A GOOD READ
I was texting with Farid (Identify) last night and he mentioned me that there’ll be a flatland show air on Astro channel 814. It was the recent BMX Masters event happened in Cologne, Germany. The one that Mat Dagu went last year. I’m psyched with the show. It shows unedit runs of the riders which is really really really hard to see on TV. It’s a good thing to see flatland get coverage like that.
Now it is 5 in the morning. I couldn’t sleep so I hit the net. And as usual I hit global-flat.com. There you go, a very good article to read before I get on bed. A pro flatlander Michael Sommer posts an open letter of his thoughts about the contest scene, the fucking internet and some other things. He(Sommer) also touches about the BMX Masters since he’s one of the judges. I hate sitting and reading facing the pc screen on a long period of time so I copy-paste and print the article. Oh well there are comments to Sommer’s letter by some pros as well, they must be really good too. Copy-paste again and print.
A lot of points and ideas pointed by Mr Sommer. As well as Effraim Catlow, Scott O’Brien, Chad Johnston and Bobby Carter in their comments. I have to agree on what Bobby says. He gets all the points there, about the flatland scene generally.
I suggest you to read the Sommer’s letter and the comments. Why? Simply because the same thing(or maybe a bit different)Â is happening in our tiny tiny local scene.
