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Crankworx Innsbruck brings rain, practice delays, and a finals run that slowly comes together under pressure. Alex Alanko talks through the weather, the stop-start training, and the challenge of building a run piece by piece on a tricky course before taking his place in the finals.

The riding footage captures big mountain bike freeride and slopestyle moments, including 360s, front flips, opposite 720s, whips, cork 720s, and a last-jump 900 attempt that doesn’t quite land. After the event, the video shifts into a bonus session at David and Simon’s backyard compound, where riders hit a jump line and airbag setup in a relaxed practice atmosphere with the tour crew.

It’s a mix of MTB competition vlog, Crankworx finals coverage, and behind-the-scenes riding from Innsbruck and a dream backyard training spot. The tone stays honest and casual, with race-day nerves, progress, crashes, and the satisfaction of getting closer to the run you want.

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00:00Oh
00:14What's going on Alex? Yeah, so Wednesday
00:18Is it Wednesday? It's Thursday Thursday. Yeah Thursday. We're gonna head out to practice now weather is great
00:26No, no, no, Alex. You misunderstand. It's raining. It's a storm. Yeah, okay. Yes. No practice
00:31No practice now. We are gonna chill until the rain fades away
00:36Hopefully it does so we don't know yet, and then we're just gonna keep practicing doing all the tricks
00:41Yeah, I'm really
00:43hopeful about this because
00:46Actually, I'm not but yeah, hopefully we can practice today
00:50Yeah, let's see
00:52100% 100%
00:54Yeah, let's go
00:55In the white
00:59Jaden again coming on to the Crankers world to his team last year in where the rua was expecting big
01:05things from him in speed and style
01:11He's here last year in the pump track. This is a tough battle right out of the gate. Yeah
01:15Young in the
01:17Yeah
01:38Yeah
01:39Yes
01:40I
01:43You break it
01:45Well that depends where he is in Austria
01:47So this is a thing of a player
01:53we still have these slope cores open right now and this is a rider who's got enough to find
02:00himself securely on the world tour for the past couple years alex alonka we saw him right here
02:05in innsbruck as a rookie a couple years ago his first event was in new zealand but here he is
02:11seeing if he can stay alive on this tour smooth awful 360 to start things off alan bar's been
02:17front flip on that first big jump it looked like maybe he was going for a no hander let's see
02:21how
02:21he can keep the momentum going double truck that first hit straight into the twist oh just a hair
02:29under rotated the opposite cork 720 as he went out of view from that camera angle i kind of had
02:36a
02:37feeling he was lined up to the landing yeah you could see his body was just a little bit in
02:41front
02:41of the bike and the bike never quite caught up to him before he got to that landing see what
02:45he's
02:45doing there with those movements he's visualizing his run now's the time to lay it down alex alonko
02:50from sweden on course oh yeah front flip barston looks like maybe he was looking for a no hander
02:58out but he's going to continue down with a double truck on that hip step oh yeah that's what happened
03:03last run this is the trick there we go he gets opposite cork 720 right into the whip to bar
03:11back foot tail whip up
03:14regular cork 7 out of the whale tail into a huge
03:21going for a fakey landing there on that cash roll
03:25that looked like he almost could have pulled it
03:28he was pulling a card out of torquato test his book
03:31but he was also doing that regular cork 720 on the whale tail which has i don't know a hip
03:38high so finals is done i didn't really film anything besides the first vlog there and it
03:46did rain one day but i did get some practice in and i like step by step piece by piece
03:51put
03:51together my run and i almost got everything i wanted but then on the last jump i did a 900
03:58kind of didn't land it though but i could next time 900 yeah could have been like imagine if i
04:04landed it backwards i just like dude uh but yeah i guess i'm just gonna go home and practice and
04:10uh ride some more and have yeah but i don't know i had some fun though yeah yeah the tricky
04:16course
04:17tricky course and i'm feeling good actually i didn't have one single scratch from the crashes
04:22uh that's pretty nice that could have been so good yeah i need to work on that cash roll more
04:29for sure uh anyway since the crankworks material got a bit short i have a really cool segment from
04:35when i visited one of the best training uh like compounds i have ever been to in my life i
04:42would
04:42say uh yeah so here is a session from that place like it's just amazing this is actually so sick
04:48we're
04:49having a session at david and simon's backyard and yeah we're having the fmb event this weekend
04:54in katovis and now we're just having a session all the guys from the tour and yeah as you can
05:00see
05:00insane stuff going down so i'm gonna ride a medium line here for a bit and then go for the
05:06airbag
05:06it's gonna be a good time
05:20wow
05:21wow
05:21wow
05:40So cool to ride here and all the boys having a session, the breakfast session is just so
05:50good. Yeah, it is for sure. Every event is organized watching this. Yeah, let's do this one session, just three
05:57times before the event, it would be so cool. Victor, I'm coming up to you here now.
06:03Come on, I'm here.
06:05Oh, but what the hell is it?
06:06I'm funny.
06:08Swedish gang up on the top. Max Fredriksson dropping in.
06:13Oh, this is actually so cool to be at David and Simon God's place. I have been watching videos from
06:22this one for a long time since I started riding. I saw like David do quad tracks here when I
06:29learned 360s kind of.
06:31So yeah, super cool to be here. The place has obviously changed a bit, but a super big airbag and
06:36then a jump line there. This would be the dream backyard for sure. What are you doing, Victor?
06:42I'm just going to do a flip and then I would ask if you could film a trick for us
06:46from down there from the side.
06:47Yeah, yeah, for sure. I would be stoked. Hey, Victor, do one. Showing me the speed here.
06:57Oh, that clip. I haven't jumped a big line yet for the big the airbag. It's not a line.
07:04Well, yeah, always a bit nervous for this, but it looks so safe.
07:16Yeah.
07:17Oh, that clip.
07:21Oh.
07:30Yeah.
07:31Okay.
07:32Yeah.
07:35Nice, asså.
07:46Okay, insane banger coming up, but that's one here.
07:56Oh, yeah, he slid it out.
08:00Yes.
08:04Nice.
08:06Oh, yo!
08:13Double fronny.
08:14Victor, you want to try?
08:18Super stark.
08:21Yeah!
08:28Did he land?
08:30No.
08:31Did you brake for fronny's on this one?
08:35For the moment, I didn't try fronny's.
08:38Okay.
08:39Chill, I guess.
08:53What do you think of this place, Max?
08:55Good?
09:08Also, they provide us with snacks here. Look at this.
09:13I'm going to do it.
09:14I'm going to do it all the way out here.
09:15Yeah, I'm going to do it all the way out here.
09:15Yeah, I'm going to do it all the way out here.
09:16Oh, fuck!
09:20Oh, yeah!
09:22Lukas Huppert coming down.
09:26Oh, huge!
09:28Jan Hagerman.
09:31Oh.
09:32Oh!
09:34You go insanely high on that jump.
09:37Like, it's the best.
09:38And now I think Viktor Duan is at the top now, probably some crazy fronny combo going down, let's see.
09:47Ok, Viktor dropping in, and I actually think he's gonna do something else.
09:53Yes!
09:54Yeah, that was a flick!
09:55Yes!
09:56Woo!
09:57Really good!
09:58So good!

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