REPLAY - Crankworx FMBA Slopestyle Innsbruck 2018

versus a relentless blitzkrieg of technical tricks in a Mountain Biking version of Game of Thrones, but that was then and now we're at round one in Rotorua. The reader took revenge and now fresh blood is looking to get on the podium, the Triple Crown of Slopestyle it is. And the stakes are high at the Crankworx FMB, a Slopestyle World Championship. The Slopestyle Crankworx Innsbruck presented by Kenda starts right now. Yes Michaela, that's right, it starts right now and we have the same feeling we have every time it's another Crankworx FM PA stop. At the Slopestyle World Championships we only have four of those stops a year, so the hair does what it does, it goes up, it stands on end on our arms because we are so excited for the spectacle, the demonstration of cycling experience. mountain that we represent. having the privilege of being your host, camera McCall, alongside my brother Tyler McCall and Tyler, stop number two, stop number one was incredible, to say the least, and just a year ago we saw what we've all been considering as the best

slopestyle

mountain bike. competition in the history of sport, the history of the discipline, what do we expect to see here today?

I think it will be similar to last year, but last year it was kind of a battle between two guys, this year everyone is on point, everyone here deserves it. Being here, everyone is on fire, the practice runs have been crazy. I think it will be a great show. Well, the countryside is something that always excites everyone. We talked about how fantastic the course is in Rotorua, New Zealand, for stop number one, we have the same team. who builds this tour up here in this northern hemisphere Tyler, you actually had a chance to tour the tour, check out Innsbruck, Austria, we have Matt Jones here about to visit eight features of deceptive goodness in the Alps, are you ready?

Matt is never ready, let's try so the field doesn't start easy. We're in this weird big flat drop of wood and then from land to land. This course builder, Tom Haines, loves dirt-to-dirt jumps. They're always huge and now the bone, the trunk, they don't lack time there and then the kickers really start. We have the left hip directly towards the right hip. We built a black jump and now the whale tail, the last jump is where that absolute. the hammers come down we have some huge jumps a huge whale tail an almighty erection trunk that course is unreal oh you are dangerous cheers Tyler, that's a good course, I like it guys, back to the studio Tyler, that looks great and a lot People say this is their favorite course on the circuit, but there's always that debate, does that mean it's the best course, the best lifestyle course we've ever seen?

What is your opinion? Oh, I think it's subjective to what people have. at home what have they been training, what are they looking for and what kind of tricks do they want to do, what kind of jumps I think it's the most fun course I've ever run and I was telling people that and then I thought about that, I'm like man, Those jumps are big, those landings are high. I would be scared to have to do such scary tricks every race, so it's scary to check it out. Imagine when it's built perfect, you can ride things that are so big, but you get riders doing some of the biggest tricks in the world because the jumps are so perfect.

Do you feel like the speeds leading to all functions are perfect? So I was a little nervous after I had one of my first races and asked you how the ride felt, how it floated and you said you literally just drop it and ride it, the only thing is a whale tail, It has a little more speed than it needs, which gives people options for different tricks. outside of that thing, so other than that, you just go in, set it up, and trust the course builders Tom, hey Emerson, welcome to elephant elevated trail building. I always do a great job and the flow of the tour is perfect.

Cyclists seem to love it, you're never going to. have a great ride unless you have a lot of dirt and we only go to the best places in the world for mountain biking, that's why we're here in Innsbruck, Austria, and if you're not familiar with where we are, here's a little zoom . Satellite view Right in the middle of these gigantic Alpine peaks is this city known as Innsbruck. They call it the capital of the Alps. We have a couple of bike parks here and it's very rare to have a gigantic city centered right between these big mountains.

Usually you're in a small town or something, so a lot of the riders really enjoy the atmosphere here, just ramping up the intensity for today. Now one of the guys we all have our eyes on was part of that two-person team. dogfight last year was reader Brett and Nikolaj manipulated, so Nikolai, thanks for joining us, let's talk a little about last year, it practically turned into a two man battle between you and the reader, you guys were one-upping each other yes in every race. Tell us how important it is to have a competitor that pushes you and that changes your strategy, what does it do to your psyche?

Yeah, you know what it's like to have a competitor that pushes you, you just know, it makes you really be on your game and you know what he's doing. you just do tricks that you didn't even expect to do in your race, so yeah, it's a great motivator and it also puts a lot of pressure because yeah, having a competitor that can definitely beat you with any race that they do is pretty stressful, but it's definitely a great motivation and you know that's exactly what the fans want to see in a battle like that when two riders go back and forth and you know, you try to have the best race. of the day, so yes, a great motivation, exactly as a fan.

I hope for more battles like that. Today we love watching you push each other and now I want to talk a little bit about Rotorua, we all know that when you compete. You're not going for fifth place, you're not going for fourth place, you're going for first, so tell us about your result. Has your mindset or training ritual changed to come to this event? Yeah, you know what when you compete? You might have goals in mind, but when it comes to running and you're on that initial rep, it's just you versus the course and you know, the first race I did in Rotorua I was really excited about.

It was exactly what I wanted and yes, I gave it to the boys, they really stepped it up in the second rounds, pushing me from second to fifth and yes, I had to give it everything I had, which I'm definitely not opposed to. do, I love sending you 100% of what I got and it didn't work that time, but I can't complain. I'm still coming into this one with the same mindset and just trying to do the best I can. the course and I hope the judges enjoy exactly five cents, thanks for the information, good luck, I can't wait to see it.

Thanks, Tyler. Well, the big question now is whether we will have deja vu from last year, the two necessary ingredients for that. The recipe is here on the site, we just listened to Nikhil IRA gakuen. Fortunately, the third member of our team, Michaela Gatto, is catching up with Brett's reader, so Brett, we've been seeing on Instagram that you posted that you've done a new trick, it seems so. "You're putting in a lot of effort for this movie you've been working on. Do you think filming is beneficial or detrimental to preparing for a competition like this? I don't love doing it before a contest, but at the same time you." It's like doing tricks when you know maybe it's not ideal, which simulates a competition, so I don't know, I mean, in general, it's positive if I can film a platform where I'm training for the competition so completely and you.

I had a little knock in practice, but now you seem absolutely ripped physically and mentally, how do you overcome something like that? Yes, that took its toll on me. The first day was a completely rainy day and we couldn't ride. On our first practice, a second day of practice. I liked that I went into practice feeling great. I tried my new trick on the flat drop. I crashed and came up short like I hurt my wrist. There's no way I could ride later that day and then the next day, which was Yesterday I didn't ride at all like a couple of paces in a row, so now I'm about two and a half hours into practice, so I think at least At the end of the day I'm not as prepared as I really need to be.

Being and wanting to be in this contest, but I made the decision and I am going to compete. I'm going to try to do the best I can and yes, I hope it works because it's been a mental challenge the last two. days yeah use it as fuel I'm sure we'll be watching thanks thanks guys well it's great to hear where Brett's head is at right now and I know two words that don't exist in his vocabulary are good enough even though this guy should feel. Like he's on top of the world because he won the number one stop in Rotorua, you saw that Instagram clip.

He is continually pushing the sport forward. He landed that flat drop backflip at his home training center just to try to maintain his status as the guy to beat. Let's take a look at how he once stopped the number one in Rotorua, New Zealand, the first stop of the Crankworx FMB, a Slopestyle World Championship set the bar high for an exciting season ahead, the main focus in Rotorua, New Zealand, was in the Russian-American nickel. The gap between IRA Caen and Canadian reader Bret who spent most of the winter on his bike was definitely worth it as Bret put in a flawless first race.

Lord 7:20 on the step down stops him with a score of 90. The 4.25 reader declared his intention ridiculously high. Rogue Atkins' first race was solid, but not enough to challenge the reader for the lead in his second race Nicolai Roy Gaskin went all out, will bring some crowd pleasers Wow, a tornado spinning his signature 1440 in the magician Zamani booter rogue akkyun delivered the wind For a stubborn Bret reader, I'm already looking forward to the next one. My mind is already there. I'm already starting to launch Inspira, so yeah, I really hope I can do what I need to do and show up there the way I want.

What was felt here before the competition took second place on the podium for Belgian Thomas Jinan and in third place was a newcomer to the Crankworx podium. Italian charger Diego Cover completes his second race with Atkins' signature tornado, missing the podium by less than a point. Tomas Lemoine secured fourth rag disappointed akan I had to settle for fifth the level was raised very high so I really had to step up on my second run and went 100% all in with the 14 40 on the last trick you know I hope it turns out perfect, I hit the ground pretty hard at times too so I'm happy to be here and we have a long year ahead of us so we just hope for more so needless to say Brett reader the season started exactly. how I expected to win at stop number one, but we have to talk about a guy we call the king of consistency, Tomas Jinan, that guy took second place in Rotorua, so he's looking good to get those points for the title general at the end. of the year we are going to add those points at each stop, yes, it is also important, it is not just a race to see who will win this event, it is also a battle of points and they want to win the king of Crankworx and you know, the World Championship .

And how about a guy who got on the podium for the first time at stop number one? Diego covers the Aussie, so in everyone's mind, Diego has always been an underdog, but I don't think he's an underdog anymore. He has shown that he has what he has. he is needed to get on the podium. I think he will bring that confidence to this race. This guy brings tricks that not many people have in their bag so I took him into consideration when I was building my fantasy Crankworx rig for a slope style look who I chose now I started from the bottom a new rider it only cost me 70 $600 Erik Fedko then went with Diego Cobras Ozzy because for $8,700 I already had a podium this year that's a bargain and now I'm starting to run out of money but I was still able to capture the king of consistency, Tomas Jinan, but now that's just left a little bit, I'm thinking $70,100 for Matt Jones, that kid must have a great performance, so I'm feeling pretty good about my team.

I think it's a good decision. Realistically, you can't go wrong with any of these brokers. You just have to be very smart with your money and how you spend it. I'd love to buy a nickel aragaki or a Bret reader, but man, I'm going to have to save up for an entire season so I can get one of those guys my crew films. I'm feeling the strategy, not everyone can drive a Lamborghini, so you have to choose wisely, okay? I'm going to get there I'm going to get to my destination safely If you're new to the earring style, let's take a look at what we have in store for you right now.

We have 14 of the best runners in the world, each of them has two races. the best race counts who gave them their scores we have four judgesThey are all very esteemed, they know what they are talking about, there is a lot of money at stake, especially if you win three of the stops, you get an extra 25 thousand dollars, of course. In 2017, the guy who had the most points after all the rounds with the Swede Amelia Johansen , took the overall title. Well, Tyler, I talked about how we have 14 of the best Loeb-style mountain bikers on the planet, who are they, we have Alex Elanco, who I am very excited to see would not feel good without a Swede here and this is his first job strange so I'm really excited to see what he brings to the table so some new faces out there Alex Elanco Erik Cono FET It's Crankworx's second Slopestyle appearance and then of course the last rider to fall will be Bret Reader , basically in reverse order to our current overall rankings, which after just one stop are just the results from stop number one in Rotorua.New Zealand, well, if you love

slopestyle

, you came to the right place today, Saturday of slope style, it's the Crankworx

innsbruck

slope style brought to you by kenda and if you're sitting on your couch tuned to your TV, you've come to the right place and don't leave.

Well, it's time for the anticipation to slowly build as we take in the beautiful alpine peaks of Innsbruck, Austria, the second time we've had a Crankworx festival here and by the looks of the crowd, we found the right spot. Stopped number two of the Crankworx FMV, a Slopestyle world championship, we have the best riders in the world and it starts right now. Well there we have it, the crowd is starting to make noise and if they are making noise now, I can't even imagine the decibel levels we will reach once we drop our first rider. We are seeing it right now.

This is a young cyclist from Sweden. Another talented cyclist appearing on the scene. I can't emphasize enough how difficult it is. to rise through the ranks and get here to the top of the sport, you've done what you had to do, you went to some of the smaller level events, you got the points you needed and now you're here, your first Crankworx, the only sweet one in to be here. He said that he feels a little lonely, he wishes his friends were here, but I hope we can see his friends Max and Emil healthy, but now is the time for him to reach the top of the sport. here at Crankworx. there is a smaller series of events that we call gold events in the FMB a world tour this is an event called swatch rocket air in Switzerland Alex Elanco showed up at this event and just dropped the hammer stomping on his career and in these events yes You are a relatively unknown rider and you are the rider with the best result who is not already invited to the next Crankworx event.

You find yourself right where Alex and Lang Co are now at the top of the star tower in a Crankworx event. He is getting ready to leave work and we are so excited for this show to start here. I met this kid last winter. He was visiting Max Frederickson in Sweden and we spent a couple of hours in a small indoor park, it's so wintery that the only one. The way you could ride was indoors and here's this kid with long blonde hair doing big tricks on little jumps. It's time to see if he can drag those tricks to the gigantic features here on a Crankworx Slopestyle course.

