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Offline Simmy

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Who is the best in the world now and ever?
« on: July 21, 2008, 05:57:49 PM »
Hey guys new to this site but thought i would start a bit of a debate going! I want to know who people think is the best in the world now and who is the best in the world ever! ....and why!

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Re: Who is the best in the world now and ever?
« Reply #1 on: July 21, 2008, 06:02:08 PM »
Interesting first post...........................................................  :huh:



I think it's me!  :ph34r:  :P  :ph34r:

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Re: Who is the best in the world now and ever?
« Reply #2 on: July 21, 2008, 06:12:19 PM »
Seriously though, i really want to know what people think, i have been a street rider for some time and just started getting into flat, im not going to pretend i know a lot about all of the riders but Terry Adams has to be a good shout right?

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Re: Who is the best in the world now and ever?
« Reply #3 on: July 21, 2008, 06:18:28 PM »
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Re: Who is the best in the world now and ever?
« Reply #4 on: July 21, 2008, 06:34:12 PM »
Such a hard question but I'd have to say martti.there's just simply not many tricks he can do,front wheel and back.his stuff year ago was bad ass and his newer stuff is to.can't to much f*ck with him. I feel the same bout justin also.

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Re: Who is the best in the world now and ever?
« Reply #5 on: July 21, 2008, 06:35:56 PM »
I would say right now in flatland it is hard to say "The best is..."  There are great contest riders and great session riders.  there are some guys who are really pushing our sport. so saying who is best is all in the eye of the beholder. but for sake of arguement i will say terry, justin, foakes are up top right now. all time best u will get same answer.  jones and chase.

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Re: Who is the best in the world now and ever?
« Reply #6 on: July 21, 2008, 06:56:10 PM »
b_zeke

You mean the Flatland God B_Zeke

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Re: Who is the best in the world now and ever?
« Reply #7 on: July 21, 2008, 07:29:12 PM »
yeah i here sam foakes is the man of the moment, who is jones and chase?

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Re: Who is the best in the world now and ever?
« Reply #8 on: July 21, 2008, 07:37:38 PM »
Kevin Jones and Chase Gouin.

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Re: Who is the best in the world now and ever?
« Reply #9 on: July 21, 2008, 07:39:24 PM »

yeah i here sam foakes is the man of the moment, who is jones and chase?
Thats because he and every flat rider is using tricks jones ,chase ,mccoy,etc. invented. So there really is no best rider.Because well it's an opinion. Terry is up there on the list anytime you can literally turn your bike in to a skateboard thats cool.

Go in the fland media and find the two 90's vids they have kevin jones and chase in them
« Last Edit: July 21, 2008, 07:41:33 PM by katobmx »

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Re: Who is the best in the world now and ever?
« Reply #10 on: July 21, 2008, 08:46:30 PM »
well from when i started i ll say the best riders in my opinion.

most original riders:
kevin jones,chad degroot,andrew farish,chase gouin,martti kuoppa.hiro m,terry adams,jesse puente,jeorge gomez,adam kun,mathias,phil dolan,yohei uchino,alex jumelin,sam foakes,alexis desaulnaux and like 20-30 more

spinning masters: matt willhelm,sean peters,york uno,chase gouin,frank lucas etc

rolling masters:sam foakes,terry adams,kevin jones,chad degroot ,chase gouin...

newschool riders:mathias,adam kun,waldemar,bram...

i should refer kevin jones as he brought most of the tricks to the game so he thought most of them with chase g

i had favourite and favourite riders at different times.

i dont think you can choose one rider only...
but if i chose there would be riders that are killing both wheels

so my favourite riders is:........
B zeke
check him out ..
« Last Edit: July 21, 2008, 09:01:58 PM by sakis d »

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Re: Who is the best in the world now and ever?
« Reply #11 on: July 21, 2008, 08:55:14 PM »
Kevin Jones and Chase Gouin.

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We'd still be doing front peg hops if it weren't for these two.

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Re: Who is the best in the world now and ever?
« Reply #12 on: July 21, 2008, 09:04:09 PM »
Jones and Gouin are serious inspirations, but my man at the moment HAS to be Chad Johnston... His pegless stuff is amazing. 

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Re: Who is the best in the world now and ever?
« Reply #13 on: July 21, 2008, 09:05:48 PM »
I think it would be tough for anyone to ever match the sheer inventiveness and versatility of Kevin Jones, especially since it was he who came up with so many of the standard positions still in use today. There will probably never be a comparable ground breaker (speaking of volume of trick positions, switches, etc...) in flatland.

But as for who is the 'best' in the world? Such questions are relative to one's evaluational criteria. Not to mention the term 'best' is terribly vague, which leaves me thinking that questions of this sort are silly and unimportant.
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Re: Who is the best in the world now and ever?
« Reply #14 on: July 21, 2008, 09:10:05 PM »
who is B zeke  :huh: