@@Jake_IBS Day Smith & Nathan Pennonzek were always pushing the envelope as well. There were so many awesome riders in that era, you can drop names all day - was one of the best times in flatland for creativity IMO.. I just saw online that Andrew Farris might be getting back on a bike.
It's not underrated it's just super difficult. Back in the days everyone rode flatland and when it got more and more difficult a lot of people just started to focus on ramps and street.
@@aikenstodd I still think it's underrated because kids nowadays just wanna see whips and bars in and out of everything. You hardly ever see or hear about flatland unless you follow people that do it or are into it. I very rarely see flatland on TH-cam or anything. I do follow Terry Adams though so I see his posts but the flatland comps and stuff don't get blown up like park and street do.
@@neonnerd1364 yea i’m relatively young (17) and i have barely seen any flatland. i knew it was a thing but never saw the extent of it. looks dope might start watching more of it
Im surprised you even managed to to the steamroller, the whiplash not so surprised because its like that Morgan trick. Props to you, keep trying and don't give up. This is the way of the flatlander.
Getting a couple of tricks done this quickly shows that Matty definitely has a lot of talent. Btw. try grabbing the rear part of the seat instead of the nose of the seat, it makes it a bit easier.
Every now and then, on shorts, a old head will pop up and do some flatland tricks. Still amazing. I rode for 20 years and couldn't even do the basics if I wanted to.
Finally! Some recognition! I was a flatland king here back in the day. Riders today for some reason don’t see how amazing it would be to add flatland tricks into park riding. I’ve been putting these comments on here for a while now but gave up. lol
This brought back memories. I'm only 25 now, but the riders that were a little older than me when I was young had adopted the flatland style in large part. We were all manuals and barspins on street ledges and some dirt jumps, but those guys could just blow your mind while passing by on the bike trail. Rural town, no skatepark, and our dirt jumps got torn down on a regular basis no matter where we built them.
Im diggin the 3 1/2 peg set up matty's got goin on! Combined with the front brake set up, and being LHD, I dont think anyone else in the world has that specific combo
Matty is a freaking boss. Anybody that can learn those tricks that fast on the wrong freaking bike. If he just got the right bike with a little bit of practice. And maybe practice with somebody who knows how to do that stuff. I would love to see Matty do more. Awesome video
Love the flatland videos 😍 And Matty, if you try to spin in a pegmanual, make sure to keep the bar straight! You spin by leaning the bike in the direction you want to spin. That gives you a lot more stability. Once you got that down, and you feel like you are overrotating in the spin, you can learn gturns/turbines in the spin and that already looks pretty cool when its dialed!
As a sponsored surfer and skateboarder (not sponsored) lol I never got into BMX but rode bikes my whole life and mountain biked and so on but this video just makes me smile lol keep up the good work guys 🤙
I had that ride bmx video. It was great. Edit: thats absolutely incredible he learned that so fast. I tried learning flatland for awhile and couldn't do much of anything but spin manuals on the back pegs
Man flatland is the most challenging form of BMX riding. I love flatland, I do truck taps and pull up barspin manuals. I would love to get better at it, but it’s just so difficult. I watch a lot of the Flatmatters online TH-cam channel, there is some crazy riding on there.
Lol .. that last trick Matty did should be called "The Compass", the math compass. Flatland is really amazing. When I started to look into BMX, that's what my original intention was, to learn some basic flatland stuff .. but Scotty's channel was what I actually came across and was fully inspired by all the street and park stuff. But I do want to try and learn some basic flatland stuff because it looks so cool and super technical. The fundamentals are very versatile and worth in all aspects of BMX freestyle.
Flatland is in a different league to regular freestyle - takes years to learn the simplest tricks. So much respect for Matty giving them a go and pulling them too :-)
I dunno if it was last year when Scotty visited a Flatland contest but it was one of the coolest videos on the channel. I think it was in Florida in the back of some bike shop. The riders were super nice guys, too.
