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Ground Control Manchester

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Ground Control UK went down last week in Manchester. Check out this awesome edit, Johann Chan put together.

Featuring Billy Whitfield, Phil Dolan, Jason Forde, Keelan Phillips, James White, Michał Pietruszewski, Yinka Thomas and Dan Hennig.
Part 2 in London, 21st/22nd May at ‪#‎SpinLDN‬. Bigger and better, see you there!

Thanks to 4Down Distribution, Flatland fuel, BMX.com, S&M, United, Devise, Pegasus, Ambitious Minds, Hard Berries, Flatmattersonline Alex Roman, Mark Noble, Ian Morris, Patrick Schoolen and Spin – The Cycling Festival MCR & LDN

iBMXff Flatland World Championships – NASS July 8/10th!!

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Amazing news finally official today, after going back and forth with the organisers for a few months. Flatland is now a big part of the IBMXFF Worlds this year in the UK, proud to be involved along with James White. Read on for the official press release and book your tickets to Nass, it’s going to go off!

NASS and the iBMXff are really excited to announce that flatland is coming to the Worlds. With the BMX Freestyle World Championships being hosted in the UK for the first time since 1988, it was always essential that flatland was included. The iBMXff flatland world championships will be hosted at NASS on a brand new specially built outdoor stage. Here you can witness an array of the best international flatland BMXers performing tricks that have formed the basis for much of freestyle BMX.

Flatland is the start of it all. From riders rebelling against BMX racing and doing their first ‘curb endos’, to inspiring modern day BMX freestyle legends like Mat Hoffman and Dave Mirra. Without flatland, BMX would not be where it is today. Therefore, with such a strong heritage and influence on BMX it is easy to see why NASS and the iBMXff have worked tirelessly to ensure that we will be able to crown the world flatland champion.

The flatland championships will be run by top UK flatland BMX pro, James White, and Effraim Catlow, former flatland world champion (1994) and founder and editor of flatland BMX site, Flatmatters. We asked Effraim what it means to see the world flatland championships coming to the UK:

The World’s best flatland riders will do battle for the honour to be crowned the “2016 World Champion” this year at Nass. We are proud to bring the World Championships back to the UK for the first time since the 80’s. Who can deliver on the day and handle the pressure that has seen many a great rider crumble in the past? It’s sure to be one of the most amazing events in recent years, and it’s on home turf! Make sure you are there to watch it unfold! Flatmatters!

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See you there!

Old School Sundays – King of Concrete 1991

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King of Concrete 1991 – Flatland from Neil Waddington on Vimeo.

Another old school gem from Neil Waddington, for this weeks OSS we go back to King of Concrete 1991 featuring Andy Burke, James White, Dylan Worsley, Thomas Loison, (Myself)Effraim Catlow and Tas Szollosi. Enjoy!

The Green Mile – Circle Session

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Great edit from this weekends session at the Green Mile in West Norwood, London, themed around the circle in the middle of the mile featuring Johann Chan, Yinka Thomas, James White, Phil Dolan, Steve Green, Remus Simion, Iñigo Arroyo Gutierrez, Tgm Maz and Jason Forde!

MapleVibes Hype – Toronto March 4/6th 2016

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The annual Toronto contest is around a month away, book your tickets now for what is widely regarded as the curtain raiser for the international contest scene each year! Thanks to Joe Cicman for putting together this hype edit for the event organised by the Canadian Freestyle Organisation, this year the event had a rebrand and is now called Maple Vibes. Jean William Prevost has taken the win in Toronto three years in a row, can he make it a 4peat?

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https://www.flatmattersonline.com/toronto-maple-vibes-2016-march-46th

UK Flatland BMX Championships Trailer – 23/25 September 2016

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UK Flatland BMX Championships is back! Last year’s Cycle Show was the biggest in its 14 year history, hosting a record-breaking number of bike companies and welcoming over 27,000 bike-loving visitors over four days. Hit play to check out the new trailer Matti Hemmings just put together, we are working hard already to make sure this years event is much better! Stay tuned!

The Flatmattersonline Top ten edits of 2015!

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With the awards dropping on Sunday 10th January, I wanted to share with the flatland community my choice for the Flatmattersonline Top 10 edits of 2015. And thus my break down of how I arrived at picking the nominees and also the winners. If you are paying attention to the site and reading the comments, you will have seen I didn’t count DVD video parts into the mix, as the category was “edit of the year”. I left it plain and simple, edits only (not dvds or dvd parts for example) I also didn’t take one trick edits into the equation, in my mind an edit is multiple clips combined together. This made my life easier shortlisting and narrowing from the hundreds down to 5 down to the winners. With that being said let’s crack on with my top ten list for 2015:

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The 2015 Flatmattersonline Year End Award Nominees Announced!

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It is about that time with great pleasure that I announce the nominees for the 3rd annual Flatmattersonline Year End Awards! Thank you to everyone that took the time to vote this year.

Congratulations to everyone who has been nominated, again like I say every year it seems, what an amazing year 2015 was for Flatland!

The Flatmatters 2015 Year End award winners will be announced Sunday January 10th, along with a surprise award just to spice things up!

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Nominees are:

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1 Day Extended – 25yr Countdown Hoffman Bikes Team Edit

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One day to go until Hoffman Bikes celebrate their 25th anniversary, over the years HB has hooked up some of the best riders in our sport, from Kevin Jones, Chase Gouin, Day Smith, James White and many more. Really enjoyed the collection of old classic clips in this One day extended edit!

Lookback: November 2015 – The Flatmattersonline 2015 Year end awards

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These lookback features have definitely been fun to put together during the past fortnight or so, and already we are on November today! Looking back it seems September through till December were the biggest months of the year! Let’s go back through the highlights from last month…

Martti Kuoppa celebrates his 37th birthday on November 1st, and does it in style with another NBD move. If you are counting, that’s the third “Must watch” of the week, and a new door opened with the possibilities when he learnt this walking man stem lash (I think we can all see whats coming!)! The man is on a roll and its beautiful to see this kind of progression in our sport.


John Yull got inspired by Martti Kuoppa’s walking man stem lashes the other day and applied MK’s technique of switching feet on the stem to the foot jam decade.


Dub over at igi just published this dope line from Benjamin Hudson, filmed during a practise session at Flatark. Style and flow for days!

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