James White and Amos Burke get lost in London, and set themselves a fun little project to boot. Nine tries and move on to the next spot, hit play if you haven’t already and see what went down.
Jason Plourde: Unlock your winning potential
Here’s a really good one from the Canadian powerhouse Jason Plourde, Jason offers some great tips how to maximise and improve your contest performances.
Melbourne Flatland Session
Once again, I am catching up on what’s going on around the globe. It’s rainy day today here in Southsea, and this sweet Melbourne Flatland Session edit is the first edit that came up to watch today. Gonzalo Bellanti, Iñigo Arroyo, and Yuki Tokui enjoy a session at the infamous Melbourne Museum riding spot, good to see edits like this again!
Chimera A-Side launches “Five Rings Editions” for 2024!
Exciting news today from Japan! Chimera A-Side is a name firmly on every Flatlanders min, and they continue to grow, read on!
ʻʼCHIMERA A-SIDE BMX FLATLAND BATTLE”.
‒ “Five Rings Edition-ʼʼ, This event, slated for 2024, marks a fresh venture into Japanese urban sportsBMX gracefully dances amid Japan’s renowned castles.
CHIMERA A-SIDE, the premier event in the world of street sports featuring three disciplines – BMX Flatland, BMX Freestyle Park, and Skateboarding – all originating from Japan, is set to host the ultimate showdown in 2024.
This year, as a new form of entertainment collaborating with Japan’s historical and cultural heritage, the competition in BMX Flatland is scheduled to take place against the backdrop of three iconic Japanese castles.
In the host locations, various sports experiences and entertainment performances, aligned with the tournament period, will be offered. The aim is to foster collaboration between historical culture, cuisine, and tourism.
The event will not only provide an opportunity for historical exploration tours, but also showcase traditional Japanese cultural performances, making it a comprehensive entertainment experience from Japan.
Terry Adams: MooreBMX 052
Brant Moore caught up with Terry Adams a few days ago to talk about the newly created ABFL, being on Red Bull for 20 years, his daily regime, setting up Majide BMX and much more. Good to see Brant featuring flatlanders on his channel.
Chimera A-side Flatland 2024
The recent Chimera A-side contest in Osaka went odd, what a way to start the year. Do yourself a favour, and sit down wand watch this one if you missed it on Instagram the first time round.
Giannis Caternellis – Freestyler #123
Imagine having 123 edits? Damn, who can say that? Gianni Caternellis keeps on delivering, here for his 123rd part, he rides one of that looks like scenic spots with surrounding Greek landscape. This feels like a behind the scenes look at Gianni’ sessions, love the concept of this. Gianni dedicated this part to Rodney Williams…
Gurvan Le Bloch: Road to World Cup
Gurvan Le Bloch is a name that was firmly on my radar about 8 years, then it seemed he vanished from the euro contest scene, and posting videos (certainly as much). Now, in 2024 Gurvan is back and is competing in the Fise World Cups this year, Japan this month and Montpellier, as well posting a lot on his socials.
Love the concept of this one, really nice thought behind this….
The AMERICAN BMX FLATLAND LEAGUE is born!
Exciting news for Flatland in the USA!
Today we are excited to announce the news of the ABFL (AMERICAN BMX FLATLAND LEAGUE)
The press release, website, instagram, and Facebook are below. Please help us spread this exciting news!
Website:
https://www.americanbmxflatlandleague.com/
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/americanbmxflatlandleague?igsh=azU3MzlyeG5qenI5&utm_source=qr
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/american.bmx.flatland.league?mibextid=LQQJ4d
The 2023 Flatmattersonline Year End Awards: Winners Announced!
Announcing the winners of the 2023 Flatmattersonline Year End Awards in Editorial and Reader Choice categories! Thanks to everyone to took the time to vote – congratulations to all the winners and nominees. It is always a pleasure to host these awards, I’ll be in touch with the winners shortly + interviews with the winners soon.
– Effraim.
