A Visual History of Flatland BMX | Stages - 80s till now
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- Опубліковано 15 сер 2017
- ► Experience the evolution of Flatland BMX from the 80s to present day.
"STAGES" brings together two of the scene's most iconic riders, Red Bull athlete Yohei Uchino & the legendary Chad DeGroot as they travel through time re-exploring a range of tricks & styles from the Cherry Picker and Scuffing to the highly technical modern era of Flatland BMX.
Song credits: Red Bull Content Pool Audio Library
Athletes featured: Yohei Uchino & Chad DeGroot
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Flatland is the most under appreciated form of riding, ever. It's so incredible.
Agreed 100%. Still trying to get it in the Xgames.!
Indeed, i get the what the hell is that when people ask me my favorite sport and i say flatland
its actually the first real extreme sport. flatland bmx was around hundreds of years ago man. they were doing gymnastics like stuff on bicycles so basically bmx. its also popular out side of "bmx" on normal bicycles and appreciated as an art form in some asian culture.
the last trick was honestly the most amazing trick I've ever seen
Skyway, PK Ripper, Powerlite, and the GT...we had it back then and set the standard! We did it on the streets and in the creeks. We would get the other kids at school excited and watch us doing table tops off and on table tops, bunny hoping garbage cans, grinding on benches, doing 180's off curbs and 360's off jumps, one handed wheelies, ridding on the handlebars backwards, jumping staircases, and outrunning the cops at night...we were "RAD!"
Taxed to death in the 80's I ride skyways and 90s I use redline follow by haro
Well, I tried to do all that stuff, and it was Rad. Just like my friend Radical Rick in the Radillac.
Taxed to death that's right i had a pk when i was young hit a jump it broke in half at the neck and stabbed my leg..then rode mainly redline and a couple 2 peice auburns..
Taxed to death I still have and ride my old powerlite blitz.
Taxed to death
Diamond Back and Mongoose were also pretty rad in the 80's.
Up until a year or two ago, I still had a 1988 Haro Master in mint condition that I rode regularly. I bought the frame and fork in 1989 and had it sitting in a closet until about 2009 when I decided to find all the parts I needed on eBay and built it up like new. Redline 401 cranks. Peregrine 48's. Found some original Haro bars in perfect condition. The thing was sweet. The modern-day tricks are way more advanced than what we were doing in the 80's, but our fluorescent and neon bikes back then were _so much cooler_ than the bland earthtone, brakeless bikes they use today.
Hahaaa.... indeed.
you know it!
Shouts to Kevin Jones, he fathered the 90's era.
Vijuel come visit us in York PA next week on the 8th. Details on global flat website
5 minutes after watching... jaw is still dropped in awe of that last clip.
I was lucky to grow up 3 houses down from Dennis McCoy, got a lot of tips, he taught me how to do a miami hopper and a decade. Watching him do triple decades is his driveway blew my mind. Met Bob Haro, Rick Molinterno, Rick Thorne and such. Cool seeing all these guys I idolized in magazines hanging out in the street in front of my house. Was surreal.
WOW!
that 90's bits.. awesome.
3:42 i always wanted someone to do that, its amazing!
Yeah we were doing rolling tricks at the end of the eighties, don't kid yourself. Check the 'Dorkin in York vids if you don't believe.
Needed some late '80's in there.... ;)
bmxer4ever totally agree.
Yep - some DMC or Moliterno style! Their pro runs in '88 still hold up today...
The great Dennis McCoy. The REAL McCOY!
The art of Flatland is so beautiful...
This is a super sick edit to watch while high
For the 80's you should of had them on something neon green or pink/purple.
The 90's segment was absolutely on spot.
Nah
My dad was one of the first bmxers
I saw some photos and only some had neon stuff
But most of them were normal colors
That 90's style was happening in 1986 and 7
Today's pumping tricks were already beginning in the late 80's to 90 as well. Not as advanced though, obviously.
That bike flip to pedal at the end though
That ender was a blast to see.
