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00:04Going out to America, I was definitely excited to see what we were going to find.
00:12I set the bar for my riding high
00:15because I've watched so many amazing, whether it's BMX or skateboarding,
00:19or trials mountain biking.
00:21I don't know, you just want to do the best you can.
00:33Making a street edit is there's no sort of concept to hide behind.
00:37It's just kind of based on pure hard riding.
00:40You've got these ideas that you dream about and then it's like going exploring for something
00:45or going looking for gold or I don't know, whatever.
00:49It's all based on finding these locations.
00:52And you never know if you're going to look round the corner and find something that's going to be ridiculous.
00:58But you're still going to have to ride it.
01:00Yeah!
01:02Woo!
01:51I think for me what's really cool about making a street film is that it's where it all began for
01:56me.
01:56You know, even riding in Dunvegan back in the Isla Sky when I was young.
02:01I can easily do it.
02:07On my little trials bike, I'd be riding the street, you know,
02:10riding up and down steps, jumping off walls.
02:13And it's what I watched all my heroes do, you know, when I was growing up reading the magazines.
02:19I originally thought about making this film around about 2016.
02:23I'd wanted to make another street film which I hadn't done for about ten years at a time.
02:30I mean, the streets of San Francisco seemed like a really cool place to go back to
02:33and to really step up my game a bit and try to make something cool.
02:39Wandering around San Francisco, scouting for, you know, locations to make this film was really enjoyable.
02:45You know, it's really, just have your riding eye, as it were, wide open to everything that there is down
02:51the street.
02:51You're just looking at every possibility, every curb, every railing.
02:56That's the frame.
03:04Do it him for her. I'll do that.
03:22We're at Chinabanks for one of the more trialsy lines for Danny,
03:26which is quite cool I like this stuff practical trials remember he said that
03:31from when we were here the end of the day, stressing
03:40Just don't roll the car, that's all. Which way are we gonna go?
03:43I'll go up!
03:45A lot of laziness here isn't it?
03:47It's the amount of times I've looked around San Francisco, the amount of times I've spent
03:50Skyping and thinking about this film it kind of feels a little bit like home but
03:54It's also quite surreal being here at the same time when you've got like such famous
03:59spots you feel like you've seen them a million times in films so, pretty cool
04:09One of the coolest locations in San Fran for me was Ferdiname, something I've seen in many
04:15skate film, many BMX film, it's a really cool street plaza location
04:20We're back, morning
04:22The women's going
04:23Ready to go
04:25Goodness me it's bright
04:26Back to get some vengeance on the spot or just to get a hat-trick here, it'd be quite nice
04:35The spot was nice and clean and fresh after five years of absence
04:40The first time we came to San Francisco to film for this Red Bull project was in 2017
04:48I was here with Dave Serby and Robbie Mead with Todd Barber
04:51The Mot pictured here is about 15,000
04:54I wrote back, the moi
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05:21veulent
05:40Typical, typical, typical, good thing I have my knee pads on because that would have hurt.
05:55I was like, ah, like I kind of went for it, but I didn't do the 180 enough, so I'll
06:02just.
06:07They look like they're good.
06:09I don't know what they normally look like.
06:10They look good.
06:12Just making myself a wee ice pack.
06:17I had a wee spill off my bike, and luckily I didn't knock my teeth out, which I was pretty
06:22close to doing, but I kind of gosed my knee a wee bit, so I'm going to go and get
06:28a look
06:28at my wee legs, you can't really tell anyway.
06:35Hopefully it's just a little bit of swelling, and a few days I'll go down, and I can get
06:40back to filming.
06:48So, Daniel, looks like you have a crack in your kneecap.
06:54The good news is that it's not out of position.
06:57The tough part is that it's a break, and it's going to take a lot of.
07:04I feel like sometimes things happen for a reason, you know.
07:07If you look in the long term, if you can continue to be persistent and go forward with it, you
07:13know, maybe this will give you more time to practice.
07:15Yeah.
07:15And now that we know the locations, you know, now you can actually take some measurements
07:19and take it home and maybe practice with those things.
07:22For sure.
07:23And be more prepared.
07:24I think, you know, if we did come back out, or when we do come back out to try to
07:31do this,
07:31I mean, it's always trying to get Robbie and Dave's time as well as your own.
07:36We had all the locations cleared, ready to go, and the doctor revealed that I had broken
07:42my kneecap, which is pretty annoying, and that kind of put a halt or a pause on the project.
07:50And I've been thinking about it ever since, really.
07:52So, yeah.
07:53Yeah.
07:54Yeah.
08:05So I originally started this project with Dave, because he was the filmer and
08:12Inspired Bicycles, which was the film that kicked off my career back in 2009.
08:17Dave Sowerby is an amazing BMX filmer, an amazing BMXer, and one of my good friends who
08:25I've known since around 2007.
08:27But because he was busy doing things with BSD, he wasn't able to make it on this trip.
08:32Bit of a shame, but there's more years to do different films with him in the future.
08:36And it's really cool to have Robbie Meaden now in there as director.
08:43As a great director project, how do you see your vision come to life?
08:48Well, you see, the best way to create a project like this is find a load of people that are
08:55way more talented than yourself and get them all involved.
08:58Yeah.
08:59Great.
