Are brakes coming back? There have been some interesting developments happening in BMX recently. Bizhouse’s Shawn White hit me up late last night with this Brooklyn Mod concept which was developed along with Carlos Coste. The idea is to do away with welds on your AD lugs, so you buy forks, drill the holes yourself and boom your done. Time will tell if this works and if you trust yourself with a drill. Let’s discuss this one in the comments section.
Text/Video: Rob Alton.
Grassroots events are so important to the development of flatland, Ron Alton is doing great things in Hungary with his Sport Zone project. Check out his quick repo and videos. Good work Rob!
On March the 11th 2018 we celebrated one year since we opened Sport Zone with a BMX Jam for the kids, Master and Pro riders. The kid’s event went down in the morning with separated categories, 16″ and 20″. They had different challenges to help them learn confidence and consistency, fast track, Pit Stop, 180 and 360 bar spins, Boomerang and Best Trick Contest. Main highlights were first the 14 kids that took part followed by Dudás Misi pulling his first Peg Boomerang in front of the crowd to make it even better (unfortunately just out of camera shot) and Filip Marcell did a triple bar spin standing on the pedals for the first time too. The kids and parents had a great day and it seems BMX Flatland has a great future, in our town at least! One of the kids, Lázár just 7 years old totally motivated from Sunday, went home, practiced and on Wednesday night pulled a FULL boomerang, so inspiring!
The afternoon was the Master and Pro riders with, Bunny Hop, Pinky Squeaks, Whiplash, Mega Spin Battle and Front Wheel-Back wheel contests. We saw some great riding from the regular Hungarian riders plus Leon Vignjević and Frane Granic from Croatia. The video shows just a few of the highlights from the riders and a feeling of how the day went. The riders got great trophies thanks to Kreativ-fa-ajándék, great Pizza from La Pizza Nostra and to top if of birthday cake from the Gombai Cukrászda all three of our local sponsors. Thanks also to Elite BMX Shop, Colony BMX, Four Pegs, Márton Szilágyi and Monster Energy. All of these people helped make it a great event!
Our next event will be later this year with a normal contest format. I will do my best to get some prize money and make it bigger and better. I think we are going in good direction and we just need the support of more international riders and sponsors. So come on guys come to Sport Zone!
It’s been a minute since I watched the 2008 Same Thing Daily video, Dane Beardsley just loaded up the sections on his YT channel. I loved the Abe Hamilton section from this video, if you missed this one or you need a refresh this is a treat!
Peep the interview I did with Abe whilst on topic:
https://www.flatmattersonline.com/isolated-abe-hamilton-interview
Inspiration comes in many different forms for me in flatland, peep this amazing Unicycle tech wizardry filmed by Owen Bohn out in Argentina, so good!
Everyone knows Dominik Nekolny is amazing, I didn’t want to post all the clips at once as each one deserves some attention. Here is the next clip I found, this whiplash nose manual line just gets out of hand, hit play for the realness!
What is going on in Prague right now! Dominik Nekolny missed pedal tricks and flowing some new lines incorporating pedal steams and xft pedal 5’s, not to mention the third clip is so good, halfpacker 360 body varial! Go watch these right now!
Contest season is well and truly here, and there are events all over the globe going down each weekend! Congratulations to Gurvan Le Bloch who took first place at the Xtreme BMX Contest in Le Havre in France this weekend, Gurvan was followed on the podium by Anatole Rahain, and Manu Massabova in this, Yannick Chauvel took the fourth place spot. Shout out to Gabriel Gallon organising this event.
Marcos de Jesus has one of the fastest styles in the game, in this edit he pays homage to his favourite old school video, Freestyling Fanatics and busts out as we have all come to expect, this is so good! Don’t sleep on this one!
Giannis Caternellis continues on his mission to document everything he does, in this episode Giannis pays homage to the all time greats Kevin Jones and Chase Gouin, enjoy!
What a month in terms of edits, March has been! Two new technical clips out of the progressive Bruno Zebu to start the week on Flatmattersonline!