We need a 20 plus min video for this
Chucking skids is still the coolest move of all time.
Phillip Leong no dude poppin wheelies.
Love this history!
SheSkates 926 lildlde8un
I demand more of this!!!!!!
Cool ride out on that last trick. .
That was highly enjoyable
Awesome video
so good!!
awesome!!
funny one! Love to see Flatland!
Take me back to the 80s and 90s
the 80s rocked
it was amazing last jump!
Nice one!
that ender was rad as hell
Sick!
gran video el flatland en alto nivel nice nice full good
very cool
I can't wait to see bmx in 30 years!!!
Nice history 😊
3:30 - 3:40 ... damn that was sweet! love the transition
Eu amo esse esporte!!
Wow Chad Degroot. Legend right their.
this vid is fire im stuck in the 80's
Sweet video. 👍
That first song - Win Big - Gledden Loy & Bussey
Very thanks!
Im brazilian. I don't speak english Very wel.
A long time i search that music and with your help i found It!
Win Big and Still in love by Gledden, Loy & Bussey.
Thanks!!
Nice vid
That was one fired up stunt whooooooooo....
It's art !
Sick
Cool video
Would have loved to see them use the popular, relevant flatland riders of the time for each segment. It's a new enough sport that even many of the pioneers still ride well enough for film.
I love the idea but I think it fell short. And why do all the 80's references/clips have to be a mockery? There was some seriously rad stuff going on back then. Not to mention they skipped a bunch of stages. Hopefully they do a part 2 and step it up. But besides all that....that last trick was sick!!!
crazyalcayne last trick was sick no doubt. Wish there was more to the video then what was showed that's for sure. If they want to display the 80's they can pretty much take scenes from the movie rad and reinact them because that's exactly what was going on back then not the weak riding they showed in this vid.
True indeed!!
you know red bull ain't got time for that. the quality is good but always ends to quick/ doesn't add enough.
I agree and also, sadly accept the context of this 'historical' compilation. I'm old, so I experienced the transition from banana seat, coaster brake bikes, to BMX racing, to freestyle BMX, within a few years, when I was 11 to 14 years old (1981 to 1984). We didn't know that brakes weren't important then, we were focused on tuning brakes. Pegs came out, the 'potts mod', steer tube, front brake cable routing thing happened, to allow bar movement and nobody understood what a ramp or transition should look like. Look what has happened! My childhood riskiness and passion has become a massive industry! No early footage tho.
I had the same exact blue/orange camera when I was a kid at the beach living in Florida lol. So weird seeing that scene for me since it was out-of-place with rest of the video.
dope
Missed a lot for the 80's... just saying. Dennis McCoy, Kevin jones ? they did a lot more than what you showed in this video.
That was more like when I was growing up in the 70's and you missed the entire 80's, your 90's shots where more 80's. But fun to watch either way!
I wish I had my standard and graveyard parts...this vid is rad
The dude with the Mustache and mullet is giving off a Eddie fiola vibe...😆
Funny, I just started watching dogtown and zboys when you guys decide to release this
I've been riding bikes for almost 40 years now. I've always loved flatland. Back in the 90's I figured I was gonna give it a go. I left bmx and was riding mountain for a good 8 or 9 years but I watched a few vids and figured I'd give it a go. I lasted a week before I gracefully tapped out and moved on to DH racing on mountain bikes.
I always love watching it though. These guys have so much wheel control it's not funny. I know they get a bad rap sometimes because they're not hucking huge gaps or blasting vert ramps like Hoffman but what they do is just as hard, if not harder. It's so fun to watch a graceful rider link trick after trick so fluid like it seems as if it's one long trick.. They make it look effortless like anyone could do it, until anyone tries it. It takes strength, balance, forethought and imagination to kick it Flatland style. It's as much of an art as it is a sport. The best are like graceful artists, using a parking lot as their canvas, and the bike as their brush. But the works they make disappear as fast as they are spun. Sometimes I have dreams where I can do anything I want on my bike, kind of flatland style. For those brief moments the tricks flow from me into the bike as I am able to effortlessly hold a manual for as long as I want with any variable tricks thrown in and for that time I get to feel what it's like to ride flatland, before I wake.
skyway & kuwi 🤩🤩
Don't forget us bike life riders
2:25 Freakin' awesome!
