00:00I'm in Stockholm at my local bike park and I haven't been here a long time so we're gonna
00:04have a session today. We're gonna do some warm-up in the skate park. Okay let's do some warm-up
00:10here.
00:21I haven't been riding this bike in a long time actually.
00:29Can you do some tricks for the video? You need to warm up as well.
00:36So Neil is on a BMX bike today. Hey!
00:47Actually I've gotten a lot of questions about the park here. Actually the association that
00:51the run it ended so we had to create a new association and we tried to save the bike
00:56park. It's not final as yet so it's not really open but it's not really close either but we don't
01:01have
01:02the garage that we had before to maintain everything so it's not the best shape at the moment but we
01:07can still ride which is very cool.
01:28This is Harry. It's actually Neil's little brother.
01:33But he's way better than Neil so it's a bit funny.
01:45That's insane first tee. Thanks man.
01:48Very cool. Do you want to try to one up your brother?
01:52I'll try to one down him.
01:59I'll try to one up your brother.
02:00Yo. Hey.
02:08Yeah. Yeah decent line. Nice.
02:12Okay I want to try to do some tech.
02:41I would definitely say that park riding is one of the best ways to get bike control and
02:46yeah that's why we do it so much.
02:52No way.
02:54A hurry even one ups me now.
02:56So this is my little brother and what's funny is he's actually better than Alex.
03:01For real.
03:02So I'm definitely warmed up now and
03:05yeah I'm gonna try to do some brushing at the jumps and then do some laps.
03:09And what is cool with this place is that it's actually a pretty well-rounded bike park.
03:13We have some small jumps around the house here and then we have the medium line which is two jumps
03:20in a row and then a big line which is a step down and a mulch and then the skate
03:24park as you saw.
03:25And we used to do the bike fight competition.
03:27We actually run a F&B event here and then also a bunch of bike camps.
03:31So we hope to get back into that vibe again and
03:34yeah hopefully we can get the contract from the commune and save the bike park.
03:39Okay we recently had some crazy rain here so we need to take away some mud.
03:46But it stays pretty decent shape even though we didn't do anything for a long time.
03:53I also needed to show the mulch a bit of love.
03:56It's crazy when it's raining with these rain rots.
04:02Oh now the mulch is looking a bit better.
04:04It's so exhausting to dig it up but it feels so much better if you do it.
04:08And yeah I'm gonna head up to the start.
04:11Do some laps.
04:12But first I'm gonna show you the small jumps around the house.
04:15They're actually very cool.
04:16Not the best shape on those ones at the moment.
04:19But still very good for warm-up and also for the kids.
04:25Okay so here's the peep you can start in.
04:30And then you can jump around here.
04:34Yeah.
04:38Very cool.
04:39So this one is actually also very good for the kids to warm up.
04:43Like it's table jumps.
04:44But we need to do some maintenance here.
04:46That's why we closed that one so people are not riding it when it's not good.
04:50But yes you can still start here and come around in the pump track.
05:06Oh the boys are coming again here.
05:09Yoho.
05:11Yeah.
05:13I'm gonna join them and end up on the start.
05:36So we actually built a higher start for the big bikes.
05:44And then you can start with the hardtails there.
05:57It's crazy.
05:58I haven't been riding on the hardtails since a long time now.
06:01I think the last one was the 791 jam in Falun.
06:03And yeah it still feels pretty good actually.
06:07But when you haven't been riding for a long time you just need to do a lot of foundation tricks.
06:10Like the spins and bar spins before doing any bangers.
06:15But yeah very stoked to ride a hardtail again.
06:30I'm gonna do a couple of tricks that I don't do that often.
06:53Some people might watch my channel from my slopestyle career.
06:56And it is weird because one thought a lot of riders that compete have is that they
07:01don't progress that much because they're not learning any new tricks.
07:05And for me personally and I know it was like this for a lot of riders.
07:09But when you feel stuck in the progression and you only do the same tricks all over again all the
07:14time.
07:15Sometimes you can also build foundation which is the best thing to do if you want to do the tricks
07:20on contests.
07:21If you can do your tricks every single go and you have them very very dialed and feel very very
07:26safe and comfortable with them.
07:27That's actually a good foundation to do them in contests.
07:31And yeah the bangers you do like you need to have them really dialed to be actually pulling them off
07:36in a contest run.
07:37So just a quick reminder I think I really needed to hear that myself when I was competing.
07:42So yeah just remember that it's a good good thing sometimes to not learn tricks but to build foundation and
07:49bike control.
08:07I'm actually gonna start on the middle platform now to get some more speed for the first one and go
08:13a bit higher.
08:27Okay let's see if I can do some bar spins.
08:40The sui was a bit weak but the bar spins were good.
08:52Now Elias joined me for the session here finally so nice.
08:58Okay follow camera. Elias here.
09:17The sui was perfect dude. We were hoping for a crash there but uh yeah.
09:30They are too good. Thank you.
09:40We need to do some laps on the big one before it gets too dark.
09:45Summer is over here in Sweden it's so annoying.
09:48We usually have light until 10 11 in the evening here during the summer but now it's already dark at
09:577 almost.
10:04Let's go.
10:08Oh.
10:12Yep.
10:30I want to do some seat grab move but yeah I haven't done in a long time let's see
10:49I used to do all my tricks like all the bangers I wanted to do in contest runs
10:53three times in a row maybe four days in a week and almost like over training you know and if
10:59you're dialed at something you can almost have like two week break or even a month break and
11:04then you do it first try even this session I'm not really pushing it I need to go to the
11:08dome
11:08I feel and just go through my bangers again but it's insane that the muscle memory is still there
11:15in a way if like I mean I haven't been riding for 15 years but it always amazes me when
11:20you have a
11:20good feeling on the bike but you haven't been riding that much it yeah almost feels like cheating but
11:24yeah I'm stoked if you want to have updates on the bike park here and the up and coming camps
11:41hopefully and up and coming events hopefully then I will link the instagram in the bio but
11:46now it's getting too dark to ride so we're gonna call it thank you for watching
