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Martti's speech
Ok. I am going to be very honest and tell you only the facts and the truth that I see in this flatland world nowdays. Ok, to start the facts I do it like this: I have traveled to around 45 countries in last 12 years of my pro flatland career, I've seen many flatland scenes all over the world. I won most of the comps that there is to be won. I made some good video sections that will remain good still in next 10 years. I have coaced many people and I made few people from the beginner level to top pro level. I know flatland, I know flatland better than most of the pro riders out there (not saying I know it the best but yes, I know it pretty damn detailed). I know the good things and I know the problems from riding to judging to tricks to attitudes and I know who doesn t like who and who is talking bullshit about who. Yes, I am aware of everything.
I can still come up with good tricks and new tricks. No problem. I could still win many competitions if I really wanted to push myself to that direction, but I don't.
So, that is my little introduction on my feedback about flatland in general I am about to tell everyone. Here you go:
To start it lets go like this few questions:
1. If you didn t know how to walk, would you see it possible to run very fast?
2. If you didn't learn to talk yet, would you be able to learn another language before you learn to talk?
3. When you are about 4 yrs. old with your 1st bicycle would you be able to ride 28 inch road bike?
4. Would you be a director of a company if you didnt have any work / studies experience in your life?
5. Would you learn how to use different computer programs over night if you didn't know how to turn on your computer?
6. Would you learn to ride your flatland bike as good as I do if you didn't learn the basic tricks?
If you answered yes to any of these questions I think it is time to read on, if you answered no, read on anyways.
What makes me to ride in the level I am riding is that I learn t all the basics very well. I learn't to scuff and roll with both feet. I learn't to use my front and rear brake on all the techniques. I learn't to roll switchfooted, cross footed, backwards, turbined (yes, I invented turbine style back in 1997 as far as I know).
It is all about step by step learning and being patient. I have kids coming to me all the time to ask me to teach this trick and that trick (just because those tricks are cool/fashion and higher quality tricks they are doing currently). Then I make a simple question: Can you even do a half lash (half whiplash and you crab the bike with your other foot and roll out, very basic trick) and the answer is NO. So, how are you possibly going to learn a timemachine if you cannot do a halflash or tailwheelie? And you are already riding brakeless.
I want to learn multiple whiplash, well, I can teach it to you but first let's see if you can do regular pinky squeak? No. Ok, piky squeak might be out of "fashion" but it sure builds up your coordinations on your riding. You cannot learn if you don't have that sort of foundation on your body. Fact. Or you can learn, but eventually you will hit the dead end and don't progress anymore.
The whole fashion about brakeless have turned flatland into the weakest I have ever seen. The amateur level riding is more like a beginner level riding. Most of the riders wants to learn only the cool tricks as fast as possible and once they don't learn because they skipped the basics they end up hitting their heads to the wall and quit flatland and go into basketball or something like that because at least you can hit the basket sometimes when you are lucky and that is enough. In flatland you cannot be lucky to hit the basket and have that good feeling.
When I tell people that ok, please learn the basics first before you try to do "almost pro level" tricks I see many dissapointed faces and excuses. Do you think I learn't everything so quick? No, I didn't. For most of my youth I was riding 6 - 9 hours every day. I skipped my school and that is still affecting my work life nowdays but I dedicated myself to learn all the possibly techniques I could have learn t. That's why I am one of the few pro flatlanders who has more styles. I have a style for whiplashes, I have style for kickflips, I have style for turbines, I know pretty much all the styles and tricks there is in the book of flatland. Not to be arrogant about it, that is just a fact.
I can ride slow or fast. I can ride stylish or big trick style. I can ride brakeless or with the brakes.
That's why I am writing about this subject.
I want to see flatland stay alive because eventually if kids goes brakeless right away before even learning a proper hitchhiker we will see lot of the people just quitting flatland because it is out of their capability.
So, if people wants to ride the newschool (fashion) flatland style starting today, I have some bad news for you. You need 5 more years to learn more foundations unless you want to limit your self into turbine steamroller attempts. That's how difficult flatland is.
It is the same problem with upcoming pros. I see people take out the brakes, I see the people change the riding style to more up to date spinning/turbine type of tricks and be more sure to pull the links than take a risk and try do or die method. (do or die is not today. Today is to play safe to get a proper placing and hope to get sponsored right away to become a real pro. Well, that is not going to happen in ground tactics competition. I am not going to give the pro life anyone very easy.
