As I sit here reflecting on 6 years of running FlatmattersOnline, I just dropped the second annual year end awards yesterday and Simon O’Brien’s amazing new edit, the site has come along way, taking journeys of ups and downs. I wondered what kind of influence Flatmatters has had on the flatland community over those 6 years? Continue reading
We are celebrating 6 years of Flatmatters tomorrow, it gives me great pleasure to publish this Must Watch Simon O’Brien Colony 2014 Edit! Everyone knows Simon is one of the greatest flatlanders to ever touch a bike, there was a time where he seemed have a lil’ deadtime and now it is so great to say Simon is back! Just watch this edit, there are so many points that are worth rewinding in this edit, the first that stood out to me was the 360 flip ride in a’la Andrew Faris to backwards halfpacker at 1:22, the nose manual full boomerang direct to backwards backpacker at 2:09, and the forward karl halfpacker stop dead kickflip to backwards halfpacker ender at 3:29 may all have us talking for years + Simon kills it on the deck of the ramps! Does it get any better than this? Simon is already filming for an up and coming flatland dvd with Stewart Munro, I’m excited to see what is next? This is incredible, hit the rewind and thank you Simon for taking the time to do this and share with us!
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Deadline closes today, Sunday 4th January 5PM GMT.
Welcome to the 2nd annual FlatmattersOnline Year end awards, as we look forward to celebrating our 6th birthday tomorrow. It’s time to put your thinking hats on, search the site to see who had the best year in each of the categories. A few people asked last year, why so many categories? The reason is simple, purely to recognise more than one persons achievements throughout the year.
I have chosen to announce the awards a little later this year, to reflect the whole year more.
The top 5 nominees will be announced Sunday 4th January, with the winners announced the week after, Sunday 11th January. This gives people a full month, and more importantly based on feedback from last year, time after Christmas, rather than rushing between the festive period and New Years Eve like 2013.
Good luck to everyone, look out for some posts related to the awards throughout the next month and a huge thank you to Johann Chan for his amazing graphic design work once again!
Flatmatters!
Effraim Catlow
Flatmatters Editorial awards
* Rider of the year
* Edit of the year
Flatmatters Online Reader Awards – seven categories for you to vote!
1-Rider of the year
2-Edit of the year:
3-Brand of the year:
4-Innovation of the year:
5-Contest Run of the year:
6-Most Progressive rider:
7-Breakthrough rider of the year:
*Only one vote per person per category.
How do you vote?
Send your votes through to: effraim@flatmattersonline.com – entitled Flatmatters Awards 2014 – Please note: voting only counts via email.
* Medals mailed out after January 11th.
Top 5 Nomineees Announced: Sunday January 4th
Winners announced: Sunday January 11th.
As I get ready to celebrate 6 years of Flatmatters tomorrow! I am proud to say tonight we will be dropping Simon O’Brien’s Colony 2014 edit at 10pm UK time. You are all in for a treat, stay tuned!
Wild looking new trailer from the one and only Forkone, if you follow him on instagram you will know he’s got multiple stem lashes on lock with the bigger bar set up! Stay tuned!
Jason Plourde wrote a nice story about his trip to India over on the igibmx website, head on over for a good read about what he has been up to.
Dominik Nekolny just got his online store set up, head on over to check out his new pegs + his Rubena xDOMx Tyres, here is what Dom had to say!
“I would like to announce that I have lunched new store on: shop.dominiknekolny.com
You can find there new D.O.M. pegs IN STOCK! Also there are Rubena xDOMx tires IN STOCK! Worldwide shipping available!”
Romain Dodelier aka Edwin Sanchez out of Lyon, France delivers this nice edit full of nose manual / whiplash skills! What a great start to our Wednesday posts, enjoy this!
Keelan Phillips features in this “pioneering spin on the famous Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy from The Nutcracker Suite”. This brings about the discussion is Flatland like Ballet, isn’t our artform a lot more subtle and more difficult to master? What is the best way to describe what we do? What do you all think?
SameThingDaily2 – Chad Johnston from Sebastian Grubinger on Vimeo.
SameThingDaily2 – Brian Tunney from Sebastian Grubinger on Vimeo.
Two amazing sections from STD2 – these are well a rewatching even if you own the DVD! Chad Johnston and Brian Tunney, two differing styles but equally bringing something great and fresh to flatland! Loved watching these again, you might too!