Exercise science guy here; I believe learning to ride a unicycle would be a cheat-code to learning dynamic balance points on the bmx bike flatland tricks. Yes, it's a totally different animal with the full bike, but unicycles are pretty hard to learn how to ride due to balance and core engagement coordination. Approaching 40 here, but flatland seems like a great hobby to keep my balance and coordination honed for my later years.
Been waiting a longtime for this one ! Still a huge fan of flatland used to do flatland as a teenager... I might go buy a new flatland specific bike soon! Flatland bike geometry 📐 is much different than street BMX bikes. Would love to see you Get a flatland specific bike and have the crew do challenges!!!
I've been mesmerized by flatland since I was a kid. When I was able to hit one of the 99 sf dates of xgames and loved seeing flatland live by some pros. Have seen a few people in my area that can do it too.
Just keep in mind that flat land frames were shorter and the handle bars were lower. For the handle bars you can get a top mount stem and flip it over but make sure the top piece of the stem (which is now on the bottom) clears the top tube. If I remember, I think the flat land frames were 17" or 19" and the wheel base was closer like the chain stay was also shorter.
Man I'm really love all of your videos scotty 😍 I've litterly seen every single one an have been watching u for at least 8 years probably more fr but I wish u made at least one more video a week I wish they was every easy I do understand it's harder for you to do now but I get so sad when I do t get to watch one of your video it makes my day when I see u posted a new one 😢keep up the good work tho an your story is so inspiring 🙏
I just got back into riding again and was so happy to see tricks like the hang 5 and other flatland stuff is coming back into style! Same deal in the skateboard scene because of people like Andy Anderson. Would be cool to see you guys do a crossover someday and merge the scenes.... ;)
I would LOVE to see you guy learn some flatland! If you could get a pro to hang out and teach you guys so we can learn too, that would be epic!! Imagine throwing in some crazy flatland trick at the next game of BIKE ;)
Your boy Kenny said you guys were coming to the NJ Flat Jam we just had near the Jackson Skatepark(hockey rink), but ya never showed. Matty, for your 1st attempts, you did amazing. Always said you'd be a good flat candidate if you really wanted it. Trick is to not give up after a few attempts. Sometimes it takes days, weeks, months, to learn a new trick. The repetition can drive you mad, but the reward is always so worth the effort. Keep at it and you'll be killin it in no time. You got skills bro. I'll be at Pine Park tennis courts in Lakewood around noon tomorrow for a brief sesh. Sure you won't stop by, but...hint.😉
love that you are trying some flatland on your channel . but don't forget flatland frames are around 2 inches shorter and have zero offset forks so more like 3 inches shorter that then Matty's bike .
Next time you guys are in Huntington Beach, Martin Aparijo and Eddie Fiola ride every single Tuesday, and it's all old school (80's, 90's) flatland. They are incredible teachers too. Matty, try a decade and a cherrypicker next. You can also try a bar endo and a Miami hopper since you have a front brake.
Yo, that’s sick… We always used to ride flatland, my mate was fully into it so we used to mess around and do some crazy stuff… Do a big circle and a half of a manual with one foot on a peg (like Matty did. when he was meant to scuff) and then do one and a half quick small ones and then back to big and then see if you can run it into something else.
Skateboard grip tape on the top of the pegs can help stop toes getting jammed in spokes, keep legs straight and reduce body weight momentum from throeing you off balance.
Scotty and Matt, you two are more than welcome to come hang with the rest of the NJ flatland crew. Next time we have a jam, I’ll have Kenny shoot you a text
Talking about the half lash and not reaching both pegs. They were riding 19.5" TT and 13.25 CS for flatland back then so it was a much shorter wheel base lol
For some reason I've wanted to build a flatland specific bike for years now, ever since buying my Spanish Flybikes flatland frame anyways. Edit:. I've got some other cool flatland tricks y'all can attempt...2:26 learned by accident..If Matty leaned back just a tad taking the weight off the rear end he'd be able to swing it back to himself and then ride away.
