about anything else. That’s why it’s
so good – it’s raw and it just happens.
We’re not thinking about how big and
popular the series could get. We’re all
just pumped on riding at the moment
and its working.
Is the progression of freeriding
something you guys focus on
pushing or is it kinda happening as a
by-product of what you’re doing?
Kyle: It’s funny because I think that has
kind of happened unintentionally. Every
time we build a course we feel like we
need to have bigger jumps. We’re all
thinking “man, these jumps are so fun,
but now we want to go bigger”.
Andreu: Yeah we’re just building
and riding stuff that we want to ride
and are pumped to ride. Maybe that
means we’re going bigger than when
we started, but I think it’s happening
naturally, you know?
Yeah for sure. With all the interest
you’re getting, have any companies
hit you up to sponsor the series and
support what you’re doing?
Nick: We did talk with Media House
and GoPro but so far we haven’t found
a deal that really suits us. It’s not in
our plan to just give it away for just a
little bit of money or for no reason, you
know? We’d rather keep it exclusive
and for us.
Kurt: Yeah, we don’t want to sell it
for pennies. We don’t want to change
what we’ve got just because someone
wants to sponsor us with X amount of
money. Until someone comes along
that could help increase the quality
of what we’re doing already, then
we’ll hold out, keep it core and keep
owning it.
It might be a coincidence, but I
couldn’t help but notice some of
your dates clash with the Freeride
Mountain Bike (FMB) Series. Was
that on purpose at all? Do you see
them as competition?
Kurt: We’re not competing with them,
no. We’re happy with what we’ve got
as we just want to do what we want. It
just so happens that our event dates
are around the same time as theirs, so
it looks like we’re making it a conflict,
but we’re just doing our own thing.
Nick: The thing that pisses me off
about FMB, is that they stand for
Freeride Mountain Bike when they
don’t have anything to do with freeride.
Their entire series is slopestyle events.
They need to rename themselves
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£ Right: The boys
get to work shaping
one of the many
incomprehensibly
big booters found
on the FEST Series.