We saw it in rock and air. He has what it takes to see if he can do it on the bigger circuits, the first driver to drop Alex Elanco, what does he have for us? has a trucker from the start, you're out, backflip, double slash spent on that baked dirt against dirt. Feature I'm going to do it with an opposite 360 ​​degree turn in the unnatural direction of it. Disabled truckers get a lot. Oh no, well, Alex Elanco veers off course before he can get to the next hip feature. Tyler, tell me how much harder it is. those two features after the barrel registration to do these technical combos, so those jumps are what we call hips where the takeoff and the landing are offset, so you're under-turning or over-turning, sometimes it's hard to calculate exactly how to do it . money and everything Beggar is going well I think he just spun a little on that blue his rear tire let's take a look here this is the canyon that leads to the future where you got the bug let's see if we can find out what happened He was wrong, big 360 opposite and then this happened, the driver of the Ripple truck, so the rotation is slight, so he may have been fine on a perfect double straight, but this is a track, so maybe he doesn't spend as much time on the hips, but it looks clean.

Practice just a small miscalculation. It's calibrating your trick taking into account that angled landing figure somewhere around the 30 degree hip angle. You have to make sure you don't do a trick like you would in an indoor park on a straight table. box jump so Alex Lanka can get back to the top. Fortunately, he has another chance to achieve a top-to-bottom career here in Innsbruck. Take a look at our next rider, Yaakov Ensel from the Czech Republic, a guy who has managed to get back to the top of the sport fell off the tour last season has been on the scene for many years has been in it has been out but he hasn't given up now this is a guy if you follow Crankworx and all The other disciplines we present here at these festivals know him for the double speed style, once he was relegated to the double speed style he lost his place in the world slope style because of it, he began to dominate that discipline, but now he feels very happy to be it.

Back at this stage, he decided not to compete in the double speed style, putting all his efforts for this moment in the slope style, well, in practice, I must say that I saw him driving like I had never seen him drive before. be seen. like he's hungry, he wants to get that spot back on two or full time, not just one and done, and he's been bringing in some new tricks based on 360 practice, no hands, at work, nice 360 ​​table From land to land, here he is. goes into the Canon record, we say he changes petals, in fact he did it with double tail, going up a little bit, showing that he deserves to be here, he worked his way back to the top of this sport and just dropped a great career .

I'm glad he was able to put up with him being a little edgy on a couple of points. You know, he wasn't the cleanest thing he was looking for, but he was able to hold on, get one in the bag and in the end. for a first ride, that's what you want to do, look at these petals right now, so switch, just dance, that's not necessarily the opposite for it, it's just the way, if you feel more comfortable doing it, some riders choose to switch his feet there, he almost lost the pedals, the cranks spin up and man you don't want to lose the pedals going into that because there's not much time to stop and here's the last trick, that 720 front cork, we call it cash rolls invented by Daniel Dhers in the world. of BMX, you've seen mountain bikers throw it in slope style, now he starts that rotation on his front shoulder instead of back, he puts it on that axis which looks really cool, now we're waiting for Yaakov ensel's score, our first BMX race top to bottom. of the competition, a 67.5 puts him, of course, in the lead at the moment, so our next rider, as the judges prepare their scorecards, will be that man, Matt Jones of England, another rider who was in the tour last year but he was having such it's hard to stomp a career from top to bottom Matt Jones starts his career flat, look how high this kid goes in everything he goes through, he's always very stylish and looks fun when is on his bike, now keep in mind that width is Definitely something the judges look for too extension, yes you never see his hand halfway, so a left backs puts no hands in a 360 dr. hands and execution is another thing they're looking for he's doing exactly what he needs to do right now perfectly smooth right at the top of every landing come on Matt Jones Wow I'm so happy to see him land on the Slopestyle mountain, happy dude cuz that It's just In the second fragrance competition, from top to bottom, it crashed last year in Whistler and has now made a run for it with some hammers.

The breadth is something that really stood out for me in that race. You have to be happy with that. and I was talking to him before and he said he wasn't sure if I should go for points and everything and I think it was a middle ground, that it's going to be a good scoring streak, well I heard the crowd, look at the crowd there same. he's just showing that he's comfortable, he's not stressed, he has full confidence in everything he's doing, look at him smiling, just looking at the Alps right there. Today I learned something about Matt Jones.

I was talking about it with someone who said that he had heard that he was an excellent one. student all through school they said he's a very smart guy, well he must have studied the judges criteria because he checked all the boxes in this race, everything was textbook perfect, he didn't stress, he didn't rush, everything It was perfect, two pedals and me. I think the judges are really going to take note that when you have a performance like that you don't need the tricks he's been struggling with, like the double backflip, here we go, a 79.5 puts Matt Jones currently on the bench, well , now he has a second career to experiment a little and have that as support, he has a base to work on, so I am very excited about what he will come up with, to see if he will last a little longer, he always has things on . book the next rider at the starting gate in Germany.

Lucas can't. Now we spoke to him at halftime at stop number one. He was a substitute but he couldn't be among all the riders who were on the start list staying healthy and riding. He made it to the final, but he kept going, he got here, now he will be part of stop number two, he has been enjoying every minute he has spent here in Innsbruck, check out when I try it here from Germany, the mountains suddenly start to sing and then you finish. In this good sized European town in the mountains, your name is Brooks, we also have the skate park and it suits me pretty well because I grew up writing skate parks and yeah, we basically went there every day from 9:00 to 9 :00. 7:00 in the afternoon and then I started building my own jumps and then I had this next passion for dirt jumping and slopestyle.

Yeah, it's always great to go back to the skate park and play a little. I think it helps you. overall bike control for me, it's pretty awesome to finally be officially in the serious Crankworx. I mean, it took me some time now that we have

2018

, when I started it was 2014, but I finally got here and I hope to make a good one. I mean, I would say I'm a friendly German, but Austrians are friendlier. I like that every time I come to Austria it has been earned. It's great to see Lucas Can Ops not only enjoying his time here in Innsbruck, but also putting on those Kehna tires. one crank starting tower Rick leans off the course this will be his first appearance in a rich crank slope style he's been rising through the ranks for years it's his first competition so it's a lot of work to get here you know it's Like it's not like his career As of now, sometimes you only see these guys once they get here, but I've been falling for a while.

I know he's got what it takes to use the booth with us doing interviews last time and now I see you're coming in for a crank job now it all comes down to whether you can pull it off when the pressure is on and he seems composed, a big front slide on that land, there they are entering a little too rotated but with force thanks to 361 feet per barrel. out of the canyon straight into a double tail into the hip truck driver who comes up a little short but he'll just try to save a run here and get down so maybe this isn't exactly what he had planned but he's back on the correct road. now a 360 degree spin on the last jump, a great combo to top things off as Lucas can't go for as fluid a run as he had hoped and we talked about how excellent Matt Jones' run execution was, The judges love that when they see pedaling between features, they usually get deductions for that, but all of his tricks were pretty spot on, especially the last one, right, it started to go a little wrong here, where he went too fast on that turn. front, no. -hander, that's a big jump, you have a lot of time to rotate, it went a little overboard.

Oh, so he might have hit his head on the handlebars and that threw him off the pace a little bit, but he just wanted to recover and go down well. it's important it's important to make sure that if you're going to make a mistake you just look forward and try to move forward now. I think he made some of these jumps on the right side of the course, which means you're getting there. A little short, you can see that his rear tire didn't land exactly where he needed it, but luckily, to get into that tail featurewhale, you don't need a lot of speed, so he was able to save him, but that last trick was spot on.

So he'll hopefully be able to get a solid enough score on it and then fix it up and run number 2. It's a good enough 60.5 for third place for Germany's Lucas. He knows what he needs to improve, but it's great to see him do it. from top to bottom in the bag, it's good to see him be able to pull himself together and just run down and land that shot at the end and get some points and now that he has something to work on, he knows he's going to go for more and more. Running in the slopestyle world, many runners look at other runners to decide how they are going to compose their race.

A guy who does exactly the opposite is Simon God's yak, borrowing equally from BMX and motocross, adapting these tricks to the mountains. bike, you never know what he's going to throw, he flips a foot, a can, he starts jumping, so that's the biggest trick we've seen there. I love seeing old school Superman on a slope, running truck driver style on the hip, so this is a good opportunity to do something nice and slow 720 perfectly in transition great control that double tail rotation towards the whale tail risky move there front flip horse Ben to top things off Simon Godsey's egg comes out swinging clean run lots of variety, I always say this, but I like that he mixes in a Superman trick, which isn't normally a high trick score, but the way he's doing it, the judges just have to give him points because he looks so good right now, my goodness, he's not practicing as much as the other riders this morning. because he said that he has his career secured and that he is ready to do it, he was off the podium last year with a fourth place, you know that he is looking to be in that box this year, he is always close, he always has the tricks and sometimes, Not everything goes well, but today he seems to be in top shape.

Third place at Lachey last year was his first podium appearance and, if all goes his way, he is doing exactly what he needs. do to get back there, so here he's doing it for 720, but the jumps are a bit hip so he's actually doing a 700 degree rotation, which requires a lot of awareness of the air to be able to subtract just 20 degrees from the turn. to land perfectly in a soft landing spot on the double tail, lift a big extension on that rear lip, bend the no-hander down, but none of this matters, if you throw away this front bar twist , could it have been smoother, perfect? two tires so calm and collected Simon Gajic waiting for the judges' decision will be enough to get Matt Jones off the bench Matt Jones currently sitting with a 79.5 are you looking at our judges there right now, that's the head judge on the On the left side from the screen, Paul Raque, we have former competitor Pierre Edward Ferry Grant Fielder, on the right side of the judges who have been there before, they have been judging for a long time and used to compete in these types of situations, so they know exactly that.

They're watching, they're taking their time with this score, they need a 79.5 or better to get on the bench. Simon Godsey is second with seventy-six point two five now the third member of our team that Mikayla obtained Mikayla Gatto is waiting with Simon Godsey was key, so to me it seemed like a race suitable for the podium, but you were going like that, no you seemed so happy, where do you want to improve for a second career? I went over the first job and I couldn't extend my Superman quite well, then I did it with an explosive appearance without Ebola, so I did a couple of jumps at the beginning, the rest was okay, but not enough.

I want to improve, well, good luck and thank you all. You can see that Simon Godsey is motivated to get back to the top of the field. These guys are his harshest critics. To you and I it seemed like a great race, but he knows that he has room for improvement and we are lucky to be able to do it. We will be able to witness that that is exactly the beauty of two races here, but now we have the German driver Eric Fedko, this is his second appearance at Crankworx and I was a big fan after seeing him race for the first time in Rotorua, this guy is simply He's so consistent and composed that it's been killing him since he started practice, but yeah, yeah, I saw him, oh, so I saw him feeling that several times in practice, never expanding, at that point he opted that there was a 360 C shitty Indian air, not sure. if he just turned a little bit, maybe slipped a hand, we knew he was going to do that trick because, like you said in practice, he was taking his feet off the seat, we just hadn't seen him extend it yet and I knew he was going to go for it. the glory here is the 360 ​​he removes his hand and puts it on the seat he makes a Superman seat he grabs the air indian it means he is crossing his legs in the air what do you think happened there?

Well, he spread himself completely. In that, not only was he feeling it, he knew that he had to go as big as he could. I think we're going to take another look here, but it seemed like maybe he missed a foot, maybe he's just a little off balance. There's not much room for air in a trick like that, you go with your feet, you swing and you spin in circles. There are so many things that have to go right to get you back on the bike. See Nikolaj? o gakuen is always a great sport down there, making sure Eric Fedko is okay and today we were talking about Eric Fedko saying he's like Old Faithful, he always delivers, he's so consistent we didn't expect to see him go down. but that just shows what happens when they're saving something for the finals, the extension on that Superman Indian Air 360 seat couldn't have been better, so the doctors were checking Eric Fedko at the time, but that jump he tried That trick was one of the most interesting jumps on the circuit.

We would love to see it. Takes it back to old school. A good size ground to ground double. We start with this flat drop which is the flat drop that Bret Reader was trying that back tail whip hopefully we'll see that then guides us through the rest of this course Tyler so after that big jump you gotta check out a This canyon here is not small, it is not small either, nothing in this course is. small but then sends you to these hips. Here we have a left hip on a right hip, which is where we'll see really good opportunities for back-to-back regular and opposite tricks and we're talking nine meters for both.

These hips are not only at an angle, but they are around the 30 foot range for those of you who are not on the metric system and then you are in what we call a whale tale, it is risky to do big combos. because if you lose your balance there is not much room to stop and then this is the best way to finish a slope, execute a gigantic money boot or at the end a key feature on each course, it is similar to what everyone practices at home and that It's what you want to end up with, it's your favorite trick, your biggest trick and the thing you think you'll get the highest score on.

Well, it's strange to see the course chart without all these screaming fans next to it, but it's cool to see Eric Fedko standing. The doctors are taking good care of him. Hopefully we'll keep our fingers crossed to see him return to the top for a second run. It's a shame to see it. I didn't see him make any mistakes in practice. He just looked so clean and confident. and I saw him make some pretty big moves. I could tell when he was feeling bad and he had a really good race plan, so I know he's pretty disappointed.

He will see how he feels. Hopefully we can get him back on the bike for race number two. If he feels good, one thing we know about that kid is that he's a tough kid, so if anyone can do it, it would be him back to square one. Our next racer out the door looks to be BMX legend turned delopestyle top dog, Brian. Nyquist always gets excited when he hits a track, no matter what type of bike he's riding. Nyquist, in the first competition, we saw you riding a fully suspended slope style bike, meaning it has full front suspension, but rear suspension which we never thought we'd see. him with a rear shock, but in such big features, he says he likes to get away with a little big and turned 720 that fits perfectly on that hip there 360 ​​with a single hand X up, kind of like a clock with the Ryan's knife foot signature measuring 20 in the whale tail is a high risk maneuver in a double truck, come on Mike Woods that's the muscle wire through there, it's all those 20 something years of experience to overcome that race, this guy, who is an old faithful, always completes a race. on the Red Bull Joyride podium last August he never thought he'd be competing in slopestyle now he's one of the best in the world maintaining his status on the tour he did exactly what he needed to do right there to move up the rankings and move on to the rest of the rounds in the next four seasons if he keeps this up, there's something like this: You're just going to see him do a 360 X with one hand up and this right here, 720 on the whale. cola did it that first day of practice I asked him about it he said you know what I knew he was going to do I couldn't stop thinking about it I didn't think I would do it the first day of practice but I just had it to get it out of my mind, now some of the best slopestyle cyclists and mountain bikers are approaching 20, this guy is approaching 40, but don't slow down, I was going to say be careful calling him Old Faithful, everyone wants to make him mad with that old word about the young at heart Ryan Nyquist always improving well last year he experimented a little and learned what the judges like and don't like he was trying out some tricks where he landed with the handlebars upside down, to the The judges didn't seem to care, so we went back to those tricks that have served him well throughout his BMX career, tricks that took him to the podium last year in Whistler.

The big question now is will he go higher than a seventy nine point five to get Matt Jones off the bench well here comes the score for Ryan Nyquist watch the bar rise how high is third place currently behind Nyquist a score of 71 Mikayla gateau well, what's up? So you've been racing since 1995 on various hardtails BMX it's in hotels you're on dual now tell me what's up man yeah just before I fully dive into the mountain bike stuff you know I thought I needed full suspension just to finish it off but yes how did you make this box for me a new thread earring and it feels good.

I was a little nervous. I only wrote it like three times before this event, so I haven't really tried it, but I feel good, happy with that race, happy I didn't do it. dies in a couple of places so I'm standing here and laughing, well you're in third place right now so welcome to the dark side. Thanks dark Ryann Nyquist, no matter how high pressure the situation is, this guy has always done it. funnier than anyone oh yeah he's the youngest here in a way. Oh, it's a great moment, talking about one of the oldest guys in the competition, this is the youngest guy to ever win a Crankworx Slopestyle doing it when he was.

I want say 15 in 2011, now ensuring his status as one of the main elements of the series, he will never be eliminated, well I know with this new Crankworx series and them reducing the racers and everything that is. You know, consistency is a huge factor because having one inconsistent event and that could take you out of the whole series, so I think that's something that a lot of us are shifting our focus to is trying to stay consistent while trying to stay consistent. to strive in those first places. So I mean, for me, I'm trying to stay consistent, trying to, you know, stay in the top 75 or whatever, but also you know, maybe in my second race, push a little bit towards the podium, well , great inside Anthony Missouri, he seems to have cracked the code on how to stay on the tour, but you hear him say right there, there's a fine line between reaching your potential and staying on the tour, will he go for the glory or will he play at safe?

What do you think? I'm very excited about this. Right now he thinks I'm doing that and practices pretty much everything he plans to do. He's already done it, so his confidence is in the ceiling cannon. The wind may pick up a little and he can regain the perfect lane on that hip. he's back into the rhythm. Pig, front turn on the hip, there now 360 inside, look what he got out of the whale tail, back turn with one foot, can he have something big? Horse on the last jump here, so I know he may have had different plans for that race. there, so he was going a little improvised changing his speeds, maybe how the winds were shaking him, so that's his experience.

Anthony has been on the tour for a long time, he is calm, he could run there and there was nothing. small in that race, so I think he should have a pretty good score at this point. Oh, I thought for a second he was going to throw it all away. That casserole would not have meantnothing if he fell into the double barzmann flip and if he just flipped. bars, but his score would have been considerably lower, so he knew he needed that extra bar turn, but it was a risk just as he said in that interview, it's a fine line that exactly balances risk and reward, so look at this cash hole here. on a big jump, it only has them softer on the big jumps than when you see them on the smaller one exactly, sometimes you see them mainly on steeper jumps and this here is such a risky move so exposed to the wind here in the Alps.

Especially doing that trick, yeah, double tail up when you're off your bike, the wind just wants to throw you but it's using its core strength to keep everything centered and locked, so this here, the one foot backflip and a can out , landing a little. offside but still able to maintain his speed, look at that late backflip, double spin, keep it together oh man, he must have breathed a huge sigh of relief after that, that right hand grabbed hold moments before his tires touched the ground, so it was a big salvation. there for Anthony Missouri putting that one all the way Corral, what are the judges going to do with that?

Get Matt Jones off the bench. He needs to improve a 79.5 to crack the top three. He needs to beat a 71. I have a feeling this will be a pretty big score, I think this will keep him on tour, he always delivers, he always does what he has to do to stay there, he's a good guy to have here at the competitions , is always progressing, always learning new things. things, so while the judges deliberate, Anthony Missouri, sister, your job is done, it's time for the judges to do theirs, this can sometimes be the most stressful part of the process, well here comes the score of any thing in Missouri and the number one race is good enough for third place is 73, so he nods, he knows that will be good enough to give him some points, but you can tell he wants to increase that a little bit.

You see him shake his head, so the current standings as it stands right now, Anthony Missouri goes. In that third spot on the podium so far, Simon Godsey is three points to five points ahead of him, sitting in second, but Matt Jones has held on to that hot spot for quite a while at the moment, dodging plenty of bullets, all good . The next cyclist prepares at the starting tower from France. Young 21 year old cyclist. Simon comes by now. This child we never know what to expect from him. The way he practices for a slopestyle competition is very mysterious and reminiscent of how Brandon Seminole used to practice in his competitive days.

I saw him watching his competitors practice a lot, maybe he didn't use all the practice time, but when he did it, he made it count, you just watched what his competitors were doing, maybe watched how the course flows. I'm starting. We came out with a trucker from the backflip so he doesn't get a combo, so the judges will take note of that, but we'll see if you can make up the rest of the way here, that was the opposite. I count up in the canyon they are doing that is an unnatural direction slightly under rotation so this could be a throwaway form a couple of mistakes these will offer them these straight back jumps are not going to help and he knows that being on the whale tail means that you are By discarding this race, you will put all your chips on the table for race number two.

It may seem strange to see a router make a small mistake and then throw away the entire race, but nowadays everything has to be perfect, so some of the things. In this race he didn't go the way he wanted and made him throw in the towel, let's take a look back, someone passed. Jed is a driver who usually surprises us in the final with things we didn't expect from him, but we had this truck. The driver here was a double hip truck driver and I remember the landing was a little sketchy so this landing is supposed to go a little over 360 because the landing tilts to the left he is turning to the left, so he was He couldn't get the extra rotation there, fortunately he didn't fall, but he knew who did.

He must have made a mistake. The judges were going to take note. These guys realistically want to score their best runs these days if they do. a straight backflip on the second feature of the field at that very moment you know your score will not be high, it would be a lot of ground to make up, but he will be back below the top of the field, but the man sitting on the one who was on the Summit at this time was one of the runners who took part in the two-horse race last year. The best battle we have seen in the history of slopestyle.

We are talking about Nikolaj Roy Gaskin. I was able to catch up with Nikolaj. To find out what motivates him in the next episode of McCall Meets, check it out, just ride your bike up the ladder to the roof of that family home. I don't know if you realize it, but the ladder is very sturdy. That's okay too, now let's go. take a look oh yeah that's steep yeah yeah normal oh my gosh the bag is super stiff and it also has a landing down there but you thunder in your bag princes they took out the G cover and took it out quite a bit well, but after this role and no role.

In its always scary, it's no secret that this is nothing like a Slopestyle course, there's no space like that some of the guys that have candidates should just build whatever, but give my dad a lot of credit for the ideas that occurred to him. Well, Tyler, how's the engineering at that training facility? I'll tell you what this guy has earned, everything he has, that airbag is not in the fight, but he has learned so many tricks that we have seen him in practice adapting those tricks to the course. ya and now here we go last year's reigning champion falling in Innsbruck Slopestyle Oh, paddling, he's got a 1080 tornado, I saw how he slows it down, he's turning three times, but it looks so easy when he does it, oh, this looks like it to his race last year. so clean, no pedals, triple tail up on the hip, they're getting to the next hip, he's here on casual terrain, we saw him take the last jump in Rotorua doing something unique up there, cork 720, coming down the step, coming in money burn in the cash but it falls off oh man he was trying his hardest right there and everything looked so perfect oh he was just hanging on by a thread when he got to the final show.

I can't believe he still tried. casserole bar spins now the Cork's 720 in the whale tail was so big and the fact that it made Superman's one-handed seat grab everyone who was so close was a great trick to get out of the whale tail and it's hanging off the back of your bike with one hand going into it so you don't have much time to set it up but you can still land it perfectly. There's a 1080 on the first jump, so calm and slow, and the way he pulls the last 90 degrees now is a first. The third of this race was identical to what he did to win just a year ago, but take a look, this is a trick he used in Rotorua.

The ground-rolled cache is called. I called it sea crab casserole. Sometimes it's hard to keep up. These tricks, especially what Nikolai is doing, he brings his own style to everything, so now we're seeing it halfway and look, I mean, a lot of people talk about Nikolai's style and say it's different, that's a trick elegant right there, that sea of ​​casserole. Crab this right here, Cork's 720 in one of the biggest moves of his career, but he may have thrown it off balance a little as you saw in that quark 720 down, he landed a little on his side losing a little speed, he ran this turn of casserole bar just shy of rotation.

I love the way he does that casual bar turn, he throws the handlebars with his left hand, so he's at the end of the turn, he has to get his knees out of the way and if he cuts one of his knees, the hole spins and it will stop. There's so much going on there, it's so hard to get it right. He was just a hair's breadth away, so Nicholas Rakat came in as 2017 champion here at Crankworx, inspired a real towel book towards his second career to improve. but now we turn our attention to the top of the field, where Thomas Lemoine, a guy who has been doing triple duty here, putting his name on the sign-up sheet for so many different disciplines in our own Michaela met with Thomas Lemoine, check him out A look. right cam, like you said, this guy is the only slopestyle router competing in three different events this week.

He did the pumptrack on Thursday night. He won the sprint and style double the next night, which was his second win there and he is competing in slopestyle. today and I would say that he is looking to improve on that bronze metal streak that he had here last year. Now another interesting thing about this guy is that he is currently ranked second overall for King of Crankworx, so maybe he could even be The Only Slopestyle Guy Who Will Be King of Crankworx at the end of this season. It's going to be interesting, that's right, Mikayla. Many of the riders who compete in Slope Style don't compete in other disciplines because there is too much to focus on. but what works as king of the crank is the points from all the different disciplines added up across the four stops and it's $20,000 at the end of the year if you're crowned king, so yesterday had a great day in speed and style. see if he's fatigued, it doesn't look like he's that far back, he turns back, he turns without hands towards the bar, he spends big 360 Tucker, he pulls out the barrel, there 360 ​​inwards, from the table to the bar, he spends such Lemoine style on that 360 hands free opposite, I think it's a new one.

I haven't seen him do that yet. Front flip into the whale tail truck driver who lands very low there to see if he can pick up speed. Wow, there were so many things about that Kayla backflip that weren't easy and weren't supposed to be. go right, he landed low on the thing before, he didn't have the speed but he was able to lift it using that, he lifted his bottom, pushed through his feet back, it looked like he was able to shift them before landing, this kid is so mentally strong doing so many events here some people say they have bigger fish to fry when they talk about speed style pumptrack he just wants to fry all the fish just do everything he's going to do for a fish feast get out of here this guy is unstoppable he can win in so many different disciplines here at Crankworx festivals and the judges love these technical combinations.

He in the 360 ​​of him is a true multi-discipline athlete here when you watch him ride, when you watch the way he goes through the handlebars that we're seeing. He's in slow motion, but it seems like he's in slow motion in his head, everything is so calm and slow and unhurried in the breadth, his ability to carry speed, he's one of the only guys who could land that long on the tail of whale and then stay still. Not only do the last jump, but also do a trick like a back flip tail. We're looking forward to seeing that backflip story

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ed because if you look now, he's stepping right foot forward, let's take a look at where his cranks were when he caught his pedals after that tail-up backflip. up Wow, so you almost missed the whole landing there pushing, you can see how he pushes, they are grabbing his head, he now has his left foot forward, don't worry, you know he's just going to put it in the money changer he lands super calm, he doesn't care at all about everything this kid does and all the events he competes in and I don't know how he finds time to doodle on his jeans, the judges right now are taking their time assigning a score to that. running because there are so many subtle little intricacies that add up to that score in points, yeah I was in a pretty good one there with the 360 ​​degree opposite fold with no hands joining things at the hips and that was pretty clean even though it had a small mistake on the In the end, I probably wanted something bigger on the last jump.

Can we keep a camera on Ryan Nyquist for the entire broadcast? We'll have it in a little shoebox in the bottom right corner, so if you're just joining us, wondering what our current rankings are, look at the screen right now Yakov Benson in fifth place Ryan Nyquist the man you saw joking around in the store of the runners sitting in fourth place but the top three Anthony Missouri Simon Gothic but Matt Jones is still holding on to that first place, this could be a big breakout performance for him now. Thomas Lemoine is not only looking to get on the podium at this event, but he's also looking for those valuable points to try to become the king of Crankworx if that twenty thousand dollar bonus check at the end of the year if you have a lot to balance that crown trying to do multiple events doing all the practices and without sacrificing an event and he goes for the victory and everythingenters, so it's super impressive to see him as an athlete competing here in crank works in In multiple disciplines, Thomas Lemoine's first podium in Slopestyle was last year.

He right now he gets seventy-seven points five, good enough for second place. Until now, can he hold on and repeat that podium? Not bad. I think he's in a great place. Now, and while that was very impressive, we know he has more in the tank, but now he looks who we have, one of your favorites in the starting gate. Diego is one of my favorites and the main reason is that he looks, he's a great guy, but neither are you. I know what to expect from him. He is a crowd pleaser. He had seen his friend Evo right there flying, but he got his first podium and number one stop this year.

He has fully arrived on the crank rec slopestyle scene. He is no longer a loser. He does not work. very high is at the top diego covers also has this to say about his own style and process for choosing tricks well, I don't want to send the tornado here, I could do it but I don't want to be Nikolai's number two, so I have my house style , my house tricks. This time I would do something different that makes you wonder, right? If that doesn't hint at the fact that we may be seeing something new right now.

I don't know what it is so I'm I'm really excited to hear someone say they could make a tornado but they don't want to you want to do something different so this is going to be exciting here ride or die rider Diego what are we going to do watch now? I've been riding very well and practice from the front of the car, turn on that jump, they're landing perfect, two, two tires, their speed is on a turn. I love that angle, seeing how high off the ground he holds it together, 360 with his tail up on that hip hop back bar he passed on the next one. hip losing a little speed backflip no hands off the whale tail this is where we have our question marks Oh backflip cliffhanger unfortunately I can't hold that has to be what I was talking about that has to be that's not a trick you see every day and that's something new, she didn't try to make it so small, you spread yourself completely, it seemed like maybe he was just missing a hand, maybe he was missing a foot, he was in for a pretty exciting race right there.

I love the fact that he's not just going to do a trick that he has in his bag and that he knows he'll get good results to let you know if you miss Rotorua. He did a front track 1080, it's called Twister and he got a podium position, a third place, but he's trying to do it. be different, get some creativity points because that's also a valuable category on the judges' scorecard, the front turn on the Canon record is going to score very high, so everything was going well until this hip hit you you came up a little short, it's a kind of Chain Reaction Effect, once it happens in one jump, it's very likely to happen in the next, that's why you see them selling trying to make up for it.

Judges take note of that, but it's better than just going off track, but we were very curious. We were going to look at this last jump and didn't expect to see a cliffhanger back, but we'll soon get a chance to see what went wrong here. Great extension in the rear lift. Hands-free removal of the whale tail. points for that, but no points will count because he didn't stop his last trick, look at that straight line in the spread, unfortunately, he hooked his feet on the handlebars and leaned back completely, it looked like the bike could have caught him. and I hit him on the butt, which I wasn't expecting, and through the rotation of the bike, and then you're hanging on your feet, you know you need everything to be in the right place when the bike gets knocked around a little bit.

From what you're going to put your hands on, they're not right. The spot ruins everything so unfortunately Diego covers for Ozzy, we'll have to head to the top of the field and hopefully try that backflip cliffhanger again because I would love to not only see him stomp on that trick, let's see what the score would have been. for all those other moves exactly, I think he was on a really good one, well, guy we don't normally see not finishing a race, he earned the nickname king of consistency for a reason, he's the last European competitor to win a Crankworx Slopestyle stop now.

Is it Holi back in 2012? Can he do it again here today? 360 takes the initial work off hands-free. We also saw Jakob pencil doing the trucker there, it seemed like he wanted something more, but it seemed like he was rotating a little more. opposite of 360, one foot, one can over rotation, but able to get through, he says, you know which peak looks a little out of control, you're just going to look to run number two to clean it up, so speaking of consistency, it's consistent, he is and then he ruins his career, that's not what we expect to see from Thomas Jinan, but he's a veteran in this discipline, so I know he's going to go back there, come up with a strategy to make sure he stomps on this, so here's where it came out evil.

We're doing the top three opposite 360 ​​cans and that's it, stop here, come on, you see that the foot came off the pedal and now his eyes are up looking at the next jump, but you have to be mega composed, okay, roll the movie to get the next jump, but you don't have enough speed, you usually pump to get enough speed, you see, I barely made it over that jump, I didn't have enough speed to do a trick that meant the end of the race for Thomas Janome, it seemed like maybe its rear wheel had been hit. alignment that caused it to rub on the chain stays slowed its rotation, the wheel lost speed, so I was going to fix that bike, get back to the gate from race number two, everyone is human, even guys like Thomas Jinan, who Ruin is rarely seen. everyone makes mistakes sometimes, well at this point we only have one runner left to go down.

The current score to beat is helped by the British Matt Jones. He's a seventy-nine point five, but if anyone can top that and make it to eighty, he's this guy. the guy who once stopped number one in the

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season in Rotorua, the guy who took second place last year here in Innsbruck during the best battle we've ever seen. I'm talking about Brett reader, yes he could make a career out of security and I probably still do pretty well, but that's not who I am. I don't care about the points. I don't care about rivalry. I just want to do well in my career.

You heard it right there. Strong words from reader Bret, he came here with a goal. in mind and he won't leave without at least attempting that goal, so he has a new trick. We saw him post it on Instagram the other day. He tried it in this first outing in practice. He had a great crowd. Here we go. He's going to do it. he does a backflip again, hits the start, drops the first one we've seen in competition on a front flip guy who must feel good to pass, who can keep the backflip bars together, but he's done a lot of this race now . practice I was an opposite Fork 720 in 47:20 that's exactly what the judges want to see on those hips there we go getting to Hellmuth magazine's latest backflip work that before all he's stepping up the game Brett reader the host guys I'm so impressed with the way he is always able to step forward.

He is not in top shape at the moment and it is strange in terms of his body. He's a little sore and battered, but he's able to get back up and stomp on that flat backflip that Caleb got. I've never seen that before, that's a historic move, he posted that trick on his Instagram, he landed it at his home training facility in his backyard, but the reason why that's so historic we're going to get into the details now. Same with this

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, take a look. there is no takeoff on that platform, there you have to initiate the turn with your body, only now you have seen that trick of things like a whale tail or lips down where there is a kicker to start the rotation, but do a jump backwards with a flat drop it's hard enough, but we've never seen a variation like a tail whip back, not on a flat drop and right there was your opposite direction, you turned the cork 720 to regular, so you're spending different directions on those and that's what the judges really like.

Look, look at the style, they're putting all their limbs in the right place at the right time to be so efficient with his body movements. Now we haven't talked about the last jump yet because it was perfect in everything else. It almost seems crazy to nitpick, but we're getting close to that final feature there, but the opposite 360 ​​bar does a back bar spin into the normal double bar 360 spin and then this, so look here, he will kick with his front foot and his left foot. That's how you know it's his backflip in the opposite direction, the double opposite tail up creates such an awkward and unfamiliar feeling when he does an opposite tail like that, so everything has to be taken into account.

The score to beat was seventy-nine point five in the hands of Matt. Jones, will it be enough? He had a little bubble on the last jump, but he broke new ground at the top of the course. Brett readers, new leader and eighty. 6.75, rewarded for his progression. Michaela Gatto is waiting with the new resident of her hot seat. Brent reader, okay, so for someone who says he's not completely on his game, right now you're sitting first, you did a historic tailwhip backflip off the first flat drop, what the heck man, well I'm not on my game , I have to admit it.

I am my legs, my legs are weak. I am weak. I fell a couple days ago and I'm still recovering, but uh, oh, yeah, it feels good to get here. I definitely have some things to clean up for running. How well? It feels like stepping on the trick you failed at two days ago, it sure felt good. It's a little different than what I'm used to. This is the giveaway for that trick. There are so many elements of the trick that you need to keep in mind. and deal with his loss the last jump here had some difficulties on that last jump so I hope the race goes better yeah well anyway it was a super solid race and enough room for the second round to clear it up a little, but congratulations on currently being in first place, thank you, yes, here we go, well, what a race for the reader Bret, a guy who is never satisfied, fortunately he will react, he will be able to get elastic because he is currently sitting in the first position place, of course, he was last now because he won the last event, but you know, if someone puts pressure on him, say like Nikolaj Rag acting like he did last year, you know he'll throw it all in, come on, let's look at our current ranking, we'll get to all runners. back to the top of the course Crankworx Innsbruck tracks presented by Kenda the second races are approaching very well, we are ready to go to Red Bull TV, you have the beauty of watching this contest on your own terms watch whoever you want watch what watch what Whatever you want to see, post it on your social networks, share it with your friends, watch anyone's race as many times as you want.

The first run we saw of all the running backs, especially the last guy we saw fall, Bret Reader, were you expecting that turn? You know you had that in your bag, yes, I expected it, but it's still mind-blowingly crazy now that we have on the stand here Reid Boggs in Torquato Tessa, two guys who have been here at the top of the sport competing in the Crankworx. In the Rodney Quad Slopestyle contest you've even had a podium but tell me how hard it is to stay on the circuit with the way the format works and the points you need to get an invite yeah because now in the krang course there are only 12 boys.

They're at basically 12 guys plus two wildcards in each event so 14 guys total and it's pretty hard to stay there as you see the level it's super watched and you just have to go to the gold events trying to rack up points or two. in a white car, while the current gold events are really good to go to these events like examining Alex Elanco, it's a lot of fun, it just shows that you're a guy who's been on the podium in Rotorua, so even a guy Like you, who have tasted the juices of a place on the podium, you have what it takes, it can happen to anyone, you can have a day off and lose the points, so what is your strategy to get back here?

My strategy is actually not to think too much about the points because if you stress too much you might make mistakes and that's not good, I think it's just trying to go to gold events and try to do the best you can and that's it, actually when I started and when I became a Crankworx Rider I was just thinking about not looking at the leaderboard too much but just having fun on the bike and doing the best I can, so Reid, we saw you in Rotorua, you're fixing a bad shoulder that you got hurt on Rampage, you hope it sticks. a few points in Rotorua and even that wasn't enough unfortunately so how frustrating is it not to be driving at your highest level which in turn caused you not to be in the pilot this year, yes it's definitely difficult well I'm simply more motivated than ever, I will go to agold after this and I'll try to get some points and get to the next one so you'll use them as fuel to do whatever you need to do to get to the gold level events and working your way back up the ranks yeah definitely yeah thanks We hope to see you up there guys, I know you will do what you have to do, you have played the alternative card in your favor in the past and made sure to stay and practice with all the riders in case someone unfortunately withdrew from the event.

That's how you toured each location on tour last year, so you did all the practices here as an alternative today. Yeah, this one was definitely busy because I was jumping around. around fast and fast style, but I definitely tried to get on the course as much as I could and yes, I was ready to jump today if I had to, but yes, I'm excited with everyone else and looking forward to the next one. Well, guys, stay, we have more things we want to do with you, but the judges are the ones who decide how good your runs were, what kind of points they will give you for your tricks and that in turn decides if you are going to be in the Next event, the third member of our team, Mikayla Gatto, will be checking in with the judges and finding out how they get these scores, which means a lot to these guys, thanks to Cam, yeah, I'm nervous sitting here with these sheets.

I don't even like this, this is like Greek to me, it explains what the first thing you look for in someone's career. Well, we definitely start with the diversity of tricks that you are throwing and then move on to the style of execution, your breadth, what I would use in another course the house there would be more lines here I use, of course, that's useless here, so mainly the diversity of your tricks and your execution, or we're highlighting right now and, as far as Bret readers are concerned, they did it for the first time in competition, the spin. pull off the flat drop do you take into consideration someone who does a completely new trick that you haven't seen before in competition? would you take it into consideration?

But then it comes down to how we did it, where he did it, and he did it. perfectly and he did it in a very high risk place so it definitely worked in his favor perfect and one more question because I can pick favorites. Matt Jones' career was the energy coming out of that guy, that was his second career. It was completed in three years, does it take into consideration something like the energy that the runners have or is it something that everything is completely emotionless? No, that would be more like a crowd favorite photo or factor than a ranking, they're just like us.

We completely separate emotions of any kind in the runners or the judges when we give our scores, so it's exciting, I'm happy for them, but when it comes to pencil and paper, it doesn't matter, perfect, the song is like you. The kids are pretty quiet down here, so they're up here, I should say, so I'll leave before I get a little stressed. Thanks Micaela, so it's good to know from the judges where their heads are at and what kind of factors influence them. your score. I know sometimes it takes a little time to absorb the evaluation, but right now, after we watched those first few races, do you feel like overall they did well or do you feel like there are points where they got it wrong? any of you I think everything is ready at this point, you know what you're doing and yes, Bret's reader's career was off the charts, it was pretty mind-blowing, no, that goes without saying, he did something that no one had done before and landed in a competition in his first race raises this question: does anyone have what it takes to get him off the mark?