Brought back memories,
But mine was black and white chequers with MAG wheels 💪
I ❤ BMX
Now Redbull has to take it a step further and remake the movie "Rad". There is enough team Redbull bmx riders out there that can be the next Cru Jones lol
Benny Smith you sir, are correct. And before the Gyro was the ACS Rotor.
Cool video, but there was quite a huge transition between the early/mid 80's to late 80's, most hopping and brakes locked on tricks were gone and scuffing and rolling tricks became what pretty much was most of the 90's flatland. Hard to cram all of this into 4 mins of course ;)
I was hoping to see some legit vintage footage.
Do one for downhill mountain biking!
Min 2:26 wooooww wonderful
Mateo Arbelaez Patiño chad degroot actually invented that move in the 90's.
well i think that move is incredible...
i love the period correctness of the tricks and parts on the bike
love graveyard bars
Cuba is beautiful.
Wow
guys, i dont have any clue of BMX, but in the last scene, why can is rear wheel spin without moving the pedals, even if its turning "backwards", so in the opposite direction of the freewheel. (understand what i mean?)
Kautzer he has a freecoaster instead of a cassette
a freecoaster hub that works on a clutch system instead of pawls
duh...
Kautzer 😄😄😄
Ah okay thanks, never heard of such thing.
Skipped ten years where people had brakes and balance.
3:52 awsome... :o
Wow😆😆
Ahh reminds me of my younger days haha mx 2 and 3 finger brakes , hacking down those mahoosive dropouts as they weighed more than the titanic ....
Having to use cherry cola on your skyway mags so the brake blocks worked better ... Alas I could go on
Anyone knows who is the artist of the last song, that break is sick!
I was disappointed the first clip was severely lacking in Skyway mag rims
And frame mounted pegs
Didn't really show anything from the early days.
Remembered skyway tuff wheels
Seems like you're mocking the time before present.
Yep, massive improvement in riding quality °just° as RedBull hit the scene!
*Coincidence?!*
Who knows? 😉
Mark Grejda it called progress. however that's what was happening during that time.
The progress in the '80's was as radical. if not MORE radical than any time in flatland history. Just ask Rick or Dennis or Kevin. Their best in the late '80's still holds up today. :)
I'm 45, I remember the 80s.. this was pretty damn accurate! Watch GTv whenever you get a chance... Was GT bmxs freestyle video in like 87(?) It's corny as shit! But I loved it and I'd play the VHS tapes and it got me all hyped to go Pogo and Cherry picker and try Decades on my blue Dyno, or the Orange GT pro Performer... But then I got me a Trickstar with all the mismatched neon bling I could get... Those were the days...but yeah, we were dorks
My undergarments need changing.
can someone please tell me the 90's song??
First time ive seen a skyway without mags lol
The cool kids had a Diamondback.
Qual o nome da primeira música do vídeo? O Shazam não sabe.
what is the song in the 90s part?
I wonder if people who comment first actually think "wow when people see this they will think I'm so cool"
Jevon Smith but in reality we just think "wow, this kid is on UA-cam to much"
That whole °first°-thing changes as you start dating.
Um, I think it's a joke.
Dude the "first" thing is done as a joke it's practically a meme or inside joke.
Anyone know the name of the song at 1:26?
track pls
Hello
The TA should have had Tuff wheels but that's just my opinion.
Umm... 1:14; the Red Bull is "period incorrect"...
hi, can someone please recommend me a good flatland bmx bike? thanks!
Name of the second song please
If you like this watch the music video “nosebleed section” by hilltop hoods
I actually expected the song to be featured in this
Dude did a kickflip on bmx
How did he manual backwards without back peddling?
imo the 80s freestyle was way better then today