Antwerp City Drops took place in the weekend of 23/24 September and once again the weather cooperated to make the Urban sports festival a success in the middle of the city centre of Antwerp. This year, next to dirt, a flatland contest was added to the program. While kids rode the dirt pump track all weekend long, the Dirt jumps were used for an Open Qualification contest, a Primus High Air comp, Best trick contest and the BMX Dirt Invitational. The Flatland contest was held on a 144 square meter podium which attracted a huge crowd.
The 8 meter high roll-in got the riders up to speed in no-time for the two big jumps. The first dirt jump was angled in a hip with the second one sending you to the moon if you wanted to. On Saturday Tom van den Bogaard (NED) cleared 7,80 meters in the Primus Haacht Beer high air contest winning a keg of beer and €500 for his efforts. Qualification on Saturday sent the best riders to Sunday's finals where Konrad Szabo (HUN) delivered his triple whips and front flips to please not only the crowd but the judges as well for first place. Tom van den Bogaard styled to second place with height while German Simon Moratz grobbed third with barspins to tailwhips and flip variations. Joe Baddeley (GBR) double flipped to 4th while home favourite Kenneth Tancré claimed 5th place.
Best Trick on Dirt went to Joe Baddeley with a bad-ass double flip on the first hipped double jump. He's got that trick on lock. Antwerp got to see plenty of them over the weekend and Joe liked throwing them to please the Belgians.
Flatland Qualification results Antwerp City Drops 2017:
1 Dez Maarsen (NL)
2 David Hoffmann (DE)
3 Barre Neiryinck (BE)
4 Markus Schwital (DE)
5 Sietse Van Berkel (NL)
6 Martin Drazil (CZ)
7 Jorrit van Drumpt (NL)
Fülöp Vidákovich / Welcome to the Elite BMX & Colony Team!
We'll be rolling out nominees all week long leading up to the 2017 NORA Cup this Sunday in Hastings, England. Here are your 2017 Flatlander of The Year Nominees (in alphabetical order): Alex Jumelin Jean William Prevost John Yull Matthias Dandois Moto Sasaki WHO DO YOU THINK WON? Find out when the NORA Cup 2017 winners are announced this Sunday, 9/10 @ 1PM PST.
Underground flatland bmx at it's finest, honored to be a part of it...
2 years ago Simon O'Brien asked me to contribute a video part for his full feature "Landscapes." Highly honored to be asked to participate in one of his projects, I accepted and began filming. Realizing that my riding would be showcased besides Simon and Viki -- both master-riders -- i knew that I had my work cut out for me. While filming I had 2 goals in mind: first, I knew that I had to "think out side of the box" in order to provide a good riding style contrast from Simon and Viki. Second, instead of being limited to only decades, I decided to incorporate them into a widely diverse group of tricks with hopes of displaying a more diverse mastery of the bike.
Semi Final Pro Flatland results, Fise World Series, Budapest, Hungary.
1 Jean William PREVOST 94.33 pts
2 Moto SASAKI 93.66 pts
3 Alex JUMELIN 92.66 pts
4 Benjamin HUDSON 92.16 pts
5 Matthias DANDOIS 91.83 pts
6 Adam KUN 90.66 pts
Pro flatland qualification results Budapest, Hungary. Fise World Series:
1 Alex JUMELIN
2 Dominik NEKOLNY
3 Adam KUN
4 Van Berkel SIESTE
5 RaphaëL CHIQUET
FISE World in Montpellier is a contest about the crowd. And that goes for flatland as well. The grass bank is completely filled up when the finals take place and they see Canada's Jean-William Prevost take the win from the Frenchies. Matthias Dandois holds on for second place while Benjamin Hudson from Santiago, Chile steps on the podium for spot number 3. First place qualifier Alex Jumelin couldn't hold it together and gets 5th right behind multiple world champion Viki Gomez.
1- Jean-William Prevost
2- Matthias Dandois
3- Benjamin Hudson
4- Viki Gomez
Bike Days – Switzerland’s national bicycle festival held in Solothurn from May 5th to 7th 2017
BMX flatland riders enthuse the crowds. The Bike Days 2017 are done and dusted. Throughout three days the national bicycle festival attracted 20’000 visitors. As a triple winner of the prestigious Worldtour Matthias Dandois (FRA) lived up to hisreputation, dominating the BMX flatland contest and performing his signature video trick live for the first time. Despite the rainy weather things heated up in the Rythalle as ten athletes from seven countries faced off for the BMX flatland finale, performing incredibly complex tricks. As a triple winner of the prestigious Worldtour Mathias Dandois (FRA) lived up to his role as a favourite, dominating both the qualification and the finale.
After doing a BMX 'zine for ten years (1987 - 1996) FATBMX made it on the internet. The year was 1998. Here to stay.