And if so, who do I not know? It's hard to be a judge and decide who this person is that he put in. At least that's what a guy like Nikolai says because the battle was between those two guys. Now Nicola is looking at this race that we are watching right now. What does he need to do if he achieves his career? Do you think it would have been enough? Yes, but. You mean Nikolai Nikolai, yeah, I mean, yeah, they're different, but both races are super technical, like Nikolai is super huge with big rotation and stuff like that, but I think it would be like last year, last year was Like a huge bottle, I think.

It's the same, we can expect it to be the same. I think if Nikolai gets the race he wants, he will be up there with Brett and he will be good for the second races and for the spectators, what we all want to see is Brett. You have to do another run, you know he doesn't want to have to do it, but you know he has it in the tank that he has. More and yes we want to see another battle, well the anticipation builds on second runs. I can't wait to see if we'll see a repeat of that dogfight between those two guys now, if anyone can do it it'll be Nikolai. our opinions, you know that everyone has their opinions and you know that on the Internet anyone can express that opinion and we have our annoying friend Kelvin Huth who likes to express his opinions in a comedic way.

He'll update you on what happened in Rotorua right now. Check out the talk show No Bad Days, my name is Kelvin Hutt and this is my co-host, my Mrs. Packers, let's talk. Crankworx Slopestyle. She is beautiful. I need a break. One of the biggest surprises of the last event was the performance of the rogue Nikolaj. getting in shape that's just not good for Nikolai and now he'll be out for blood for those of you who don't know anything about Nikolai he's like the spigen spinner from FMB except this fidget spinner only likes to spin in one direction no He is a fan. to go in the opposite direction that's my rooster crows all day it's so annoying one of my favorite young and promising slopestyle athletes is Diego Sockers Hachi yes, he goes first Sachi Sauer Sachi from Italy his new sponsors are Reira Zippers and David Michael's winery, which is fantastic because we all know how much Italians love their zips right behind Diego at the last event was French athlete Thomas LeMond aka Thomas Lemon now my hopes for the future of Slopestyle is that French athlete Ashley Thomas Lemon will be sponsored by a company that way we can have the French and the Italians fighting to really settle the zippers versus velcro debate once and for all.

If you want to see more of these bad day talk shows, check out my YouTube channel, it's Calvin Hoth. days and, uh, yeah, we'll talk more Crankworx, it's going to be amazing, it's going to be a lot of fun and you're going to enjoy the show. Get all Calvin to tell him what he thinks about roosters, what he thinks about roosters, what he thinks about Calvin, man he's always good for a laugh, he's so funny. guy who brings a light attitude to the sport here, but he makes some good points there, you know he knows what he's talking about.

Thank you to the internet for giving everyone a voice, even the pink white commentators, why doesn't everyone have, everyone has an opinion, why? I don't get it, yeah there's a saying that goes along with that, we're not going there either, but where we're going when we get back from this break is stop number two of the Crankworx FM ba Slopestyle World Championships. You don't want to miss it, stick around, we've got it, those beautiful alpine peaks we've been talking about, of course, we're in Innsbruck, Austria for the Slopestyle Crankworx Innsbruck presented by Kenda. If you consider yourself a mountain bike fanatic, then Tuning all the drivetrains again for stop number two, the crank where the World Tour is right now, we'll begin the second races.

If you haven't seen the first few races, we'll tell you about the format in which each rider gets two races. The best race count will be our starting order at the moment, the reverse of the current standings, which of course means that Brett's reader will be the last to be able to see what all his competitors have to say and then find out if you have to respond. We're hoping someone gets him to respond, so we'll see Eric Fedko get there first. He had a bad fall, so I hope to see him at the starting gate and see all the runners hanging out.

In the biker room right now, some get excited listening to their favorite music, others goof around like Ryan Nyquist, everyone has their own method to prepare for these high-stress moments, but man, watching these bikers stomp on their racing and celebrating at that finish line is Opposites are what it feels like at the top of the field and we would love to see that process, of course all the fans enjoy the beautiful sun here in the Austrian mountains. It's a perfect day. First, we say no. I don't want wind over 10 miles an hour, it's there at 10 so hopefully it will continue to decrease throughout the day but we haven't seen it cause too many problems for cyclists like we have seen in the past in different places so Whoever scheduled a Slopestyle day today did a great job.

These runners have a lot of airtime. We need some quiet air. You never know what you are going to find here in the Alps. It rained a little on the first day of cranking. It works perfect. Geez, now look who we have at the door, he's back, what a strong crash, this kid is strong and we don't know much about Eric Fedko, this is his second appearance and a Crankworx event, but we know he's calm, he seems really strong, we now know he's incredibly tough riding harder than most in practice doing reps, but unfortunately in race number one he crashed in a massively extended 360 Superman's Secret Indian Air in the second feature of the course in Dirt Dirt Double.

I am very excited. See him again at the door because he looked so clean and so dialed in practice. I know that if you do this summary it could put you up there in contention for the podium. Eric Fedko, the dust falls from his shoulder for race number two here he changes his trick they are playing the tactical game they will just try to get some points look what he has planned for the rest of his career stunt truck driver so he is not taking it easy no, he's sore from that accident Faye's backflip tail on hip double tail clean on next hip pixie down tail up on whale tail back put anyone in now he has one more chance to do it while the judges know he has this truck dropping a hammer on the last jump after a smooth run up and down, it blew out the rear tire and the crowd went crazy which gave me goosebumps.

I was rooting for this kid, it's so good to see people get up after an accident like that, he didn't let him in. face and he knows it will hurt tomorrow he got that last trick he stood up at the last second oh the energy throughout this course right now after stomping that run the crowd was pulling him because this is the jump he crashed on right now being smart by deciding to do an easier trick and focus all his energy on the rest of the course, he's new on the scene, but he drives with so much experience that it's like he's been around forever, maybe he wasn't a hundred percent cent marked on that 360 Indian Air up there. so he changed it, he didn't want to risk crashing again and he clearly had a good race planned after that, well you have to talk about each of these events, it's the battle, the big war is to stay on the circuit, try to place high in the overall world championship series make sure you get invited back for next year but this was a big risk and it will pay off look at that slight lack of rotation but it didn't matter he got out from there rolling gently over the edge with its tire. just flapping now you don't see any movement in this kid very often, he usually pushes himself to the point, but when he stomps, he tries to play with the crowd and they love every minute of it, he works hard.

He realizes after his result in Rotorua that he wasn't happy, he wanted more, so he went home. He always posts new tricks he's learning on Instagram. We knew he was going to come out on top and it's so good to see him deliver. Here now I put Eric Fedko in my fantasy team, you saw that at the beginning of the show he is looking to surpass 77 points five right now to slide into a podium position. Is He going to be enough right now? Thomas Lemoine is currently in third place. placing a podium for this young rider would be huge for his career and helped him stay on the tour here come our scores how high will this bar climb up that ladder here bruising himself in 82 1st 2nd place getting up after a big crash dusting himself off and falling? the Hammers were second in the 80s, the only other runner we have in the 80s at the moment is Brett Reader who is sitting in the lead.

Such a good story right there. I didn't expect to see him get up at the starting gate once I saw him, we thought maybe he'd just come down and hold some points, but he came out. He is sitting in second place right now. Well, we just saw Eric Fed get his energy back, focus his mind in the right direction and stop his career. This guy is going to have To do exactly the same thing, Thomas Shannon's number one race had an unusual bubble on this opposite foot of 361, which can cause him to lose speed and not be able to finish his race and this guy has a Red rideBull in Whistler so if anyone knows what to do.

Right now, to walk that fine line, not risk too much, but still stop his career. He is this man here. Tommy G has another chance. let's see if it goes with the opposite foot of the 360 ​​cam choosing to just stay in 360 without getting the combo there now that was a no hands opposite 360 ​​oh - a 360 tail is so smooth double tail up on the whale tail 360 invested like only Thomas and others help in the last job just what we saw for him. Rotorua put him very high in the rankings, so he must feel good. Thomas Jen on the bars 360.

Bennett's help is the trick of the moment right now, seeing two. Runners fall back to back who ruined their first races and now stomp on the same trick on the final jump. Look, we knew it. We call him the king of consistency for a reason, this guy always delivers, he knows how to strategize and make the necessary changes to achieve it. a score in the bag, these guys come with the mentality of never giving up and it's proving to be a good decision here. Thomas Shannon changed his race slightly but in the end he was able to come down ending up with the same truck, the same trick. that took him to the podium in Rotorua.

Sometimes you see that when runners commit a trick on their first race, they try to get it out of their head. It is just one of the seven characteristics. Try something different and that was definitely the veteran call for Thomas Shannon, one of the highlights for me was how clean Taylor 360 was there, everything was so slow it wasn't rushed and that's what the judges like see now, see this guy in slow motion his spread of things. like that 360 table they are so perfect and then look how early he puts his feet back on the pedals on this 360 bar, he turns his tail up so that already through the bars kicking the bike, he stands up, that's not It could have been better. so the judges will take note of that he also had opposites he had triple combos he had a little bit of everything selection of tricks breadth of execution everything was there where are you going to rank him right now?

Of course, Matt Jones was knocked down to third place with his 79.5. Thomas Shannon will need to beat that score to get on the podium, so we're watching the runners get a little closer to the reader, let's see if we're going to get someone to do it. knock him down and force him to make another hit or a second run. Look at the Greek asking you to receive. He wanted to box with Ryan. I close at all times and now we have it. Thomas Jinan is the king of Consistency I guess Ryan Nycos would have to be the king of entertainment.

It's always good to have him around now when the judges are looking a little stressed. Maybe we need to take Nyquist to the judges' box to lighten the mood a bit. A lot of pressure. It's never an easy job for these guys on these tracks now, especially when the levels are so high and so many people land in the races, two of the racers we saw didn't get a first round they stopped their second race and that changes everything, well, the judge is. taking his time because Thomas Jinan basically embodies what they look for in a slope style racing performance, found so frequently these days, with each racer having a large number of tricks, you have to be precise with those tricks, so here's how See our leaderboard currently in the top five.

Simon Godsey's acts are still there, tell us someone is in fourth place now of course, Matt Jones, Erik Fedko and Brett Reda rounding out the top three. Where will Thomas Chinon be placed in this ranking? We're about to find out who looks more nervous and how he did it. started his race Thomas Shannon a seventy six point seven five good enough for fifth place knocking off Simon's gods but moving down the leaderboard looking happy with it I know he had more than he bargained for but as we call him the king about consistency, that's how he stays on tour, he always gets a run, he's always somewhere up there, so even if he's not in the top three, he's close, he gets his points, he makes them hungry, looking ahead next event, well, we are on the ocean, here in beautiful Innsbruck, Austria. those mountain peaks, but let's talk about Whistler, British Columbia, the place we all know and love, the best bike park in the world, they're opening up even better chickpeas, but they're also opening up a whole new section, Creekside Zone, it's officially here open.

It has five new trails spanning over 13 kilometers and this is the first season you'll be able to do it, so if you haven't been to Whistler, go out and do nine, even if you already have, get out there and give the new ones a good try. walking trails. Back to work here in Innsbruck, we have our newcomer to the game from Sweden, Alex Elanco, currently ranked 14. Now he didn't have exactly what I was looking for and was number one, so there is a lot of room for improvement Here, Tyler, here. starts with a truck driver from the flat back double bars, he was there on that jump entering the canyon, we'd love to see this could run the entire way opposite 360, maybe losing a little speed.

Double truck driver, so that's where he made a mistake now, so he already has a better career. Oh, the double tail has a great case. This is the last chance you have to move on and get those points to throw Oh again on the cork 720 pace to top things off and that was perfect, well seeing Alex run there, maybe not exactly how he wanted, but he made it and had some great tricks in there. He's frustrated, but I think he should be happy. This is the first appearance of him and he is a Crankworx. He has his nerves on edge.

I hope he stays with her. Hopefully we'll see him again, but he brings that experience with him and now he has a foundation. Works here, well first appearance on the big stage and I must say he's doing pretty well here, the double backflip bars have been putting the tires on top of that landing on some of the highlights here for you, Tyler as he was. able to clean that up, he screwed it up and first raced that double trucker, there he was able to slow down his rotation and then ended up with this textbook perfect 720 cork, unfortunately, there were a couple of hiccups in that race, the judges definitely I can see Alex Elanco shaking his head knowing there were a couple of mistakes there but no matter what it always feels good to finish a race in a Crankworx event and he is one of the few people in the world who now knows that feeling: these guys are perfectionists.

So that's why you see them shaking their hips. They want to be in the top five. I think he should be proud and hold his head high because he worked really hard to get here and took a loss in his first Crankworx. Simply ridiculous. talent pool in Sweden with two of our Swedish riders out Emilio Hansen still recovering Fredersen even still recovering but there is still a Swede in the game what will be the score for Alex Elanco and his first appearance at Crankworx will be fifty eight point seven five enough good for a twelfth place and move up a couple of places in those rankings.

Hopefully we'll see him again in the future but next up another guy who has a lot of room for improvement since his first outing outside of France, Simon passes so I'm In race 1 we saw him make a mistake at the start he threw the entire race, which leads me to believe he has a lot planned. He wants everything to go perfectly well so far. Backward bar twist, so he missed the bar twist and ran for the first time. opposite tail trick up in the canyon, not natural Double steering truck driver another opposite talip so interesting selection of tricks here let's hope to see some kind of regular tail combo on the last jump here maybe we need some balance, what's it gonna be? that has been doubled, kala perfect for the pedals.

