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Offline Ovidiu M.

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Re: How did you discover Flatland?
« Reply #30 on: October 04, 2007, 10:05:33 AM »
i saw Alex Jumelin probali at the CoB a cuple a years ago and he did that crazy stuf of his cliffhanger and i like it very much and from that on i whanted to start doing this sport at the begining i didn't know what was the name of the sport :);D :beer: thank Alex J !!!!!!
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Re: How did you discover Flatland?
« Reply #31 on: October 04, 2007, 10:44:05 AM »
Mat Hoffmans Pro Bmx 2, Made it my goal to unlock Day Smiths video after i knew what flatland was, Did it <3

From then on i became what we call a "flatlander"

This was many many years ago

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Re: How did you discover Flatland?
« Reply #32 on: October 04, 2007, 11:56:06 AM »
My dad bought me my first real bmx bike when I was in elementary school and I wanted to ride some ramps but no skateparks let bikes in back then. He then told me he saw guys on tv at the X Games that were doing crazy tricks on the ground and using no ramps. I wasn't exactly sure what he was talking about and then he took me to the GT Airshow and a local bike shop (this was in '98) and I saw Aaron Behnke riding flat. I still have the GT Airshow shirt that he signed along with Rob Noli and Kevin Guttierez. I went home and immediately starting trying fork glides and tailwhips.
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Re: How did you discover Flatland?
« Reply #33 on: October 04, 2007, 06:43:27 PM »
one day there was this porn vid with flatland spliced in
after that i developed a fetish

promote flatland thru pr0n plz

hell yeah.

just think of the possbilites.
riding backwards with the girl on the back pegs...

a guy doing a backpacker and the girl doing a hitchiker right infront of him...

hmm....
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Offline Vic

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Re: How did you discover Flatland?
« Reply #34 on: October 05, 2007, 05:14:59 AM »
actually its kinda been done.. http://bikeflat.com/media/doubles.wmv
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Re: How did you discover Flatland?
« Reply #35 on: October 05, 2007, 05:27:37 AM »
"Sometimes You Just Need To Do Something... Different"

Offline ryry4130

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Re: How did you discover Flatland?
« Reply #36 on: October 05, 2007, 05:55:10 AM »
I dicovered flatland(freestyle) back in 86 thru a "FREESTYLIN" mag.I was a little BMXer on a Mongoose back then.I later went to a HARO show at ROCKVILLE BMX shop in MD and saw THE PLYWOOD HOODS for the first time.At that point,all I wanted to do was learn tricks but didn't have the set up.Later that year my Mongoose got stolen and was replaced with a HARO MASTER.It was all over from there!!

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Re: How did you discover Flatland?
« Reply #37 on: October 06, 2007, 01:51:41 PM »
L E E   M U S L L E W H I T E !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

when I saw him something hit me in my head and that was it

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Re: How did you discover Flatland?
« Reply #38 on: October 07, 2007, 08:40:15 PM »
How did I discover flatland,Well, after saving my money on newspaper route.My dad took me to a bike shop in the mid 80's if I remember right . Where I fell in love with this neon pink GT Pro-Performer the builder say lets throw some neon green in there to (grips,acs z-mags,etc.)My dad and I was just to weired out by this builder his hair half buzz cut half long. I remember askin' what happen to his hair,he replied I'm a freestyler , he then took my new bike out rode it doing every old school trick in about 10 minutes at the end he threw up the bike in the air way above the roof and then  caught it. I was so blown away I was shakin' .His name was Bob he is,was from the St. Louis,St Charles, Missouri area . I will never forget him.
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Re: How did you discover Flatland?
« Reply #39 on: October 07, 2007, 08:44:52 PM »
he threw up the bike in the air way above the roof and then  caught it. I was so blown away I was shakin'

how'd he catch it? It's pretty hard to catch a bike without getting hit in the head by a pedal or one of the pegs isn't it?


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Re: How did you discover Flatland?
« Reply #40 on: October 07, 2007, 09:28:25 PM »
Oh, man...it had to be around 86 or 87. I was in a video store and spotted the box for "Rad". I had already known about bmx racing, but watching flatland tricks just blew me away. Ever since, there's always been either a bmx or flatland bike laying around, even when I couldn't ride. And yes, I still have a copy of "Rad" on vhs.

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Re: How did you discover Flatland?
« Reply #41 on: October 07, 2007, 09:30:25 PM »
He caught it with the handlebars and his foot caught a pedal. Oh by the way I never tried it.I wasn't going back to that newspaper route again to fix a broke bike.LOL,gypsy

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Re: How did you discover Flatland?
« Reply #42 on: October 08, 2007, 01:03:47 AM »
i was at a bike shop replacing a sprocket i broke doing stalls on cement. on the counter was this very slick manga style card. it was the ad for Elevation (3?)
i was really intrigued...growing up in rural wisconsin with no cable i'd somehow missed flatland altogether. i went by myself and got my mind expanded. hook line and sinker. thanks Hector!  :ph34r:

Re: How did you discover Flatland?
« Reply #43 on: October 08, 2007, 05:46:20 AM »
i was accually telling chase this in a e-mail the other day , how  much irony is it to just stumble across this thread!
but  i told him that most people  usually say the movie rad, and funny thing is ,  when ron wilkerson  was up and running wilkerson airlines it was the 1st time i had ever seen kevin jones ride flatland. back then juggleing hitchikers was crazy!!!!

and thats what got me hooked!

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Re: How did you discover Flatland?
« Reply #44 on: October 08, 2007, 02:05:46 PM »
hmm i discoverd flatland thru park riding lol i was about 15 and the local council built this skatepark i used to go all the time couldnt even bunny hop but i would lol local riders would teach me stuff till one day i was taught barspins and i loved to do them all the time than some dude came along on a gt vertifgo weird toptube on it lol and was doing tailwhips on some street he showed me how to do them....but at this time i still didnt kno flatland ever excisted..till i bought a dvd called mirracle boy and nyquist and it showed u fotage of dave in his younger days doing flat and i was blown away by this time i was 16 lol and my freind had a copy of matt hoffman bmx 2 and i would sit all day long doing flatland tricks on the game....wasnt till this year now 21 i trully got in to flatland ok sucks rite now no one to ride with lol but hay i still like it and in the space of 3 months i enterd a comp and came in 9 in ametuar...no bad i think lol for a noob