You're in luck, shunners of social media, as we've rounded up some of the better micro-clips and iPhone photos that you'd otherwise probably never see. Sure, you can scope all the full-sized action in our 'Riders in the Sky' photo epic, but there's plenty to be gleaned from the short appetizer videos below, including that @reedboggs is an absolute animal. Reed et al. are busy practicing their mostly finished lines, guinea pig'ing drops and steeps for the first time, and making final adjustments before the big show kicks off soon.
The fact of it is that 90% of the lines and hits that go on in todays Rampage would be unridable without the work these guys put into them. Some of them are probably twice as big as the stuff in the early days, so to call it less "raw" than the OG Rampage days is crazy, this shit is gnarlier than ever.
Not to mention that the best runs these days have a healthy 3-5 insane features on them, which you need speed for in order to link them properly. No dig = no speed = smaller airs.
@jaycubzz: totally agree. With all the talk about it turning into a slope competition, it's been at the front of my mind whenever I watch anything rampage related...that is until I see a clip like those of zink/strait's line or the big mountain carving insane shit VinnyT is doing...
Rampage seems to really have everything now - and we're not even at the final yet! stoked
well I´m not gonna sleep tonight, CP gang just posted on instagram on their day a video, where Cam Zink looks like he´s visualizing flat drop flip off the biggest drop on his course...I´ll s#it my pants if he´ll go for it...
The stakes are higher than ever if you make a mistake but the features are probably easier to ride than before - just takes a lot more to be willing to commit to the scale of it.
and rampage is a perfect medium-rare, enough cooking to bring out the flavours, but the juice is still in there for the full experience
Rampage seems to really have everything now - and we're not even at the final yet! stoked