Lookback: May – The 2016 Flatmattersonline Year End Awards

Springtime is here, and as we all look forward to the summertime. The contests are more frequent, everyone is getting more riding time, and the content on FM grows.
It’s not often we kick off month with a Must Watch edit, but we did that in May of this year, and boy was it a treat!

Japanese flatland legend, Hiroya Morizaki teamed up with Taichi Kunieda to drop these two brand new amazing back wheel lines. So great to see Hiroya is still pushing hard, hitting the rewind again!

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Lookback: March – The 2016 Flatmattersonline Year End Awards

March is always a good month, springtime is coming and after a long winter its nice to be able to ride outside again. Not to mention generally there is a whole lot more content coming through from riders worldwide.

On the first day of March, Paul Chamberlain just dropped a real nice promo for the Down Underground 2016 series, filmed at his local riding spot in Summer Hill. Plenty of awesome hang 5 variations in signature Paul Chamberlain smooth style, well worth watching again.

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G-SHOCK presents Real Toughness 2016 BMX Challenge

Great edit by yukipkoproject (how many times have I said that recently?!) from the Real Toughness 2016 BMX Challenge event in Murasaki Park, Tokyo Japan, featuring amazing riding from Keisuke Tanigawa, Yu Yamamoto, Yuki Sakai, Ryuji Nakamura, Kazuki Udagawa, Keiji Nakamura, Takumi Matsumoto, Yuji Ota, Koh Yoshida, Masashi Itani, Takahiro Enoki, Nao Yoshida, Syuichi Osada, Sato Minato, Takahiro Ito, and Takuya Higa!

Moto Sasaki wins KOG Round 1 in Nagoya Japan!

KOG
Photo: Zanabu.

Congratulations to Moto Sasaki who took the win yesterday at King of Ground Round 1 in Nagoya, Japan followed on the podium by Bekko and Takahiro Ito in third place. We have the rest of the results in Pro below, thanks to Moto for helping out with translation for results.

1- Moto Sasaki
2- Bekko
3- Takahiro Ito
4- Takahiro Ikeda
5- Hotoke
6- Takuya Higa
7- Shinichi Kiba
8- Ryosuke Takagi
9- Yoshinori Ai
10- Yorihisa Shiota

Chiba Cup 2016 OpenClass Final

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!