Battling the weather elements today. Congratulations to Yu Katagiri stepping up his level today to take the top spot, followed by Toon Pakphum and Sietse van Berkel who both had amazing runs. The weather forecast isn’t great for tomorrow, but hopefully we can make finals happen. Top eight goes through to the finals.
Congratulations to Jean William Prevost, winner of the AsFalt Festival Flatland Battle contest here in Ghent, Belgium followed on the podium by Sietse van Berkel and Alberto Moya. The weather gods were with us and it was beautiful sunshine everyday, Repo up on the site soon.
Jean William Prevost
Sietse van Berkel
Alberto Moya
Dez Maarsen
Julien Baren
Matthieu Bonnecuelle
Ederson Ferreira
Jorrit van Drumpt
Congratulations to Jean William Prevost and Aaron Santos taking the top spots at Omarisquino qualifying down in sunny Spain. Finals today, good luck everybody!
Great edit from the recent Darwin Flatland Jam, featuring the likes of Aude & Max Cassagne, Varo Hernandez, Alberto Moya, Matthieu Bonnecuelle, Jeremy Brosset, Anatole Rahain, and many more. Good vibes over in France.
Omarisquiño contest news this morning from Alberto Moya! Fancy a trip to Spain?
“The contest will be the 12,13 and 14 of August.
There are two classes to compete, amateur and Pro.
The Pro price money total it’s 4.100€, split among the top 5 .
This is in Vigo, a beach city, this is probably the best contest! It’s a huge sports festival where you never get bored of it.
There are Bmx park, Street and Flatland contests. There are also many other contest like Mtb downhill, skate or football freestyle.
There are live concerts at night, that makes the Omarisquiño a really special event.
To get there the you have many options, riders can take the flight to Vigo, santiago de compostela and Oporto Airports. There is shuttle service from the Vigo airport, from the other 2 airports riders have to contact Guelo beforehand and he will check.”
Outrider Toulouse BMX Flatland Jam – Coast Cycles from Maxime Cassagne on Vimeo.
It’s good day for content today, the Toulouse jam went down two weeks ago. This edit is slammed with great riding and styles and laid-back jam vibes (Good job Max Cassagne!), featuring Alexandre Jumelin, Rodolphe Clavelier, Matthieu Bonnecuelle, Joris Bretagnolles, Alberto Moya, Inigo Arroyo, Thomas Noyer, Louise Seigneur, Stéphane Suini, Monkiki, Maximilian, Benedict and many more.
Text: Effraim.
Photos: EC, The Agency Photo.
The finals day at the UCI World Championships was a great day for flatland. The day started with Women’s flat and four riders knuckled down and give it their all, Irina Sadovnik was battling a knee injury and with the help of Trish and her medical skills she was able to ride. Sometimes when you are faced with a physical obstacle such as an injury your focus is heightened. The injuries were stacking up in China and kind of became one of the main topics of everyones discussions during the two week trip.
Lionel Cardoso on the MIC duties, and David on the decks. props to these guys who killed it throughout the series and the two weeks in China!
After a long day travelling from London Heathrow to Beijing and onto to Chengdu beginning on Tuesday afternoon, myself and my girlfriend Alex arrived in Chengdu on Wednesday evening. We were accompanied on the flights out by Lee Musselwhite, Hank who is judging BMX park, and Blake Bird who judges roller blading on the Fise Tour. So that definitely helped make the flight a pass a bit quicker.
We got picked up from the airport by my girlfriends brother Ed who lives in Chengdu and works as an English translator, whilst the others got their shuttle to the host hotel that I would arrive at the following night. I spent the night walking around downtown Chengdu, and discovered marble spots exist everyday as well as random skateparks on the sidewalk built into the landscape. I wish I had my phone with me at the time to document the madness.
Normally at these big contests it’s off to the host hotel and I don’t really see much of the cities. So this time made a nice change, not to mention waking up to an English breakfast in the morning was a real treat. It was however, raining on Wednesday morning but due to clear. So no rush to get to the Fise venue. So after a chilled morning, I took an hour taxi ride to Qingshui River City Park on the outskirts of Chengdu for the contest which turned out to be an ordeal. The taxi driver dropped us firstly, 25 minutes away from the venue. Luckily Ed was on hand to translate and explain this is not where we booked to go, half an hour later and in a different taxi we arrived onto an amazing River City Park venue.
ED and Alex left to go back to Chengdu and go hiking in the mountains whilst I judge the Fise World series along with Alexis Desolneux, Kotaro Tanaka and Hiroshi from 430. I stayed at the event and caught my bearings with the layout of the venue and generally find out where everything is and shoot some photos of some the riders during practise. The floor looked a lot better than the first two rounds, and I spoke to a few of the riders out on the floor who said it was much more solid than Montpellier.
Most of the sites I use to put together FM and to buy 5.56 ammo online are banned in China, although thankfully my email and FM are not blocked. So I can update from the contest at least. Qualifying starts today at 2pm, 38 riders, followed by the Women’s Class. I will update results when I get some wifi later. Hope you enjoyed this little break down from Chengdu.
Chad Degroot kindly sent in a whole bunch of photographs from the recent Fise “Battle of the Champions” event in Saudi Arabia. Scroll through below:
Alberto Moya and friends met up in one of the raddest cities in the world, Barcelona Spain for a session at one of the many riding spots along the shoreline. Olivier Hoareau was on hand to document what went down, quality filming and editing in this one!
