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Been sitting on this one for a few days, perfect for Throwback Thursdays! TS7 the last in the series from OG Marton! Featuring Sepy, OG Marton, Bobby Carter, yours truly Effraim Catlow, Pete Brandt, David Nagy, Markus Redlburger, Shane Badman, Peter Sarlos, Adam Kun, Matthias Dandois and many more! This is so dope!
Such a shame these 2001 X Games edits don’t have volume, but so much good riding from contest and practise session featuring the likes of Art Thomason, Trevor Meyer, Phil Dolan, Viki Gomez, Martti Kuoppa, Stephan Cerra, Chad Degroot, Scott Powell, Matt Wilhelm, Takashi Ito, York Uno, Mike S, Dan Rigby, myself, and Alex Jumelin.
After all these years of not seeing much footage from this contest. Stoked to come across this 2001 Philly X Games footage featuring Phil Dolan, Michael Steingraber, Martti Kuoppa, Viki Gomez, myself and Chad Degroot, check it a whole bunch of these videos I will be posting today, here is Part 1!
Lets kick off Tuesday posts, with some great uploads from the archives today by flatland4lifelives. Louisville X Trials 2001 and here are some the qualifying runs from Matt Wilhelm, yours truly, Leif Valin, and Stephan Cerra! So stoked to see these runs this morning. More to follow…
Throwback clip of me from December 2010, sessioning Studio City, California for two weeks was awesome with Bobby Carter, Bo Wade, Sean Fontenot, John Yull, amongst others. This is a timely reminder for me to start riding back wheel again.. Thanks to Benjamin Querubin for sending this in.
Editorial: Effraim.
“It’s a full time job that you don’t get paid for basically” Anthony Buglio at FlatWeb TV said recently during a recent Skype conversation with me for an up and coming Interview. It summed up my commitment very simply. Flatmatters started 4 years as a blogspot site to gain a creative outlet that I felt I lost even before the FM page in UK Ride was dropped.
Today, Wednesday November 28th. 4 years on, the sport/artform has changed a lot. Edits were not as commonplace as they are now. By and large “content” it is a lot easier to come by now daily, riders know they have a place to showcase their work, not just FM but many other sites. This week as we hit the 4 year mark, I am consumed with a mixture of emotion. last year was a great year for me riding wise, producing around 30 progressive videos. This year due to injury after injury, currently nursing a back injury, I am bummed I haven’t been able to create what I wanted to. So my apologises to all those that have “Hey Effraim, wheres the 4 year edit?”, my answer in the positive form is good things come to those that wait, for now how about a repost of my 3 year edit?….
2012 has been I think the best year for flatland since I started Flatmatters in 2008, I am in the process of reviewing the year and believe me the selection process is tougher than ever before. Every week it seemed an amazing edit dropped, that made me think wow this is a must watch edit for people!
So whats in store for the 4 year anniversary, well…
As well you will already know, Fat Tony kindly contributed the Behind the Scenes scoop on the 2013 flatland calendar. The Shuichi Osada interview dropped yesterday. Today I am publishing Part 1 of the “The riders perspective on 2012”, Part 1 of the Viki Gomez interview drops Friday, theres also a big John Yull Interview dropping, so plenty to look forward, not to mention, maybe a surprise edit here and there….
So it’s somewhat forced, rather than this being about me, although one of more ideas all along was to have a whole bunch of varied exclusive content drop over the next fortnight or so, as a celebration of 4 years. Rather than just one day.
Last but not least, thank you to all the riders that have supported flatmatters over the last 4 years. The original intention was for FM to be a source of motivation for riders worldwide. And I am proud to say I feel like it has more than done that.
The question really is, whats next?
Leave us a comment and let me know what you think.
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Matthew Dyer kindly sent over this blast from the past, me riding at the Easter jam at Southsea Skatepark, March 1997 in my days riding for KHE! Enjoy this first part of OSS. Matthew says he has some James White footage also from this day so look for that shortly.
Nice edit from the weekend featuring the likes of yours truly, James White, Josh Briars, Jon Birts, James Smith, Mayko Lee, Jamie Young, Trevor Lacey, Matthew Dyer and more. Good vibes at the Bristol Bap jam! Check it!
RedBull COB Post Game Final2 from Everyday Paradise on Vimeo.
Great work from FlatWebTV to get insight from the likes of Viki Gomez, Scott O’Brien, Mike S, Dez Maarsen, Moto Sasaki, Jean William Prevost, Kerry Gatt and myself on the Red Bull Circle of balance event, this is a must watch!
If you missed the Adam 22 Come up parody a few weeks back, you might not relate to this. Funny stuff in light of all the dramas this week!
