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!
Stoked to see the return of BMX Boze today! Great coverage from the Chiba Cup OpenClass Final this weekend that Moto Sasaki won! Great riding from Mizuki Takahata, Akihiko Takahashi, Takahiro Enoki, Takahiro Ito, Shuichi Osada, Shuichi Osada, Takuya Higa, and Moto Sasaki! Don’t miss this one!
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!
Tom over at Sevisual just hit me up with this great lookback edit from the Ninja spin contest in Onet-le-Château, France 2011. Featuring great riding from Adam Kun, Matthias Dandois, Yohei Uchino, Moto Sasaki, Dub, Kevin Jacob, Alex Jumelin, Dez Maarsen, Thomas Noyer, Charles Paty and many more!
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:
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!
September is always one of the busiest months of the year, and this year was absolutely off the chart. Take a check through my highlights and you will see what I mean!
September 4th will be remembered for Martti Kuoppa’s, 10 Stemlashes! You can always count on the boss to raise the stakes, as if this isn’t enough the description hints of a return to KGB? Great news! Someone looks like they are ready for flatark…
Japanese DVDS largely seem to go under the radar, stoked to see this Clap Two day DVD uploaded today by Space DDDude (whoever you are, thank you!) Grab a cuppa and enjoy some great riding from Akihiko Takahashi, Hiroyuki Iwaki, Makoto Ogasawara, Minehito Shinzato, Moto Sasaki, Shinichi “RUSSIA” Kiba, Shuichi Osada, Yasuhiro Uehara and Yosuke Yamaguchi.
Hit play for a great recap edit from the Flatark contest in Kobe, Japan featuring highlights from the semi final and final battles with Matthias Dandois, Moto Sasaki, Jean William Prevost and Martti Kuoppa!
Yesterday was my first full day in the US, this year we are around an hour away from where the contest is at in Denver at James Mcgraw’s house in Monument, Colorado.
The first part of the day was taken up with airport pick ups, Michael Sommer, Moto Sasaki and Martti Kuoppa all arrived, during the evening we headed for a fun session at James’ Tintadome riding spot which his workplace during the day, riding spot during the night. My body clock was screaming bedtime, so I decided to take the time to shoot some photographs.
If you are following flatmatters on instagram, you will have also seen the distraction training video with James McGraw taking out Joe Cicman with a roll of paper towel, myself, Moto, Michael and Moto were all adjusting to the time change so it was pretty chilled and a good time hanging out and joking with all the riders, check out the photos I shot.
Thanks to Joel Schallhorn for the use of his camera. Today we had to Evolve skatepark in Denver for jam day. Check out a selection of photos I shot below that I feel some up the day quite well! Once again like last year, the vibe is great between the riders, looking forward to riding today! Stay tuned for more updates on FM!