I landed my first whiplash first try no brakes...took me over a year to learn the footjam whip lol. As long as you shift the weight between ur feet when the bike goes past 12o clock u can ride it out.
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Love flatland, miss when x games used to have flatland back in the 90's
The Fise series have flatland contests 🤙🏻
Andrew Farris and Trevor Meyer were so rad to watch
@@Jake_IBS Day Smith & Nathan Pennonzek were always pushing the envelope as well. There were so many awesome riders in that era, you can drop names all day - was one of the best times in flatland for creativity IMO.. I just saw online that Andrew Farris might be getting back on a bike.
@@kchez5586 I couldn't agree more (really showing our age here...ahah). Best era for flatland by far, really hoping to see Farris ride again too
Flatland is such an underrated form of BMX. It really needs to make a comeback.
It's not underrated it's just super difficult. Back in the days everyone rode flatland and when it got more and more difficult a lot of people just started to focus on ramps and street.
@@aikenstodd I still think it's underrated because kids nowadays just wanna see whips and bars in and out of everything. You hardly ever see or hear about flatland unless you follow people that do it or are into it. I very rarely see flatland on TH-cam or anything. I do follow Terry Adams though so I see his posts but the flatland comps and stuff don't get blown up like park and street do.
@@neonnerd1364 yea i’m relatively young (17) and i have barely seen any flatland. i knew it was a thing but never saw the extent of it. looks dope might start watching more of it
@@neonnerd1364 Im 16 an I've been trying to learn flatland tricks on my 2000 dyno
“Flatland Friday” should be a thing.
If it becomes a thing, hopefully it doesn't go the ways Saturday's Cars With Ricky went. Which is to say it was only briefly a thing.
@@funwithoutpants Still cool even if it’s only for a bit.
@@funwithoutpants I wish they would have kept up with that I miss Ricky on the channel
@@jebuscrist0244 I still watch him in ever Pro Spec round of Formula Drift.
A thang
It would be dope to get some of these flatland legends on the channel.
They have my g you just gotta Dig in the backlog
They had me Chad degroot it don't get to much more legend than that
@@will_he9632 was that the one in Florida? In a warehouse I think?
Chad degroot has been on the channel.
@@r0me0ne at chads bike shop
Thanks for the mention guys 🤙🏻🤙🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
Teaching Matty old school tricks is great to watch. The technicalities involved with old school tricks is crazy! Flatland is epic!
Matt needs a flatland bike, much shorter and steeper head tube angle.
Exactly close to what i was gonna say..
But, better!! 😊😊
The center of balance is better!! Im surprised he doesn't kno these things..??
Yeah i'm surprised they didn't mention this. Learning these tricks in a day is impossible for anyone let alone on the wrong bike
I'm surprised there wasn't one in the shop.
Years ago I would have agreed, but Mathias Dandois rides a 21"tt and 2.4 tires.
@@LoneWolfed He is 6.1ft tall, Matty is 5.9ft and not as flexable. 20''tt would be perfect for matty..
Can we all just take a minute for flat land you guys are legends.
Imagine matty doing flatland stuff along with park riding, that would be next level! like nose manual onto a box to whiplash out
Im surprised you even managed to to the steamroller, the whiplash not so surprised because its like that Morgan trick. Props to you, keep trying and don't give up. This is the way of the flatlander.
Please!!! More flatland!!! Its the best
Fun fact....watch Dorkin' 4....Kevin Jones does it 30 years ago.....and its STILL a staple of pro flatland runs
Tomato man
@@TroutTruck tomato man
The Dorkin in York videos were soooo good.
Learning Steams in a day? I don't care who you are....that's damn impressive.
What’s more impressive is that you grew a gardening and tomato channel to 250,000 subscribers! Well done. ;)
*All joking aside, love the channel!*
speaking as someone who has done every one of these tricks, I'm very impressed at how well he did here. Karl cruiser took me eons to learn
Getting a couple of tricks done this quickly shows that Matty definitely has a lot of talent. Btw. try grabbing the rear part of the seat instead of the nose of the seat, it makes it a bit easier.
