Encounter magazine Issue 4 soon!

With Texas Toast blowing up right now, it’s easy to forget whats going on in the rest of the World. Encounter is pretty much the best magazine that is covering flatland right now! Cannot wait to see what issue 4 has in store. For now it looks like Ucchie has the cover!

What’s inside Encounter magazine Issue 4?

DMC Interview – An interview of Dennis McCoy, aka DMC. Asking about the behind scene of Dew Tour.

Florida Trip – Hiroshi Uehara, the owner of Fourthirty and the head judge of KOG visited Chad Degroot, a legendarily flatland rider at Florida.

Hiroshi Uehara Interview – Hiroshi Uehara is the founder of Fourthirty. He currently owns 3 shops and his brand, Fourthrity is known as the one of the famous street apparel in Japan.

UK / Estonia trip – Trip to Simpel session via London, UK.

Portugal Trip

A theme and answers – Asking KOG champions about the past, present and future of KOG.

Keiji’s Australia Exploration – Keiji is currently living Australia and hit the road to explore Skateparks and the nature.

Dominik Nekolny wins Texas Toast!


Photo: Terry Adams

This has definitely been a rollercoaster weekend for Dominik! Firstly getting his bag stolen, now winning Texas Toast, and from all accounts dropping what some of have called “the hardest combo in a contest ever”. All I know is the combo started with xfted whiplashes and ended with xfted whiplashes! Congrats Dom! Does that mean he wins the year end title too?

1st Dominik Nekolny
2nd Matthias Dandois
3rd Terry Adams
4th Dane Beardsley
5th Jean-Francois Boulianne
6th Trevor Meyer
7th Art Thomason
8th Alex Jumelin
9th Bo Wade
10th Jean Bulhon

Shaun Lapsley wins Novice #AMFLT Year End Title!


Photo: Joe Cicman

Joe is tearing it up with updates pretty much live from Austin, Texas. Shaun Lapsley not only won the Texas Toast contest, but also the year end title! Congrats Shaun! And also Fox Kinsman, and Eric Favot rounding out the top three! The move up to Expert beckons….

1) Shaun Lapsley
2) Fox Kinsman
3) Eric Favot