IT’S TIME TO VOTE! THE 2025 FLATMATTERSONLINE YEAR END AWARDS

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IT’S TIME TO VOTE!!

It’s that time of year, the Flatmattersonline Year Awards for 2025 are upon us. The readers of FM have around a month to vote, so plenty of time for you to consider your votes for Rider of the Year, Edit of the Year, Female Rider of the Year, Contest Run of the Year and the most difficult one, but a fun one to break down, Line of the Year. As always have fun with it!

Reader Choice: (that’s all of you at home!)
Rider of year
Edit of Year
Female rider of year
Contest Run of Year
Line of Year 

Editorial Vote: ( just for me )
Rider of year
Must Watch Edit of year
Outstanding Contribution
Breakthrough Rider of year
Brand of the Year

How do you vote?
Send your “reader choice” votes through to: effraim@flatmattersonline.com – entitled Flatmattersonline Year End Awards 2025.

***Please vote only by email only , it gets too complicated with DM’s, facebook messages etc.

When’s the Deadline for voting?
Voting closes Sunday 11th January.

Nominees announced:
Sunday January 18th

Year end award winners announced:
Sunday January 25th.

Please note:
Voting only counts via email. Plenty of time to go through edits over the new year, and look back via the site on the highlights of the year that will follow over the next few weeks, take your time and good luck and most of all enjoy the process of voting!

Have a good Christmas everyone, and happy new year!

Thanks to everyone who supported the Flatmattersonline 17th anniversary, by dropping a comment, DM or whatever, I appreciate the love!!

Effraim.

Flatmattersonline.

Must Watch: Akihiko Takahashi / Rewind 25 years Riding

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Must Watch season continues with this absolute belter from Japanese flatland lifer, Akihiko Takahashi who celebrates 25 years of riding.
If you don’t already this guy is one of the best in the backwards game, there are some mindmelters packed into 5:59, which is definitely a contender for the hardest stuff done this year.

Dope Ammo 665 1/2 // Not Quite Evil // 1992

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So good to see this classic video in good quality, worth sitting down and grabbing a cuppa and enjoying Dope Ammo 665 1/2 with great parts from the likes of Chase Gouin, Jesse Puente, Pete Brandt, Kevin Jones, Andrew Arroyo, Gabe Weed, and many more.
Thank you Snakebite BMX for uploading this!

Must Watch: Austin Luberda / Some Things Never Change

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It is funny how somethings work out, yesterday I was having a conversation about flatland in the USA. And we talked about Austin Luberda, and I wondered what he was up to, having seen a little glimpse of him at the Aggro Jam in St Louis that I posted yesterday.

This morning I got my answer, Austin and his wife have been busy welcoming a new born baby into the world in September. Congratulations to you both.

Today we have this amazing new edit from Austin, with a couple of new moves he has been dreaming about, I especially loved the development of his signature can-can style pedal junkyard move at (1:07, 1:50, 4:23 and the ender around 4:50), that you can leads to other moves like the multiple opposite forward pedal g-roll turbines jump to pedal time machine at 2:48.

Throw in the opposite backwards spin stubble duck at 3:18, with that smooth flow state Austin is renowned for. Some things never change, and long may that continue!
Loved the old footage of Austin shredding his GT back in the day mixed in with the modern day, great feel to this edit, editing on point, music fits, camera work, it’s all here!

It’s officially “Must Watch season”, loving this, thank you Austin!

Must Watch: Flat Sessions #2 the Park

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Alberto Moya teams up with arguably the heaviest crew in modern day flatland for amazing edit at the Park Samukawa. Insane lines from the likes of Yu Katagiri, Naoto Tamaru, Alberto Moya, Nina Suzuki, Shu Sugawara (worth a rewind at 1:56!), Ayuna Miyashima, Ryo Katagiri, and saving the best for last at 3:30 with Takato Moriya! The only one missing is Ucchie!

Thanks Moya for documenting, it’s been an amazing few weeks for edits!