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Offline Mr News Bot

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Live: Shintaro Misawa wins Flatland Unlimited
« on: March 07, 2010, 09:37:40 PM »
Shintaro just won the Flatland Unlimited contest in Toronto, Canada. Congratulations!

1st Shintaro Misawa
2nd Jean William Prevost
3rd Cory Fester
4th Akihhiko Takahara
5th Takuji Kasahara
6th Kazuma Nakajima
7th Francois Cote
8th Takao Fukuda

Thanks to Roy for sending those results over so quickly!
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Re: Live: Shintaro Misawa wins Flatland Unlimited
« Reply #1 on: March 08, 2010, 02:51:41 AM »
Here's an official looking picture to go along with it. Congrats to Shintaro!

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Re: Live: Shintaro Misawa wins Flatland Unlimited
« Reply #2 on: March 08, 2010, 02:54:52 AM »
Thanks a ton to all the riders that made this weekend a blast!! see you next year.  We have confirmed that we will be in the same location in March 2011 for FU7!  Better things to come!
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Re: Live: Shintaro Misawa wins Flatland Unlimited
« Reply #3 on: March 08, 2010, 05:48:55 AM »
Quote from: Mr News Bot on March 07, 2010, 09:37:40 PM
<span style="font-weight: bold">Shintaro</span> just won the <span style="font-weight: bold">Flatland Unlimited</span> contest in Toronto, <span style="font-weight: bold">Canada</span>. Congratulations!

1st Shintaro Misawa
2nd Jean William Prevost
3rd Cory Fester
4th Akihhiko Takahara
5th Takuji Kasahara
6th Kazuma Nakajima
7th Francois Cote
8th Takao Fukuda

Japanese contest or Canadian?

Where is the participation guys????????
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Re: Live: Shintaro Misawa wins Flatland Unlimited
« Reply #4 on: March 08, 2010, 09:51:16 AM »
Huge thanks to Jamie and Dan and anyone else involved.  Had a ton of fun, best contest floor I've ridden on ever I think. 

As for Canadian turnout...For ams, it was a great turn out, there were also a lot of am guys not competing but riding over the weekend.  As for pros, Canada doesn't have much in terms of that, Travis Collier hasn't been competing in ages, Jeff Desrosche dropped off the map, but showed up and rode a bit.  Brandon Fenton was there but was judging in between riding.  I can't really think of any other Canadian pros?  Little disappointed not a single American pro made the trip up, but I guess that's the way things are going nowadays.  Great to see a lot of American ams came though!
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Re: Live: Shintaro Misawa wins Flatland Unlimited
« Reply #5 on: March 08, 2010, 10:41:04 AM »
Quote from: Scott O on March 08, 2010, 05:48:55 AM

Japanese contest or Canadian?

Where is the participation guys????????

Stuck in Virginia and cannot afford a plane ticket that costs over 400 bucks 3 months out.
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Re: Live: Shintaro Misawa wins Flatland Unlimited
« Reply #6 on: March 08, 2010, 03:26:09 PM »
Thank god for the Japanese guys though. If they hadn't shown up it would've been a three man pro showdown. Top three finish guaranteed.  ^_^
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Re: Live: Shintaro Misawa wins Flatland Unlimited
« Reply #7 on: March 08, 2010, 05:01:24 PM »
Glad to here the Am turn out was great.

Pro Class is dead in North America for now. I think it will rise again but there are too many factors and reasons why riders do not compete anymore.
As you can see the Japanese and Euro riders do not have those reasons. Their contest are stacked with riders.



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Re: Live: Shintaro Misawa wins Flatland Unlimited
« Reply #8 on: March 08, 2010, 05:51:08 PM »
Seeing as Akihiko Takahashi is spelt wrong I'm wondering if it was Takaki Fukuda - The super original guy in RUM that was at the event. The one whose section is in the indoor spot and balances all of the hard positions with hands behind his back. Sick rider.
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Re: Live: Shintaro Misawa wins Flatland Unlimited
« Reply #9 on: March 08, 2010, 05:52:23 PM »
Quote from: The Flattest Paul on March 08, 2010, 05:51:08 PM
Seeing as Akihiko Takahashi is spelt wrong I'm wondering if it was Takaki Fukuda - The super original guy in RUM that was at the event. The one whose section is in the indoor spot and balances all of the hard positions with hands behind his back. Sick rider.

There's a good chance I've also spelt both of those names wrong so don't flame on it too much Mr Spelling Bee!!!
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Re: Live: Shintaro Misawa wins Flatland Unlimited
« Reply #10 on: March 08, 2010, 06:02:31 PM »
wow, Jean William Prevost is killing it lately!
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Re: Live: Shintaro Misawa wins Flatland Unlimited
« Reply #11 on: March 08, 2010, 06:15:01 PM »
Quote from: Scott O on March 08, 2010, 05:48:55 AM

Japanese contest or Canadian?

Where is the participation guys????????

Where the American Pros at?!
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Re: Live: Shintaro Misawa wins Flatland Unlimited
« Reply #12 on: March 08, 2010, 07:43:40 PM »
Quote from: TOflat on March 08, 2010, 06:15:01 PM
Quote from: Scott O on March 08, 2010, 05:48:55 AM

Japanese contest or Canadian?

Where is the participation guys????????

Where the American Pros at?!

What American pros?  Apart from Terry and Wilhelm, who else in the US is a sponsored, salaried, "pro" these days?  I would guess less than 8 people for sure.  Getting a free frame once a year doesn't count..... 

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Re: Live: Shintaro Misawa wins Flatland Unlimited
« Reply #13 on: March 08, 2010, 08:02:52 PM »
Quote from: Scott O on March 08, 2010, 05:01:24 PM
Glad to here the Am turn out was great.

Pro Class is dead in North America for now. I think it will rise again but there are too many factors and reasons why riders do not compete anymore.
As you can see the Japanese and Euro riders do not have those reasons. Their contest are stacked with riders.





True story Scott, but here in Europe its turning too...
Take our dutch scene, more and more riders dont make a trip to go to a jam/contest..
And i think we are not the only country..
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Re: Live: Shintaro Misawa wins Flatland Unlimited
« Reply #14 on: March 09, 2010, 04:42:45 AM »
World's changed man - You don't have to go to events to sell sh*t anymore because of internet power!!! These guys don't need the prize money to make money out of riding. Once the prize money increases there love (of money... sorry flatland) will bring them back.

Contests have started to become sterile anyway. It's the same dance routine over and over. If the format changes to shorter runs that reward explosive creativity more (think old KOG masterclass) then I believe we'll see new blood and more interesting events.

I don't know the ins and outs of this event but I'd say that if there were not many pros and a lot of ams around not riding the format could be improved so that everyone was riding - it would pay off in the future.
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