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Repo: Battle in the Rockies 2017 Day 4

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Text: Effraim.
Photos: Effraim, James McGraw.

Day 4 was the best day yet, I got the flatmatters daily updates done early and walked outside to sunny, but windy as hell conditions. I started washing the floor, which felt like it has become a daily operation. You gotta do what you gotta do to get the best out of riding spots, and James spot is literally perfect. Once his garden gets grassed, I would imagine this spot will stay for the large part dust free. Mates Tucek joined me and helped sweep the spot, I said to Mates I wanted to pull something new today and right as we started filming the winds picked up. Tumble weeds flying past us, and dry leaves smacking you in the face. It felt a little bit like this was a bad idea riding the spot today, but it passed and I really wanted to get back on the progression trail.

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Catching Up with James McGraw

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James McGraw invited me over to judge the Battle in the Rockies 2017, Round 5 in the 2017 AFA series who better to interview for the FM “Catching Up series than the man behind the BITR contest and the return of the AFA series than James McGraw. You definitely want to tune in and listen to this one, this is possibly my favourite catching up yet.

00:31: History on Battle in the Rockies, introducing the video contest as a chance to compete at the event no matter where you are in the word.

1:21: Has James original intention with organising BITR stayed the same four years on?

2:58: Bringing the AFA Back for the flatland scene, what was James intention in doing so?

6:07: What is a successful flatland contest for James?

9:16: How long has James competed for, and his fondest memories looking back over the years?

10:15: James was the first rider to do a backwards bar ride in a contest.

12:01: Moto Sasaki couldn’t make it to this years event after winning the free ticket last year, how did you arrive at inviting Mates Tucek to Colorado?

14:51: Plans for the AFA and BITR in 2018?

19:28: Behind every event there’s always a ton of people working to make the event happen, who are some of the people that help you out and deserve some recognition?

Repo: Battle in the Rockies 2017 Day 3

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Day 3 of my annual trip to the Battle in the Rockies contest was awesome. We woke up to sunshine once again, bare in mind the past three years I have visited Colorado it has snowed and generally really cold. I started the day grabbing an early session in on the spot after I hosed down the spot whilst James headed to the airport to pick up Bill Nitschke, I thought I would film a fire hydrant flow line and as I started filming out came James and Mates, if you are on my social media you will have seen that and James’ scream. Sorry for your ears. It was a good start to the day, and today looks the same.

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Lookback: January – The 2016 Flatmattersonline Year End Awards

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Hello everyone,

I dropped the 2016 Flatmattersonline year end awards just a few days ago, thank you to everyone who has already voted.Today I begin the task of going through the entire year and seeing what went down. In order to keep this as concise as possible, I will posting just what has happened in 2016. (In January there were a lot of edits posted from the previous year…)

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2016 really kicked off with the Quest BMX Sponsor Me contest, with a whole load of quality entries form across the globe arriving, in the end Jeremy Brosset and Gurvan le’ Brok won the competition and place on the team. Refresh your memories and take a look at their entries right here:

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Battle in the Rockies – Day 4

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breakfast

The McGraw household is full with flatlanders as the weekend draws nearer, yesterday we kicked out the day with breakfast at Schlotzskys. Before heading down to James’ work, upon arrival we met old school legend Robert Castillo, Gary Knecht, Tyler Gilliard and our AM BITR video winner, Salvatore Castro all the way from Chile plus many others who started arriving as the day went on.

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Tangent Jam 5.0

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Bene Pfriem and Lalo Jimenez made the trip from LA to Tucson, Arizona for the Tangent Flatland jam, peep this awesome edit which despite competing in the contest still managed to capture a lot of the action featuring the likes of James McGraw, Bryan Huffman, Bo Wade, Todd Carter, Austin Luberda and many more.

Bene BMX – Cali Winter Part 3 & 4

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We published Part 1 & 2 of Bene Pfriem’s winter trip to California just the other day, and Bene is already back with the 3rd and 4th parts with great riding from the likes of Sean Fontenot, Bobby Carter, Bene himself, Lalo Jimenez, Todd Carter and the real stand out for me Pedro Melo, his part starts around the 2:02 mark on Part 4 plus many more riders soaking up the Cali sunshine. Awesome!

TerraDome 2015 Year-End Update

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The TerraDome Sports Science Research Centre is proud to present the 2015 year-end update featuring contributions from resident and adjunct researchers: Phil Brunet, Todd Carter, James McGraw, Joe Cicman and a surprise guest. All the TD crew come through with some amazing riding, look out for Joe’s ender at 5:51! So good!

Lookback: September 2015 – Flatmattersonline 2015 Year end awards

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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…

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