Every now and then, on shorts, a old head will pop up and do some flatland tricks. Still amazing. I rode for 20 years and couldn't even do the basics if I wanted to.
Yeah but I bet your heart was in it. That's really what matters.
Finally! Some recognition! I was a flatland king here back in the day. Riders today for some reason don’t see how amazing it would be to add flatland tricks into park riding. I’ve been putting these comments on here for a while now but gave up. lol
Do more of flat land tricks I enjoyed this
This brought back memories. I'm only 25 now, but the riders that were a little older than me when I was young had adopted the flatland style in large part. We were all manuals and barspins on street ledges and some dirt jumps, but those guys could just blow your mind while passing by on the bike trail. Rural town, no skatepark, and our dirt jumps got torn down on a regular basis no matter where we built them.
I miss Matty doing videos but I’m glad he is in most of yours Scotty. You two are amazing.
I love old school flatland skate and bike tricks. The one handers from the other day were sick too! Keep riding n having fun guys! Much love!
Im diggin the 3 1/2 peg set up matty's got goin on! Combined with the front brake set up, and being LHD, I dont think anyone else in the world has that specific combo
Matty could be a flatland rider in no time flat! He's very gifted on the bike, and would probably benefit from riding an actual flatland bike.
Flatland is highly underrated, you did more than I could ever hope to do Matt!
I love the brotherhood. Nothing better than having a brotherhood in ur life. So physced for u bros. Thanks 4 the vids.
Matty is a freaking boss. Anybody that can learn those tricks that fast on the wrong freaking bike. If he just got the right bike with a little bit of practice. And maybe practice with somebody who knows how to do that stuff. I would love to see Matty do more. Awesome video
Love the flatland videos 😍
And Matty, if you try to spin in a pegmanual, make sure to keep the bar straight! You spin by leaning the bike in the direction you want to spin. That gives you a lot more stability.
Once you got that down, and you feel like you are overrotating in the spin, you can learn gturns/turbines in the spin and that already looks pretty cool when its dialed!
I lost my brother at age 10. Makes me so happy to see you guys together. Big up
And my brother is a PoS and I disowned him as family lol
@@kurtgobanginconsiderate
Sorry for your loss, Clive. Peace.
As a sponsored surfer and skateboarder (not sponsored) lol I never got into BMX but rode bikes my whole life and mountain biked and so on but this video just makes me smile lol keep up the good work guys 🤙
Good Flatland is 100% Muscle Memory!
Flatland has always been incredible to me. It's actually insane.
I had that ride bmx video. It was great.
Edit: thats absolutely incredible he learned that so fast. I tried learning flatland for awhile and couldn't do much of anything but spin manuals on the back pegs
Awesome video. Love seeing other sides of BMX being explored. I still want see Matty and Brooklyn learn the Decade over jumps and ramps.
Man flatland is the most challenging form of BMX riding. I love flatland, I do truck taps and pull up barspin manuals. I would love to get better at it, but it’s just so difficult. I watch a lot of the Flatmatters online TH-cam channel, there is some crazy riding on there.
Clicked this hoping Ronnie had made it over to see you!
Where is Ronnie 😭 miss that guy
@@asherweck chillin in England.
Lol .. that last trick Matty did should be called "The Compass", the math compass. Flatland is really amazing. When I started to look into BMX, that's what my original intention was, to learn some basic flatland stuff .. but Scotty's channel was what I actually came across and was fully inspired by all the street and park stuff. But I do want to try and learn some basic flatland stuff because it looks so cool and super technical. The fundamentals are very versatile and worth in all aspects of BMX freestyle.
Hey Scotty, I really enjoyed watching Matty learn those flatland tricks. It would be nice to see more. Even with the fails, it was very interesting.
