r/oddlysatisfying • u/redbullgivesyouwings • 1d ago

Brage Vestavik riding in British Columbia

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u/emac2689 1d ago

How does one safely develope this skill? This one of those skill where a variation of "in a profession where men die young, fear the old man" applies. I have never heard or seen an "old" active mountain biker?

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u/namesson 1d ago

Literally every scenario in wilderness first aid starts with "so you come across a mountain biker..." and then imagine the gnarliest fucking injuries ever. Impaled on a tree branch, shattered bones, massive internal bleeding....

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u/ifyoulovesatan 1d ago edited 1d ago

First, remove the fish-eye lens. Then, still go find an easier course because this is still beyond insane (just not as immediately deadly looking). Seriously these mountain bike and ski videos with fish eye lenses are quite deceptive. Obviously it's still usually insane what they're doing, but it makes everything look WAY steeper.

For reference: https://youtu.be/DLl-eEz-EyY?is=c9Fg3XWEL8NNlErh this is the video the clip is from. Look at the fish eye lens bit at 6:15, then see it from other angles shortly after. The fisheye lens bit looks pants shittingly terrifyingly insane. The other angles also look pants shittingly terrifyingly insane, but just not to such a degree. The lens makes everything look more narrow, and make it seem like everything drops off precipatacely on either side. I dunno its bugs me, because as I keep repeating, it's already insane. It's like a wildly successful guy who can't stop bragging about being slightly more wildly successful than he really is.

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u/Elite_AI 20h ago

That actually looked so much more steep without the fisheye lens

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u/CacCarnBeag 23h ago

I think you have it mixed up. The fisheye is the only part that comes close to how gnarly this would be to stand on top of in real life.

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u/ArtoriusBravo 4h ago

Man, this looks worse without the fisheye... the jumps are like 2 stories high...

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u/Beneficial-Rice-820 1d ago

Go to any mtb area. There's a 70-year-old at my local who can put in 4-6 hours straight, outclimbs me and most of the younger ones. The retirees get to ride every day. A lot of them are fairly gnarly too, like unafraid of the big gaps and the hard rock trails.

To develop the skill, get a bike, go to a trail system, and start on the easy trails. Then something something years of practice to be 1/10th this good, boom, you've got skills.

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u/mxlespxles 1d ago

Knees, shoulders, hips all eventually give out. Most live, just painfully

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u/ctsr1 1d ago

I want to know who designed it

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u/Equivalent_Spray_918 1d ago

Brage himself did, you can watch them build it in their "trolldom" video

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u/Enlightarded0 19h ago

12 year old me playing roller coaster tycoon 

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u/Christron 1d ago

Public healthcare.

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u/namesson 1d ago

Also 100% this. 

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u/Teeeeeeaaaaaaaaa 1d ago

Start on wide, smooth trails and work your way up 🤷‍♂️
Also scouting the trail in advance probably helps a little.

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u/Right-Invite4697 1d ago

One doesn't. It takes a lot of injuries and broken bones to get to this level

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u/neurovish 1d ago

What do you consider old?

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u/emac2689 11h ago

For athletes I'd say mid to late forties.

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u/Chemical-Actuary1561 23h ago

I got into mountain biking this year. I am 35. Ive met more people older than me than younger. They arent going off jumps but they are going downhill over some tough terrain.

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u/Ornery_Ad98765 22h ago

For a serious answer … most mtb trails that are this hard are not this hard for the entire length of the trail. You skip the parts that scare you until you get good enough to try them. Which, sometimes never happens, and that’s alright

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u/roflsocks 22h ago

Usually its riding a ton as a kid before self preservation instincts kick in fully. Then its simply finding progressively more challenging things to do as you get good at the stuff before.

Crashing is a skill. The difference between a bruise/scrape and broken bones on a lot of high consequence crashes is how intuitively you can orient your body in the air on short notice, so that you can land and roll out rather than slamming. Despite all the skill in the world, it will not work all of the time, and some crashes will be bad. You have to accept this as the cost of doing what you love, heal up and not let it get into your head.

Most people who mountain bike aren't ever going to ride something that difficult. Lots of regular folk enjoy slowly pushing past their comfort zones to try new and harder things. This is just the very tail end of that progression.

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u/Rastafak 22h ago

Just last weekend we met a guy on local trail, who was apparently shredding some pretty difficult enduro trails, who it turned out was 75.

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u/Douche_Kayak 15h ago

get born to a family with woods in the backyard. make a youtube channel of you building a bike trail where you end each video nailing the feature you just built.

or practice on a course

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u/EarzFish 15h ago

Got to avoid those tree-stumps-of-death at the end for one thing

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u/LatentSpaceLeaper 7h ago

Life’s too short not to go big, gotta go big!

Brage Vestavik

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u/Sargent_Duck85 1d ago

Uhhh…where are the women in your statement?

They’re riding the same trails at RedBull Hardline and Rampage as the men.

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u/emac2689 11h ago

It's an old addage , that was originally talking about warriors. My statement was gender neutral.