I knew there's some kind of tail combo there, which is one of his biggest tricks and he's got it, so hopefully we'll see that and that should feel good too. It's great to see. We saw him crash really hard a couple of years ago in New Zealand with that trick, now he's back on the circuit stomping here in Innsbruck despite not having a good race on his first attempt, so he shows that he can brush it off. . get out and get back there put your head in the right space axes it will improve your score it sure is so good to see the four guys we saw make a mistake in race number one, taking the lowest spot in the standings, able to get a second run solid down the course now, it's not that often you see a rider do two different opposite variations to assist before you see them do a normal tail variation, so you knew he had something planned for the last jump, but it's true, but to be fair. was in a canyon, one was in a jump, so I don't think the judges are necessarily going to call that a repeat trick, but it leads me to believe that maybe he wanted to bend his tail on the second one, but I had a feeling. this was coming here this is his success this is what we were hoping to see him come out I love the shaft you called it flat spin 360 double tail it almost leans back like a whip but it's between those two worlds and it looks so good it's great to see a big smile on that kid's face.

He's been very busy all week and now we're going to find out what score he got for his efforts. He needs to have 279, two point five to be in the top three. and here comes Simon's score passing a 72 good enough for 8th place and moving into the top 10, you know he probably wanted to be a little higher but at the end of the day he ended up in the top 10 in one of these events. Even though there are only 14 guys who beat six people, it's not an easy task, especially when everyone is starting to have a solid career on the course, now that the next runner on the gate is having the season of his career now himself, landing on the podium in Rotorua earlier. this year with a third place, but things didn't go so well for him a year ago here in Innsbruck, take a look at one of the worst falls that Diego covers.

The Australian says he once had a hip backflip. Talk later. about how difficult it is to do these technical combos on a jump that has an angled landing, but this is the worst case scenario, not only did he not catch the pedals, he stuck his leg through the frame and was completely thrown off the bike, but he jumped like nothing happened and he's back here in 2018 looking to land on the podium again, so he'll try to keep that accident out of his mind right now and keep everything moving. I just saw him practicing a double bar twist on the roll, so maybe.

We'll see something crazy in this first dirt jump here, double front flip, this kid is always stepping forward, this is too big to be perfect, so he crashed back into a tail that last year. Now I did a back bar twist, Attila and it's a hip, I keep saying that, but man, you can't even get this last trick, a casserole from Italy stopping another big run here. Dan's career proved that Rotorua was no fluke. This kid is surprised every time he drops a race like that. great race and Brett looks pretty nervous up there. I think that might be in dispute.

What do you think? Well, not only did he stop those big movements but the execution was incredibly precise. He was putting his tires in the right place. He caught his pedals early, he was landing straight, we're going to have to watch this whole race from top to bottom, so here he added a bar spin, he didn't land on his first run, but he still wanted to take a step forward even though I just needed to run in the bag, tell me why giving that cannon a front flip is worth so many points. Well, you can see how high it is off the ground and if you've ever ridden a cannon leaning forward, that's the last thing you want.

To do this you are looking down at the ground which is probably 20 feet below you, at least those elevated features, front jumps will be worth a lot more points than if you do it on a double jump. Now here's the biggest combo in his career. it was a back bar twist to follow it, the tail was a little disadvantage because it's a hip and he crashed on that last year without even doing a bar twist before, so he's going up, he slipped a pedal and was able to get his foot back . barely touching the ground, so hopefully he won't get punished too much for that, but think about it if his career is progressive enough.

We saw Brett's readers step on a pedal, but he's still sitting in first place exactly if the progressions up there the judges don't. I won't punish you so much for the little mistakes, but the style of that casserole there are so many different ways to make that casserole it's basically a cork front 720 Diego makes it look so good now that Diego covers, let's find out how he's absorbing. this race, how does Michaela Gatto feel? Thanks, camera, yes, so you were telling me the same thing as me, which was an absolutely racetrampled, but you said you wanted to knock over a table on that last roll of cash, you're crazy, yeah, yeah, actually I did.

In a way, it's the first one in a second round that I wanted to do because I crashed and then during the last scheduled round I opened up a little bit because I wanted to do the table, but when I saw the landing it was like oh, maybe not, no. , No. the accident man, so these guys are making decisions on the fly in the air while flying, just making last minute changes to your tricks, that's crazy, congratulations on stopping that yo-yo-yo-yo race Diego, well, a lot of improvisation. In the sport of slope style, they build up the races as they go and the other thing is that they are never satisfied, so let's get the score right now for Diego Carver.

I see what it will be until the end in second place. 84 For Diego's covers, I see what an even and well-deserved performance. He took his first podium in Rotorua at the last stop, proving that it was no fluke to do it again here. He is in contention to remain on that podium, so we. We'll see what the other riders coming up have for us today, well you see Bret Reader on the phone there on that split screen, makes you wonder who he calls in a situation like this, phone buddy, what should I do if this guy is here?

It happens that you get a race and history repeats itself, it's a long thought process that happened and I think I was actually very lucky that I didn't do my first race exactly the way I wanted because I had less pressure, they were things I knew I had. to improve and then some other options that I thought I could improve. I was thinking just a front flip tail on that last jump. I saw Guzik try it. He had done some, but he was talking to Nyquist in Missouri. I just asked them. What do you guys, guys, think about the cash roll whip?

Do you think it is enough? And they say they want to go for it. I get really excited, but then I think I have to get to the last jump first before I do this cash roll whip. I didn't think I was going to get that until the last second and I didn't think I didn't know if I was going to beat the readers' first run score because the reader had an absolute killer on the first run, so when he beat it, I knew. . He put the reader in an incredibly pressured situation and yes, he stepped up like he had never seen before, that run he did really showed that he is almost unstoppable under pressure.

You see Nicolai Roy Gaskin remembering what happened exactly a year ago in a case. from deja vu right now Brett reader sitting in the hot seat nicolai reg akan having the best brent reader score can do it there we go making that person again so he's on pace here for another solid run Oh perfect so clean, no petals Wow this looks exactly the same and is so perfect, let's see if he can get his 720 pig again. This looks a lot like last year. He is a very fun kid to watch riding his bike. He always feeds on energy.

It's what we always say and I have to believe. that him watching Diego run and hearing the crowd go up, you know he wanted that feeling, he wanted to run and he felt crazy, he can do those tricks that he did above and his first race again, the fact that these runners can perform in such circumstances Pressurized is this crowd. I tell you this crowd is behind these bikers. We will be getting noise complaints from the city of Innsbruck here very soon if cyclists keep leaving runs like this guy, that run is pretty perfect. Notice how it didn't take many pedals, if any, between the jumps, everything was blocked, landing on the perfect top of the landing, right there, doing a cash roll, but taking the time to look back, doing A reach, it's called a dirt plate, comes from BMX.

Actually, it's usually just a gimmick on its own, it's usually not thrown into a saucepan, but that's Nicolai, he's the only guy we've ever seen doing a cash roll with a grab behind the backseat, so this song is disconnect a little. The runners right on that last run, this time he landed perfectly in the middle and I knew he had something big for us in this last job. I was working on this in practice, but it actually took a big crash about 24 hours ago when I saw it. I hit the ground. I was taking all his measurements.

Nicolae was going to be eliminated, but never count this guy out. A competitor who always seeks that first place. I think that's exactly what we wanted to see. Our old people. The judges are sitting right below us here in this tower. and I don't envy his position, it's okay, the score comes by nickel. IRA gakuen, it will be enough. Everything is a repeat of last year. He enters into the request and you will receive. Nikolai is always late. Oh, micaela cacho-negrete gakuen after he moved away. on the lead that was fucking amazing yeah I mean after the first race there was a lot of pressure to get back on this last jump but I wanted to do it for these fans I mean I gave them a crazy time here last year and I'm just trying to cheer them up again and yeah the feeling coming through that berm can't be beat and yeah hoping the other guys have to go down today he's getting sick today he's going to go down for sure man Congratulations thank you thank you Jaken you can't write this.

The fact that it happened once was crazy and now it happened again just a year later. A look at Bret's reader at the top is a very familiar feeling, so right now, looking at the scores, you have to wonder if Bret didn't slide petals on that last landing. From his first run on the bakflip opposite the double tail, would he be above Nikolai? That's what's going through his head right now. He wonders if he should change my career, should he continue with the career and try to clean it up, so there are a lot of decisions at play. in Bret's mind right now, well, Bret not only needs a couple of points, he's got 86 points, seven and five, he needs to improve on a 93.

This guy loves pressure, he loves to be pushed. He made it to the top last year, I can't wait to meet him. I don't know if he can do it again, but before we get to see Brent's reader, of course, we have this writer right here, Lucas Knopf, the kenda rider from Germany, in his first Slopestyle appearance. We had him on the half-time panel in Rotorua, he was speaking. about how all he wanted to do was get to the top level of the Crankworx World Tour and here he is, he stomped his career last time but left some room for improvement, this is his chance to show how he works so hard to get there here. and then he deserves to be here, oh wow, he held on to that and let her run for the first time spinning, but she was able to hold on, see if you can shake it off, clean up the rest of her run here, double tail up, looking nice and soft, entering the next hip.

Here we go, he won't come up short in this race like he did on the first try. Truck driver by whale tail. One more opportunity to surprise the judges. Kale with two parts, but now it's a great move. I haven't seen him do that yet. Don't even think he did that in practice, you saw him catching somersaults early and you could see he was making a gesture wanting to spin the bar, so with the pressure on Lucas he may choose not to leave Germany, stomp his career for Lucas to have his style, it's always trying to do another bar twist there and you can see in that run that maybe he missed a no-hands bar twist and almost threw it right here to the top man that was so close to being disastrous, but he is able to overcome that. thanks to the front suspension, so there it looked like he was going to do a 360 degree turn with no spin, but at least he didn't let that faze him, so right there he's trying to keep his hands off of it, but at least did.

I didn't waste all that jump, I was able to spin the bar, so I robbed a trucker of the presence of mind to screw up the variation and then still pull off a bar spin, so right here, tail back, he has you lift your feet on the pedal, you spin those bars, there are so many things that have to be in the perfect position to be able to spin that bar, that's commitment. I don't feel like he grasped that that kid was in the perfect body position, he just forced it. barzmann and the good thing is that it will surely help his score, well, what will be the score for Lucas?

Kenapa showed that he has what it takes to be here at Crankworx FMV, a slopestyle world championship series. Well, the score for Lukas can't. I'm going to improve by moving to ninth place with seventy-three point seven five, something incredibly difficult to achieve to become one of the 14 best in the world and, hopefully, those points that Lukas just earned will take him to the next stop in the championship . well that can only help his ranking and I hope we see it in lege, well take a look at how many fans we have here. I know you think you're a fan because you're watching at home, but take it to the next level by showing up in person, but being a fan isn't easy.

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Come to one of these events sometime. Take a look at the beginning. Our Yakov was like this after breaking through. Back on tour, I had a first run with a little room for improvement and if anyone can do it, he's the man, this guy never gives up. Jakob' has been on the scene for a while. He's been on the tour. He's been in it and now he's back and wants to stay. We saw him pull out a sprint stroke to focus on the pending stroke, which shows how much he wants it because he's one of the best in the world at the sprint stroke and he's opting out.

Have your chance right here to make his second career. Frank Burt's Innsbruck beats last year's double speed world champion, but yeah, that shows how much he cares about Kate's landings and the pending style couple's number one race, so there's a little room for improvement. let's see what looks smooth so far going into the cannon backflip, they're switching their feet for this double tail up here, going back to the left foot to get that 720 speed, it was a little slow but able to recover 360 feet of the fin downward flow. Back to the pedals, backflip, double X up, what did you have for us on the last job right before you rotate?

We were a little short on that cash flow, but that race looked so good, so you must be a little disappointed. It was his last chance, but he continues to show that he has what it takes to be on this tour. Jakob Vinsol is a guy who never gives up. He fell off the tour but didn't give up. He had some problems in this race but never gave up. He kept going trying a big trick on that last jump with that pot. Fans love him, they know him for his double speed and style. Now I hope we see it not only again in pending style, but we also want to see it.

He also returned to a sprint style, the 2017 double speed style world champion continues to prove that he has what it takes to be here, although he just needs to clean it up a bit, but we know his tricks are there. Ryan Nyquist had a fantastic first race but is currently in 12th place just ahead of two other riders who 71 looked good at the time but the level continued to rise but this guy is such a veteran competitor if anyone knows how to increase your score. Brian Nyquist is the guy for the job, it's safe to say he's been having the most fun of everyone all day, but now it's time to play, it's time to get serious and stomp this trucker out of the canyon landing.

Damn me at the top, there's seven, here we go with an X hand up. some pretty similar to round number one here in impact Ryan Nyquist, knowing that a fantastic first run was only enough for twelfth place, had to perform the biggest trick in his repertoire, the 720 bar spin. Alma also had a couple more items that he improved like well, 720 on that whale tail, I can't even do a 720, I want to do it there, nothing thin, there's not just room to see him get that twice, so here we go, a repeat, let's savor some of the brilliant moments of this. runs here unfortunately, we know how he ended up, but fooling all the tough features, a trucker with that cannon and the 720 on his hip, we're not seeing that, we've seen it a couple of times untilnow, but that's classic Ryan.