09:01Robbie is one of the filmers I've worked with the most over the years on films like Imaginate.
09:06We've got Epi Quen.
09:08He's kind of the sunset of the whole shoot here.
09:13Cascadia, The Slabs most recently, and many more films.
09:18He's one of my best friends and an amazing filmer to work with.
09:23It's definitely been cool seeing him develop as a filmmaker and a director over the last
09:29ten years to go from being like a camera off and Imaginate to directing a project like this.
09:35Getting invited on Imaginate by Stu to work with Danny was pretty much the job that kickstarted
09:40my whole career.
09:41Having that opportunity really, I guess, changed the direction of my filming and gave me the
09:46opportunity to do so many cool new things and work with Danny over the next ten years.
09:52The consensus is it's going to get done in five tries.
09:55I'm using this as a bit of a shelter from the sun as well.
09:59I'm stood perfectly underneath it.
10:03I have to put different gloves on.
10:04My hands are just...
10:06Yeah, it's too hot today.
10:08Danny says it's so hot, if this was in the sky, he'd be sitting home from school by now.
10:13Oh, 100%.
10:16It's the same as your school getting flooded.
10:19If it's over 20 in Scotland, you have to go home.
10:32You've finished with that.
10:34Stop that first.
10:35Why don't you?
10:35You're literally going to have the whole lane in the next 30 minutes.
10:38Oh, I can't do that.
10:39Good, let's go.
10:50I think something that's super critical to a project like this, especially after last
10:54time, is having mats and pallets, having things there that you can make a spot safe, you can
10:58try the riding out without any consequence.
11:02Street trials, it's so easy to just twist ankles or do something like a little bit niggly
11:07like break a bone in your foot, hand or sprain your wrist from falling off, but I think that
11:12would just set the whole trip back.
11:14It's those that are the worst.
11:16Second day, I broke my kneecap here last time and we're here second day of this filming shoot
11:20and I'd like to make it through.
11:24This time round, kind of the way I've gone about a few of my other films, I've tried to
11:29go through the process kind of methodically.
11:31I mean, he has to kind of get that muscle memory of doing it, I think, before he actually
11:37tries it, and it means that I can live to fight another day as well.
11:45Woo, that was close.
11:46We have decided to call it a day, so I've not done the gap yet, but feeling it for the
11:52morning.
12:02Hi.
12:05Today, we have Russell Hooten here to do some excellent drone shots, and we're going to
12:12make the most of this lovely weather and get some establishing shots.
12:17And was any of that in focus, because Duncan's filming and who knows?
12:21F*** you.
12:22She had a dodgy kit.
12:24AF.
12:25Hey, excuse me.
12:25This is your camera and your lens.
12:29Pretty great.
12:32Here, doing some drone shots with Russell.
12:35Yeah.
12:36It's pretty cool having them along, because it's definitely one of my favorite soul makers.
12:45Yeah, it's cool.
12:48I don't know how to talk in front of the camera, though.
12:50I haven't mastered that.
12:54Cruisin'.
13:08Danny said he wasn't nervous going back to Ferdinand Army, but I definitely think there
13:12must have been some pressure there.
13:14I can't see how you could go back to that spot after getting hurt and not feel any extra
13:20pressure or extra nerves.
13:36I think Danny is fairly strong mentally, and I think he's fairly good at being rational
13:42with that sort of thing.
13:43I don't think he's superstitious, but I think even then it's hard not to have that in the
13:48back of your mind, especially when he went back to the actual location that he hurt himself on.
14:10Well, I've been at this for about five hours, and I've been over the rail three times, well, four times,
14:15including breaking my kneecap, and I think that's going to have to do.
14:21Good.
14:21Good.
14:22Good.
14:24Some effort going into doing that a thousand times.
14:27I can't.
14:27Are you okay?
14:28I'll carry you to the van.
14:30I can't even, it's just too much.
14:31Take those shoes off.
14:32Take the ankle braces off.
14:34I can't.
14:35I can't.
14:35I'm nice.
14:36I'm like...
14:36You can't even talk.
14:37I don't know, I know.
14:39Sit.
14:40Yes.
14:41Stoked.
14:42Stoked?
14:42Only five years later?
14:44Yeah.
14:45Got some redemption.
14:47Oh my god.
14:48I can't.
14:49You know you're like so uncomfortable, you can't even think about what to do.
14:52I'm quite happy with that line.
14:54That's like, cool riding.
14:56I've not done anything like that before.
14:58When I look at it, it almost doesn't look possible.
15:00Like that gap for me is like, really on the limit.
15:03So, I should be happy.
15:05I'm too tired to be happy.
15:07I'm just, I'm absolutely embarrassed.
15:09Probably the first hard trick that you've watched Danny do.
15:12Yeah.
15:12Quite impressive.
15:13He doesn't, Danny does not quit.
15:15I mean, fair few attempts there.
15:17I think he might be, could fall asleep right there.
15:20With a sandwich.
15:22Alright.
15:29Next time on Back of the Postcard.
15:31Feeling good today actually.
15:34The time you kind of get warmed up, then you're suddenly running out of time.
15:38The levels of anxiety start to increase.
15:41Is this the moment you finally punch one of us?
15:44I'm gonna throw a bike in the sea.
15:46Done.
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