“We always get great feedback and
reactions from our videos and we want
to take it to the next level.”
– Nick Pescetto
And who flies the core nine guys
to each event - is it covered by
sponsors, the host or does it come
out of your own pockets?
Kurt: We’d love to pay for travel, but
usually we take care of most of the
stuff once the riders are there. Usually
the riders use their sponsors’ travel
budgets to get to the spot, then the
host covers as much as they can
from there on. We want everyone who
comes to get exposure and we want to
make sure their sponsors are stoked
and are getting a lot out of the event
they’re coming to.
You touched on exposure just now.
What are the main content avenues
you use to ensure each rider gets
exposure?
Nick: This year it’s about online videos,
but we’ve been talking about the
possibility of making a movie about
the series next year. We always get
great feedback and reactions from our
videos and we want to take it to the
next level. Next year we’ll film each
event and probably release teasers
after each one, then at the end of the
year launch an hour-long video with
all the highlights, behind-the-scenes
footage, interviews and sh*t like that.
Kyle: Yeah it’d be cool to put it on
iTunes for $5.99 or something, then
all the money we make from it will go
towards funding the next year’s movie.
That sounds awesome. Let’s talk a
bit about 2015. Kyle, your Cruz Fest
looked amazing. How did you find
that spot?
Kyle: Oh thanks man. It was a place
owned by Tyler Bereman, who also
lives in Santa Cruz. We were watching
a moto video in Norway and I was like
‘man, that’s the dude who lives near
me and he has property.’
After Sorge’s Fest stop last year, we
had a fire in our belly to contribute to
the Fest, so we called up Tyler and
asked if he would be interested in
letting us dig a line on his property. He
was like ‘come on out, I think I’ve got
the perfect spot for you.’ He showed
us the best spot that’s a big bowl with
trees and it couldn’t have worked out
more perfectly. The bottom section
was actually part of Tyler’s moto track;
we dug out the middle of a table top,
made doubles and changed things up.
Because Makken and those guys had
been in snow for four months, we
wanted to build a course that allowed
the riders to show up and just ride big,
easy jumps that looked and felt rad.
The spot is only going to get better
from here on too – we plan to put in a
rope-tow next year, so it’ll almost be
like chairlift access to the line.
Man a rope-tow would be so good!
And how was Aggy’s Reunion this
year? I heard it was pretty windy.
Nick: Yeah it was super-windy this
year. I ate sh*t on a four-meter jump on
the second day and injured my knee,
which knocked me out of the game.
Kurt: Because of the insurance deal
we couldn’t ride until Thursday, so we
spent three days digging the course
in the heat and wind. We did a couple
of test days in the wind, but we had a
whole week of weird storms and we
didn’t get a proper session in until the
Monday afterwards at, like, six in the
morning. Aggy was pretty stressed out
about it after putting so much time and
effort into his course this year. But we
rode for three hours on Monday and
got everything done that we wanted to
do, so it worked out well in the end.
Kyle: Riding 60-footers at six in the
morning is definitely not easy! u
£ LooseFEST, hosted
by Belgium’s Nico Vink
is renowned for having
the biggest jumps in
the series!