Nyquist moved right there, that one-handed 360 something very complicated to think about while you're spinning. twice if this is the one on the whale tail look how he lands perfectly in the center now this one needed all the speed he could get he knew he was going a little slow but he threw it anyway he says this is my last chance Oh my That, his hand actually went flying right when his rear tire hit the ground, otherwise he might have been able to ride out that impact, but there's a lot of impact if you don't make a perfect transition on that landing, so we know it's not going to get any better. because he didn't stomp the final feature, just a 37.5 Ryan Nyquist remains in 12th place and will be looking forward to seeing him next week at Lachey and the next rider to defeat Anthony Missouri, the youngest rider to win a Slopestyle summit at Crankworx, Now he's looking to get back on that podium, he had a great first race, which is one of the biggest moves we've seen in the competition with so much style, getting that cache role perfectly clean again.

Oh, he praised such a risky move since that landing, but he's back on track. talk no hands front flip on the next hip fighting for the speedy Bay here okay he looks good getting to the last job anyway the same trick is what he used to finish his race and run number one anthony missouri holding on to that one now Pretty similar to race number one will be enough to knock them out of current 10th place, so watch when these guys go a little off the line, this course flows perfectly if you land in the center of it all, right at the top, if you're a little bit out of line, it takes away your speed and forces you to pedal and you're just trying to get back on track the whole time get back into that flow find your speed find your rhythm he could do it again but I can't.

I can't help but think that he wanted a little more in that last job. Look at the hand you have to put your head towards the side of the front tire so the visor doesn't vibrate. Look at that thing that is approaching half a bicycle. the length is too short, it slows you down, so it takes perseverance to keep the run going after a mistake like that, but Anthony Missouri is never a guy to give up, he actually threw that second bar, he hasn't been holding his hand guide throughout the entire time of the backflip. The double bar is still a great trick, but knowing Anthony I had to think he wanted a little more of that.

It's crazy to watch him try that Castro on the final jump in practice and crash, but then decide, you know what I'll do. on the second jump, instead of the longest jump of the course, so Anthony Missouri seeks to improve his score to get out of that tenth place position. He's currently sitting at a 73. We had that interview with Anthony Missouri earlier talking about how difficult it is. To balance a great race and risk a ton or stomp something and stay on the circuit to improve only a quarter point seventy three point two five, he would have needed 0.5 more to tie the next rider ahead of him in the standings. classification, so he will remain in 10th place and we will be looking forward to seeing him next week in Lache.

If you can see that flag at the top of the screen, it's definitely moving a little more than it did at the beginning. running, so we're seeing a lot of cyclists having problems. It might have something to do with that victory. The next cyclist at the door. Simon Godsake from Poland is a cyclist who does tricks that are very difficult to do in the wind. He is known for his Superman extended tricks with variations that are less common in the Slopestyle world trying to be unique and earn podium spots that way, which has us today starting with a flat flip with one foot again, oh , he doesn't care about the wind, proving it. the wind isn't in the back of his head making him superman anyway which makes you so seen flying around looking clean so far coming up a little short there maybe but we'll see if he gets back to normal.

Wow, let's go distance Clark 720 maybe the The winds are starting to slow these riders down a little bit. Yes, somehow they are able to do something small. Come on Ella, what will be the last jump? The front was left out. We had to throw it away. Oh, it was such a good race. The trick we saw him try on that last one. jumped last year I wanted to hit it so close but man that's your man up in the wind look at this look at the extension the bike is vertical the legs are perfectly horizontal hardest time of day to do that trick but he does it I don't care now we heard him in his interview with Michaela after his first race saying that he had a lot more he wanted to do, he wanted to add the bar spin into that spin on the barrel trunk, now Nikolai where Gakuen is sitting in first place. and he did the same trick that Simon was trying right there, so you know if he would have pulled it off considering everything he did before on the field that would have really shaken up the standings.

Unfortunately, a fall means a score of 43 for Simon Gajic, which he put up. in 8th place, let's take a look at what our current ranking looks like right now maintaining that first place is Nikolai Rigg Atkin Brett's readers are still in second place this sounds a lot like last year, doesn't it? Diego Carver's Australian in third place feels like a It's a lot like the number one stop of the 2018 season, but we're crossing our fingers in the hope of seeing reader Brett at the end of the event drop another hammer to unseat this man from here.

Nikolaj Roy Gaskin last year was the best event we've ever had. Ever seen, if history repeats itself, don't leave, we are in the middle of a second run here in the beautiful Austrian Alps just outside the beautiful city of Innsbruck, the place where we saw a ridiculous showdown in 2017 between the Nickel IRA gakuen and rent. Reader, things are shaping up to be very similar to last year, but of course we still have a few more runners left. Matt Jones is sitting in a good position right now, but being knocked down by many other athletes, he was on the podium for a long time. time, but now we are in fifth place, we are waiting for it and of course we are looking forward to seeing Brett Reader, who made history before and run as number one, stomping that new trick from the starting tower, but before reaching to them, it's all about this guy here, Frances Thomas Lemoine, he's sitting in a good position here, but you know he's got more in the tank, he's going for that king of Crankworx overall, so he's in sixth place right now , which gives him a lot of points, but he will try. for more and it's not just about the king of Crankworx, it's about ffb World Tour, so you'll try to step up right now, who has the most extension in the no-hand tuck in that variation, the backflip, no-hand tuck hand, debar spin 360? perfectly smooth no-hands flip with no pedals in this next blue job missing the bar spin in that 360 variation as opposed to 360 no-hands flip cleaning that one up, although with much more style than on the barricade by adding a no-hands to the front flip to the whale tail Wow, double trucker, what did you do?

What did you have at your last job? That's the trick he used last year to come in third. tank, he may have missed a bar turn, but he added more to that run. He got a double tail in the last job. He landed the switch again, but without losing the pedals, able to recover, clean it, not touch the ground with his feet, getting all the points he cut from that double glance that Nicolai Berg Atkin is always the first to congratulate a teammate competitor for trampling his career. It's all about executing your goals here and let the judges determine where that results in Lemoine always being so smooth and about two feet taller than everyone else.

He's a great rider, he had so much speed, but he's still fluid with this big size. to use it to your advantage, now just add your tricks too, that's an opposite trick for him turning in his unnatural direction, but you can still make him look good, he doesn't look awkward, although he may feel uncomfortable because it's not his direction natural. It's easy to forget how big these jumps are when you see riders like Thomas Lemoine make them look so easy, but those 30-foot hips around 30 feet, that trick was one of my favorites, one of the points where he stepped up. . in that race he was removing his hands on the front flip into the whale tail, but here's the trick that put him on the podium last year, double tail flip back flip, so he added another bike rotation with feet on the pedals, generally the right foot. forward, his pedals turned, he didn't bother.

I can make it stop perfectly on the ground and how we can express to people how much presence of mine you need to be able to catch your feet in the opposite stance. If you're in the middle of a trick as technical as a double tail back flip, muscle memory wants to return to the natural direction of your foot, so being able to have the presence of mind to change that recovery from so much experience, what? what will be the result? The score will be where you place on the leaderboard. Oh, it looks like it's an 83 just off the podium, but it's a valuable fourth place for many reasons.

The King of Crank Arts general title plus Crankworx FM will be an exclusive world championship series for sale. Oh. Look who we have Matt Jones, so excited to see him back at Crankworx. Here he had a solid first race, but he has more in the tank, which is why he was going so soft in the first race now if you're not familiar with this. guy and you only saw his first race, you must think that he is an impeccable cyclist, but it has been a long and difficult road to get here. He's had a lot of trials and tribulations on the Crankworx World Tour last year, so I was looking forward to the 2017 season.

The entire Crankworx tour in Rotorua started off as a real treat. I broke my wrist the day before the final and then I was struggling to get fit and healthy to come back for AJ, which was the second stop I rode. That first run was probably the best run I've ever done from top to bottom and then it was like probably two miles an hour too fast for the last jump. It was like a game of inches. I crossed the line. A double jump exploded. The second run blew my tire and then the next week here in Innsbruck the exact same story happened, double backflip on the last jump performed at that time, the second run blew my tire so it was like the craziest series of events, just a constant mistake from my half and it cost me a lot of points and then in Whistler I ran into that, I took it very firmly, I ran a safe race, I got to the top 10 and that's been like my point of points benchmark and then I built for this year, so it was kind of a strategy that allowed me to be behind, but you have to be on it to win here, get maximum points in event after event, so there's really no space to take it.

Super consistent consistency is key, but you have to be a winner to be in these toys 12 runners, right, there's nothing, there's a look back at how difficult a season Matt Jones had last year. Now, stable, he said that he will return an invitation to you, but he will not give you a podium. It's crazy that we call the first one from him. he runs steadily because he had a lot of huge successes, but you just saw the highlight reel of the tricks he's capable of that he was trying last year when he kept blowing tires by turning too much, when turning, he came up short, you have to think right now with that flag. getting a little calmer and having a great first run in the bag, this guy is going to throw it here on his second run, these routers have a very fine line to walk in the game, should I try to score points, stay on the tour ? or should he go for the win, he has a solid run in the bag, so he has room to step up here, with so much flair, soft landing reminiscent of his first run, backflip, no-hands turn on the cannon, there again, take it as he takes it.

There are no pedals that go that high with full extension in the 360 ​​degree spin, no hands, right there, get it. Oh, 20 more, spinning too much, just putting him a little out of line, there's still air in his tires, but he lands out of line, he can't sink down to that whale tail, he'll get stuck. with fifth place here in Innsbruck, but the crowd loves it, they know his story, they know how far he's come, but they know something else, they know what happened last year between Nickel IRA Gakuen and Brett reader Nickel IRA Gakuen , currently sitting on the bench with a score of 93, but that man over there, reader Brett, this is his turn to respond and he has what it takes.

He did something in his first race that no one has ever done in the history of the sport. Thatmust be? This is Nikolai Reg Atkins. first perform big tricks to the bottom we are looking at a triple tail up right now on a hip a new one for the 2018 season the cash was all sea crab the ground plate and then diversifying different tricks a sea of ​​superman with one hand crab, now this is the trick he's been working on setting up his airbag in his backyard, Cork's 720 from the step, but here was the nail in the coffin that put him in the hot seat, the front tail, perfect, two pedals and then of course a victory celebration in the finished burning boom, any day you can see them do a live concert of their victory dance is a good day, it's a pleasure to see this kid riding, doing that dance, you know he's happy and he got his race and his races are nothing short of crazy, he's such a positive force here, always supporting his fellow competitors, of course Nikolai Rican wants to stay with that number one next to his name, but Brett's reader would do almost anything to pull the rug out from under the Nickel IRA.

Gakuen Breads has never been one to be happy in second place, we rarely see him having to draw reserves from him. He made a couple of small mistakes in his first race, so we'll see if he'll change his choice of tricks here if he's going to stick with it. Oh, I stomped on him, oh, we missed the Bartman on that front jump, he'll continue, oh well, he's still going on the back foot, Barzmann in the cannon, he's still able to cut here. Now he's going to fire this one. I would have loved to see him even without the Bartman on that front jump if he had cleaned up that back jump opposite the double tail at the bottom if that would have been enough, who knows how many points he got deducted for sliding. pedal on that we'll never know Brett wants to do the race he has in mind if something doesn't go perfect he says you know what I'll do next time he's in second place well he's moving away from this healthy he's got another event next week so we have, you know what that means, for the second year in a row, nicolai reg akan is taking the gold medal here and the Slopestyle Crankworx Innsbruck presented by Kenda, but it's great to see the sportsmanship between them. these two runners at the top of their game michaela is on the finish line berm with our first and second place runners, Brett Reader and Nikolaj reg AK and Mikayla, excuse me sir, what a happy beer, really excited, oh, here They're, oh, hello, okay. congratulations on winning again, thank you, you're welcome.

My question to both of them is actually what's more stressful: sitting at the exit gate or Brett sitting at the exit gate waiting to see what he does. Honestly, it's difficult. question I mean, it's always a game of suspense with slopestyle, especially in an event like this, when any of us can take it on and there's so much risk in the race that you know anything can happen, so it's stressful either way. , but I mean, once the race is over, you don't really care if you're first, if you're second, I mean, obviously, you obviously care, but the hardest part of the day is already over, I mean, already you finished your career, you are, you are.

