Inside the World's Most Extreme Onewheel Race

This video was brought to you by squarespace. It's no secret that I've been a fan of

onewheel

ing for years. I have about 8,000 miles under my belt at this point, but this is something I've never had a chance to see. How I compare to some of the best runners in the

world

so far. Every year Future Motion hosts an event called Race for the Rail and it's a

race

to see who is the fastest single wheel

race

r on the planet and this year. I have to go, so tomorrow morning Nick and I are getting on a plane.

We're heading to Utah to go to an undisclosed mountain location where the railroad race will take place. It's Thursday at 8 a.m. m. We are relaxed. The race has begun. Sunday Sunday afternoon, so I have a few days to practice last minute. I have been training hard for the last two weeks in a row. I've single-wheeled at least 10 to 15 miles every day, the

most

advanced trails I know just doing them like sprinting, right, we're an oodah, what is it? This is a brand new, unopened

onewheel

xr. This is the board that all riders will use. We will not keep these things, only 12 runners were allowed to enter.

At this meeting, Nick was not allowed in there. I had to put my phone in a bag and hand it to him, so I didn't have a phone that whole time. It was high school physical education class again. For me, these challenges will be team challenges. Challenges basically chose two team captains and each of those team captains made a draft. I want that person to go next. I want this person back and forth until all the runners have been chosen. I knew the moment this all started, I was going to make it. I chose the latter, so I accepted it.

I was fine, pick me last, but even that was brought to me because they picked me second to last and I can't blame them for that because you know why none of them have traveled with me before. I'm a real wild card in this career because no one really knows my abilities. I believe I have the skills to win this race, however, every other person in that room knows them too. I'll be up against some of the faster runners. in the

world

dom williams is the reigning race for the rail champion at just 16 years old he is already one of the fastest runners the world has ever seen dave stewart is the 2018 world champion al

most

as fast as he is humble tahoe dave is a force for This must be taken into account in a single-wheel body.

Harrison is a master of single-wheel tricks and a speed demon; However, he has not yet won a championship and now he is hungry to win. Angel Cooper was the 2019 women's racing champion with women and men competing together on this occasion. year she is ready to defend her title jeff and raquel mccosker are the closest thing onewheel sport has to royalty not only are they incredibly talented writers and technical racers but they founded float life as a way to expand the community and provide accessories that make the wheel even better, zoe thomas is scary fast, don't let her young age fool you, she knows how to send it winning the grom division in 2019. ori rush takes to the skies higher than any other writer when she doesn't master the flight fins, As the other riders leave in their dust, in addition to the eight riders invited for future movement, four more riders were selected through a wild card competition based on public voting.

Amanda Thompson is a Boston native and is well known for shredding trails and sharing the enthusiasm that Jamie Checher truly is. one of my oldest single wheel friends as a husky division champion, don't be fooled by his size, few people are faster than him, brandon schermeyer is another friend of mine, he is all heart and even more skill, he is Determined to prove that he is the fastest. living writer and then there's me, we were chosen into teams, so the next two days there will be three events that we will all do as teams, culminating in a fourth event that will be on Sunday, which would be the full race broadcast live on the Rails, but I feel something, maybe it's nerves, maybe it's the fact that suddenly this is real and I'm actually here, okay, this is the only time I feel comfortable doing this, yeah, that was for sure, you're probably talking Seriously, right?

Now, are you doing red? Come on, not everyone was happy with the fact that we have to use a completely original table. I agree with the future movement here. I don't think anything is fairer in a race than everyone wearing the exact same brand. New tire, let's recount what I need to do tonight. I need to install these parts. I need to start breaking the tire as much as I can in the next hour or so and then I just need to get as much sleep as possible and a healthy breakfast in the morning okay you got your board nick you got your board you got your board I gotta go get my toast this is actually it's here the first event is an hour away honestly this first race is going to be very revealing so we don't really know what this first event will be we have our boards in 50 we're going to the top of a mountain just tour the camera for a moment look what I'm looking at right now the way I earned my place here was through public voting and because of my nature as an online personality, I wield this form of influence and I was basically able to use it to get people vote for me and get me into the wild card race, which is exactly what the future movement had in mind, someone would always have some kind of advantage on social media with the number of followers they have, but what does that mean?

