Bike Days 2016 – Riders warm-up before the final

Comprehensive edit from the riders warm up before the Bike Days 2016 final by Niyaz Zaripov. Featuring the likes of Alex Jumelin, Matthias Dandois, Jean William Prevost (look out for the antrider turbines to inside switch b undertaker at 6:28!), Yohei Uchino, Moto Sasaki, Dominik Nekolny, Lee Musselwhite and Kevin Nikulski. Always good to see the riding outside of the contest run.

Bike Days 2016 Qualifying Runs

Sakis Doumas is uploading the qualifying runs from Bike Days 2016, rather than individual posts you can find all the runs below, which I will update as they come in: Thanks Sakis for the uploads! beginning with number one qualifier, Jean William Prevost!

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Bene BMX – Cali Winter Part 1 & 2

Bene Pfriem just dropped these feel good Cali winters part 1 & 2 edits featuring the likes of Dub, Jesse Puente, Lalo Jimenez, Sean Fontenot, Ahmed Johnson, Bene himself and many more, mostly filmed at the Long Beach Marina spot. Nothing like California sessions during the winter!

RealCitySpin 2015

RealCitySpin 2015 from IGI BMX on Vimeo.

So many beautiful moments captured by JMK films from the 2015 Real City Spin contest in Montreal, Canada! This whets the appetite nicely for this years event which is happening on August 27-28th. But for now take a few minutes of your day to watch this amazing edit!

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MapleVibes Hype – Toronto March 4/6th 2016

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

Battle in the Rockies 2015 by Anthony Schneidewind

Battle in the Rockies 2015 from Anthony Schneidewind on Vimeo.

Hit play for an amazing contest edit by Anthony Schneidewind from the Battle in the Rockies 2015 contest with amazing riding from the likes of Moto Sasaki, Martti Kuoppa, Jean William Prevost, Jason Plourde, Pete Brandt, Bo Wade, John Yull, James McGraw, Bryan Huffman, Simon O’Brien and many more. This edit really captures the feel of the contest, not to mention the amazing moments that went down, don’t miss this one! Great job Anthony!

OneLoveJam2016

OneLoveJam2016 from One Love BMX on Vimeo.

Darin Wright over at One Love just dropped the annual One Love Jam edit, with over 100 riders in attendance. It was a great day at Newport Beach, California! Featuring great riding from Dub, Adam Kun, Gabe Kadmiri, Bo Wade,Lindsey La’akea Bode, Kevin Nikulski, and many more, hit play for this one!

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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Lookback: December 2015 – The Flatmattersonline 2015 Year end awards


We started the last month of the year with this sick xft pedal turbine mega spin opposite foot decade clip out of Jason Plourde.


On December 2nd, Alberto Moya published this really nice edit from the jam the day after the Com’in Lyon contest a few weeks back featuring Alexis Desolneux, Charles Paty, Fabien Stephan, Alberto Moya, Kevin Jacob, Mates Tucek and Matthieu Bonnecuelle. Definitely worth a watch!


Joel Schallhorn has been progressing a ton since his return from China back to his home in Denver, Colorado. Joel definitely stands out to me as he rides so differently than almost anyone I can think of, in this edit you will see lots of new opposite bar flips, gadget whips variations, and a fun new no footed steam holding the stem (3:57 + backwards variation) that was inspired by Martti Kuoppa at a Tintadome session at BITR last month. Really enjoyed this edit, keep on shredding Joel!

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