European Flatland League is Born!

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So much exciting contest news this year already, and here is one more to the list! Viki Gomez explains all:

“I together with Alexandra (GG.M.) have created the EFL (EUROPEAN FLATLAND LEAGUE). That will be an official governing “association/federation” for all flatland competitions held in Europe. Each year, we will determine what European competitions can qualify for being part of the EFL series. This year, we have “BIKE DAYS” in Switzerland, “BMX CGN” in Germany and “UK CHAMPIONSHIPS” in England.

The EFL is created to establish an equal and transparent competion and judging system within Europe. In order to motivate the riders and newcomers of the sport in Europe. This way we can have a clear competiton ranking between the European riders, as well as giving chances for young European riders to have the chance of being highly ranked within Europe.”

More details on formats, judging criteria, etc to follow:

Social media:

facebook: https://www.facebook.com/europeanflatlandleague/

instagram: https://www.instagram.com/europeanflatlandleague/ (@europeanflatlandleague)

RealCitySpin 2015

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!

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Zuppermarket Flatland Contest – Highlight Video

Martin over at Global flat did a great job getting out this highlight edit from this weekends Zuppermarket contest in Trier, Germany. Featuring great riding from Alex Jumelin, Viki Gomez, Gilles Van de Sompel, Waldemar Fatkin, Seppl, Dustyn Alt, Gurvan Le Bloc’h, Dan Hennig, David Hoffman and many more. Definitely worth a watch!

A.B.C OF FLATLAND #4 by Valentin Flad

A.B.C OF FLATLAND #4 from Valentin Flad on Vimeo.

Banging edit from the ABC of Flatland contest in Alencon, France by Valentin Flad featuring the likes of Matthias Dandois, Dominik Nekolny, Viki Gomez, Alberto Moya, Thomas Noyer, Sebastian Grubinger, Sietse Van Berkel, Joris Bretagnolles, and many more! Enjoy this treat!

The Flatmattersonline Top ten edits of 2015!

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:

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The 2015 Flatmattersonline Year End Award Nominees Announced!

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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:

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Lookback: October 2015 – The Flatmattersonline 2015 Year end awards

October was all about Flatark, all eyes on Kobe, Japan! But besides that what else happened in the month of October? Take a lookback…


On October 4th, Canadian Powerhouse Jason Plourde dropped a powerful back wheel line, as he warms up for Flatark in a few weeks, hit play!


A while ago we dropped the news Fabien Stephan was riding for Far East Cycles along with Dub and Benjamin Hudson. Now check his Welcome to edit, signature SF styles and amazing production in this one! Hell yes!


What a nice video to wake up to on October 7th! Heresy just released this amazing trick, no handed turbine whiplash anyone? Matthieu Bonnecuelle just unlocked a new door, the possibilities are endless!

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Lookback: August 2015 – The Flatmattersonline 2015 Year end awards


Let’s start the month of August with an amazing demonstration of stamina, bike control and consistency to drop a 15 minute combo by the one and only, Rodney Williams! Rodney was already a few minutes into this combo when Gino Palencia started filming, there’s a nice moment here when Yohei Uchino realises he’s witnessing a moment and stops to watch Rodney do his own thing at the Voodoo pre jam. Respect!

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Lookback: July 2005 – The Flatmattersonline 2015 Year end awards

July was yet another amazing month for flatland in 2015, as is the nature of the beast with so many videos daily. You can forget what happened and when pretty quickly, lets go back through what went down in July!


GG.M.image Riders, Viki Gomez, Alberto Moya and Varo Hernandez in BCN, for Barcelona Extreme, grabbing a session at the waterfront spot right by the legendary Sea Walls. Viki ends this one as we all thought about doing, but he did it! Good times! Proper summer time vibes to begin July with!


If you missed this one on instagram, it is definitely worth checking this piece of creativity out! Hell yes Fork one!


To celebrate Jody’s 27th anniversary riding bikes, Jody just dropped this short but sweet “Summer Short edit”. After battling a severe back injury for the last year or so, it is great to see some fresh Jody Temple footage. Stoked on the half hiker pivot karl bar flip line at 00:49, and the hang nothing bar flips at 1:17 is so good! Much more than that Jody’s and I guess the Athens crew as well, always look like they are having a blast on their bikes! That’s ultimately what it is all about!

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Lookback: June 2015 – The Flatmattersonline 2015 Year end awards

Summer time is here in June, often one of the best months of the year for content, quality edits and plenty of contests going down down across the globe. Take a check back on what went down this year….


There aren’t enough scene edits anymore, so today I was stoked to find in my inbox this awesome Texas Scene edit entitled “We are” featuring just about everybody who makes up the Texas Flatland scene from Art Thomason to Ruben Castillo to John Yull, this is a good watch! A good way to get June started!


Viki Gomez’s first session of June, throwing down signature move after signature move in Luxembourg! Look out in particular for the first combo and the last one at 2:14. Pure freestyle from one of the best, don’t miss this!

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