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00:00You know, freeriding's core was really all about adventuring and exploring, and it was
00:28really all about adventuring and exploring new places.
00:31This line's going to be sick, dude.
00:35Hikers are always being looked at as kooks, you know, you don't know until later, until
00:40society has been able to digest it, how rad that was.
00:50The most motley crew of blue-collared kids found a sport that, like, suited them.
00:55Life's too short not to go big.
00:57People were looking at us like we were fucking weirdos.
01:01Did you get that on film?
01:03That was the start of something different.
01:05I want to make the best mountain bike film ever made.
01:09Fame and fortune over integrity.
01:11I made it my mission, no matter what, to just keep crushing those guys.
01:17That rivalry, that fueled freeride mountain biking.
01:27The industry was all into racing, and they didn't know what to do with those guys.
01:34We'll put them in a cage and see who's standing.
01:36Three, two, one.
01:46Slopestyle becomes the biggest of the biggest.
01:49It's happening all across the world.
01:51Made-for-industry type events, where they're like, oh, we can put logos on all this stuff.
01:56This is perfect.
01:59The free got kind of ripped out of freeriding.
02:02We wanted to regulate it a little bit to commercialize it better.
02:07Now I'm a contest rider, I'm doing the circuit.
02:12The competition got more serious.
02:14You have a very small window in the sport.
02:16You better capitalize on it.
02:19The riding at the highest level is heavy-duty risk.
02:22Number one for Cam Zink.
02:24I am tapping out.
02:26Like, this is too much.
02:29Now it doesn't matter how good you are.
02:31It's about your numbers.
02:34They're risking everything for nothing, for the grand.
02:46And to watch him go through that was devastating.
02:53The pursuit for finding something new will never end, though.
03:04It's coming full circle now.
03:06Taking it back to the roots.
03:09Dropping into the unknown, you know.
03:12That's one of the best parts about it.