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!
BFA Flatland Contest 1989 – Birmingham NEC from Neil Waddington on Vimeo.
Neil Waddington over at Ride On BMX just uploaded some great footage from the archives that ironically myself and Mike O’Connell filmed, great riding in this one from the likes of Sean Clarke, yours truly, Mark Atkins, John Yull, Fergus Heron, Ian Coy, Mike O’Connell, Larry Bull from 6:19 is definitely worth a watch plus many more! Thanks Neil for the upload and a great trip down memory lane.
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!
BFA Contest Carlisle 1989 flat from Neil Waddington on Vimeo.
You might deem this mid school sundays, but whatever it’s pretty old and features a ton some classic footage from Sean and Clarke, yours truly Effraim Catlow, Liam Ward, Rob Alton, Nick Galway, Ian Coy, Mike O’Connell, Gareth Swan, David Frame, David Blundell, Mark Noble, John Yull, at the UKBFA National in Carlisle, 1989 right as the rolling and scuffing era were combining with a ton of Kevin Jones influence coming into flat.
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:
The Readers Choice for Most Progressive Rider was one of the most exciting categories I have seen yet in my three years of hosting these awards, for long periods of December 2015 it was neck and neck. I was thinking at one time I would have to award two trophies as it was a tie, but during the last days leading up to the deadline on January 4th a clear winner emerged.
Congratulations to Martti Kuoppa voted by you the Readers of Flatmatters, as the Most Progressive Rider of 2015! It seems like as good a time as any to watch the amazing ten stemlashes clip that broke the internet when he posted this on September 4th. Martti stepped up the game in 2015, bringing Must Watch tricks with amazing consistency to the contest arena, pushing the sport forward once again!
The runner up this year pushing for the top spot right until the last few days, John Yull! What an incredible year for John, if you were paying attention to the Lookback features on the site. John might have appeared more than anyone else through out the year, whether his amazing Same Thing Daily part, Limitless part with Jim McKay, the brakeless backwards decade, or his Finale part (to name a few) it was quite an incredible year.
It will be great to see where both these riders take their riding in 2016. I’m sure I speak for all the readers of FM when I say thanks to Martti and John for the motivation. Long may it continue.
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:
Grombar just dropped this amazing “Good Vibes” edit with plenty of unseen footage outside of the Flatark contest at the infamous Meriken park in Kobe Japan. Great riding from the likes of Benjamin Hudson, John Yull, Kevin Nikulski, Russia, Alexis Desolneux, Paul Chamberlain, Balu, Dez Maarsen, Jeremy Brosset, James McGraw, Jim Cavanaugh, Dustyn Alt,Yu Shoji, Alberto Moya, Mo Rich, Yuichi Ill Tamiya and many more! Good vibes indeed, loved this! Thanks Omar for posting this!
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!
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!
