Dan Hennig gets in his last ride of 2015 in beautiful Zurich, Switzerland.
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The FlatmattersOnline 2015 Year End Awards!
Design: Johann Chan.
Last full day on voting for the 2015 Flatmattersonline Year end awards! Stickied for the day! Voting will close at 9:30am Monday January 4th GMT.
Welcome to the 3rd annual FlatmattersOnline Year end awards! It is also time to celebrate FM being 7 years old, it’s hard to believe I have been covering what’s going on in the world of flatland for 365 days of the year for 7 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 something 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 Friday 11th December through till Monday January 4th (2016) with the final results announced the following week, Monday January 11th. 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 last year, so I’ll stick with it.
Good luck to everyone, look out for some posts related to the awards throughout the next month and a huge thank you to Johann Chan for his amazing graphic design work once again!
Flatmatters: 7 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 Flatmatters Awards 2015 – 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!
* Medals mailed out after January 11th.
Top 5 Nomineees Announced: Monday January 4th.
Winners announced: Monday January 11th.
Camilo Gutiérrez – Team Gzuck Promo
Camilo Gutiérrez, de los mejores bikers de Perú, nuevo integrante del team Gzuck from GZUCK on Vimeo.
Camilo Gutiérrez just dropped this new Team Gzuck promo edit filmed in Berlin, as always with Camilo’s edits the production and quality is top notch. Congratulations on the new hook up Camilo!
Caen BMX Indoor – Saturday 20 February 2016
Clay Legrand hit me up with some news of the first French contest of 2016.
“The only french event representative each discipline of Bmx!”. You can keep up to date with the event by following the Facebook page:
BMX Rad Girls 2015 vol. II
Paulatrix just dropped Volume 2 of the Rad Girls series, good vibes and good riding from Eri Funatsu, Kendra jamming at the Battle in the Rockies, Jazz Pintasilgo, Aubrey Wyn, Tsuda Tomeanzu, Julia Preuss, Women of Freestyles very own Kim Klisiak, Miyuki Dezaki, Yuki Shinkawa, Rin Isogai, Boyana Kale, Liberty Armstrong, Nao Matsui, B Fun, Eriko Ono, Erin Donato who is now married and taken the name Erin Fricke (check her part from around 9:25), Watantabe Sohana (watch the boomerang move at 11:32 amazing control for such a young girl!). Rad Girls!
Overground Round 3 – Master / Pro
Yesterday I published the Novice and Expert class highlights from Round 3 of the Overground series in Brazil. Today it is the turn of the Pros and Masters, great to see the depth in the Brazilian scene where they can have four classes full with riders! Great riding from the likes of Bruno Zebu, Balu, Gilberto Rocha, Romulo Guerra and many more.
Must Watch! Yohei Uchino Signature Frame “GOOD SPEED” Promo
This amazing back wheel manual line for Yohei Uchino’s signature “Good speed” frame promo has been doing the rounds on social media today! And for good reason, just look at this work of art!
Here is the official word:
“Yohei Uchino’s signature “Good Speed” Frame promo will be released into the world at the end of February/March. The initial order has already sold out in less than half a day, manufacturer stock is not already. The frame is a masterpiece that has been long awaited during it’s test period. Yohei is the principal of Good Speed”.
Overground Contest Round 3 – Brazil
JVM Tricks just dropped two edits from the recent third round of the Overground contest in Brazil featuring the Novice and AM groups, great to see the Brazilian scene is holding it down.
Isaiah Jordan wins 2015 Georgia State Championship
The annual Georgia State Championship went down this past weekend,here’s the word from organiser, Dane Beardsley.
“I give you the 2015 Georgia State Flatland Champions. Thanks to everyone who came rode or watched. Loads of bicycle riding and fun went down. Isaiah Jordan took home the title of state champ for his nonstop flow and silky style. Christopher Caylor took home the wild card victory with tricks and shin guards that would make DMC proud.”
Yu Shoji on KGB
Bit slow posting this news, young ripper Yu Shoji out of Matsudo-shi, Japan just got hooked up with KGB. As far as I’m aware the first addition to the team since Viki and Martti started the company again, congratulations Yu Shoji! Look forward to much more in the future from this exciting prospect from Japan!