Seasonaires - Ep3 - Emily Johnston
As we see in the third episode of Seasonaires, once riding gets in your blood then in pulses on and on. Emily started coming to Whistler many years ago when the Bike Park was in its infancy. For Emily, who was a dedicated downhill racer at the time, Whistler was a great place to come and ride because of the trails and the people embedded there that helped push her riding.
Nine years later, after riding many places around the world, Emily still finds herself drawn to Whistler for the summers because of its incredible diversity in riding styles and motivated riding community.
Watch Emily ride harder than most and hear why she keeps coming back to Whistler,
Emily Johnston, smoother than most.
Emily is one of only three women to successfully land a backflip to dirt, and is still one of the smoothest riders in the park. Modest, quiet, and unassuming she crushes trails everyday of the summer when she rides for herself. But conversely, these days she works as a coach for the Bike Park teaching others to ride better and with greater confidence.
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Whistler is home to many more female mountain bikers than most places. On any given weekday there are more women ripping the local trails than most men can ever imagine, and a lot of them ride better than the guys. Emily shows that following the mountain biking dream isn’t just restricted to males.
Seasonaires is a five part series that will be aired weekly starting the first week in November and coincides with an eight page feature of the same title in issue 105 of DIRT Magazine.
Tom Grundy, 19, is from England and is a freelance videographer. Over the past year he has been filming for Red Bull reporter and creating his own monthly webisodes, The Tom Grundy Webisodes. He spent three months living in Whistler this past summer, all the while documenting the place and its people from within, as well as riding the bike park with 8 of his best friends. He then headed home, back to the UK to edit Seasonaires into five tales of Summer. www.tomgrundy.co.uk
Seb Kemp is a freelance writer, coach, and trail builder who is based anywhere, anytime. He scripted and created the Seasonaires theme, as well as finding the “talent” for this series, interviewing them, herding them, and generally putting a boot up the arse of them when it came down to shooting and filming for this project. www.2flat.wordpress.com
Nine years later, after riding many places around the world, Emily still finds herself drawn to Whistler for the summers because of its incredible diversity in riding styles and motivated riding community.
Watch Emily ride harder than most and hear why she keeps coming back to Whistler,
Emily Johnston, smoother than most.
Emily is one of only three women to successfully land a backflip to dirt, and is still one of the smoothest riders in the park. Modest, quiet, and unassuming she crushes trails everyday of the summer when she rides for herself. But conversely, these days she works as a coach for the Bike Park teaching others to ride better and with greater confidence.
Whistler is home to many more female mountain bikers than most places. On any given weekday there are more women ripping the local trails than most men can ever imagine, and a lot of them ride better than the guys. Emily shows that following the mountain biking dream isn’t just restricted to males.
Seasonaires is a five part series that will be aired weekly starting the first week in November and coincides with an eight page feature of the same title in issue 105 of DIRT Magazine.
Tom Grundy, 19, is from England and is a freelance videographer. Over the past year he has been filming for Red Bull reporter and creating his own monthly webisodes, The Tom Grundy Webisodes. He spent three months living in Whistler this past summer, all the while documenting the place and its people from within, as well as riding the bike park with 8 of his best friends. He then headed home, back to the UK to edit Seasonaires into five tales of Summer. www.tomgrundy.co.uk
Seb Kemp is a freelance writer, coach, and trail builder who is based anywhere, anytime. He scripted and created the Seasonaires theme, as well as finding the “talent” for this series, interviewing them, herding them, and generally putting a boot up the arse of them when it came down to shooting and filming for this project. www.2flat.wordpress.com
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she would do better with some narrower bars for sure!
And what's with the criticism of her wide bars? That's where you get your leverage from while riding DH. Leverage=control. Nobody wants a twitchy handling DH bike.
seems to me that she as the complete package and , i may be wrong , but she looks very fast , probably faster than what she appears giving that she's very very smooth.
maybe she is racing, i dont know , but if she's not , she should give it a shot.
i dont think whe would be last in any National races.
As for being a coach. Of course she could be a fantastic coach. Ask yourself how many olympic level coaches can perform at the level of their athletes? And how many athletes could perform as well with out their coaches. Then how many athletes make good coaches. The two skills are not always connected. Most top athletes can not transfer their skills to others.
Sweet riding Emily.
Their body position may look different for obvious reason's but i can pretty much bet everything i own that women (some mentioned above) at the top of their game are quicker than most ppl on pinkbike (men and women).
Nice video, short and sweet.