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Few people have done as much for Flatland BMX, as Effraim Catlow.  He was:

•  Competing as early as 1986
• Amateur world champion in 1991.
• Pro World champion by 1994. 
• Competed X-games 7 times 
• And recently judging flatlands return to X-games in Japan, 2022

https://www.flatmattersonline.com/effraim-catlow-14-years-of-flatmattersonline?fbclid=IwAR2aO_z7LyHNmtQBSWuIFCqULZxjjcZgJrEZ6ATbDQoSBBg639hBUxvBSLc

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Paula Marie is a Canadian, flatlander that hails from Southern Ontario. She spent a few years living and riding in British Columbia, She's a member of the Women of Freestyle. Has an impressive bag of tricks, Has traveled to numerous events and competed all around North America, Currently living in Georgian Bay Ontario and a mother of two little girls. 

• https://www.flatqueens.com/ 

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Jody Temple is a flatland rider who's been a long time resident of Athens GA. He is one of the early. members of the Athens Family BMX crew. He's been featured in many videos over the years, but notably has some killer parts in the "Same thing dailey" video series by Dane Beardsley. He also has some stand out entries for the "Master of creativity" contest. He's baVled some health problems that kept him off his bike for long durations but has managed to come back & persevere. A man who insists on changing his socks frequently, We are excited to have our next guest join us.

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Bill Batchelor was an avid BMX rider during the early 80s, participating in racing and followed by freestyle. He was also interested in photography from a young age with black & white images being his preferred style.   Talented behind the camera and a world-class skate park in his hometown he documented 80s BMX with some amazing images.  After sitting in a box for decades many of these images have come to light for the first time in his book Concrete and Smog. 

Get your own copy of Concrete & Smog while supplies last:

https://www.billbatchelorbmx.com/

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Maurice Meyer started riding BMX in the mid-70s.  In the 80s he was a part of the epic Golden Gate Park freestyle scene and a rider on the infamous Curb Dogs BMX/Skate team founded by the late Dave Vanderspek.  

 He rode for Kuwahara in 82/83 and started riding for Skyway in 1984.  As a factory Skyway rider, he participated in both the US and European tours along with Vanderspek and Robert Peterson. He placed 2nd to Dennis McCoy in the 1985 - 17 and over class in the Venice Beach contest. In 1987, he was working for Skywear Clothing and designed the 1987 Skyway jersey and the Eddie Roman street shirt.  In 1988 he left Skyway as a rider and did a brief stint as a salesman for them.

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Kip Williamson is a Flatlander originally out of Angola Indiana, an AFA competitor in the 80s, and a Fat House member. 

He was known in the 90s as the “Video Guy”.  He created “Juvenile Trickery”, “Alternative Forms of Transportation” and UGP videos such as “Face Value” & “Mission of Nonsense”. As well as the GT Bicycles flick “Direction”. 

 A GT team tour announcer and held many other positions at GT such as Contest Team Manager & Freestyle Division consultant. 

Kip hosted the action sports TV show “54321” on Fox Sports, ESPN’s Dave Mirra Super Tour, and co-hosted and was a creative consultant on "Dave Mirra's Trick Tips Volume 1".  He was the Mountain Dew tour Announcer for 2 years (10 stops), and the X- games announcer when Mirra did the first double flip in X Games history (San Francisco 2000). 

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This episode was sparked by the recent passing of Andrew Wickham.  Andrew was a talented flatlander and a friend of Jon’s.  If you take away one thing from this episode, please reach out to a friend or family member you haven’t heard from in a while.  

Here is a living list of whom we have tragically lost from the BMX world.  Please feel free to contact Jon Dowker or Anthony Berardi to add names to the list.

• Andrew Wickham
• Jason Brown
• Dickie Sanders
• Don Slepsky
• Dave Mirra
• Dave Burgess
• Paul Buchannan 
• Dave Vanderspek
• John Davis
• Shawn Burnham 
• Sean Spoelstra
• Robert Blondin
• Jeff Bowling
• Andre King
• Colin Winkelmann
• Jim Burges
• Benny Asa
• Paul Palmer
• Michael Zigmund
• Hiro Tsuchid
• Chris Bulvan
• Philipe Pereira

Mental Health Resources:

• https://www.helpguide.org/ 
• https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/ (USA)
• https://www.crisisservicescanada.ca/en/ (CANADA)

Other references:

• UnClicked: Dennis McCoy https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/dennis-mccoy-episode-21/id1447198515?i=1000439748999 

Thank you to the following people who contributed to this episode:

• Bobby Carter
• Joe Cicman
• Brett Downs
• Andy Cooper 
• Sonni Brickhouse
• Keelan Phillips
• Shaun Jarvis  

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Dave Nourie hails from California, has been riding and even competing in flatland for nearly 40 years!  He rode and toured with the iconic 80's Haro team including Brian Blyther, Ron Wilkerson, Dennis McCoy, and Matt Hoffman.  He participated in the Haro reunion show in Cologne Germany in 2009, was featured in the classic Eddie Roman film "Ride like a man".   He has invented iconic tricks such as the Gumbee, NourieStand, and Miami Hopper Spin.  He recently entered Martti Kuppa's Master of creativity.  He has operated Nourie’s BMX Academy since 1999 performing BMX freestyle for classes, camps & events which include life lessons through BMX Freestyle.

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Scott Powell is a pro flatland rider from North Olmsted, Ohio,  He is one of the original “Chenga” crew of riders known for their extensive bag of tricks and super long parking lots.  An X-games contender from 1997 to 2001 until flatland was eliminated.  He is one of the co-founders of the legendary Chenga skatepark in North Ridgeville, Ohio, and the current owner of the latest Chenga Skate Park located in Brook Park Ohio.

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Jason Holmes hails from Oshawa Ontario and was arguably one of the most advanced riders to come out of Ontario in the early ’90s. He performed demos for promoter Rick Davis and was a regular on the Welches Grape Stunt Team.  He was instrumental in getting freestyle BMX back into the Toronto Bicycle show after the 1990 hiatus.

These days Jason lives in Barrie, works for Honda as a Robotic Automation Technical Supervisor.  Married 25 years Jason has two kids, 19 and 16.  In his Spare time, he collects vintage BMX bikes, snowboards, mountain bikes, plays hockey, and golf...And of course, still loves to ride BMX.

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