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Flatland BMX - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (816 words) |
 | Flatland is BMX riding that is mostly performed on smooth flat surfaces, with flatland specific frames, front and rear bolt on axle pegs, and a hollow front stem to facilitate the bars being able to rotate endlessy without tangling the brake cable. |
| When flatland riding first came into being, most riders would do one trick, and then get back to the pedals and that was it, but by combining different body, and bicycle positions, into "combos" and "linking" them together, riders challenge themselves further by doing several tricks in a row without stopping inbetween each move. |
| Flatland riding is usually a combination of many different kinds of moves, often linked together in a non-stop fashion as the rider goes through as few as 2 or 3, or as many as 10-12 moves, and position or direction changes in a row, and then finally returning their feet to the pedals. |
| Flatland (2131 words) |
| But Flatland is still unready to cope with concepts such as the curvature or expansion of space. |
| Whereas in Flatland the inhabitants are polygonal shapes sliding about on an idealized tabletop world, in The Planiverse the denizens walk on the one-dimensional surface of a circular planet (much like Hinton's Astrians), must climb over one another to pass, and build complex machines of springs and hinges. |
| Whereas Flatland, boiled down to the core, teaches the single lesson that other dimensions are conceivable as mathematical constructs, Sphereland introduces the notions of curved and expanding space and how they apply to the real world. |
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