I know that if this was a regular flatland competition without a word "progression", we would have gotten many more videos already. But it isn t.
I want to change the level of flatland something better, therefore I am really looking to find (in next couple of years) someone who is able to kick the asses of current proffessionals including me. It is possible, but if things are learn't in a wrong way it is not possible.
Basically yes, we are scouting new talents with this project. That is why I am here to teach hou everything you need to learn about flatland. I will give you all the details how to ride in the top pro level in flatland. ALL I need from you is to be patient and practice with the methods I teach you. This is a long/big proccess but if I can have together let's say 10 - 20 people who will follow the teaching I am providing here I belive we can have a new blood in the sport of flatland in about 3 - 5 more years. If we are lucky, we might have 5 - 10 new top pros coming out.
All you need to do is to eat your ego and listen. Otherwise the ego will eat you and you won't get anywhere even near to top pro level or even anywhere near to pull a timemachine.
It is really like that, if you want to learn pedaling timemachine the running order is like this: Tailwheelie --> many more basic tricks you have currently with brakes --> regular timemachine --> even more same level advanced/basic methods and tricks needs to be practiced --> time machine on the pedal --> progress even more with all around flatland including many many tricks --> pedaling timemachine --> even more tricks --> no handed pedaling timemachine.
Sorry for the sad facts but that is pretty much how it goes.
I know that most of the riders out there are just about to have fun with bike and enjoy doing what they do. But, as far as I know whatever your hobby is from skateboarding to bmx to breakdancing you want to at least learn few tricks? And once you learn't few tricks you want more or you quit. And, for couple of years you practice flatland in a wrong way and you see you cannot progress you will quit and when there is many people in this world thinking the same, flatland will die and same will happen to many other activities around.
Is it because of the fast life society most of us who are using internet are living? Everyone is already having the cell phone at the age of 8, internet using at the age of 6, dvds, bikes are nice right away, no need to wait for a magzine to see the latest pro competition results because you can see them in internet the next day, order pizza with your cell phone and get it paid with credit card so all you have to do is to open the door and eat the pizza. The thing is that most of the my generation proffessional and before did not have that when we were 10 - 20 or 25. Our activities have been very simple when we have been kids, we really had to be patient by learning the tricks, we enjoyed the progression because there wasn't that much of amusements going on at least in my life during those times, I just wanted to ride and progress. Then that mindset stayed and that is why I am always surprised to see people with fancy bikes with low skills. My bike at the 1996 worlds weighted 18 kilograms. Hardcore flatland bike with a high top tube. And, I bet, I rode better with that bike than most of the riders at 2009 worldchampionships. I already did pedal timemachines, both, regular or cross footed. I already did no handed pedal timemachines with that bike among many other things.
And I am not a special alien out here, with special natural abilities. I am just a regular guy with a good sence of imagination and the rest-I rode my ass off and did nothing but ride and ride.
I am not asking people to do the same, because nowdays it should be easier!!! You have already good light weight bikes in your hands. You have a lot of people willing to help you to learn how to ride, especially now that I am here giving you very detailed explanations how to learn to ride your bike. So it should actually be easier nowdays than back in the days with heavy piece of shit bikes and noone teaching us.... What is the problem?? Expecting to get everything in a silver plate instead of working hard for it?
As I said before, I do understand the hobby aspect and most of the people don't even require higher standards on their ridings but unfortunately I've seen so many of these people around me that I know that in less than 5 years they all quit riding because there is no motivation to continue because they feel they suck at riding which is very understandable, I would not be riding anymore if I didn't progress.
And, it won't even require 6 - 9 hours of daily riding nowdays if the bikes are lighter and there is people who are willing to help out with tricks. Decent progression can be done in 1 - 2 hours in daily basis. If not, the practice method is wrong and too difficult tricks are being practiced.
Ok. I might be wrong about all this but I just had to open it up and let you all know how I feel about flatland. I truly think it is the dopest thing on earth to be done and it would be very shame to see it go out and slowly die because of the reasons I explained earlier.
Thanks for your time about reading. And I am not here to hurt anyones feelings. If someone gets pissed off about my way of thinking we can solve the situation with tricks I am not being egoistic, just realistic. I flushed my ego down the toilet last winter-completely.
Here is a little remainder from 2002, 7 years ago. And as I said, I know the different styles and with this run, I could still place well and these are not fashinoable tricks, well, there is a good reason why and everyone can think of the answer... All I can say that most of the things are quite difficult to compare to todays standards, I don't do this comment for to piss people off, just to see the reality todays proffessional levels.
