How to Freestyle for Beginners

At just over one hour and fifty one minutes long, this is about the longest how to series I can think of. There are are lot of moves demonstrated right here, featuring Takahiro Ikeda who directs this also, Misaki Ishizaki, Yu Yamamoto, Takumi Isogai, and Kio Hayakawa.

Japan Trip 2019

Back in August of last year, Paulo Gepulango got the chance to go to Japan for his wife’s birthday! Paulo of course, managed to visit plenty of riders and experience some different scenes around Kobe, and Osaka. Featuring Keisuke Tanigawa, Shinichi Kiba, Tomokazu Morinaga, Fumiya Sasagawa, Fumiya Wakabayashi, Eri Funatsu, Jumpei Goto, Takumi Isogai,
Masato Ito, Takuzi Izumi, Satoshi Ojima, Jun Oni Katayama, Giichi ikeda, Kota Ikeda, Jigen Omotehara, Yoshio Makino and many more. Scene edits are awesome, good one to watch when you have the time….

Jean William Prevost wins Fise World in Chengdu, China

Congratulations to Jean William Prevost who took the win at the final stop of the Fise World Series in Chengdu, China. Dub was followed on the podium by Moto Sasaki and Matthias Dandois, you can watch the top three runs, check the results and the whole finals below. Congratulations also to Matthias Dandois who took the year end Fise World title, followed by Alex Jumelin and Jean William Prevost.

Final Results:

1- Jean William Prevost
2- Moto Sasaki
3- Matthias Dandois
4- Alex Jumelin
5- Dez Maarsen
6. Viki Gomez
7. Raphael Chiquet
8. Takumi Isogai

Watch the whole finals:

Flat Games 2017 in Chiba, Japan

Great footage from the recent Flat Games contest in Chiba, Japan featuring so much awesome riding in order from: Ryo Katagiri, Ryosuke Takagi, Nao Yoshida, Yorimitsu Miyata 00:48!!, Naoto Tamaru, Shinichiro Hara, Yasuhiro Uehara, Kazuma Nakajima, look out for the young ripper Takumi Isogai at around the 1:52 and the no handed spinning halfpacker whip halfpacker line at such a young age at 2:17, unreal! Masashi Itani, Keisuke Tanigawa, Naoki Watanabe, and Fumiya Kanna, great edit by Yasushi Kajiwala! Don’t sleep on this, underground japan at its finest, I believe Moto Sasaki organised this event. Thanks to Lee Musselwhite for the heads up on this one!

Yuki Itoh wins Derauma Cup in Nagoya

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It’s a busy weekend for contests in Japan with two events going down, congratulations to Yuki Itoh who took home the win at the Derauma Cup in Nagoya, followed on the podium by Hidenori Ishizaki and Yoshihiro Shinde.

Bikes Hiroshima 2017 was won by Shinichi Kiba closely followed by Keisuke Tanigawa and young ripper, Takumi Isogai. Congratulations to all! Hopefully we will see some video from these events shortly.

3 Bike Festival

One of my favourite things about the japanese flatland scene are jams like this, amazing riding and vibes from the 3 Bike Festival where you have a mix of Takumi Isogai and the brilliant super kids along with pros, Shinichi “Russia” Kiba and Keisuke Tanigawa. This well worth a watch * and just added three fresh parts!

Festival des sports Urbains 2015 – Royan, France

Check this amazing edit from Festival des sports Urbains 2015 in Royan, France by studeewhy! Great highlights footage from qualifying and the final, featuring Takumi Isogai, Alexis Desolneux, Sebastian Grubinger, Alex Jumelin, Thomas Noyer, Sietse Van Berkel, Quentin Pelorson, Manu Massabova, Didier Genet, Matthieu Bonnecuelle, Alberto Moya,and many more! Feel the good vibes in Royan, France!

Mezzee Mixtape

Duy-Anh PHAM aka Dwix who previously run the http://niakland.free.fr website before YouTube and Vimeo days took some time out of the game and wanted to get back into documenting the flatland lifestyle and riding, he does a great job, he explains more below:

“During two months, I traveled with my bike and my camera between Paris, Saint Mandrier sur Mer, Montpellier, Bordeaux, Royan and Barcelona. The result of these trips is this mixtape called “Mezzee”. It sounds as your greed pushes you to test loads of tasty dishes in the same time. It includes good times and riding skills from Manu Massabova, Matthieu Bonnecuelle, Takumi Isogai, Quentin Pelorson, Inigo Arroyo, Alexis Desolneux, Shinichi Kiba, Alex Jumelin, Thomas Noyer, Jeremy Brosset, Joris Bretagnolles, Mike Plas, Gilles Van de Sompel, Alberto Moya and many more!”