Video: The Trailrippers Shred their Home Trails in Dyfi & Race DH in 'Flow'
Trailrippers present "Flow", an award-winning short film produced with Endura.
Nathan and Ruben are two young brothers from the Dyfi Valley in Mid Wales who love mountain biking. The short film "Flow" tells their family story, how they first got into riding and then racing. Life for the boys brings plenty of challenges, especially as they have both been diagnosed with Autism. Nathan also has ADHD and Dyslexia. But being neurodivergent has many benefits too when it comes to riding bikes fast!
"Flow" sees the brothers shredding their home trails in the Dyfi Forest and sending it big at the Atherton's Dyfi Bike Park. The film crew joined them at the Glencoe round of the British Cycling National Downhill Series in 2023 following them in the pits and on the race track. Woven in with fast riding, they share what life is like with the help of their Mum.
Produced by Endura and the Trailrippers, "Flow" was directed, shot and edited by Scottish filmmaker Andy McCandlish, with additional cinematography and editing by Ashley Leung of Tiny House Creatives. Still photography by Nils Bussink.
Flow recently premiered at Kendal Mountain Festival and has already picked up its first award as Best Short Film at the Fort William Mountain Festival (15th – 18th February 2024). It has also earned up a third set of laurels after being selected for the London Mountain Film Festival (23rd February - 10th March 2024). The film has been submitted for a series of international mountain film festivals over coming months.
Best Short Film - Fort William Mountain Festival 2024
Premiere - Kendal Mountain Festival 2023
Selected - London Mountain Festival
Director - Andy McCandlish
Producer - Martin Steele for Endura
Producer - The Trailrippers
Cinematography - Ashley Leung, Andy McCandlish
Editor - Andy McCandlish
Additional Editing - Ashley Leung
2nd Camera - Martin Steele
Photography - Nils Bussink
Flow Logo - Charles John
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All of that sounds fairly plausible until you realise the levels of financial and time committment that will take from the riders/parents/teams. Not to mention the fact it will mess up their schoolwork. It's really hard to find the happy medium between racing and learning/working. Which is why we often seem to see the Youth fields being massive but then by the time they hit Juniors, then the fields start dwindling as other things come up.
There's always of course exceptions to this with people who get picked up and fully supported by teams as a way into WCDH but that also will start suffering in the same way as the full pro teams are struggling at the moment. So it has to be picked up by the parents.
I don't know what the answer is... but it's fun trying to find out.
(Well, that's the dream of course)