Dub hit me up with some sponsorship news, he just got hooked up with Skingrowsback. Here’s what the man himself had to say:
“I am proud to announce I will be joining the @skingrowsback team for 2017, this product is a Flatland Rider owned company from Australia! I travel a lot and a good bag is my lifeline on the road🚐 around the globe🔮.
Give them a follow and check out their website ; http://skingrowsback.com
and FB page ; /skingrowsback.hardwear
……. #skingrowsback ……. “
Hello everyone,
I dropped the 2016 Flatmattersonline year end awards just a few days ago, thank you to everyone who has already voted.Today I begin the task of going through the entire year and seeing what went down. In order to keep this as concise as possible, I will posting just what has happened in 2016. (In January there were a lot of edits posted from the previous year…)
Effraim Catlow/Flatmatters Online
2016 really kicked off with the Quest BMX Sponsor Me contest, with a whole load of quality entries form across the globe arriving, in the end Jeremy Brosset and Gurvan le’ Brok won the competition and place on the team. Refresh your memories and take a look at their entries right here:
Jason Forde takes the absolute most out of a misty day at the TGM riding spot in West Norwood, South London. From the filming, imagery, riding, music track, this on point, hit play!
You better be good at nose manuals with a title “So you think you can nose manual?!” and Dāvis Dudelis has nose manuals on lock. This time he rolls full circle around this big gymnasium, absolutely amazing!
AUTUM JAPAN TOUR from deepAutum on Vimeo.
Team edits are becoming more and more rare these days, I’ve been looking forward to this Autum Japan Tour by Thomas Deschenaux since the trailer dropped a few days ago here on FM. At just over 15 minutes long, sit down and grab a cuppa and enjoy the Autum team killing it at some of the best riding spots in japan laced with nice beats and slick camerawork and editing.
Joel just sent in his final edit of 2016, and it is a good one! Here is what he had to say about this “Bicycular Dyslexia” edit:
“A common trend this past year is I have chosen trick concepts and focused on them for a few months to see what I can learn and create. I’ve done wall tricks (2 videos), decades out of tricks, pegless, ground rails, and maybe some more. I like to do this to force myself in a new direction and apply what I know to a new format.
Many years ago a realized that if I want to link any of my backwards tricks with forwards tricks fluidly I have to do forward switch to get into backwards regular. So I’ve always had a natural proclivity to doing some tricks switch and opposite. Some tricks I actually feel more comfortable switch. Knowing this I’ve always wanted to spend time focusing on tricks either way but it’s kind of a daunting task. Simple tricks become incredibly hard again. Well 4 months ago, after my pegless video project, I needed a new project so I decided that the time is now!
This video documents the tricks I’ve learned both ways and combos where I switch directions in the middle. For all tricks done either way I made sure to film the 2 on same day, same camera angle (sometimes same clip) as to show that it is true switch/oppo. No camera tricks and image reversal.
I feel like this project really helped me as a rider, gave me a new kind of bike control, expanded my repertoire and gave me a new realm of tricks, modifiers, and links to work with. One can double their tricktionary by learning everything the other way. Eventually I will do a part 2 of this. I really enjoyed this project and is probably one of my more satisfying projects.”
Scott Hagnas?! Some of you may remember the name from the 90’s and specifically the Infection Videos. Scott had some unwanted time off his bike which he explains below, hit play for an amazing “flatland at 50 years old!”, so good! Here’s what Scott had to say:
“Here’s an edit I put together this fall, following my 50th birthday. I rode from 1982 to 2007 very consistently, but by 2008 my elbows were in chronic pain from riding, plus I started a family and my own business, so I entered into a period of semi-retirement from BMX. I still rode between 2008-2015, but only like once every two or three months. All the time off the bike didn’t help the elbows at all, and no doctor or therapist had the answer either.
As I own a training facility, I spent my time pursuing other physical goals like improving my movement ability, strength, and conditioning. I finally solved the riddle of my elbow pain in 2015 and re-dedicated myself to the bike in spring of 2016. I am so thankful to still have fun riding and learning new things. This edit is all of either things I learned new this year, or a new spin on something I did in the past. There are a few works in progress in here also, but I wanted to get it done and on to 2017!”
Welcome to the 4th annual Flatmattersonline Year end awards! It is also time to celebrate FM being 8 years old, it really is hard to believe I have been covering what’s going on in the world of flatland for 365 days of the year for 8 years now. The awards is my chance to help give back to the scene that has given me so much over the years, and also it’s a lot of fun going back through and seeing who did what throughout the year.
The reader categories have once again seven categories for you to vote for. Whilst for the editorial awards I will concentrate on the Rider of the Year and the edit of the year.
Voting runs from Monday 19th December through till Tuesday January 3rd with the final results announced the following week, Tuesday January 10th. This gives people plenty of time over the festive period, and more importantly based on feedback from the first year I ran the awards, time after Christmas, less of a rush during the festive period and New Years Eve like 2013. It seemed to work much better in 2014/15, so I’ll stick with it.
Good luck to everyone, look out for some posts related to the awards throughout the remainder of December and a huge thank you to Johann Chan for his amazing graphic design work once again!
Flatmatters: 8 years Strong!
Effraim Catlow
Flatmatters Editorial awards
* Rider of the year
* Edit of the year
Flatmatters Online Reader Awards – seven categories for you to vote!
1-Rider of the year
2-Edit of the year
3-Brand of the year
4-Innovation of the year
5-Contest Run of the year
6-Most Progressive rider
7-Breakthrough rider of the year
*Only one vote per person per category.
How do you vote?
Send your votes through to: effraim@flatmattersonline.com – entitled “Flatmattersonline Awards 2016” – Please note: voting only counts via email, and you must vote in each category to be eligible. Plenty of time to go through edits and look back via the site on the highlights of the year, good luck and enjoy the process!
Who knows I may throw in another category like I did last year, time will tell.
* Look out for reminders here on the site of what went down this year throughout the remainder of this month.
Top 5 Nomineees Announced: Friday January 6th.
Winners announced: Tuesday January 10th.
Paulo Gepulango got in contact to show the flatland world, the new line from Enemy Components, check it out!
Dan Hennig just got hooked up with a new sponsorship deal with Sony Xperia for 2017. Check out this nice promo edit shot in Zurich, Switzerland to celebrate. Congratulations on the hook up Dan!