I love flatland! I started riding in ‘86 with no skatepark so flatland was a great option. Now I have skateparks and enjoy both :)
Nice to see some flatland that is more beginner friendly. Keep it coming!
Flatland is in a different league to regular freestyle - takes years to learn the simplest tricks. So much respect for Matty giving them a go and pulling them too :-)
I dunno if it was last year when Scotty visited a Flatland contest but it was one of the coolest videos on the channel. I think it was in Florida in the back of some bike shop. The riders were super nice guys, too.
The eternally rotating bar @ the end was cool … keep it up matty
Exercise science guy here; I believe learning to ride a unicycle would be a cheat-code to learning dynamic balance points on the bmx bike flatland tricks. Yes, it's a totally different animal with the full bike, but unicycles are pretty hard to learn how to ride due to balance and core engagement coordination. Approaching 40 here, but flatland seems like a great hobby to keep my balance and coordination honed for my later years.
6:17 RIP Chester
More of the flatland please guys, plus some of the retro tricks.
Been waiting a longtime for this one ! Still a huge fan of flatland used to do flatland as a teenager... I might go buy a new flatland specific bike soon! Flatland bike geometry 📐 is much different than street BMX bikes. Would love to see you Get a flatland specific bike and have the crew do challenges!!!
Scotty should seriously consider playing Poker after keeping that straight face when telling Matty the "Pimp Glide" was an easy trick 😏
Heck yeah! Now let’s see a game of bike featuring old school flatland - like real old school. 80’s Rad opening credits old school.
I've been mesmerized by flatland since I was a kid. When I was able to hit one of the 99 sf dates of xgames and loved seeing flatland live by some pros. Have seen a few people in my area that can do it too.
OMG this is great! MORE FLATLAND CHALLENGES!!!!
Also every flatlander is laughing with you.
Just keep in mind that flat land frames were shorter and the handle bars were lower. For the handle bars you can get a top mount stem and flip it over but make sure the top piece of the stem (which is now on the bottom) clears the top tube. If I remember, I think the flat land frames were 17" or 19" and the wheel base was closer like the chain stay was also shorter.
Adding some flatland before dropping into a bowl at competition would be awesome. Maybe Matt’s next comp has a starter!
Finally flatland! More of this plz
The fellas doing the flatland are so talented deff would love to see more around matty is a beast he will conquer
Took me months to learn this and you did it in an afternoon ha ha
Man I'm really love all of your videos scotty 😍 I've litterly seen every single one an have been watching u for at least 8 years probably more fr but I wish u made at least one more video a week I wish they was every easy I do understand it's harder for you to do now but I get so sad when I do t get to watch one of your video it makes my day when I see u posted a new one 😢keep up the good work tho an your story is so inspiring 🙏
I just got back into riding again and was so happy to see tricks like the hang 5 and other flatland stuff is coming back into style! Same deal in the skateboard scene because of people like Andy Anderson. Would be cool to see you guys do a crossover someday and merge the scenes.... ;)
Time Machine my friends...its a Time Machine. Chad Degroot could 100% show you the fundamentals of it.
I was just yelling, "It's a Time Machine!" But amazing progress in 1 day.
@@JDogg4130 Turbine into time machine...
Scottys all
“The pimp glide , no worries matty u got this “
😂
I would LOVE to see you guy learn some flatland! If you could get a pro to hang out and teach you guys so we can learn too, that would be epic!! Imagine throwing in some crazy flatland trick at the next game of BIKE ;)
You made a video on my suggestion. Thanks 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽😃👍🏽
Love the videos I hope y’all come back to Texas
..I remember seeing flat land stunts in Centrel Park West NYC.. 90's
I'm tearing up 😢 This reminds me of when Scott would teach Big Boy back different things out of his element. ❤
amazing video as always scotty and matty !!
Mad respect for even trying and showing respect to the old school guys...
Your boy Kenny said you guys were coming to the NJ Flat Jam we just had near the Jackson Skatepark(hockey rink), but ya never showed.
