Vibrations Urbaines Pessac!

I just read this on Agoride, Once again The "Vibrations Urbaines" welcomes flatland! It's basically one of the biggest Street and Dirt contest in France, and every year they have an incredible flatland contest at 8:30 pm just before the party starts! I'll be here of course with Alex Jumelin, Adam Kun and all the top french pro riders!!
It will take place Saturday 30th October in Pessac!
BE THERE!!!

(Via Agoride)
On vient tout juste d'apprendre qu'un certain Alex Jumelin, qu'on n'a pas besoin de vous présenter, sera de la "party" pour le contest Flat des Vibrations Urbaines de Pessac cette année encore.
Fabien Stephan, Matthias Dandois (vainqueur de l'édition 2009 et 2007), Adam Kun, Remy Dunoyer, Jeremy Brosset, Jean Bulhon, Arnaud Gravey, Romain Georges, Matthieu Bonnecuelle, Joris Bretagnolle (vainqueur de l'édition 2008) et bien d'autres encore seront également présents.
Le contest Flat sera organisé par Mr Massabova (comme les années precedentes) et cette année nous auront l'honneur d'accueillir le maintenant célèbre speaker Kevin Jacobs, mesdames messieurs !

Le contest se déroule en plusieurs parties : La compète amateur et expert aura lieu le samedi après-midi à partir de 15h. Les portes de la salle BELLEGRAVE ouvrent à 11h pour l'entrainement.
A partir de 20h30, aura lieu le contest Pro sous forme de battle dans une ambiance survoltée avec les DJ VEX, TROUBL et D.FINE, ouvrant le bal à une soirée mémorable (SK8 out & Bunny Up contest / battle de Breakdance, expo et démo de Fixie...)
Les flatlanders pourront disposer de la salle BELLEGRAVE jusqu'au lundi 1 novembre mais aussi des terrains de basket devant la big tente du contest de Park.

VANS Iphone Edit!!

I'm lil late with this one but heh...
Two days ago my Vans TM was in Paris and I had some new street-Flat tricks to shoot. We made this with an iPhone 4 in 30 minutes...
Enjoy the new switches! comment, love-hate...whatever!
www.vans.fr

More BMX Videos

Complete Red Bull Flat Jazz review...

...by a jazz blog, very well done.
It's here:
http://nujazzspirit.blogspot.com

Facebook Exclusive!

I posted 10 exclusive photos of Portimao's Carhartt fieldcontrol on my official page on facebook!
Go check them!!! HERE!

For example, this one show you that my bike is as big as Alex Jumelin ahahah

Dailymotion HD

I just created an HD account on DAILYMOTION!
Check it out frequently for fresh videos!!
Peace!
http://www.dailymotion.com/MatthiasDandois

Vincent perraud Blog!

You like to watch amazing photographs?
I get you cover for this one, go check Vincent Perraud's blog, It made my day...

Riders Match Jury Exclusive Itw

ahahaha English and I, Two different worlds!

Matthias Dandois, Jury of Riders Match
envoyé par Riders-Match. - Regardez plus de vidéo de sport et de sports extrêmes.

FieldControl Final Battle

Adam Kun Vs Me... I won this one! ahaha
Shut down the volume before you play the video, it's annoying.

NORA Cup! And the winners are...

Flatlander of the year : Moto Sasaki
Ramp rider of the year : Drew Bezanson
DVD of the year : This is United.
Dirt jumper of the year : Chris Doyle
Street rider of the year : Garrett Reynolds
Video part of the year: Corey Martinez "this is united"
Racer of the year : Maris Stromburg

I'm so stoked for my friend Moto Sasaki! He's a fucking beast! Great representation of what flatland is today: Original tricks, fast, entertaining and he always ride with a big smile on his face! Congrats bro and let's celebrate that in Japan soon!!

New Facebook!

Soo! I deleted my old facebook account because seriously, there is no point to have 5000 friends you don't know anything about.
I created a new page where you can follow me, It's here:
NEW FACEBOOK PAGE.
Have fun!

Alex Jumelin in Portimao!!

On the last day of our trip to Portimao, we were hanging around by the beach, and Alex found this cool spot. He eventually took his bike and filmed three of his new combo to promote his Blog and new Website.
Check out the madness!

Alex Jumelin in Portimao from Matthias Dandois on Vimeo.

