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Vic
Cliffhanger
Posts: 566
New Zealand
How did you discover Flatland?
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September 29, 2007, 12:57:16 AM »
As it's so underground, how did you discover flatland?
I was just looking for street videos on google and accidentally found a flat video of Art Thomason (
http://tinyurl.com/2uqo96
). I honestly thought he was the only guy in the world who could do that.. then I searched a bit more and found out theres a whole world of this stuff! I just thought, how could something so huge go unnoticed? Where have you been my whole life?! I wish I discovered flat when I was younger. I quit street and focused on flat from then on.
The second video I saw (
http://tinyurl.com/35qus5
) was some kid struggling to land some basic tricks and I thought to myself "pffft, I can do that".. took me a long time to realise I was so, so wrong. Props to that kid. I honestly thought flatland would be piss easy..
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ancientskool
Deathtrucker
Posts: 906
Re: How did you discover Flatland?
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September 29, 2007, 01:09:10 AM »
I think in about 1984 there was a guy at the local park with one of the very first Haro Master's doing a rock walk and 180 bunny hops.
I was hooked.
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JUGGARNAUT
GF Inhabitant
Posts: 6570
Re: How did you discover Flatland?
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September 29, 2007, 01:23:31 AM »
I SAW PICS IN 83-84 BMX PLUS OF RL AND MIKE BUFF,,,AND THOUGHT "I CAN DO THAT!
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Kzoh
Cliffhanger
Posts: 572
Re: How did you discover Flatland?
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September 29, 2007, 01:28:39 AM »
day smith x games
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laame
Hitchhiker
Posts: 186
disbalanced
Re: How did you discover Flatland?
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September 29, 2007, 01:37:36 AM »
Got in to BMX when i saw a few pictures in local sports shop ad for moongoose BMX bikes. But all thoes pictures was from race, dirt, street and vert. So i was riding street for 2 years with my Diamondback Joker.
Soon after i got my first bike my brother gave me a Matt Hoffman's Pro BMX 2 for PlayStation2 at my birthay. There was few clips from Day Smith. Thats when i first saw flatland.
At thoes time there still was a BMX website BMXTRIX or something where i was looking up how-to's for street and dirt tricks. I learned fork glides and thats all.
Then for 2 years I wasn't riding at all. I was in to BMX all the time, but bike bike was broke and couldn't save up for new one. After thoes 2 years i put my old bike back and got some parts from friends, but i didn't have cranks and it was winter, and we had a small salfmade indoor in old house, so i was just chillin with my friends and doing forkglides and learning dorks.
After about four months i got money for a new and good bike. I was still in to street, so i broght Eastern Bikes Ace Of Spades, but i sold it to my friend 2 weeks later and broth my Dragonfly Trigger.
Thats how i got in to flatland.
Oh... Sorry.. Topic was "How did you discover Flatland?", but i told my whole life storry!
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Milenko2121
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"Girls come and go, but bikes are forever"
Re: How did you discover Flatland?
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September 29, 2007, 02:19:59 AM »
BMXTRIX.com
nuff said.
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bloody0sabbath
Backpacker
Posts: 355
Re: How did you discover Flatland?
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September 29, 2007, 02:52:52 AM »
i always new about flatland , i do it because its not barspin tailwhip, turn down , table, tailwhip , 360 , tailwhip.
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Xerodark
Forkglider
Posts: 41
Re: How did you discover Flatland?
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September 29, 2007, 02:57:56 AM »
A few years back I was flipping through channels during the xgames, and happened to catch a few minutes of it. Ever since then I wanted to try, just didn't have the motivation until recently.
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DKbmx
Member
Posts: 14
Re: How did you discover Flatland?
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September 29, 2007, 03:26:27 AM »
kevin jones. ive been hooked ever since i met him. i problt ride more than anyone here and even my girlfriends into it.( i got her doin fork glides nd peg wheelies, she loves it
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yoksthed0pest
Hitchhiker
Posts: 154
Re: How did you discover Flatland?
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September 29, 2007, 03:28:49 AM »
One Sunday afternoon I was bored and was flipping thru channels on the idiot box and came across Xgames. It was just BMX, but it really interested me, since I've been wanting to get a bike to get in shape.
From there, I searched BMX on YouTube and came across:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LTVhqHAdo
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Later learned it was Simon O'Brien...
I thought it was f*cking amazing....
For the longest time I thought "flatland" was the name of a crew
(was not aware that it was a discipline of BMX).
I joined BMX-Forum to do some research and get some background...
But before I could decide on a bike that was best for me, I had to first determine the style of riding I wanted to do.
Then I came across the article, "Choosing the Right Style of Riding"
http://www.bmx-forum.com/23935-choosing-right-style-riding.html
That's when I discovered that "flatland" is a style and not a crew, HAHA
At first I just wanted to get a bike-- then very specifically it became a BMX bike because I figured I would have a little fun with it and mess around.
Now, I've kind of changed my mind about it and really want to make an effort to learn it. I never took up dancing, even though I wanted to all my life. I'm now hoping maybe flat can be a way of expressing myself, if not a way to escape the confines of my day job...
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Paved Paradise
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Re: How did you discover Flatland?
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September 29, 2007, 04:39:17 AM »
I learned about flat when I was back in high school..I used to see this kid doin wierd tricks on a small bike and it amazzed me..so one day I left lunch didnt eat and kinda slowly walked over to this lot almost off skool proporty to watch him. I kept doin this for weeks on end skipping lunch and some classes to watch him ride. I later met and talked to him. xD. and up bein my freind and great flatland rider Gabe Kadmiri
Mhmm thats him he is the one who interduced me to the sport and got me addicted to it.and I thank him for it..THNX GABE!!!..
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BMXfreak
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Re: How did you discover Flatland?
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September 29, 2007, 04:00:40 PM »
bikeflat.com!
i didnt know about flatland untill one day i was serching online for a how to video on how to do a jet hop, or bunny hop and bikeflat.com came up and i watched all the flatland how to videos they had and the couple of jam videos they had posted and was like i wanna do dat!
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Gensanity
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Re: How did you discover Flatland?
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September 29, 2007, 04:05:43 PM »
i discovered flatland when I was very young. I think I saw a guy riding at a 1/2 time show on tv or something. Thought it was awesome, but it looked impossible, so I sadly forgot about it. I was more into bmx racing then.
So I didn't even remember anything about seeing it until I was 20. I don't know what exactly triggered the memory but I was so pissed I had let all those years pass by. I grabbed my friends bike that day and started trying tailwhips.
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EZChris
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Posts: 3866
Re: How did you discover Flatland?
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September 29, 2007, 04:20:26 PM »
BMXTRIX.COM
(R.I.P.)
That site was awesome.
Although, I first "discovered" it when I was reading an Issue of Ride BMX UK Zine in like the early 90's somewhen... I didn't actually know what it was as my childing brain was baffled by the shapes. I just liked the looks of the bikes back then.
It wasn't untill a few years later I found BMXtrix and "Flatland" was given its name in my brain.
I stopped riding dirt/ramps and "street" and focused on flat.
Love it!
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katobmx
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Re: How did you discover Flatland?
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September 29, 2007, 06:36:45 PM »
I been riding since i was little, and Had a mongoose with flatland geometry, always doing bar spins, wheelies,peg wheelies, footjam endo's I decided one day to learn how to do wheelie in a circle on youtube and I was Flatland for the first time, I didn't even know what that I was doing a little flatland.
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