Yu Katagiri Archives

NORA Cup 2020 – Flatland Rider of the Year Nominees

September 12, 2020

The nominees have been announced for the NORA Cup 2020 Flatland Rider of the Year award! Here’s a look at the top five nominees, along with some incredible riding from videos they put out in the past year. There’s a few familiar names in this one, and maybe one or two you might not know much about. Either way, all these guys crush it, so take a look! The question is… Who is going to take that top spot?

“The pros have voted and here’s your top five nominees for NORA Flat Rider Of The Year. Congrats to Jean-William Prevost, Kio Hayakawa, Matthias Dandois, Terry Adams, and Yu Katagiri. Who’s got it this year?!

The pandemic won’t let us have a party this year, so we’ll be debuting winners online in the coming weeks. Stay tuned…

I also have to thank the following brands for supporting/allowing NORA Cup to happen…
Monster Energy, Vans Shoes, Vero, Source BMX, Profile Racing, Mongoose Bikes, Kink BMX, Subrosa, Stolen, Odyssey, Cult, Snafu, Haro Bikes, ODI Grips, Eclat, Sunday Bikes, GT BMX, Cinema, Colony, Pumped BMX’s Trail Boss, Bell Helmets, Shadow Conspiracy, Hyper Bike Co, and Eighties BMX.” – Our BMX

Regenerations

December 26, 2019

When you start getting older, it’s always rad to see the younger generation of riders starting to take things, pushing riding to new levels. Viki Gomez and Sevisual teamed up for this video showing the future of flatland over in Japan! Many of the featured kids in this video are on 18″ bikes and the stuff they are doing is unreal for their age! When they’re getting this good at such a young age, you can only imagine what the future may hold. This also features a ton of amazing riding from Yu and Ryo Katagiri who are absolutely crushing it at 19, and even riding from the “old guys” Yohei Uchino and Viki Gomez, too! Hit play and take it all in!

“A new generation of young riders inspired by older generations are regenerating BMX Flatland.
Their riding regenerates our riding.
This video is dedicated to them!

Riders:
Yu Katagiri
Ryo Katagiri
Yohei Uchino
Viki Gomez

Filmed and edited by SEVISUAL in Samukawa, Japan and Luxembourg city.
Music by Sonny Blake @sonnyblakemusic” – Viki Gomez

Yu Katagiri – 9 Year Old Flatland Wizard

April 18, 2015

Here’s a quick one we spotted over on Flat Matters of 9 year old Yu Katagiri from Nagaoka Niigata, Japan laying down some amazing flatland riding! It’s insane how good the kids are getting these days… This is one BMX video worth taking a look at!

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Team Shimoyanagi

March 29, 2015

It’s mind blowing how many kids are picking up flatland and actually getting so good! Here’s one from Japan we spotted on Flat Matters featuring Yu Katagiri, Ryo Katagiri and Rin Otsuka putting together some really solid riding! Can’t wait to see what the future holds for these young guns.

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Yu Katagiri – Glow 2nd Year

November 30, 2014

It’s one thing when we see a young kid that can jump or grind, but flatland? That’s a whole different game. We just spotted this edit over on Flat Matters of 9 year old Yu Katagiri laying down some moves for Glow. Yu has been riding for 2 years and it’s safe to say he’s way better at flatland than most of us. The future for BMX is looking bright.

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