A nice surprise from Detriot, Michigan. One of my childhood heroes, Bill Neumann is back riding after an 18 year break and from the look of this edit, still has that unique effortless style down pat. The title suggests there is more to come shortly to, it’s the AFA contest in Michigan at Modern Skatepark where this was filmed will Bill spring a surprise….
Matthias Dandois – 1st Place Bike Days 2018 + Interview
Matthias Dandois celebrated his 29th Birthday in style taking home the win last weekend at Bike Days 2018 for the second year in a row! You watch his run, plus the bonus best trick round that was worth another maximum of 25 points to your score and a quick interview afterwards for good measure! Congratulations Matthias! Machine!
Dominik Nekolny – 3rd Place Bike Days 2018
Dominik Nekolny had a hard time with his opening line, hitting it on the 4th go. Dom went on to nail the rest of his run and the bonus round to take home a third place finish, impressive that Dom came back like that after a bad start.. Also, in related news you will notice Dom is riding the blitz frame once again. Watch his run right here.
Insight: Dustyn Alt into his 2nd Place Bike Days 2018 Run
The Bike Days weekend was awesome as always. Dustyn Alt took home the second place. I wanted to try something new, spur of the moment idea as Dustyn downloaded his run to his YT channel back at Dan hennig’s house after the contest. Let’s discuss his run, and get insight into his run.
Watch his full run again here:
https://www.flatmattersonline.com/dustyn-alt-2nd-place-bike-days-2018
Yuki Sakai – Flat × Street
FLAT × STREET from TATSUNARI SAKAI on Vimeo.
It’s a busy day here at Flatmattersonline HQ! Amazing production on this new flat/street edit out of Yuki Sakai. Feeling the mix of typography and the visual in this one put together by Tatsunari Sakai. Go watch this!
Viki Gomez – Luxembourg
Something a little different this morning featuring Viki Gomez, Viki teamed up with the Luxembourg Tourism Board along with local street riders Peter Recking and Bijan Kesseler. And show the still very unknown Luxembourg to the world, enjoy the ride!
Autum Kunstform Berlin Flat Jam / Friday 11th May
Daniel Fuhrmann sent in details of a flat jam/contest happening this Friday in Berlin at the Mellowprakr, so your going to have to be quick. One for the German riders checking out Flatmatters that can’t make the Fise contest?
“On Friday 11th Matti from Autum bikes in cooperation with Kunstform will run a flatland jam and on saturday there will be a BMX Flatland Contest at the BMX festival Highway to hill at the mellowpark in Berlin. The highway to hill bmx festival is one of the best bmx events in germany and i’m happy that flatland is now a part of it. As well german riders can earn some points for the german flatland champions there.”
Dustyn Alt – 2nd Place Bike Days 2018
Flatland is full of surprises, the contest floor is a level playing field, and Dustyn Alt sprung a big one this weekend at Bike days taking home the second place spot with a one touch run and nailing his banger first try. Dustyn was in some heavy company, tomorrow I will drop a lil’ insight video into his run and some of the battles he faced during his run. Congratulations to Dustyn once again on the second place, enjoy his run!
Romulo Guerra & Fabiano – Routine
The lifestyle is often missing from the modern day edit, just trick, trick. It has become the norm, the Aloha jam post earlier today reminds us of the “other side”. Romulo Guerra & Fabiano just dropped this really nice edit that shows their routine in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, “Velho” is Romulo’s best friend and he practice at Romulo’s home spot in the morning, and Romulo practice at night after he arrives home from his job. Refreshing to watch this!
Matthias Dandois – Street / Flatland
A couple of months back out of the contest season, Matthias Dandois spent a month over in So Cal working on a street/flatland part for Haro. During that time he took a savage slam which you can see first clip in which resulted in a big medical bill. So its safe to say Matthias put some work in on this edit, this was fun watch and the last rail is a beast! Balls of steel doing that, not to mention the rest which is nice mix of flatland and street, go watch it!