Last night it happened again, I see a notification for a new Nick Watts edit right as I am about to go to sleep. It’s become a late night Thursday ritual to save Nick’s video for the morning. I feel like I must scythe same thing every week, but bot can Nick freestyle. I feel the term gets thrown a lot in flatland circles, but Nick is a true freestyler. These lines look like they are thrown together without an idea of where they could end up, bike control, quick awareness and so much style. There are a couple of standouts that made my morning I wish to highlight: the Double boomerang off the back tyre popped into xft cowboy at 00:16 and the No footed flail land back pegs to caboose at 1:07 both brought a smile to my face. It’s raining outside, thank you Nick!
Repo: Sport Zone Veresegyház Contest
Text: Rob Alton.
On November 24th we held our second major contest at Sport Zone Veresegyház. I worked really hard to improve on last year’s contest in all departments. Thanks to our main sponsors Magnetic, IPF Corner, DMKER, Elite BMX Shop and Sport Zone we raised 1000 Euro for Pro purse. I hoped it would help bring some top Pro’s here and it did! We had 12 Pro riders from 6 countries, including the kids and Amateur riders a total of 34 competitors!
Róbert Völler “Minerboy” our live DJ was running the rider routines which made my day a lot easier. We also added new podiums and sponsor wall for the prize giving.
I split School Class into A and B classes, because there is a good step up now from the kids who are really practicing a lot. Recent contests in Hungary have really helped to motivate them. The B class was great to see as some of the kids have only been riding 5-6 weeks and still wanted to take part. Emma Kriston one of two girls at the school got second place! There is a separate video for each category on Youtube.
School Class A
Throwback Thursdays – 1995 Mysterious Contest
1995 Mysterious Contest in San Bernardino, Ca from Adam Guild on Vimeo.
A nice treat for this weeks Throwback, Adam Guild was posted this amazing footage from the archives from the 1995 Mysterious Contest in San Bernardino, CA. Featuring the likes of Nikola Olic, Day Smith is on fire from the 7:28, Jesse Puente and his backwards tea kettle to hitch at 10:28, Nate Hansen, Sean McKinney and many more. So much good riding in this, well worth sitting down and watching this one.
Yu Yamamoto – Nous
NOUS – Yu Yamamoto Ridding_01 from LiLt on Vimeo.
Have we all recovered from that insane Matthieu Bonnecuelle edit yet? Let’s get back to our normal posting today, beginning with this nice clip from Nous BMX rider. Yu Yamamoto. The two footed backyard jump to manual at the 00:33 mark is awesome, hit play!
Effraim Catlow 2008 – Flatmattersonline 10th anniversary
Last week I was so engrossed in editing the 10 years of Flatmattersonline I missed a lot of edits including one of myself that TGM Maz kindly put together to celebrate the anniversary. I contacted Maz to be on one of the episodes and he wants able to come through, so he made this edit instead, thank you!
Julien Baran – Flatland
Missed this summer edit from the 12 year old French shredder, Julien Baran who is progressing so fast and really well filmed to boot. Big ups Julien and Florent Lamour Visual for this one!
Anatole Rahain – 2018
I got the chance to see Anatole Rahain ride back in the summer at the Urban Waves contest in Belgium and this dude is on the come up, really dialled. How many talented riders are coming out of France these days?….
Amateur & Pro – Sport Zone Verseny 2018 Highlights
With Sevisual behind the lens and Rob Alton on editing duties, here is the AM and Pro highlights video from the Sport Zone Verseny contest the other week over in Hungary with great riding from the likes of Dominik Nekolny, Martin Drazil, Matti Hemmings, Keelan Philips, Fülöp Vidakovich, and many more. Great to see grassroots events like these being so well attended, this looked like a lot of fun including the longest mega spin contest. Anyone dizzy?
Sebastian Grubinger – Less is more
It is amazing what you can get done in a small space as illustrated in this new “less is more” by Sebastian Grubinger. Sebastian is on a family vacation in Mallorca, look out for the line at 00:45!
Renz Viaje & Dwyne Lopena
Good morning all! My mind is still a blur after that Matthieu Bonnecuelle edit last night, let’ get some morning updates from across the globe.
Renz Viaje meets up with a new talent in the Philippines flatland scene, 15 years old Dwyne Lopena is from Dauis, Bohol and has a bright future if he sticks at it.