Repo: BATTLEGROUND 2

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Repo: Effraim.
Photography: Effraim, Thaddeus Schau.
Videos: Brant Moore.

Bit late with getting this repo up on the site, after a very busy summer. I finally have some time for myself to return to riding and updating the site regularly. Hope you all enjoy this one!

As I boarded my first flight home from the FA Battleground contest, I planned to start writing a report on the event for the site. Then, over the tannoy, we were told that we were unable to land in Chicago because of a thunderstorm. Off to Indianapolis we went, to wait until we could land in Chicago. I thought to myself, was this trip all worth it? The flight home was already delayed by twenty-four hours, and now was going to be even longer.
The Battleground contest had a real family community vibe that we really need right now. As this event clashed with the Olympics, I thought to myself, what do we really need to help the sport grow? More events? More jams? Better communication between riders? What is it that holds us back?

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FA Battleground 2024: Full Results

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The annual Battleground contest full results right here, sorry for the late upload on this. Needed 24 hour recovery after a nightmare trip back home, repo still incoming. Congratulations to all the winners!

Pro.

Kio Hayakawa
Jean William Prevost.
Matt Wilhelm
Lee Musselwhite
Dustyn Alt
Terry Adams
Austin Luberda
Jean Francois Boulianne
Omari Cato
Remy Denoyer
Dax Wolford
Ryan Russell
Bo Wade
Cesar Rangel

Experts.

Ed Jolie
Francois Debroux
Anthony Schneidewind
Steven Lapsley
Lee Mejia
Jerry Milborn
Andy Sheltraw
Andrew Graziano
Andy Pandemic

Masters / Mid School Legends.

Ruben Castillo
Bryan Huffman
Todd Carter
Dave Nourie
Ron Monis

Old School / Vet Class.

Matt Veach
Ron Seay
Brent Schulze
Tony Abasolo
Bert Williams
Peeps
Glenn Mehltretter
Colin Ashe
Ron Metzger
Mark Johnsen
Keoth Richardson

Soon to be.

Brant Moore
Kevin Czaba
Joel Munday
Kelly Oldfield
Bri Welch
Ricky McHenry
Dan Pickering
Emil Hetzger
L.A. Mallin
Julien Metzger

Best Trick.

Jean William Prevost

Jean William Prevost wins Stop 1 of the American BMX Flatland League in Las Vegas + Full Results

The Vegas stop of the American BMX Flatland League popped off yesterday, congratulations to all the winners Jean William Prevost, Bryan Huffman, Dillon Parada, Donovan Santos, Ronnie Martensen, and Kaleb Bach. Great to see some new names in the mix, great work from the Vegas Flatland Association, judges and everyone behind the scenes that make contests work. Thanks to Todd Carter for the podium shots and results, check the American BMX Flatland League Facebook page for the contest runs.

Pro.

  1. Jean William Prevóst
  2. Terry Adams
  3. Mickey Gaidos
  4. Ahmed Johnson
  5. Dax Wolford
  6. Jean Francois Bouillanne
  7. Art Thomason
  8. Omari Cato
  9. Bobby Burge
  10. Cesar Rangel

Master.

1. Bryan Huffman

2. Todd Carter

3. Francois Debroux

4. Larry Grinder

5. Kelly Baldwin

Expert.

1. Dillon Parada

2. Matt Clark

3. Russell Gish

4. Ezra Patterson

5. Julio Cotto

Old is Cool.

1. Donovan Santos

2. Alvin Crain

3. Mark Johnson

4. Paul Magallanez

5. Gary Laurent

6. Keith Rieben

7. Gary Clark

Novice.

1. Ronnie Martensen

2. Monique Baldwin

3. Christiana Neves

4. Joel Munday

17 & Under.

1 . Kaleb Bach

2. Brooklyn Crain

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!!

Repo: FA Battleground Contest + Official Edit

Text: François “Fan” Debroux.
Photos: Glenn Mehltretter & Robert & Ruben Castillo, Kevin Cunningham.

Massive thanks to François for reaching out with this awesome repo following on from Barre’s Oya Street Jam repo. So good to have people all over the world contributing towards Flatmattersonline!

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Benjamin Hudson wins 2023 Battleground

The first annual Battleground contest went down in Ohio this weekend, and went off. We will be posting run footage later today. Congratulations to all winners, Benjamin Hudson, Ruben Castillo, Fan Debroux, Ron Metzger, and Glenn Mehltretter. And best trick going to Terry Adams.

Pro.

  1. Ben Hudson
  2. Pete Brandt
  3. Jean William Prevóst
  4. Terry Adams
  5. Jean Francois Bouilliane
  6. Omari Cato
  7. Cesar Rangel
  8. Joe Cicman

Mid School / Legends.

  1. Ruben Castillo
  2. Todd Carter
  3. Bertrand Williams

Expert.

  1. Fan Debroux
  2. Andrew Graziano
  3. Anthony Schneidewind

Veteran.

  1. Ron Metzger
  2. Matt Veach
  3. Ron Seay

Beginner.

  1. Glenn Mehltretter
  2. Andy Pandemic
  3. Bri Welch

Best Trick winner.

Terry Adams.

Repo: Oya Street Jam.

Text: Barre Neirynck.
Photos: Barre Neirynck, Djou Nien.

I hit Barre Neirynck a message after I saw a few photos on Instagram,. Whats this event Barre? I don’t know much about it, it looks amazing. Barre came through with this repo, shouts to Barre and Djou Nien for helping out with photos. Nice to get a repo back here on Flatmattersonline. Enjoy this one!

TRAVEL DAY.

It all started last year when I saw some footage from a underground contest on a island thirty minutes away from the west coast of France!
Between Normandië and Bordeaux.
The vibe was so dope, that it sparked my interest to know more about this event.
The name of the island is Île d’Yeu, and is organise by Etienne Taraud and crew, the event called Oya Street Jam! With a resident population of only 5000 people, community style.

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Jean William Prevost wins AFA Round 4 + Full Results

Round 4 of the AFA 2023 Flatland series went down yesterday in Houston, Texas. Congratulations to Jean William Prevost winner of Pro class, Bryan Huffman winner of Masters, Troy Hebert taking the win in Expert class, Marty Ferryman winning the Olds Cool class and Julian Thompson taking the honours in the beginner class. Full results and podium shots below, thanks Todd Carter as always for the news.

Pro Class.

1. Jean William Prévost

2. Terry Adams

3. Mickey Gaidos

4. Art Thomason

5. Will Redd

6. Omari Cato

7. Bobby Burge

8. James McGraw

9. Martín Inda

10. Cesar Rangel

Master.

1. Bryan Huffman

2. Todd Carter

3. Ed Jodie

4. Ruben Castillo

Expert Class.

1. Troy Hebert

2. Kelly Baldwin

3. Lee Mejia

4. Steve Lapsley

5. David Tufts

6. Greg Griffin

7. Ezra Patten

8. Luis Palmas

9. Robert Reyes

Old’s Cool Class.

1. Marty Ferryman

2. Danny Harrison

3. Tony Abasolo

4. Keith Rieben

5. John Ustaszewski

6. Derek Chamberlain

7. Paul Magallanez

8. Pierce

9. Pete Rodriguez

Beginner Class.

1. Julian Thompson

2. Quinn Burge

3. Joseph Perez

4. Greg Mobley

5. Gordon Wells

6. Monique Baldwin

7. Raiden Martinez