It's just that I haven't really physically earned my place here and if I get last place, I will have It was proven that I didn't deserve to be here, so I have to make sure I don't get last place, we have rookies, easier, yes, you have than wearing it out, the good thing, an original Vega tire that comes with a new one. The wheel has very sharp corners, so it feels like you are literally rolling like a rolling pin. It has a lot of resistance to rotation. It's a little hard to turn and if you hit a rock under that corner it will throw you off.

And? What we're all doing here is basically just spinning the tire on the ground to polish those curves, like shave them a little bit to have a more rounded profile. These guys know how to do every trick. In the book I'm trying to do this trick, what I want to do is go a little bit and then I fall like this, right? What the body was saying: You lean your lower half forward but your shoulders back, so Well, it's hard to commit, yeah, no, you almost did it, yeah, try to do it three seconds, three seconds done.

I was going to say that if you were a little heavier than me we could both ride a board on each foot pad, we should still try. I've ridden single wheel doubles for a long time but I always wanted to ride doubles with one person on each foot pad 10 feet like Titanic style I think today's the day and run the guy oh come on baby he's good. go on and then we have one no i think this is actually working oh my god we're doing it for real this is for you mom so you've never done that before nah dude oh wow new unlocked hell yeah i'm honored that was awesome Dude, I'm excited about that, yeah, that's how you start the day, dude, hey, you guys really just run like that, I think you're like a team at this point, dude, downhill race, like that, we're here from the future. spoiler alert I'm alive and if you want to know if I win the race or not you're going to have to wait a minute here because right now I want to talk about Squarespace if you're looking to create a website or online store. squarespace is the all-in-one platform to make it happen, it even has the marketing tools and analytics resources to help optimize your business for the visitors you already have and the ones you want to find with simultaneous posting and multiple contributors, it's easier than ever publish content without stress, you can post on several different social networks at the same time or have different people contribute to your brand, you can embed podcasts on your site through audio blocks or even just set up an email campaign if you want too , And the best of all.

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I've never played any kind of sport at a professional level so this is very new for me and I'm excited, it's great. like all the runners, they are all great people, the competitive spirit is strong at this point, it's not about coming in last place, it's about not letting my team drop to the team's horizon to win, okay, the race is on starting point, team horizon, my team, let's go. first and the idea here is that everyone on this team has to cross the finish line for our timer to end this is the first descent you are at 9500 feet you have about 4000 feet to go the first full team to reach the bottom wins we emphasize that teamwork is going to be important we have to strengthen each other we have to help each other down three two one oh there is already a massacre they are wasting their time these guys are wasting their time okay, this track is

extreme

ly twisted There are so many loose walks, so I'm currently in the front.

I'm basically scouting the trail, looking for good lines and letting everyone behind me know which line stays in, stays to the right, but we're all trying to go as fast as we can. runners in sight horizon of the team stuck together it seems that the six runners are there here they come crossing the finish line together this is what you do that yes, you have this upper part of that was one of the gnarliest things I have ever done Dude, I did a fucking front jump there, it was nothing but giant gnarly rocks, our biggest mistake at the top was trying to bomb it too fast from the gate because once we started being a little more careful, yeah, we were able to not fall , yeah man, that was so gnarly, I was like I was so glad that we could have the first event like something where we weren't going full speed ahead, like eating garbage everywhere, finding our, finding our.

Get moving and get in a good frame of mind for the rest of the event. I think I at least gained some trail cred because these guys know how gnarly that trail was and they know I did it too last time for Team Skyline. It was 23 minutes and two seconds, so team delaney just has to beat that to beat us, yeah, it looks like Dom is there in front, he's turning the corner, I knew he was about to cross the finish line. Here now to the enduro team. where the riders will charge uphill before entering the technical single track doing laps to see if there is a team at the exposed end, we will see who can take the lead on this one and who is the fastest single track rider in the second race, You can't go here.