(maybe I just learn the following run very consistent and do it for the fun of it 2010 at the every comp I go and have a good laugh of this all afterwards)
A lire et à relire.
I can still come up with good tricks and new tricks. No problem. I could still win many competitions if I really wanted to push myself to that direction, but I don't.
So, that is my little introduction on my feedback about flatland in general I am about to tell everyone. Here you go:
To start it lets go like this few questions:
1. If you didn t know how to walk, would you see it possible to run very fast?
2. If you didn't learn to talk yet, would you be able to learn another language before you learn to talk?
3. When you are about 4 yrs. old with your 1st bicycle would you be able to ride 28 inch road bike?
4. Would you be a director of a company if you didnt have any work / studies experience in your life?
5. Would you learn how to use different computer programs over night if you didn't know how to turn on your computer?
6. Would you learn to ride your flatland bike as good as I do if you didn't learn the basic tricks?
If you answered yes to any of these questions I think it is time to read on, if you answered no, read on anyways.
What makes me to ride in the level I am riding is that I learn t all the basics very well. I learn't to scuff and roll with both feet. I learn't to use my front and rear brake on all the techniques. I learn't to roll switchfooted, cross footed, backwards, turbined (yes, I invented turbine style back in 1997 as far as I know).
It is all about step by step learning and being patient. I have kids coming to me all the time to ask me to teach this trick and that trick (just because those tricks are cool/fashion and higher quality tricks they are doing currently). Then I make a simple question: Can you even do a half lash (half whiplash and you crab the bike with your other foot and roll out, very basic trick) and the answer is NO. So, how are you possibly going to learn a timemachine if you cannot do a halflash or tailwheelie? And you are already riding brakeless.
I want to learn multiple whiplash, well, I can teach it to you but first let's see if you can do regular pinky squeak? No. Ok, piky squeak might be out of "fashion" but it sure builds up your coordinations on your riding. You cannot learn if you don't have that sort of foundation on your body. Fact. Or you can learn, but eventually you will hit the dead end and don't progress anymore.
The whole fashion about brakeless have turned flatland into the weakest I have ever seen. The amateur level riding is more like a beginner level riding. Most of the riders wants to learn only the cool tricks as fast as possible and once they don't learn because they skipped the basics they end up hitting their heads to the wall and quit flatland and go into basketball or something like that because at least you can hit the basket sometimes when you are lucky and that is enough. In flatland you cannot be lucky to hit the basket and have that good feeling.
When I tell people that ok, please learn the basics first before you try to do "almost pro level" tricks I see many dissapointed faces and excuses. Do you think I learn't everything so quick? No, I didn't. For most of my youth I was riding 6 - 9 hours every day. I skipped my school and that is still affecting my work life nowdays but I dedicated myself to learn all the possibly techniques I could have learn t. That's why I am one of the few pro flatlanders who has more styles. I have a style for whiplashes, I have style for kickflips, I have style for turbines, I know pretty much all the styles and tricks there is in the book of flatland. Not to be arrogant about it, that is just a fact.
I can ride slow or fast. I can ride stylish or big trick style. I can ride brakeless or with the brakes.
That's why I am writing about this subject.
I want to see flatland stay alive because eventually if kids goes brakeless right away before even learning a proper hitchhiker we will see lot of the people just quitting flatland because it is out of their capability.
So, if people wants to ride the newschool (fashion) flatland style starting today, I have some bad news for you. You need 5 more years to learn more foundations unless you want to limit your self into turbine steamroller attempts. That's how difficult flatland is.
It is the same problem with upcoming pros. I see people take out the brakes, I see the people change the riding style to more up to date spinning/turbine type of tricks and be more sure to pull the links than take a risk and try do or die method. (do or die is not today. Today is to play safe to get a proper placing and hope to get sponsored right away to become a real pro. Well, that is not going to happen in ground tactics competition. I am not going to give the pro life anyone very easy.
I know that if this was a regular flatland competition without a word "progression", we would have gotten many more videos already. But it isn t.
I want to change the level of flatland something better, therefore I am really looking to find (in next couple of years) someone who is able to kick the asses of current proffessionals including me. It is possible, but if things are learn't in a wrong way it is not possible.