I'm not injured or anything so yeah the pressure is there and it's always stressful but yeah honestly sitting in that starting gate before the race is where all the pressure is when the race is over there's a huge relief for the shoulders, well, you did it. Congratulations, very excited for you Slopestyle winner Nicolabird Gekkan, big congratulations to Nikolaj Roy Gaskin for doing it again here for the second year in a row, of course we talk a lot about first and second place, but we have to hand it over to Diego. Let's look at the consecutive third places so far in the first two stops of this series, now Thomas Jinan, fourth place, a position he is very familiar with, the boys wanted, he has had every place on the podium, a fourth place again for he and Tomas Lemoine concluding. top five, but Erik Fedko, I mean this guy is already in the top six and he had more in the tank, he had to be a little more cautious in the second race, it really gives an idea of ​​what we may see next week in free time, so the second event of In the season, this is where consistency really plays a role when you look at those rankings, well the crowd here in Innsbruck, Austria enjoyed another world class show provided by the best runners in the world and next week we will have stop number three. and Liz Jay, check out this spot from the track of the world's best mountain bikers. 90 kilometer bike trails here, beautiful region, Bart, so if you live near Lachey, get in your car, show up in person, bring your vuvuzela clang. some bike parts together if you're at home you can't till and make sure you do exactly what you're doing right now log in watch it online because if this show that we had the privilege of watching is any indication next week is going to be free of responsibility, you should think that having them back to back with the routers that are disappointed with their performance here will want to deliver in lege, the routers that delivered here will want to deliver in lege, so those who had a good result, be confident, those who did not They had a good result, they have the fire and that is what we will see in lege, it is true, it is fresh in their minds and, fortunately, many riders can get through this week without getting injured. "I had a couple of accidents where the doctors treated the cyclists, but most people can be healthy by next week and that's always the most important part, well, one of the rules we live by, since whether you are a cyclist here in these competitions or".

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Ryan Ike was a little bit away from Let's get things ready next week in France, well we're getting things ready for the podium, but before we do that we'll start something new. We'll call it McCall's Call. This is virtually some honorable mentions and right now we have someone we have to give it to. Honorable mention for McCall's number one call to Matt Jones Tyler. Your thoughts on his performance here today. He has always had what it takes. He's had some ups and downs. Bad luck crashing the last job after such an incredible career, so he acted smart.

Smooth, you could see him smiling as he put such a huge spread on everything he does. Look that's what you're talking about, he looked at the crowd halfway while he stood back with both hands off the handlebars. This kid puts it on too. a lot of time away from the competition circuit doing video parts which takes a lot of time, it's hard to train while you're doing it so there's a lot of work too, but he still has dendrimer and he looks funny when he rides a bike so that's why it's that we have to choose this kid, big congratulations to Matt Jones, the extension of that backflip, Superman, right, we'll move things correctly.

Michaela's attempt is to track down the man of the hour, Nikolai Roy Gakuen, but until she got her hands on him, she was able to pull it off well, she has the third place here, the guy who has two third places to her name until now. I'm talking about the Italian Diego covers ago Mikaela, thanks cam Diego, this is actually, you got third place in Rotorua, third in a fist. and third today yes, what happens next week? What will happen. I hope the second or first one maybe looks to improve. Do you have more of those new Instagram tricks to implement in Lachey?

Well, maybe so. I have some new tricks I wanted to do here, but. Because of the first crash in the first round I couldn't do my second round like I wanted, so maybe next week I would do something else, yeah, so are you saying that race for third place was a little bit conservative, yeah , yes, that makes my first and second plan to get a good race and a good score? Lachey, yeah, let's see. Hey, make an Evo proud. You see his friend out there, the guy who encourages him with criticism. It's a really funny situation.

If you don't know what I'm talking about, watch Torquato's test episode of McCall Meets Evil. the muscular grey-haired gentleman you see running across the field, but a big congratulations to Diego Cavanaugh, I can't wait to see if he can get a second or a first next week at Lachey, well we know he will come with a lot of confidence third place in Rotorua he now knows it wasn't a fluke, he knows he has been on the podium several times at Crankworx and has another one just in a week's time. He was the guy we always talked about as the loser. the privateer, the guy who had no sponsors this year, eliminated some industry sponsors, has like you heard Calvin, who says a zipper sponsor, a wine sponsor, doing whatever it takes to make it happen, live sleep, spend half. from his time working in a bike shop in Switzerland, but the rest of his time was spent practicing tricks like this, here we go after a big accident last year on the rear foot tail, on that same jump he ups the ante by doing a backward bar twist. to the tail whip showing that he is not afraid and then you saw him make that casserole and then you heard him talk about how he wanted to add a table to that casserole.

The best riders here are never happy so they can always stop thinking about The Next Biggest and Best Trick, and you know, with a week in between, Diego will spend all his time putting together another ride. He knows the course at Lachey and is the guy who always writes his ideal dream race in his notebook and hands it to the judges. they what they think, he definitely knows what the formula is here to do well, it's finally podium time, let's take a look at the champagne stairs, so they got Diego for the second time on the podium here, so happy after watch that race, it's crazy I heard he had more in the tank, he called it a conservative race, but look at him, he's on the podium, he has more in the tank and I hope he unleashes it en lege Diego Cobbers.

I see all the smiles here in Innsbruck in his season. At this point in his career, the podium is a good image for Diego and I think we'll see him up there a lot more in the future collecting those novelty checks this season. Confidence helps a lot in this sport and I know I keep saying it, but man, you have to be full of it right now Brett reader, you saw the sportsmanship when he couldn't stop his career, congratulated Nicolai Roy Gaskin. You know this guy may not have won today, but he made history doing that tailback backflip. flat drop there is no lip or kicker there is no transition to start that rotation to rotate fast enough to tail up while doing a backflip you have to be a Brett reader that's why you never say never and in slope style it does 10 years you could I've said that no one will ever do a tail-up backflip from a flat drop.

The tail-up backflip was the best trick you see on a dirt jump and now he brings it to the toughest feature on a slope-style course, proving that you never know. What is going to happen next in this sport? But Brett always leads the charge and this guy here, Nick Fifer, managed to deliver the two-time slopestyle champion from Innsbruck. You know, you watch Nikolai ride Joyride, which has been his Achilles' heel. There's something in the countryside there. that makes it difficult for him to put together a race now, if that is a difficult circuit for him, this must be considered a dream circuit for him, the only two times we have had a competition here, he is taking home the best prizes . nicolai rakaat may beexactly where he wants, a much deserved victory for him right here.

Brett didn't make it easy for himself and he didn't make it easy for Brett, but at the end of the day, Nikolai stood his ground. To top it all off, champagne tastes so sweet mixed with the sweat and body odor of a racing uniform, but no champagne is sweeter than the one sprayed at the Redbull Joyride in Whistler, British Columbia. You got it. Log in to crank wix.com. slash Whistler slash n slash VIP. Reserve your pass, get the best seats and have the best time possible. We're working on getting Nikolai Rag Akan over to the booth to talk to Tyler and I, but before we do, let's take a look at a groundbreaking race. good enough for second place here in Innsbruck, reader Brett's first race, so this is what we're talking about as the world's first backflip taalib from a flat drama he was also throwing on the opposite court seven 20 mixed with the regular court seven 20, it's not just the tricks he does of course, it's the way he does it, but the way he composes a run, there's a cool balance to his runs, when he makes the jump flat back with the tail on the top jump, you know it will have something lower down to complement it.

And in this case, what was Tyler? This was also something we had never seen in Slopestyle competition before the backflip opposite the double tail whip, so we saw him do it cleanly in practice by just sliding the pedals there and you wonder how many points he got. The judges deduced from what we heard that a petal slip can be up to ten points depending on the degree of pedal slip, so if that were the case I would have eighty-six point seven five, if I had ten more points I would have had a ninety-six point seven five that would definitely have surpassed the 93 nickel.

I fixed a kid, but unfortunately the world will never know, but luckily we only have a week to wait until we see these guys face each other again. Oh, look at this well. You can't see now because the camera isn't showing us, but a very stinky gentleman just showed up to give us a high five. The man of the moment Nikolaj Reg. An enthusiastic champagne in his hand. You smell good, friend. He was talking to this one. I guess take a moment, you earned the right to enjoy yourself right now, Nikolai, I was hanging out with you outside of Boston, but I don't know a month or so ago, you were working on quark 720 on your way down, very, very good. - built step don't mess it up at all in your airbag and we saw you today just before the competition stop you said when I was there you were already mentally at the start time in Innsbruck did everything go the way you wanted today or what? it didn't go as perfectly as I thought, I mean failing the last function as you both will know that is the worst because due to your second run you have to do the whole run just to go back to the same function you failed on. but yes, I made it happen and yes, like you said, the central key was deep in my mind and yes, I made that happen, very scary thing, but it worked, so I couldn't be more excited, well, at first execution, you landed a little to the side of landing on court 720 on the step, how did you solve it?

Because you need all the speed you can get to pull off your final trick on the final jump. I honestly think I was possibly thinking too much about My Last Trick in the middle of that corky seven because I knew I had to land pretty perfect, so in the second round I focused more on getting Corky to land well and then just working my way to that last one. jump and front. The tail whip was actually planned from the beginning and a little strange on cork seven. I just did some tricks in my head and that little flat bottom and just looked for a cash roll bar and that didn't work.

I was definitely beating myself up for making that little change, but it worked out in the end, so no complaints. Can we talk about the trick you chose to do on the whale tail? You knew you were going to do the 720 cork, but you didn't choose an easy trick it's a little windy out here you chose to hold the seat with one hand and hang from the back of the rest of your body tell us about that trick choice inside that 720 cork yeah, the Superman grabs a hand on the whale tail seat is something I was really excited about just because it's super unique.

I mean, honestly, it's a trick I've been doing since the BMX days, so I'm pretty comfortable with it, but like you said, taking the wind into account. with the fact that I have to cover seven almost immediately after catching those bars that move in the wind, it wasn't the glove, maybe it wasn't the smartest trick, but I was excited to be able to do it, no I don't. I don't think it was as good an extension as I could have had it, but yeah, I mean, you have it, you have to try to be unique here, I mean, all these guys are constantly growing, so I just have to try to distance yourself from the crowd and do things that other guys don't do and I think Superman's seat in one hand was exactly one of those things.

I admire the fact that you didn't choose to just barspin there. and that may have increased your points even more with the judges. You do something so risky in obviously one of the most important things you do. This is what I'm curious about people back home, they only watch the two races you do. the competition doesn't see all the work you do in practice to prepare for the competition look at the monitor yesterday you were going for that front flip tail and you had a pretty big fall at some point did that discourage you? try it in your career, look, this is the one you walked away from, yeah, yeah, I think I think the fact that those, I think the ones with the flip whips in practice yesterday, the fact that they didn't come out perfectly, I got a little nervous. in that first round, which is maybe the reason I changed my trick level, but it also made me super focused in the second round, knowing that I had to give all the strength I had to achieve it, so sometimes you just want to do it. snag things in your career, but sometimes those two attempts in practice, even when they go wrong, help enormously on final day, so with the rod and you learn, I guess so, an epic day here and you know what not HE.

If you heard it, but you have to rinse and repeat it in a week, you know there's another Lachey event next week, I honestly feel like if that second race hadn't gone my way, I'd be pretty nervous about having that Redemption in Lachey, but now take some pressure off me and give me a week to see, you know, relax and then prepare for it. After that, I mean, not really relax, but get ready for the next weekend. This is your course. Here we only have You had the competition for two years and you won both. If this is your tour, then on the spectrum of tours you don't like and like, where does Lachey sit?

I mean, this tour is. I think all runners can agree that it is an epic race. one, I mean, Rotorua is very difficult to beat, yes the course we come here is epic, it's very floaty and well built, and I mean you see guys doing and doing crazy things in all their races, but Lachey, I mean. It's just that they changed that course a lot over the years and I think there will be some more changes coming this year. I don't know, but no one knows until we get through the lines to get there, but yes, Lachey is a course that we haven't been able to conquer yet in terms of our results, so yes, I will try to do it next weekend, but I I mean all these Crankworx courses we can't complain about, I mean they are so massively built and these guys worked so hard to get the riders to come and tell them they needed to change everything, such a huge pressure on them and yeah , big strides in building these circuits so we can launch our gnarliest stuff.

Well, you won the event today. And not only did you do that, you earned some really valuable points for the Crankworx F MBA Slopestyle World Championship overall, so we'll root for anyone. We hope you keep counting those points and in that quest for that world championship title. at the end and for those of you at home, of course, tune in to see it, but tune in tomorrow for the relegation risk, it'll look like this, check it out, get out there, D-H champagne season is in full swing. Magnificent technical machines for the bravest Ogle, a strategy to reflect on, but public enemy number one remains the clock.

Danny Hart is back. Can the winner of Crankworx Innsbruck 2017 achieve his second consecutive place here in Ensberg? 2017 Crankworx Overall Champion Tracy Hanna is also here and is in the hunt to have won. in Austria last year and hopes to do more of the same in 2018. Back-to-back weekends of live downhill action start here on the tough raw slopes of Goat Cheese, round two of the Crankworx world tour, the ixs

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downhill presented by RAF Ison. The club will be live and tune in on Crankworx comms so don't miss if you're a mountain bike fan and a mountain biker you probably loved seeing today's style of slope but you have to watch the race of relegation, there is nothing purer than just a group. of runners racing against the clock, Rox routes, it's going to be a good one, but speaking of a good one, this competition today is an extraordinary Tyler. final thoughts final thoughts were on Brook delivers again Nikolai is backing off where he wants to be I want to see him carry that momentum into lege I want to see the riders who made mistakes here carry it over to lege use it as fire and I think we're reset for another really good show in solo one week, back-to-back Crankworx World Tour events, only happens once a year between Innsbruck and Lachey we know you enjoyed today's event we know you'll love the downhill tomorrow and if you've got a brain inside your head you'll log in next week to see if Nicolai Roy gakuen can do it Do it again or Brett reader will be redeemed thanks for join us see you next week