Fl!pbykes Flatmaster 2K9

The guys over at Fl!pbykes in the Philippines are holding an international Flatland Contest over December 12 & 13. Shintaro just let me know that he's going to be making it & the word around is that there are going to be a whole bunch of other well known riders involved as well.

For more info check the flyer below & click here.

New Shintaro Misawa Autumn 2009 edit!

Spied this over on Effraim's Flatmattersonline blog, Shintaro has just put out a new Autumn 2009 edit & as always with a bunch of super tech switches thrown in....

King of Ground photos

Shintaro Misawa has had a great year. He's travelled all over the globe & been consistently placing in nearly every contest he's been in & rounded out the year with a 3rd place finish in the series result for the 2009 King of Ground.

Shintaro also sent over the following photos from the weekend. Great to see Brett Dighton, Ronnie Rampton & the Queensland crew in amongst it all - look forward to hearing the stories from their trip soon!

Good luck to Brett Dighton who will be having his Japanese wedding shortly!

One Cup 2009 videos now up!

The One Cup 2009 event that went down recently in Japan was crazy as always with the level of riding always off the hook.

Thanks to Shintaro for sending these vids over...

Qualifying Round including places 5th to 23rd & more..

Top 4 finishers..

Videos thanks to Zols Entertainment.

Simon O'Brien update & Reason DVD review up!

Simon O'Brien is always busy. Not just with finishing renovations on his house, working on his solo DVD, putting his new Deja Vu rides together, but up on the Colony site is some more info about a recent demo he did in Sydney. Click here for more info....

Also, the new Reason DVD from Japan is out featuring a ton of great riding from the following:

Hirokazu Miura
Shintaro Misawa
Shinichi Kiba
Yoshiro Nishikawa
Hideki Kawai
Susumu Morioka
Yoshiki Uchino

Effraim has done a brilliant review on the whole DVD - you can check out flatmattersonline by clicking here.

Shintaro wins the One Cup 2009 in Japan!!

Colony rider, Shintaro Misawa just won the One Cup 2009 in Akita, Japan.

Final results:

1st: Shintaro Misawa

2nd: Kentaro Nishiwaki

3rd: Keiji Nakamura

Congrats Shintaro!!

General news round up...

It was great to hear that Colony rider, Shintaro Misawa has qualified for the BMX Flatland World Classic in January, 2010! For the full rundown of riders & other information, click here. Congrats!!

Other Colony rider, Shane Badman is also back in Australia & currently in Brisbane where he will be living from November onwards. With newcircle online Flatland store now running & the Down Underground series about to start in Perth in November things will be busy!

Brett Dighton, Ronnie Rampton & bunch of the other Brisbane crew will also be making there way over to Japan next month for 11 days on a riding trip & also hitting up KOG round 3 in Kobe - all the best & look forward to hearing about the travels!

Paseo Cup 4 video now up!

A video is finally available thanks to the guys at BMXboze in Japan of the recent Paseo Cup that Shintaro placed 3rd in.

Word is that Shintaro will also be featured in the upcoming Same Thing Daily 2 video by Dane Beardsley... definitely something to keep a look out for.

Shintaro Misawa on a roll...

Colony rider, Shintaro Misawa recently got a 3rd place in the Paseo Cup 4 - one of the biggest local contests in Japan... huge congrats to Shintaro!

Final placings:

1st place Moto Sasaki
2nd place Yoshihiro Shinde
3rd place Shintaro Misawa

Thanks to Effraim at flatmattersonline.

Hiratsuka Beach Park Jam 2009

Great edit of a recent jam in Japan. Shintaro has the last few combos & shuts it down!!!

Hiratsuka Beach Park Jam 2009 -BMXboze- from BMXboze on Vimeo.

Video thanks to BMXboze

Voodoo Pre Jam edit - courtesy of Eric @ Monolithic

Eric at Monolithic Entertainment put together this great pre-jam edit from Voodoo a couple weeks back featuring some the worlds finest including Pete Brandt, Eric Wright, Ucchie, Hiro, York, Terry Adams, Viki Gomez, Yuki Sasaki, Matthias Dandois & Colony rider, Shintaro Misawa.

Voodoo Pre Jam 2009 from Erik Otto on Vimeo.

Ucchie vs. Shintaro - Voodoo Jam '09

Great battle between Ucchie & Shintaro at the recent Voodoo Jam 2009 in New Orleans, USA with Shintaro finishing in 6th place. Full placings can be found here.

Video thanks to TNM Group.

Voodoo Jam Pro Battle 4 from T/n/m/ Group on Vimeo.

King of Ground: Round 2

Congrats to Colony flow rider, Shintaro Misawa who finished 9th at the KOG recently. Awesome contest, awesome riding... check the vid below for the highlights....

Simon O'brien vs. Shintaro Misawa - Colony Down Underground final

The Colony Down Underground finals happened this past weekend in Brisbane, Australia. The final was a well fought out dual between Colony team mates Simon O'brien & Shintaro Misawa from Japan.

The final placings saw Simon win by 1 point!

Down Underground Finals - Brisbane. from Colony BMX on Vimeo.

Thanks Shintaro - see you soon!

It's great to see that Shintaro had an awesome time while he was in Australia for the Colony Down Underground finals the past weekend. Check out his blog here to see what he has to say!

Ross D Lav & Shintaro Misawa

Colony Down Underground: video & photos online!

The first video of the finals of the Colony Down Underground series has emerged along with a bunch of photos that you can see by clicking here.

Thanks to Anthony Shorten for putting this together.

Colony BMX from Anthony Shorten on Vimeo.

Shintaro Misawa in Brisbane!

Shintaro Misawa from Japan is over for the Down Underground finals that are happening this weekend in Brisbane. While in town he's been doing some sight-seeing & also dropped by Colony headquarters to check out the range. Courtesy of the Colony site - Clint grabbed a few photos...



And the results of the Colony Down Underground finals will be available shortly - so stay tuned....

More brakeless decades from Andrew McDermott this weekend? Photo: Shaun Jarvis

Colony Down Underground Finals - next weekend!!

If you haven't made your travel arrangements already, the last stop of Colony Down Underground series is happening in Brisbane next weekend. Check for more details here or the flyer below.



Canadian ripper Eric Effinger dropped me an email during the week & it's great to hear that he's going to be attending - doing the road trip up from Sydney & all!

Shintaro Misawa who is going to be at the finals next weekend also just dropped this SICK new video - killing it as usual on his Cube...