YU KATAGIRI:
WINNER OF READER CHOICE RIDER OF THE YEAR.
CONTEST RUN OF THE YEAR & LINE OF THE YEAR.
2023 was an amazing year for Yu Katagiri, Yu dominated the X Games in Chiba Japan and many of you voted for him not only as Rider of the Year, stating the X Games was a big factor in that decision, so it’s understandable you also voted Yu for Contest Run of the Year with his X Games final run.
Yu won the Flatark, with a ridiculous “never been done” that you the readers of FM voted as line of the year during the best trick format finale to the contest, plus Yu won a few of the Chimera A- side events.
It’s no rocket science, Yu Katagiri is on top of his game right now and is the rider to beat on the contest scene, I personally would love to see a video part out of him each year as well as the contest riding much like Dub is doing. Congratulations Yu!!
JEAN WILLIAM PREVOST:
WINNER OF EDITORIAL CHOICE RIDER OF THE YEAR.
READER CHOICE & EDITORIAL CHOICE MUST WATCH EDIT OF THE YEAR.
Running Flatmattersonline my outlook on Rider of the year appears to be obviously different than the readers, which keeps things interesting. Many of you focus on contests, whereas running FM I think Video parts as well as contests are important. Jean William Prevost was that rider in 2023 that delivered on both fronts, the way I see it contests and having a video part also are really important in being a complete rider. Nowadays as the modern day pro, you should have a video part, someone like James White springs to mind here and someone I want to shoutout as he had so much amazing content all year, an amazing video part and even a few contests to boot.
Dubs “Comes in waves” could easily have been three video parts, we can of course focus on the amazing tricks, but the narrative and story telling throughout really shown through for me, and sat him apart from all the rest.
Dub killed it on the contest scene, with one of the best runs of the year at the Huffjam, podium at Fise Montpellier and X Games. Dub had an amazing year, also running IGI and helping out other riders along the way, and that’s what it takes to be rider of the year in my opinion.
AUDE CASSAGNE:
READER CHOICE FEMALE RIDER OF THE YEAR.
Photo: Swpix_cycling
Female Rider of the Year was the closet run award in 2023. For the second year in a row, Aude Cassagne took the honours, congratulations! Winning Fise Montpellier and the UCI world Championships in one year is no joke, plus a lot of instagram content and a solid “Revive” part makes Aude the complete package, understandable how many of you voted for the second year in a row.
YU SHOJI:
EDITORIAL CHOICE BREAKTHROUGH RIDER OF THE YEAR.
Photo: Swpix_cycling
Breakthrough rider of the year is in mind one of the most important awards for a number of reasons. We need new talent breaking through, that in turn pushes the top level. What a year 2023 was for our winner, Yu Shoji. Yu won the Fise Montpellier contest and the UCI world championship in Glasgow, dropping fresh moves throughout the year to boot including his new crackpacker turbine into snake spin with signature flat spin jump style. Congratulations Yu!
HERESY BMX:
EDITORIAL CHOICE BRAND OF THE YEAR.
The flatland industry is a small one, with so much love poured into each brands products to make them happen. This year’s winner is once again, Heresy BMX. Besides product, Heresy recently added Jeanne Signeur to their team, and adding another female to their amazing team adds another dynamic to the squad. Heresy are also one of the only brands in the game to release video parts each year, big fan of that they do for the flatland community. Congratulations Alexis and Heresy!
ATTILA TOTH / FOUR PEGS BMX:
EDITORIAL CHOICE OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION.
Last year’s winner Rodney Williams was well received, this years award for Outstanding Contribution goes to Attila Toth from Four Pegs Bmx! This award isn’t really about riding, it is about a contribution to the culture and lifestyle side of what we love.
Attila goes out of his way to support the flatland and BMX scene, he also sponsors riders all across Europe, and supports events, he has recently started making bike parts and is doing it independent style, which I respect a lot. So much to admire about Attila, congratulations!!