At full speed there will be a lot of large, gnarly rocks along the way, so it will be a bit more measured. I'm excited about this. I feel much better about this race than before because there are fewer unknowns. I'm ready. For this, Brendan came in hot, he just set the best time at eight minutes and 46 seconds, putting those nerves on edge, hey, yeah, it's almost as bad as Ted's talk, that was, that was worse, that was worse , okay, okay, here comes the rent and three two one. Wow, this race started out great, in fact I was doing great, I was making good time and I hadn't fallen off the board yet, but then the unthinkable happened and my legs started cramping.

It turns out that at this altitude my body needs a lot more. oxygen than I was getting, you went down, uh, I went down and my board went down the hill, no, you had to chase it, yeah, most of it was fast, I think I was probably trying to go too fast in some parts, I hit a rock, oh . Don't hit it and land on the front side of the next rock and just stop my board. Ghost hits. Well the gnarly part is bad, yeah, good run, man, they weren't kidding when they called that the drag run, that was the gnarliest trail.

It's so gnarly that I knew about two-thirds of the way through the race that I wasn't doing well, in fact, I did better than I thought. I really expected to be under nine minutes, instead I barely got under 10 minutes. it is what it is I'm still happy with my time I didn't get last place I still have two more chances to redeem myself I have tomorrow whatever event ends up being we'll find out basically how we're starting and then there's the big race on Sunday, the raceRoyal officer, okay, but for now it's time for dinner, we don't have any events in the morning, time to relax for the rest of the day.

The first day definitely shook my confidence that I don't deserve to be here, but regardless of the second day, I'm focused and ready to go. Well, it's day two and I honestly feel like I've been hit by a truck. My burned thighs hurt so much. I'm bruised all over from the multiple falls I took and it's been really crazy. I'm still coming to terms with the fact that I'm not as fast as the few fastest runners, maybe they'll make us fall off a cliff or something. I mean we don't know anything could happen. I heard Ellie feels good to go.

This is a deep horizon. Take back, let's go to the gondola. We have our 13 towers challenge. This course is fast, it is technological, it is fast, it is a relief. look what we have, team delirium up 2-0 on the horizon, okay, we just scouted the field, I think this is going to be a lot easier than yesterday, this is a relay race, one person goes at a time and the next one they can't start until the person behind them finishes the team's rave the other team will go first in this round Dave Sewer just made 206 in the first round for Skyline, it's a very convincing time that puts them in the position they they need to win this event. and they need it, they are down 02. this is a fun trail, I tell you what I felt on top of it this round, I like this part here, I sped up, everything is good, turning this corner also felt great and that easy .

I finally earned my spot here in the race for the rail. I took fourth place out of 12, with only Dom Bodie and Dave beating my time of two minutes and 10 seconds. I'm not going to lie, I feel really vindicated after that race, I mean I felt like I didn't deserve to be here at all let alone make a really good time, so at this point I don't even care how the final race goes . I feel very proud of how I did today. Are you kidding? These have been three crazy people. days here the team delirium comes and sweeps the three team challenge events of the team part lane race 2020 starts right now grab your popcorn, turn on the big screen and let's start this party right today we have the best There are racers on top of the mountain right now and one of them is going to leave here as a champion, the energy is high, people are excited and I can't wait to see this race.

I think Ren deserves to be here. I think he has proven it. Yes yesterday and this is his chance to show that he is a serious rider and I think I hope to go out and do that, so I will go toe to toe with Dom, Angel and Brendan, they are all waiting for Dom. win here so honestly I'm just competing for second place, Brandon is a fantastic driver, I ride with him all the time in LA, it almost feels like destiny, I'm glad we're going first, yeah, as long as sun falls. you both can go up buddy I'd be happy with that yeah kinda twisty and nice go celebrate 'til you cross those arches do a crazy triple yeah one at a time buddy this course has some familiar stuff some new things and all your sketch.