ODYSSEY

So I saw everywhere people in the internet get crazy about this news that dropped at interbike ahaha
Here is the official version,
I'll ride for Odyssey and A Bad Thing in 2010-2011, I have my signature frame comming up with A Bad Thing and I'll keep on riding the frame, the fork and the pegs. As for the rest of my bike, it will be Odyssey. I'm really proud to represent both of this company.
There will be some official announcement soon and a web video if you'd like to see it!
Lets keep in touch!
www.k-124.com
www.odysseybmx.com

More tatoos!

Yeap! My friend Walter Hego is a dope tatoo artist! look at our faces! ahaha

BMX Masters 26 Videos!

Good, Good video! Check it out! Flatland is at the beginning!

Carhartt Field Control on TV

Bento Galado sent this in on my facebook wall!
Pretty cool video!! Click on the picture to go to video.
Peace.

Field Control Final Results!

What a contest!!!
Ill explain everything soon but for now on, Here are The pro final results:
1-Matthias Dandois
2-Adam Kun
3-David Hoffman
4-Alex Jumelin
5-Daniel Fuhrmann
...
Peace!!

Portugal Update!

Qualification results (top 8 ride The final)
1-Matthias Dandois
2-Adam Kun
3-David Hoffman
4-Alex Jumelin
...
yesterday party was prety funny! We had a cool dinner with all the rider and I ended up doing a time machine in the middle of the restaurant.
Today is the final with battle format. Let's see who take the win!!

Made it to Portimao!!

For The Fieldcontrol and that place is lovely!!
Some big names are here like Adam Kun, Alex Jumelin, Daniel Fuhrmann,FLo Sailer, some American pro rider I can't remember his name, So Its gonna be fun!! Today is qualification, so stay tunned!!

Off to Portimao!!

I'm going to Portimao with Alex this week end!
Our flight is delay so we re kinda bummed ahahah

Red Bull Flat Jazz Official photos gallery

Go check some awesome photos of the event here!!

Red Bull Flat Jazz Video!!!

Red Bull made an awesome video of the event! Go check it out here and learn some french!!!

Nominated for Nora Cup!

Here are the Nominees!

#1 Ramp Rider
Jamie Bestwick
Drew Bezanson
Dennis Enarson
Chase Hawk
Gary Young

#1 Dirt Jumper
Corey Bohan
Mike “Hucker” Clark
Chris Doyle
TJ Ellis
Dennis Enarson

#1 Street Rider
Ty Morrow
Garrett Reynolds
Dakota Roche
Nathan Williams
Rob Wise

#1 Flatlander
Terry Adams
Matthias Dandois
Martti Kuoppa
Jesse Puente
Moto Sasaki

#1 Racer (top four)
Josh Meyers
Maris Strombergs
Sam Willoughby
Khalen Young

Best Video Part
Corey Martinez - This is United
Garrett Reynolds - Props Issue 75
Dakota Roche - Let ‘Em Talk
Dave Thompson - Props Issue 76
Nathan Williams - This Is United

Video of the Year
Cuts (Animal)
Let ‘Em Talk (Cult)
Range of Motion (Ride BMX)
The Birth of Big Air (Dickhouse Productions)
This is United (United)

I'm so stoked to be once again nominated for the flatland category!! Thanks to all the BMX Community!!
Well now, Where the fuck are Viki Gomez, Yohei Uchino and Adam Kun? Come On!!! They all have been doing more stuff for flatand, more new tricks, more exposistion or do more contest than anybody else out there... Well... nevermind, it's all about fun!
My vote went to Yohei Uchino, so you know!
Peace.
M.

Chuncheon World Leisure Cup

Super nice edit from Shindetic!!!
Enjoy!

New Time machine?

Can Can on the seat tube... Fun to do! Click the photo to enlarge it!
©Dorian Huet

"Inside" Red Bull flat jazz

Waiting for the 26 minutes video by Red Bull, Alex Jumelin posted tons of good photo of the making of the Red Bull Flat Jazz.
Check them out here and make sure you go THERE daily!!!

FJ and Vera at work!! theses guys rock!!


I was a teacher for like 3 days ahaha


Ucchie and Julien Feltin (guitar) chilling!


China Moses, the MC of the Red Bull Flat jazz! This girl rock!!


6 hours before the event!

Ucchie is fucked up in his head

Ahaah during the Red Bull Flat Jazz Rehearsals, we had some pillows to chill on, and Ucchie use them to learn some new tricks. For the record, he did that bar stand to fronty on hard floor during the show...
www.yoheiuchino.com

alexjumelin: crazy video of ouchie: "bar stand to front flip that man is crazy"

alexjumelin: how to nose weeling: "yes this a good way to learn that tricks"

(via www.alexjumelin.com)

A Good Thing!

