All the other riders was great and all, but Kovariks part was just ridiculous.
It's like watching an angry bull ride a bike! Literally tearing the ground apart!
Some weird shit going on here, I had to reinstall Adobe to rewatch this (Windows 10 pffft ), when it rebooted it opened on Remy burns Whistler, naturally I had to watch it, but wtf
This video's probably better, but a few of the lines are the same, and I prefer Remy's soundtrack, similar to the Fest vid with the DOP soundtrack, none of the others came close imo.
You might be surprised by how much of that is intentional from trail crew. Not to be attempted by mere mortals, of course, but a lot of these lines aren't totally unexpected.
possibly my favourite part of the video, or kovarik throwing down those massive drifts, or that dude lamding on the landing of the jump after the jump he just jumped
No matter how hard I think I shred whistler - These guys REALLY shred Whistler
Had the opportunity to have a session with Chris Kovarik this year - A genuine gent and a legend
@Monarch87 hahaha that line fits him perfect ,indeed .... @renno i have to admit that I haven't ,if you ever find a link feel free to send it to me :-D
At some point in your riding season, you come to think : "yeah I'm fast, I have skills." Then you watch this video and you realize :"I'm not fast and don't have much skills" Great edit!!!
Who has ever ridden on Vedder mountain before? Now, who has ridden dilemma on vedder? If so, you know by the end where it drops and there a route around the washed out section. Imagine one of those guys launching off that... Vedder is such a technical mountain to ride on.
@influxproductions do you have video of the landing of that gap Kovarik does on the rock rolllers in this segment? I rode there for the 1st time in my life and rode that section of trail (boulder highway) and the jump, while huge, was the easy part wasn't it?
Wasnt the runout / lander sketch as hell?
Geez, the park is so vivid in my mind that I recognized just about every single bit of that edit!!!!
Linked below is a behind the scenes of that rock triple that Kovarik did. The landing/run out is fine, the difficult part was the run in. The last 15-20 feet of the run in are uphill, and there is also a small jump right before that sucks up all of your speed. That one shot took hours to get.
@influxproductions when I was looking at it in person, I thought he took off from the middle roller that he clears in the video and lands at the berm. Thanks for the link...flipping huge.
This video was epic!! What really pisses me off is how undecided some pricks are, other videos that have no slo-mo people love and comment "no pussy slo-mo=great video" and a whole bunch of other shit about slo mo being crappy, and this video has a lot of slo-mo and yet I see no hate, it seems like people will say whatever just to get likes on their comments. I personally don't mind any style of video, as long as the riding is good....to me it's just sad that people don't know what they like themselves.
Broken foot last year, torn rotator cuff this year, 8 years previous? 30-60 days on the hill! Jonesing so hard right now! All the triples I want to do we're just executed perfectly, next year!
holllleeee shit bike handling skills=GODLY! of every rider in this vid. gotta say tho...Fin Iles almost makes Chris Kovarik look slow...seriously,that kid lives life in fast forward mode.
WOW - these guys make me want to go out and ride! They are scary good, and make it all look effortless. Riding the front over that bridge . . . yeah, time for me to pick up my game a bit.
Finn is on the way for sure, he was a pre-runner this year on the World Cup. Riding with the big boys even though he wasn't competing in the Elite division, and being on a team with the World Champ doesn't hurt either!
To be honest kovarik looked like a true park rat, skidding all over the place without any advantage of it being faster. The rest of the riders were on point.
Init good that we can be so picky
Some unreal disregard for trail building intent. "The roll-in to the Freight Train step-up? Nah, triple-jump it."
How many tires/brake-pads/wheels/fork seals/frames does Kovarik go through in a season?
Wasnt the runout / lander sketch as hell?
Geez, the park is so vivid in my mind that I recognized just about every single bit of that edit!!!!
Good flick.
Linked below is a behind the scenes of that rock triple that Kovarik did. The landing/run out is fine, the difficult part was the run in. The last 15-20 feet of the run in are uphill, and there is also a small jump right before that sucks up all of your speed. That one shot took hours to get.
Chris.
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at 2:59 - my chin hit trackpad . . .