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REVIEWS
Fourth Floor Productions
Flatland Manifesto - Issue #2
Review By: Jon Dudzinski
Being his third video, NEV has come a long way since Paved Paradise. With this video, he proved that he has what it takes to be one of the top video producers.
With over 50 flatlanders in this video, it is one of the biggest videos when it comes to variety of riders. Matt St. Gelais busted out some short but sweet links. Akira Okamura does a really cool barflip where his hand comes off the bar mid-flip. Travis Collier has some stuff that I have never seen before such as a hang-5 link where he twist's himself into a switch handed steamroller. Hiro Morisaki was doing some great stuff like a double footed hand-5 where he's holding the seat, as he goes in circles he does barflips, lands back in the hang-5 and does it again. Aaron Frost hits some brakeless links. Takashi Ito has a few new tricks up his sleeve like a spastic half-hiker where he jumps around the bars while he's spinning. Nathan Penonzek is his usual self doing a lot of differnt front and back wheel tricks. Hara Shinichiro was going of with really fast pinky squeaks and turbined wheel chairs. Adam Pintek hits stuff on his crankless GT. Stephan Cerra really ripped in this video. Awesome turbines and spins. Dave McDaniel has an interview in this video, very cool guy. Yammer Yamamoto was doing his twisted links where he throws in a 360 barflip out of nowhere. York Uno, who is now brakeless, was going off more than ever with some of the best stuff in the video. Kenji Horikawa hits some mccircle links. Canadian rider, Cory Fester had some really great stuff to show off. Andrew Faris had some stuff like his 360 barflip into a half-packer. James Kennedy is really good. He had some stuff like a hang-5 switched into an inside circle-k on the opposite pedal. Matt Wilhelm was spinning like mad. Jeff DesRoche is dialing in those steamrollers on the pedal and throwing them in his links. Steve Fong is awesome. He does some of the coolest links and lands them straight to the pedals. Steve Mulder does his bike-flip. Full Circle rider, Anthony Durbano was going off with some great links. Michael Sommer hit's a 540 barflip into a steamroller and does some kickflip links too. Jamie MacIntosh was riding very aggresive and did a triple decade and a few other cool back wheel links. Cory Stratychuk did his regualr smooth links. Adam Degoede did a cross footed wheel chair glide and a scuffing wheel chair standing on the bars. Matti Rose is hauling in this video with some of the most awesome tricks ever like a backward time machine on the pedal. Stephan Royer had one really cool link where he switched all over the place and rode out. Dan Rigby did his usual spastic steamroller links. Effraim Catlow's interview was very cool as he talked about the old days of flatland. Viki Gomez was going off with some of the longest and smoothest links I have seen. Martti Quoppa defended his kickflipping with some half-packer kickflips, he'd better watch out though, rumer has it that Akira Okamura hits a half-hiker 360 kickflip in Flatland Manifesto #3.
The quality of the footage in this video is astronomical. Very clear shots and awesome angles make this one of the highest quality footage videos out today. Dave McDaniel's interview was done so you could see his face as he talked and see him ride at the same time, very clever idea if you ask me.
The soundtrack in Flatland Manifesto is very diverse, ranging from hip-hop to oldies. When I first heard the soundtrack, I didn't like it. After a while though, it grew on me.
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- Riders: Matt St. Gelais, Akira Okamura, Travis Collier, Hiro Morisaki, Aaron Frost, Takashi Ito, Nathan Penonzek, Genyo Ninomya, Hara Shinichiro, Brian Tunney, Adam Pintek, Stephan Cerra, Edward Benoil, Takahiro Enoki, Akio Kotani, Dave McDaniel, Kataro Tanaka, Yammer Yamamoto, Yuki, Osamu, Masataka, Kazuma, York Uno, Kenji Horikawa, Kappa, Yuuji, Yasushi Tanabe, Cory Fester, James White, Andrew Faris, James Kennedy, Matt Wilhelm, Jeff DesRoche, Steve Fong, Steve Mulder, Anthony Durbano, Alexis Desolneux, Michael Sommer, Jamie MacIntosh, Ulrich Kitel, Cory Stratychuk, Adam Degoede, Matti Rose, Scott Powell, Michael Steingrabber, Scott Powell, Michael Steingrabber, Stephan Royer, Dan Rigby, Hide, Efraim Catlow, Aaron Behnke, Chad Degroot, Viki Gomez, Martti Kouppa, Phil Dolan, Gabe Kadmiri
- Running Time: 45 min.
- $19.99 (www.flatlandfuel.com)
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