Basically yes, we are scouting new talents with this project. That is why I am here to teach hou everything you need to learn about flatland. I will give you all the details how to ride in the top pro level in flatland. ALL I need from you is to be patient and practice with the methods I teach you. This is a long/big proccess but if I can have together let's say 10 - 20 people who will follow the teaching I am providing here I belive we can have a new blood in the sport of flatland in about 3 - 5 more years. If we are lucky, we might have 5 - 10 new top pros coming out.
All you need to do is to eat your ego and listen. Otherwise the ego will eat you and you won't get anywhere even near to top pro level or even anywhere near to pull a timemachine.
It is really like that, if you want to learn pedaling timemachine the running order is like this: Tailwheelie --> many more basic tricks you have currently with brakes --> regular timemachine --> even more same level advanced/basic methods and tricks needs to be practiced --> time machine on the pedal --> progress even more with all around flatland including many many tricks --> pedaling timemachine --> even more tricks --> no handed pedaling timemachine.
Sorry for the sad facts but that is pretty much how it goes.
I know that most of the riders out there are just about to have fun with bike and enjoy doing what they do. But, as far as I know whatever your hobby is from skateboarding to bmx to breakdancing you want to at least learn few tricks? And once you learn't few tricks you want more or you quit. And, for couple of years you practice flatland in a wrong way and you see you cannot progress you will quit and when there is many people in this world thinking the same, flatland will die and same will happen to many other activities around.
Is it because of the fast life society most of us who are using internet are living? Everyone is already having the cell phone at the age of 8, internet using at the age of 6, dvds, bikes are nice right away, no need to wait for a magzine to see the latest pro competition results because you can see them in internet the next day, order pizza with your cell phone and get it paid with credit card so all you have to do is to open the door and eat the pizza. The thing is that most of the my generation proffessional and before did not have that when we were 10 - 20 or 25. Our activities have been very simple when we have been kids, we really had to be patient by learning the tricks, we enjoyed the progression because there wasn't that much of amusements going on at least in my life during those times, I just wanted to ride and progress. Then that mindset stayed and that is why I am always surprised to see people with fancy bikes with low skills. My bike at the 1996 worlds weighted 18 kilograms. Hardcore flatland bike with a high top tube. And, I bet, I rode better with that bike than most of the riders at 2009 worldchampionships. I already did pedal timemachines, both, regular or cross footed. I already did no handed pedal timemachines with that bike among many other things.
And I am not a special alien out here, with special natural abilities. I am just a regular guy with a good sence of imagination and the rest-I rode my ass off and did nothing but ride and ride.
I am not asking people to do the same, because nowdays it should be easier!!! You have already good light weight bikes in your hands. You have a lot of people willing to help you to learn how to ride, especially now that I am here giving you very detailed explanations how to learn to ride your bike. So it should actually be easier nowdays than back in the days with heavy piece of shit bikes and noone teaching us.... What is the problem?? Expecting to get everything in a silver plate instead of working hard for it?
As I said before, I do understand the hobby aspect and most of the people don't even require higher standards on their ridings but unfortunately I've seen so many of these people around me that I know that in less than 5 years they all quit riding because there is no motivation to continue because they feel they suck at riding which is very understandable, I would not be riding anymore if I didn't progress.
And, it won't even require 6 - 9 hours of daily riding nowdays if the bikes are lighter and there is people who are willing to help out with tricks. Decent progression can be done in 1 - 2 hours in daily basis. If not, the practice method is wrong and too difficult tricks are being practiced.
Ok. I might be wrong about all this but I just had to open it up and let you all know how I feel about flatland. I truly think it is the dopest thing on earth to be done and it would be very shame to see it go out and slowly die because of the reasons I explained earlier.
Thanks for your time about reading. And I am not here to hurt anyones feelings. If someone gets pissed off about my way of thinking we can solve the situation with tricks I am not being egoistic, just realistic. I flushed my ego down the toilet last winter-completely.
Here is a little remainder from 2002, 7 years ago. And as I said, I know the different styles and with this run, I could still place well and these are not fashinoable tricks, well, there is a good reason why and everyone can think of the answer... All I can say that most of the things are quite difficult to compare to todays standards, I don't do this comment for to piss people off, just to see the reality todays proffessional levels.
(maybe I just learn the following run very consistent and do it for the fun of it 2010 at the every comp I go and have a good laugh of this all afterwards)
A lire et à relire.
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Mingle
Ils sont fous ces japonais !
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# Posted on Saturday, 05 September 2009 at 7:35 AM
Martti new trick
Génial ! J'adore vraiment !
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