What a weekend for Yu Katagiri !!!! Taking the win earlier today Arkleague after his win Chimera A-side yesterday! Yu was followed on the podium by Yohei Uchino & Naoto Tamaru you can watch the event on our Instagram story today! Best trick format and the riders pushing to the max!
Congratulations to Yu Shoji winner of the 2024 Fise World contest here in Montpellier France for the second year in a row. Matthias Dandois signed out of his amazing contest career with a strong second place finish, followed by the amazing Yu Katagiri who couldn’t hold onto his first round and semi final victories. What a contest!
Semi finals just went off at Fise world in Montpellier, France. Yu Katagiri held onto the top spot with an amazing run followed by Yu Shoji and Ryo Katagiri. Top eight make tomorrows finals…
Catching up on a whole load of updates to start the week, as we start a busy week here on Flatmattersonline! Peep this Open highlights from the recent Chimera A-side contest, the level of riding in this final battles was so intense!!!
The Chimera A-side finals will go down as one of the best contests I have been to, the level of riding during the finals in particular was absolutely off the charts. There were some heated battles during that journey to decide the winner, Yu Katagiri and that 360 bike flip line at the end showed no mercy. Laying it all on the line for the 100k prize money. Flatland needs more of this… cracking edit that needs to be watched, congratulations also again to Carin Hommura, winner of the Womens class!!
Congratulations to Yu Katagiri winner of the 2022 Chimera A-side contest in Omiya Japan! Followed on the podium by Kio Hayakawa, and Yohei Uchino. What an intense contest with so many crazy battles and that final!!!
Yohei Uchino, Moto Sasaki, Fumiya Kanna go head to head battle style at the annual Saga No run contest in Japan. Gotta love the underground Japanese events!
It’s been a couple of weeks since the X-Games in Chiba, Japan! I had a couple of clips left on my phone from practise, from two days of filming during practise. Featuring the winner Kio Hayakawa, Terry Adams, Moto Sasaki, Yohei Uchino, and alternate Yu Katagiri who didn’t get to compete sadly.
Great to see flatland back at the X Games!
Yesterday was a good day for flatland, the return of flatland to the X Games after a 19 year hiatus. They started just like every other so far, you collect the bag with your covid 19 test on your door handle, get the test done.
Daily procedure, it is what it is. Boring part out the way, ready to enjoy the rest of the day.
From X Games alternate to X Games Gold, what a story for Kio Hayakawa who saved his best line for the final hitting a ridiculous blender 360 bike flip back to time machine ending with a downside foot jam decade out!
What a moment for Alex Jumelin winning his battles with Yohei Uchino and Moto Sasaki. Alex pulled his new 1080 nose manual to take a well earnt second place spot.
In third place, Moto Sasaki pulled one of the lines of the contest in his third place battle against Matthias Dandois, with a crazy hang 5 pivot to Xft crackpacker turbine into Xft backwards spinning crackpacker and ended with an amazing halfhiker pivot to opposite Xft halfpacker backwards hitch out.
That was intense! I will post a little repo tomorrow! Flatmatters at the X Games here in Japan, what a contest!!
Results.
1. Kio Hayakawa.
2. Alex Jumelin.
3. Moto Sasaki.
4. Matthias Dandois.
5. Terry Adams.
6. Viki Gomez.
7. Varo Hernandez.
8. Yohei Uchino.