Just spotted this on Ucchie's Blog, Pretty Cool!

Publication in Direct soir!!

I have 4 pages in the last issue of direct sport, a huge free newspaper whose highly distributed all over France!
So psyched on it!!

Red Bull Flat Jazz!!!!

OH.MY.GOOOOOODNESSS!!!
If you weren't there, you can't even touch how awesome it was!!!
4 of the best riders in the world (Viki Gomez, Alex Jumelin, Yohei Uchino and I) meeting 3 of the best musiciens ever! We worked hard in collaboration with Red Bull to make this show perfect, and it came out perfect.
The cabaret sauvage was super crowded with our friends, fans, family and media. So all we had to do is giving our best!
The show was splitted in different parts (Runs, Battle (Riders VS Riders and Musiciens VS rider), Freestyle and coregraphie. The greatest moment of the show was the one to one battle with the musiciens. Each one of them played a solo (drum, bass or Guitar), while we were doing what we do the best: riding.
Ucchie did a Bar Stand to Frontflip, yes you read it well! he landed on his foot ahahah
At the end of the show, the crowd voted for who he thinks was the "most accurate riders to stick with music" I won and took a Electric guitar back home! whouhouu!
After the show, everyone ended up in a Fashion Paris Night Club and finished super late and super wasted ahaha
Here are some pic and the video will be up soon!
I would like to thanks Red Bull to make my dream event come true, and off course Alex Jumelin, Yohei Uchino, Viki Gomez, Julien Feltin (Guitar), Patrice Moret (Bass), Marc Erbetta (Drum) for this awesome night!!!!
Peace!
If you read French, Red Bull made a nice repo HERE

Ucchie Spin!!


China Moses (MC) and Patrice Moret (Bass)


Alex ripping it up!!!


Promoting Flatland as hard as I can!!

Red Bull Flat Jazz showcased on french TV!

One of the biggest channel in France (M6) made a quick repo on yesterday's Red Bull Flat Jazz!
It starts at mark 10:50 !! Enjoy!!

http://www.m6replay.fr/

Red Bull Flat Jazz Rehearsals day Two

The day Two went amazing, we found some cool stuff to do with the musicians, so the show is gonna be epic!!
Today is the last day of reahearsals and tomorrow is the D Day so stay tuned!!
www.redbull.fr/flatjazz

Alex Jumelin lauches his blog!!!

Here is what he's to say about it!!
"Hey .
I know what you think .
an other blog for a pro rider ;
you maybe notice that i don't really need a blog cause most of the things i do is with matt so all is finally on his blog , but there many more aspect of my life that i want to share with you all .
a lot more that only bmx flat .
of i will post video of my riding and more ....."

www.alexjumelin.blogspot.com

Red Bull Flat Jazz Day 1

I just landed in Paris yesterday with Viki, and we took a cab straight from the airport to Alex spot to meet up with Ucchie, Alex and the musician for the first reahearsal day!
It went awesome!, Viki and I were pretty tired but we still found some good idea!
Today is day 2; I'll let you know!

World Leisure Games final results

Just won the World Leisure Games in Korea!! Moto Sasaki 2nd, Viki Gomez third. I dunno whose the 4th dude on the photo... #random

Vincent Perraud...

... won the "culture" category on the Red Bull Illume photo contest!!!
Yes, one of my best friend and best photographer Vincent Perraud (the dude who followed me in my Austin adventure for one month) just won the biggest photo competition in the world in the "culture" category with this incredible shot!!! I'm so happy for him!!!



(Via Red Bull): Le Red Bull Illume avait lieu ce mardi à Dublin, en Irlande dans la grandiose enceinte du Trinity College. Cette compétition récompensant les meilleurs photographes d’action et d’aventure du monde a suscité un réel engouement de la part d’un public venu en nombre assister à la remise des prix. Et si c’est l’Américain Chris Burkhard qui a remporté la palme de la meilleure photo toutes catégories confondues, avec son cliché impressionnant de Peter Mendria domptant les vagues sur la cote ouest du Chili, le Français Vincent Perraud n’a pas démérité en remportant le prix de la meilleure photo de culture.

