After my trip to Monaco for the Ninja Spin contest I got re-motivated to pick up my flatland bike. Last week/weekend I had a couple of good solo sessions followed by a few amazing session with Chad Johnston in Long Beach. I learned a few new things that I was psyched on and decided I wanted to film a session to track my progress and show my flatland sensei, Terry Adams. Terry is the reason I even own a flatland bike and he always gets stoked when I tell him I’ve been riding, although we pretty much never ride together.

This video was never intended to be shown to anyone except a few close friends because I have plans to film all of these tricks in a proper video in cool locations after I got a new bike. However, after hearing Terry’s response to the video I decided I’d go ahead and share it with everyone else. I’m in the process of trying to get a new flatland bike and have full intentions of making as good of an edit as I can this year. I guess by dropping this session video it will force me to have to either learn new stuff or really dial in these tricks for the next one…

So the video here is an hour and a half of riding by myself in a parking garage in Long Beach, California after a full day’s work at the Ride office on April 27, 2009.

Part of Terry’s email response to my video:
“I wanted to thank you for sharing that video of you riding flatland. it honestly motivated me in so many ways man. I actually just returned from a session that was fueled by your video…

…After watching your video it reminded me the true meaning of flatland.. Pushing yourself to to learn tricks and do them for the pure sake of accomplishment and self satisfaction. I thought that was a very special session you had out there man. I am stoked for you! It takes a certain type of person to ride flatland and use only your mind& bike with no obstacles.. You proved to me that it is inside you man. You also brought it back inside me. ” - Terry Adams

Over here in the magazine world sometimes we have to wait to post photos on the Internet because of something similar being used in the magazine. That’s why these eight black and white scans are going up three months after they were shot. With that said, here are a handful of my travel photos from Panama that I shot last November when I went down there for the Panama Flat International contest?