Canada is deep in snow right now, Steve Bergeron just dropped this awesome new winter edit. Making it happen in his basement, plenty of skills front and back wheel! Must be so dope having your riding spot on your doorstep, who else has a set up like this?
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Ivan Makushev – World Expo Park 2015 in Yekaterinburg
There are not too many riders in the World that can hang in every discipline, by the look of this edit and what I have seen before. Ivan Makushev is one of those riders! Hit play for his new awesome edit filmed at the World Expo Park in Yekaterinburg, Russia.
Gary Knecht – Never let anything get in the way of your dreams
After nearly three decades off his bike, Gary Knecht shares some of his experiences growing up as a BMX freestyler and finding his passion to ride again. His story is interwoven with images from BMX’s history, illuminating how BMX has evolved in the past while at the same time providing a guide for the next generation of riders.
Raul Puccio – undertaker full pivot back wheel
Dope new clip out of Raul Puccio from Peru, really nice technique on the back wheel with this spinning dump truck full body varial pivot back to spinning mega spin!
Georgia State Flatland Championship
A lil’ rain did not stop the annual Georgia State Flatland Championship, hit play for a sweet edit featuring the likes of Dane Beardsley, Aaron Behnke, Mitchell Hall, John Yull (look out for the double foot jam decade at 1:14) and the GSFC Lincoln Harberger! Good times in Georgia!
Matsudo Year End Jam by Jimalog
MATSUDO YEAR END JAM 2014 from JIMALOG1985 on Vimeo.
On December 28th 2014, the annual Matsudo Year End Jam took place at Matsudo,Hall 21 of Forest in Chiba, Japan. As we come to expect and love from japan, there is a whole mix of generations in this fun edit from Jimalog! Look out for Kazuya Hirayama who drops some crazy forward and regular death truck lines at 6:24 and 9:23, and that last line from Akihiko Takahashi is super nice! Don’t miss this, plenty of good stuff from some unknown shredders and household names Takahiro Ikeda and Shuichi Osada and many more!
Congratulations to the 2014 Flatmatters Year End Award Winners!
It is a wrap on the 2014 Flatmatters Year End Awards, if you followed the awards last night I hope you all enjoyed the suspense going through each award one by one.
Big Congratulations to all the winners, the medals arrive on Wednesday so I will be in touch with you all to get your addresses. Look out for interviews with all the winners over the next month!
Big thank you to everyone that took the time to vote!!!
Effraim Catlow / Flatmatters
Editorial Choice Rider of the Year: Jean William Prevost.
Editorial Choice Edit of the Year: Martti Kuoppa & Viki Gomez – Bombarderos.
Readers Choice Rider of the Year: Jean William Prevost.
Readers Choice Edit of the Year: Martti Kuoppa & Viki Gomez – Bombarderos
Readers Choice Brand of the Year: Deco BMX.
Readers Choice Innovation of the Year: igi BMX Peg Design.
Readers Choice Contest Run of the Year: Dominik Nekolny BMX Cologne.
Readers Choice Most Progressive Rider: Shintaro Misawa.
Readers Choice Breakthrough Rider of the Year: Benjamin Hudson.
Jean William Prevost – 2014 Flatmatters Editorial Choice Rider of the Year!
Photo credit: Am Flat.
This year I saw Jean William Prevost take flatland to new heights, using his experiences on his bike to help elevate flatland! Stepping up this year to organise one of the best contests of the year, the Real City Spin in Montreal Canada. When Dub announced he was organising Real City Spin and not entering, he made a huge statement, Dub became an ambassador for our sport overnight. I feel like he set a huge benchmark in 2014 that goes way beyond riding, but the responsibility you have as a pro rider.
Of course aside from that Contest organisation, Dub is always there and around the podium, taking big wins in Toronto and the Battle in the Rockies winning both the online contest and the event itself in Colorado Springs, 3rd at Voodoo Jam and Flatark, and who can forget that battle with Ucchie?!
Edits? Dub we all know produces high quality documentation of his riding, but on top of that he produces contest edits giving a lot back to the culture.
Dub also helped introduce Breakthrough Rider of the Year, Benjamin Hudson to the flatland world, and stepped up his company igiBMX, who also just took the award for Innovation of the Year for his peg design!
2014 was an amazing year for Dub, and I really feel deserves our respect for what he has done for flatland this year, on his bike and off it!
Thank you for standing up in 2014 Dub, flatland as a sport needs more people like you! Congratulations to Dub taking the Editorial and Reader Choice for Rider of the Year, Innovation of the Year, and runner up Contest run of the Year!
We are all excited to see what Dub has in store for us all, both on and off his bike this year!
Respect!
Effraim Catlow / Flatmatters
Bombarderos Martti Kuoppa & Viki Gomez – Flatmatters 2014 Year End Award winner / Editorial Choice Edit of the Year!
Picking the Edit of the year is always tough process, thankfully this year my life was a great deal easier thanks to Viki Gomez and Martti Kuoppa and their collaboration they dropped on September 1st “Bombarderos”. To me and judging by the hundreds of votes clear this video was in the Readers Choice awards, you almost all thought the same thing. What a rarity that is, flatlanders agreeing, surely not?!
Watching this edit gave me the feeling I had when I first watched a Dorkin’ video back in the day, it’s pretty rare these days to see one NBD (Never Been Done) in an edit let anyone above 10 NBD’s, I lost count to be honest. And particularly in Martti’s riding, I saw the artist return to flatland and take off where he left, leaving us all with moments of genius. The triple stem lash both ways comes to mind first, or me first screaming at the screen when he did the stem steamroller pivot to crackpacker. This video changed the game in a big way, Martti doesn’t even need to do anymore, but I am sure he will. That’s a measure of the man. You will know no doubt have already have seen other stem variations, but this comes as a result of one man and his originality. And you can’t forget Viki Gomez, Viki delivered a crazy amount of crazy hard kick flip combos in signature buttery fashion that complimented Martti’s raw stem style/short sharp bangers. The two approach riding so differently, but when you put them together, it’s almost like all sides of flatland are covered. The combination is killer!
Congratulations to both Viki and Martti. Total whitewash this year, taking both the editorial vote and reader vote for Edit of the Year! One medal each? Quite fitting. So well deserved!
Also, shout out to Camilo Gutierrez at Wildschnitt Film & Photography who put together this amazing edit!
Thank you Martti and Viki for taking flatland to a higher place!
Effraim Catlow / Flatmatters
Jean William Prevost – Flatmatters 2014 Year End Award winner / Readers Choice Rider of the Year!
Photo: Stephane Bar.
The Reader Choice vote for the 2014 Flatmatters Rider of the Year goes to Jean William Prevost, aka Dub! Congratulations Dub! What a year 2014 turned out to be for his riding and his company igi! Becoming the riders favourite, again this was a landslide vote! We are all excited to see what is in store for this year both in his riding and his product designs, stay tuned!
Runner up: Alex Jumelin.