Passionné de BMX, Vincent a été contraint de s’arrêter pendant plus d’un an à l’âge de 21 ans, suite à une blessure au genou. Pour rester au plus près du vélo, il s’est ainsi mis à la photo, se trouvant rapidement un talent caché pour l’objectif. Rapidement ses photos trouvent preneurs au sein de la presse spécialisée et il se consacre pleinement à cette nouvelle passion, avec un certain succès. C’est donc une suite logique à sa progression que ce prix remporté grâce à son cliché pris à Tallinn en 2008, dans un bus blindé de riders et de BMX. Comme pour souligner un peu plus l’aspect très convivial de ce sport pas comme les autres…

2010 Nora Cup

I wanna go there so bad!!!
www.ridebmx.com

Korea day Three!

Pretty good day yesterday in Chuncheon, Korea! No rain this time!
It was actually qualification day for every class and discipline.
I woke up and took a Massive breafast with all the riders which is always pretty wild and finishes with food fight all the time...
We eventually went to the contest area.
36 riders entered the Bmx flatland contest... including 30 top japanese pros... Since they only took 12 riders to the final and we only had 2 minutes run, It was not the time to miss your run. Viki, Moto and I basically had no touches run so we made the top 3.
Moto is seriously getting better and better... Insanity!
I eventually went to watch my friend ride the Park contest. Tom Dugan a.k.a Dang Dang killed the jump box with an Astronaut 3sixty that sent him to the 4th spot. Top 3 where contest riders (flair whip and shit), not my cup of tea...
After the contest ended, I went to downton Chuncheon with Dang dang and JF to check out what was up there... Not much but a KFC ahahah
After that I went to play some video games with some homies and had some beers. Tom played some MGMT songs on the hotel piano, good times! I was definitely tired afterwards and final is today so I went to sleep like a real athlete :)
I'll let you know what's up with the final today!!!
Peace!!!
Nice story: On the way back from the contest to the hotel, Viki didn't see a tree's root on the road, cased his front wheel on it and frontflipped full speed over his bar and exploded his knee... Hope he still can ride today...

Tom Dugan Can play Piano!


Chuncheon Downton a saturday night? Not much going on!


Viki Gomez X Tom Dugan Knee


The ghetto in the ghetto: KFC in Chuncheon!!

Qualification results!

Final is gonna be awesome tomorrow!

Korea Day Two

Once again that was one long day!
I woke up this morning pretty early and the sun was shining.
I got to the event whose really fucking crazy, I couldn't wait to practice, but 2 hours later, a huge storm came down and ruined the biggest part of the day... We just chilled around with Viki and JF.
The sun came back at 4 p.m so we had two hours of practice (sun goes down at 6 in Korea). The floor is the best floor I have ever ridden in my whole life, so the level of practice was pretty high! I eventually rode some ramps with Akira. It was really difficult to ride because there is like 100 percent of humidity there. You move your arm and you're all sweaty!
We eventually went back to the hotel to get ready for the opening dinner with all the athlete. It was really an awesome dinner!
Tomorrow is the qualification so I might get some sleep now!

View from my hotel room this morning!


Viki at Practice


Dinner is served!


BMX, Skate, and Inline Skating... One love!


And if you were wondering if it's one big event or not, here are some pro I saw today:
Moto Sasaki
Viki Gomez
JF Boulianne
York Uno
Schinichi Kiba "Russia"
Yoshihiro Shinde
Takahiro Ikeda
Tomokazu Morinaga
Keisuke Tanigamwa
Akira Okamura
Akihiko Takahashi
Chad DeGroot
... and many more

Korea Day 0 and 1

Day 0 suits perfect cause nothing hapenned, could aswell've been the worst day in my life. Yeap there were a typhoon in Seoul so our plane got stuck in Paris airport for 9 hours. We finally took off and land 11 hours after in the Incheon airport. We eventually took a 3 hours bus to the hotel... 23 hours trip anyone?
Nevermind, this seems to be one big event, the organisation was waiting for us at the hotel and treated us with some great Korean style dinner.
After that Viki and I felt jetlagged so we took sleeping pills to pass out so this morning we feel brand new!
I just crossed so many Japanese rider in the hotel this morning (Moto, Ikeda, York...) so It' gonna be pretty fun. Let's see what hapen today at the practice!
Keep in touch.

Landed!!


Viki just before he gets some Korean dinner


Breakfast with Viki and JF Boulianne my good homie from Canada!!


Just so you know: (Seoul Local Time)
FRIDAY: Practice from 1:30 pm to 5:00
SATURDAY: Prelims: 3:00 pm
SUNDAY: Final 4:30 pm