Māris came to me with an idea for a video a while ago, he wanted a new web edit for Suntour forks and Famous clothing as he recently joined their team. But we wanted to show that Maris is an all-round rider, so we decided to film with 4 different bikes - DH, freeride, park and street. We started with park on his now-old 24" bike before his knee surgery. Māris didn't want this part to be big due to the fact that all winter the only place to film is the Monsterparks. Next we went to Baldone - Riekstu kalns where we shot the downhill part of the video. This part was filmed after his surgery/post-recovery. Now Māris' knee is back to its 100% as it was in the past. For the dirt section we went to Māris' dirt playground. This time we waited on Māris' new 26" bike to arrive, as he's now riding big-boy wheels. Needless to say, after just a couple of days on the 26" and Māris was feeling comfortable enough on the bike to start doing some big stuff. Finally for the freeride segment Māris had in mind a drop, and it took us a while to find the perfect location for filming. Thankfully we found an excavation site where Māris stomped a gnarly 360, ain't no Redbull rampage, but still a good Latvian edition, atleast never seen before. Hope you like the video!
Filmed/edited by Renārs Vilnis
Gear- Canon 60d with MagicLantern, Tamron 17-50mm 2.8 vc, Canon 50mm 1,8, DIY JIB
To be honest though, probably should have titled it: "Dirtjump and Freeride on 4 almost identical bikes"
Clearly a good park/dirt rider though.
I got your back bro! ;D
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlNdFxmgqlM