Sometimes the borders get blurred between Old and Mid School, this 17 Expert run from Rob Compton at the NBL Nationals 1990 in Raleigh, NC does just that. The beginnings of Mid School tricks in old school uniform, Rob always killed it with a really fast, powerful style. Many of you might not know the name, but get to know it.
Team 430 BMX tour 1998
Mid school vibes in full flow in this “Team 430 BMX tour 1998” video from the BMX archives featuring the likes of Akira Okamura, Kotaro Tanaka, Hiroshi Uehara and many more. Really enjoyed this video on the japanese scene, well worth a watch.
Alberto Moya on iGi
It’s that time of year when sponsorship deals happen pretty regularly, and a nice surprise I just caught on instagram. Dub just signed up Spanish style cat, Alberto Moya onto iGi! Here’s what Dub had to say: “He stands out for being one of the slowest yet most stylish and original riders.” Look out for some cool projects throughout the year with iGi..
Murat Özdemir – G-Shock 35th Anniversary
Murat ÖZDEMİR BMX Flatlander – G-Shock 35th Anniversary from Skateparkur Events on Vimeo.
Murat Özdemir from Turkey just dropped this nice edit to celebrate the 35th anniversary of G-Shock. Sweet cliff to steam line at 00:41, plus a whole lot more.
Giannis Caternellis – Balance Brakes/Extras
Another week, another Giannis Caternllis edit to get you motivated, staying on the brakeless tip and stationary trick direction for the most part. Really liked the stationary one handed two footed steam to stationary half hiker at 2:05, but there’s a lot more. Don’t just my word for it, hit play.
Throwback Thursdays with Pete Olsen
With the annual Flatmatters year end awards dropping this week, I wanted to show a previous winning edit for this weeks Throwback. And I got stuck on watching this “Pete Olsen is awesome”, which won the reader choice for edit of the year back in 2015. Go re watch this Must Watch!
Shiyu Orikawa – 2018 First Video
First clip of the year for young buck Shiyu Orikawa, really nice opposite one handed backwards spinning steam step to spinning crackpacker with the hand off the whole time, dope!
Gonzalo Bellanti – Instagram compilation 2016 – 2017
Back to regular updates after the Flatmattersonline year end award winners were announced Monday night. Just one post this Wednesday morning and its a good one that you all need to watch out of the underrated Gonzalo Bellanti. Gonzalo just dropped this instagram compilation edit filmed out in Dubai and it is full of tech gems front and back wheel. Don’t sleep on this…
The 2017 Flatmattersonline Year End Award Winners are….
First up it’s time to announce the editorial choice in the 2017 Flatmattersonline yearend awards followed by the Reader Choice, holding the awards each year I feel is a important thing to do for the culture of flatland and show some love back to the sport that has given me so much over the years.
Congratulations to all of the winners, and the nominees. Much respect to you all and all you do to contribute to flatland, it was a great year with a lot of twists and turns. Going to be interesting to see what 2018 brings. I wanted to display the medals tonight with the winners, but there is a slight delay that I’m not in control of. I will be contacting the winners shortly for addresses and interviews. Without further a due…
Editorial Choice Winners:
2017 Flatmattersonline
Rider of the Year
Jean William Prevost
Runner Up: John Yull.
2017 Flatmattersonline
Edit of the Year
Quentin Pelorson – XTen
Runner Up:
James White/Critical Beatdown.
2017 Flatmattersonline
Most Progressive Rider
John Yull
Runner Up: Quentin Pelorson
2017 Flatmattersonline
Line of the Year
John Yull
Runner Up: James White.
2017 Flatmattersonline
Outstanding Contribution
James McGraw
Reader Choice:
Thank you to all the readers of Flatmattersonline who took the time to vote, this year in particular was pretty interesting as your nominations differed slightly from mine, would the results be the same? Let’s go through the categories…
2017 Flatmattersonline
Rider of the Year
Jean William Prevost
Runner up:
John Yull.
2017 Flatmattersonline
Edit of Year
James White / Critical Beatdown
Runner Up: Quentin Pelorson – XTen.
2017 Flatmattersonline
Contest Run of Year
Jean William Prevost / Flatark.
Runner Up:
Jean William Prevost – Ninja Spin Finals.
2017 Flatmattersonline
Breakthrough Rider of the Year:
Yu Katagiri
Runner Up: Benjamin Hudson.
2017 Flatmattersonline
Most Progressive Rider
John Yull
Runner Up: Scott Powell.
Old School Sundays with Martin Aparijo
This weeks OSS is dedicated to the Chairman, Martin Aparijo who is still riding to this day and was shredding at the One Love Jam in Newport Beach, in So Cal yesterday. We go back to the GT Demo Tape and McGoo interviewing him about tricks such as No handed Miami hop hops. Enjoy this trip down memory lane.