Photo: MarcioAbe.
The Reader Choice for the 2015 Flatmattersonline Rider of The Year is Martti Kuoppa, who has already won awards for Most Progressive Rider and Contest Run of the Year this year! Congratulations once again Martti!
Viki Gomez took the runners up with a great year, winning the world circuit and his amazing “Something in the way” edit! Not a bad year for KGB!
Two categories remain, stay tuned!
After much gnashing of teeth, my editorial vote for the 2015 Flatmattersonline edit of the year goes to James White for his epic “James White and the adventures on the wheel of steel’ edit that in my opinion ticked every box I look for in an edit and smashed one out of the box too, no music, this was purely about the content.
Flatland in 2015/16 for me is all about details, and the godfather of UK flat gets it better than anyone. The revisited bike flip bunnyhop around the 00:23 mark nailed cleaner blew my mind, it’s not too often we see a totally brand new trick anymore. Not to mention the stationary body varial, that probably had us all wondering. Why has no one see done that? The best ideas are like that! Congratulations James, you definitely blew the Must watch firewall off!
S&M team mate, Pete Olsen is my runner up for edit of the year, who like James ticked all the boxes I look for and admire in the modern era of flatland.
Look for interviews with both James and pete in the near future here on FM!
December 17th was one of the best days of 2015. Pete Olsen broke the internet that day and helped take our sport up a few levels.
Congratulations to Pete Olsen, the 2015 Flatmattersonline Year end winner for Readers Choice edit of the year. This category is one of the most contested categories, and now with the “Must Watch” category being harder to obtain it seems like it’s added more weight to the award.
Runners up this year, were Brand of the Year HeresyBMX for their light edit featuring Alexis Desolneux, George Manos, Sebastian Grubinger and Breakthrough Rider of the Year, Matthieu Bonnecuelle. What a year for them!
Brand of the Year was also an exciting category this year with results swinging like a pendulum day to day until the last week. Congratulations to HeresyBMX, the readers choice for Brand of Year in the 2015 Flatmattersonline Year end awards!
Runners up this year, igiBMX. Congratulations to Dub, who is always experimenting with something new trying to grow the sport of flatland.
* The rest of the winners in the 2015 Flatmattersonline yearend awards will recommence just after 9pm GMT tonight.
On November 13th Quentin Pelorson hit me up with some exciting news for the flatland community:
“As some of you know I work in computer science. A few months ago an open-minded company gave me the opportunity to mix my passion for BMX Flatland and my work. We are building a next-gen How-To tool that I hope will help our sport and its riders. The App will be visible at the Com’in Lyon contest this weekend.”
The Flatland Tricky app was the landslide winner, for the Readers Choice for Innovation of the Year. I’m sure I speak for many for the Readers of FM when I say thanks Quentin and his team for taking the time to help flatland grow and teach the next generation with the help of this app.
Also a major shoutout to the runner up, Brandon Derbowka and his incredible seven no handed whiplashes. I never thought I would ever see that get done, possibly a triple. Flatland is incredible like that, it is already exciting to see what will unfold this year!
Next category up is Brand of the Year!
The biggest contest of 2015 was without a doubt the Flatark competition in Kobe, Japan, 40K on the line. So it’s no surprise to see the Readers Choice for Contest Run of the Year go to Martti Kuoppa for his final battle vs Matthias Dandois!
Congratulations Martti taking home his second medal of the awards for Flatmattersonline 2015 Year End Awards / Readers Choice Contest Run of the Year!
Who was runner up? Many of you voted for Moto Sasaki for his heroic effort on the hitchhiker kick flip to backpacker vs Matthias Dandois at Real City Spin.
Stay tuned, next category up is innovation of the year!
The Readers Choice for Most Progressive Rider was one of the most exciting categories I have seen yet in my three years of hosting these awards, for long periods of December 2015 it was neck and neck. I was thinking at one time I would have to award two trophies as it was a tie, but during the last days leading up to the deadline on January 4th a clear winner emerged.
Congratulations to Martti Kuoppa voted by you the Readers of Flatmatters, as the Most Progressive Rider of 2015! It seems like as good a time as any to watch the amazing ten stemlashes clip that broke the internet when he posted this on September 4th. Martti stepped up the game in 2015, bringing Must Watch tricks with amazing consistency to the contest arena, pushing the sport forward once again!
The runner up this year pushing for the top spot right until the last few days, John Yull! What an incredible year for John, if you were paying attention to the Lookback features on the site. John might have appeared more than anyone else through out the year, whether his amazing Same Thing Daily part, Limitless part with Jim McKay, the brakeless backwards decade, or his Finale part (to name a few) it was quite an incredible year.
It will be great to see where both these riders take their riding in 2016. I’m sure I speak for all the readers of FM when I say thanks to Martti and John for the motivation. Long may it continue.
Photo: Stéphane Bar.
The first category for the 2015 Flatmatters Online Year End Awards is the Readers Choice for Breakthrough Rider of the Year. This award is about recognising that rider that broke through to the elite of our sport, pushing himself and rising up to the cream of crop, and arriving on the big stage.
The 2015 Breakthrough Rider of the Year was pretty close this year, with all the nominees at some point being in the lead which is exciting.
Akira Horii just dropped Volume 29 in his video series, always treat to see what he’s working on! And as always the multiple decade combos do not disappoint, hit play!
Jérémy Brosset – Quest BMX from Jérémy Brosset on Vimeo.
Just a couple of days left on the Quest BMX Sponsor me contest and the edits are starting to fly in, check this nice entry from Jeremy Brosset from France.
