2007 Eastpak presents Round 1 KOG, Tokyo-Japan

Apr 20, 2007

Written by Bart de Jong

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The BMX Flatland World Circuit kicks off this weekend in Tokyo, Japan. It's the first round of three contests that will use a ranking system to announce the Flatland rider of the year 2007. More info on the first leg below:

2007 Eastpak presents Round 1 KOG Tokyo
-Date : 2007 April 22nd
-Location: Tokyo , Asakusa, ROX3 super multi court
-Entry on the site: AM8:00 to AM 9:30
-Entry fee : Pro 10000 yen, Expert 8000 yen , Novice 3000 yen
-Train : Get off at Toei-Ginza line, Tawara-machi station. 5 minutes walk to the venue.

Pro entry list:

York Uno / Hiroya Morizaki / Michel Steingraeber / Shintaro Misawa / Takuma Kawamura / Takahiro Nishikawa / Moto Sasaki / Shinichi Kiba / Hirokazu Miura / Yoshihiro Shinde / Hideki Kawai / Seiji Sakata / Fumiaki Okayama / Matti Kuoppa / Shinichiro Hara / Junichiro Sakamoto / Yousuke Yamaguchi / Takayuki Iwa / Yoshiki Uchino / Keisuke Matsumoto / Keisuke Tanigawa / Akihiko Takahasi / Hidekazu Kuga / Kotaro Arai / Ryoji Yamamoto / Matt Wilhelm / Justin Miller

King of Ground
What's KOG? In the middle of 1998, Japanese top riders, Takashi Ito, Kotaro Tanaka, and York Uno launched a plan to provide a riders oriented flatland contest series by riders to gain public recognition and progress rider's status at public society. The first King of Ground contest was held at ROX3 Multi court, Asakusa, Tokyo on August 23rd, 1998. And now, over 100 riders that include foreigner riders from France, Germany and USA come to every contest. KOG is recognized one of international contests now.

Concept
As long as KOG is "a contest", a rider is judged by the difficulty of a trick, creativity and consistency. But we concern that's only a result of what they intend to express themselves with a bike. Therefore, we'd like to offer riders an opportunity to exhibit their expression rather than only a contest, including music and the fashion all together. So we are fairly positive to a collaboration with other aspects of expression such as DJ playing and live painting, and try to develop Flatland to one of art forms at the same time.

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