Definitely nervous heading into the final race down the lane, it's the big televised event that everyone is tuning into, all my friends are watching, yes we have a full broadcast here, we have switch feed from 12 cameras with wireless connection, it will be a good moment, the first round we have. dom williams angel cooper brandon shermeyer and ren wykman and they go oh my god dom is in the leadership position let's see we have dom it looks like we have brendan schermeier and then it looks like we have ren and angel in the back it's top three guys separation of the first two it seems they are dom and brandon shermeyer here we see angel cooper in the back let's see if ren could get back into position I was right behind them but the problem is that their dust made it very difficult Vi I hit the ground and tried my best to keep up, but then sure enough I got stuck in a bit of a thick spot and I knew the moment I jumped, it was all over, there was no way I could recover from that. . oh my god Brandon Schermeyer is coming aka Floaty Mcfly look at this package yeah oh my god sun off the board of him.

Brandon Shermeyer is in the lead, let's see if Dom can catch him. Wren Wikeman is in third place, attacked by us, he is still breaking. schermeier, if you can hold off dom you can finish this race first, are you kidding me ladies and gentlemen, i'm here with heat one winner brendan schermeier, buddy, this whole day of racing today was full of surprises, Everyone expected Dom to win, but Brendan came? He went through and overtook him twice to win the series from him. The second round is full of people we didn't expect. Everyone expected Dom to be there.

Everyone expected the body to be there, but Jamie won his heat and was there too. That was great. Jeff could. to get a big lead early on but jeff fell really hard flying into the frame in crazy style but it cost him the race and he ended up not passing that heat this would be an amazing surprise right here brendan shermeyer. from los angeles california looking over his shoulder and going to the next round don williams is out of the race head and no one saw this total domination coming baby come on and it looks like dave stewart is closing his ticket to the final with brandon schermeier all these surprises led to the final round we have my friend brendan against my new friend dave tahoe dave and brandon schwermeyer it's all smiles at the top from this start it's neck and neck you have to say todd hayes a little ahead of brendan schermeyer brandon sherman are after his trail, you don't want to be left behind because of that body of dust harrison ran towards that ya tahoe dave flying there and brendan schermeier right behind him we're in the finals friends one of the two One of these racers will be crowned champion.

He comes home today with five thousand dollars in the bank. They have to stay on their tables here. Ted. We've seen people fall into this stretch before. What a close race we have had so far. Dave interrupted him. Dave. out, that's a veteran move brendan goes for a pass brandon is passing back he's passing out oh my god oh my god floating that lead oh my god I don't think Dave can come back from that now that's a big lead he's in this gravel straight brandon is in the gravel straight on the single track he's in control he gets on the grass if he doesn't make a mistake if he doesn't crash they come hey come on come on come on oh my god okay guys come on come on yeah damn, oh my gosh what and brendan schertmeyer of los angeles california will take home the 2020 race the rail championship oh my gosh floaty just won brendan just won the race for the rail even though our team he didn't win I'm so beyond happy for brennan here this is so cool no one expected brendan to win he was a wild card he wasn't even selected to come and here he is with the great champions nunchakus oh my god oh my god what an amazing race what an amazing event, big congratulations to brandon floaty mcfly on instagram, give him a follow he deserves it, after all he is the world champion, big thanks to Future Motion for organizing this amazing event.

I feel very special to have been a part of it and if you want, see more about this race and even more details Future Motion has a one hour documentary about this race on their YouTube channel link in the description. Check it out if you are interested in all the other writers. I'm glad to call you friends. Now we'll see you next year because you know what I've been training non-stop since the end of this race for next year. I'll see you until then, although subscribe to Quarter Crew, hit the like button and maybe you'll see us turning our friends heads in ice cubes my head yes your head no