Matty, for your 1st attempts, you did amazing. Always said you'd be a good flat candidate if you really wanted it. Trick is to not give up after a few attempts. Sometimes it takes days, weeks, months, to learn a new trick. The repetition can drive you mad, but the reward is always so worth the effort. Keep at it and you'll be killin it in no time. You got skills bro.
I'll be at Pine Park tennis courts in Lakewood around noon tomorrow for a brief sesh. Sure you won't stop by, but...hint.😉
love that you are trying some flatland on your channel . but don't forget flatland frames are around 2 inches shorter and have zero offset forks so more like 3 inches shorter that then Matty's bike .
i love watching crazy flatland tricks but i couldn't name at least one xD
I thoroughly enjoyed this vid!
Love the early vid
I love it man. God bless you and keep making amazing content
Next time you guys are in Huntington Beach, Martin Aparijo and Eddie Fiola ride every single Tuesday, and it's all old school (80's, 90's) flatland. They are incredible teachers too. Matty, try a decade and a cherrypicker next. You can also try a bar endo and a Miami hopper since you have a front brake.
Get a flatland bike going and try some more! Love flat riding!
Scotty you should gets some 80's dudes on the channel to teach Matty some flatland. Woody Itson, Martin, R.L and those boys.
There must be someone you can do a collab with? Would love to see Matty learning more flatland stuff.
Bobby Fischer and Luc-e in Standard byke's Country video in 90s was crazy.
Nooooooooo where's the post today??? Man im living for this right now I work all day and come home for this
Do you even scuff bro? Lol
Love it. I also remember that voodoo jam video was epic!
You forgot the best basic flatland trick, the fork glide! Also I love the flatland tricks at the beginning of Rad. Love the 80s style.
you need more speed when doing these forward rolling tricks, it helps with the balance and don't depend on the front breaks as much
Yo, that’s sick…
We always used to ride flatland, my mate was fully into it so we used to mess around and do some crazy stuff…
Do a big circle and a half of a manual with one foot on a peg (like Matty did. when he was meant to scuff) and then do one and a half quick small ones and then back to big and then see if you can run it into something else.
Skateboard grip tape on the top of the pegs can help stop toes getting jammed in spokes, keep legs straight and reduce body weight momentum from throeing you off balance.
Scotty and Matt, you two are more than welcome to come hang with the rest of the NJ flatland crew. Next time we have a jam, I’ll have Kenny shoot you a text
Hey Scott, I don’t know if you know Kevin Nikulski but he is extremely good and does stuff that is out of this world
I really wish we had the technology we do now back in the 90’s to catch some of the most amazing times of sports and action sports
Talking about the half lash and not reaching both pegs. They were riding 19.5" TT and 13.25 CS for flatland back then so it was a much shorter wheel base lol
MORE FLATLAND SOOOO DOPE
Day Smith is a legend he knitted me and my ex some trinidad beanies soo comfy.
• thanks for sharing sir scotty •
It’s like breakdancing on a bmx bike, so sick
For some reason I've wanted to build a flatland specific bike for years now, ever since buying my Spanish Flybikes flatland frame anyways.
Edit:. I've got some other cool flatland tricks y'all can attempt...2:26 learned by accident..If Matty leaned back just a tad taking the weight off the rear end he'd be able to swing it back to himself and then ride away.
Amazing ❤️
I landed my first whiplash first try no brakes...took me over a year to learn the footjam whip lol. As long as you shift the weight between ur feet when the bike goes past 12o clock u can ride it out.
That was awesome!
Great video as always
Steamroller to hitchhiker!!!Kevin Jones collab would be the bomb!!!
Hope your alright Scottie. Please keep
It up Man this channel got me
Thru a lot of tough times and I’m sure it’s the same for many others.
I am an old dude 54. Is their resorces breaking down all sorts of flat land tricks. Sure would like to see them. There was alot in early 80's on vhs
Ayy nice vid its been 2 to 3 years since I lat watched you