【Red Bull】猶他州的原聲速降

Yeah, Rammy. That was so sick. That was sick as f**k. The handlebar break. No way. This gear held a little bit too long. That's probably why you held it so f**king long, dude. Yeah, I got caught in the... Yeah, boy. Yeah. F**k, that was sick. My dad, who's kind of known as the hucker in our area growing up, so he sent me a pretty inspirational message this morning. Hey, Ramm, listen. I know it's a completely different story, but back in the day when I did the road gap up at Nana's house with you, I really did it to show you I wasn't a f**ker, but we really did look at everything. When it came to speed, fall, and landing, I'm sure those things have stuck with you. I think what I'm trying to say is you've got it if you're sure you've built it right. You know the speed. I know you're going to stomp it so f**king hard. Love you, mate. Have fun and charge. A bit of inspiration for the morning. Got me through. Did think about it when I was in the roll-in. Nana's road gap. I think dad would say it was a pretty similar size, but I'd say it was about at least probably four times the fall. The fall counts. Dad definitely paved the way for me. We're in Virgin, Utah, doing my Red Bull feature edit of the year. Something I've wanted to do for a long time is work my way towards this kind of zone. It's sort of the pinnacle of free ride. Goal for the project was pretty much to bring my own and my close mate's kind of childhood dream of coming to Virgin kind of to life. Putting our touch on the iconic terrain of Virgin, Utah. It's been a pretty big hustle so far. Definitely a big climate change coming from winter in New Zealand to kind of 40 degrees and windy in the desert. Kind of the style of riding that I like, like a park style, DHT style, but incorporated into pretty much some of the biggest hits that we could find on this side of the hill. So I think it's pretty cool because it brings my general kind of background of favoured riding to the desert, but at a scale that's not really... I don't know, you can't really argue with it. Like the stuff's as big as anything else. We definitely didn't choose the right season of year to do something like this, so it was pretty challenging, especially for none of us ever even being to America before. It was definitely an eye-opener. Working on a wee hip flip. It's actually one of Kelly's old lines at the top of the Red Dirty Road in 2013 Rampage. I was standing right next to the pretty iconic Kelly McGarry backflip over the canyon gap and now we're building my own feature right next to it, so it's pretty surreal. To see this morning that it was actually... it was Norb's one that he did the 360 on, that was pretty cool. The history and then actually the drop before it was part of Kelly's line as well, so that's pretty sick. I'm pretty stoked on that because we didn't realise when we started digging that we were actually using the same landings of two of my childhood idols, so it's pretty sick to put my own touch to their work. 19 days in with no rest days, just been digging and riding every day. Well, not much riding, but digging a lot, smashing rocks out, moving rocks with the boys. Pretty stoked. The boys have definitely put in a really major effort and kind of... it's pretty nice to have that backing from them because it's hard trying to see everything come together when you're battling so hard, but then when you know that your mates are battling just as hard and it's not even their project, it's pretty special, so looking forward to it. It's going to be good. It's good to have Matt here with me today, which is nice. I'm going to open up a few of the new features. Pretty sick having Matt on the build because it's reassuring to have someone else who's keen to ride some of the stuff and just have someone to bounce ideas off with speed and all that. As soon as your tyres touch, let off and go. You can see it from the pad. Yeah. You'll know whether you need to give it a yank or just not. That is true. I guess you can yank. Yeah. What was that like? That was a little slower. Yeah. I think that's good though for the pop. Yeah. Yeah, mate. Yeah! Ha-ha-ha-ha! My G! F***ing O! That was so sick! Holy f***! Make sure I know this didn't set in my back wheel and go fully. I was just like looking at the back of the lane like, holy s***! I'm moving fast. If you got caught up on that, it would be so terrible. No, it was all good. I was just like definitely not scared of ever being to do something on a bike. That was one of the more heavy landings I've taken in a while. Oh, dude, I was in the air and I was like, bro, my arms are tired and this is going to be heavy. Ha-ha-ha-ha! I'm under Paul, who's, I guess, my main filmer as well as Scott, who is filming this right now. And it's pretty cool having both of you guys here because it's, I guess, you see my life every day. Me and Scott are neighbours. Like, you guys know what I want and you know what you want out of me. So it's a pretty cool relationship to like help motivate each other to push as well as get what we've both wanted to both film and ride. Today's been a good day. We wrapped up the project, which was nice. We've had a fair few slowdown points in the last, like, two weeks. We were meant to leave two weeks ago, so had a few delays and a few changes to plans, which has been pretty stressful because obviously when you're riding stuff like this, you're in a bit of a mindset and pretty hard to drag it out for an extra two weeks of, like, hoping that you'll have it. It's pretty surreal being here. Growing up, watching, like, all the New World Disorders, kind of an idol of mine was Grant Allen. He's from South Australia and he was the only really Aussie rider that's ever been out here and done the whole freeride kind of thing, and that was in the early 2000s. So that's something that's been on my mind for the whole time, is trying to make something that hopefully he's pretty stoked on. And, yeah, I just want you to know, Grant, that this is definitely inspired by you to be here, so thanks for paving the way for Australian freeride. I think the coolest thing about the whole project was being here with pretty much our closest group of mates at home that we all ride and hang out together, so we were all thrown in a new environment. I'm super fortunate to have friends like these guys that are around and happy to help me out and trust my beliefs of making this stuff work, so, yeah, it's been a pretty cool experience being on the other side of the world with all the boys doing the same thing we usually do, but in a different climate and terrain. It's been awesome. Yoo! Utah. Good? Yeah.