Birthplace: Helsinki, Finlande.
Martti: When I started riding I was inspired by Jesse Puente.
LAME.
First video part in Finnish Bmx video called “Lame Bike Video 2”
Martti Kuoppa debuted in the pro class at the 1996 worlds in Cologne, Germany. He did quite well. Photo: Trond Husø/Spokesmen
Venu tout droit de Finlande et pratiquement inconnu, Martti Kuoppa a mis tout le monde d'accord avec des enchaînements aussi variés que difficiles, le tout sur la musique d'ABBA.
Cover and interview in Freedom #19 october 1997.
First trip to the US. 6th place pro flat @ BS finals Seal Beach, CA.
Ride BMX UK december 1997: Martti Kuoppa has joined the KHE team and is therefore riding one of the new Premium Lgger frameset.
PROPS.
Cover and profile on the Finish flatland master, Martti Kuoppa in Props #25 may june 1998.
Martti: Chiquita Bananas flew me to Toronto contest, gave me about 600 bucks bonus for the win and flew me to 98´ X-Games.
1st place pro flat @ Elsinore contest, Toronto, Canada.
First victory on pro level.
3rd place pro flat @ San Diego X-Games.
4th place pro flat @ 1998 worlds, Portimao, Portugal.
BMXICOS.
Kickspin hitchiker on the cover of BMXicos magazine december 1998 junuary 1999.
kickflip to crack packer
Riding from Martti Kuoppa in the Blend video.
Interview: www.theflatlander.com march 1999
19th place @ San Francisco X-Games.
2nd place pro flat @ KOC, Sothsea, UK.
Letter in Ride BMX US #45 november 1999 about the X-Games.
Interview in Ride BMX UK #44 december 1999.
Rate of his progression is just sick, in fact he has 2 sections on this vid witch are both PACKED with tons of crazy hard original moves, a halfpacker grabbing the bars bar with both hands behind him he spins 180 with the bars grabs the seat with with his right hand a goes to backward half packer!! rope-a-ronie to backward swfoot gliding pedal junkyard! One foot halfpacker jump back through the frame and lands in a sw handed steamroller!! and of course his infamous one handed steamroller kick flip to crackpacker. A catapult straight to op sw foot blender ! and a Pedal death truck! this is just a portion of the originality that just bursts forth from Martti. He does so Much original stuff here it just has to be seen.
Interview: www.theflatlander.com february 2000.
Riding from Martti Kuoppa in the Dorkin 10 video.
2nd place stuntmen flat @ B3 round 4 finals, Nashville, TeNnessee, june 2000.
Martti Kuoppa gets into a death truck standing on both pedals, grabs the front pegs with his hands, and then start cranking in super tight circles. He even threw in some no handers.
Summer 2000, Martti Kuoppa picked up a new clothing sponsor called Artzone 38.
Martti Kuoppa flatlanding in Vigerlandsparken, Oslo on the cover of Spokesmen issue 4 winter 2000.
Intrikat Infinite Pieces.
Cream #11 march 2001.
INTERVIEW.
Ride BMX US #60 may 2001.
GUINNESS BOOK.
Martti Kuoppa inscrit son nom au Guinness Book of Records with rolling no-footed on the front wheel of his bike for 100 meters and doing 59 pinky squeaks in a minute.
X-GAMES.
Martti won the X Games in Philadelphia and he also took home the BS-series flatland belt.
Interview in Ride BMX UK #60 august 2002.
Martti: Things didn´t work out as good as I wanted so I decided to move on. I´m not looking for any bike sponsors at the moment, even someone offered me million dollars. I'm just going to do my own thing and concentrate on that. When things doesn´t work with somebody it takes lots of concentration away from my riding and progression.
Martti Kuoppa and Viki Gomez, two of the biggest names in flatland, both recently quit their sponsors to start KGB (Kuoppa Gomez Bikes).
17th place pro flat @ X-Games.
Martti Kuoppa, www.agoride.com, september 2003: I don't really care for the X games anymore, I think that the whole X games thing does not present flatland the right way, it makes flatland look stupid in my opinion. In my opinion flatland should go on its own direction, just flatland. I won that contest for last three years. So I got that money from ESPN and now I´m putting that money back into flatland with KGB. So it´s like a food circle you know? But now I think it is time to move on to a higher level than the commercial X games are, get back into competing against my self and my own limits because that is when flatland is and stays more interesting. This time I've got 17th place, I could care less about the judgement, I know I rode really bad and deserved 17th or even maybe last place so at that point I don´t really care because I won it three times and I know how it feels to win that contest. I guess the main reason I did so bad was that I didn´t enjoy being there.
Martti Kuoppa released his Solo DVD-project: Moments.
Martti: It took me about one year since I filmed my first combo (it was filmed at the end of november 2003), so I had lot of stuff from before that I threw away because I was not happy. Also I really struggled in my head for this project and felt couple of times that I cannot come up with it because I'm never happy about my riding. I hope that this DVD will be still watchable after 10 more years. This is my piece of art for flatland.
Martti Kuoppa megaspin tailwhip megaspin, december 2005.