa, Viki Gomez, Michael Steingraeber, Shintaro Misawa and many more. Do yourself a favour, grab a cuppa and enjoy this great piece of flatland history.
Scott Powell signs with Earth Fed Muscle
Scott Powell hit me up with some sponsorship news, you can also lookout for a fresh edit from the man himself tomorrow! Read below for the official press release:
“Proud to announce that I have teamed up with Earth Fed Muscle to help promote optimum health and enhanced sports performance through the use of whole food supplements! Ready to raise my game to a new level. Check out this Pennsylvania based company and what they have to offer at www.earthfedmuscle.com
AFA Round 2 – May 13 / Candyland Skatepark
Round 2 of the AFA 2017 series just got confirmed, and Tyler Gilliard gets the poster. Round 2 will go down at the Candyland Skateparrk in Longwood, Florida close to Chad Degroot’s bike shop. The spot is huge and smooth ground so looks good for the rolling riders out there!
The 27th annual York Jam – June 2/3 2017
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!
Alexis Desolneux : Heresy for hire
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.
Flatland Manifesto #1 2001
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!