Axell Hodges on Overcoming Injuries, Chasing Worlds Firsts & Getting Evan Back on Top
Life Wide Open with CboysTV
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🗓️ 4 November 2025
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode we are joined by 12 time X game Medalist, Freestyle Legend, Axell Hodges. We talk how he got Evans Mojo back, Setbacks from Injuries, Building Slayground Chaos at his wedding, Hanging with His dad, learning to crash, World records, and Racing Vs Freestyle. What Its like playing his legendary compound The Slayground in a video game, and more. Legendary time with one of the coolest and best to do it. Enjoy
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| 0:00.0 | All those kids that are saying Evan fell off on TikTok, I'd like to see them do anything that |
| 0:05.9 | Evan has done on a crotch rocket. Dirt bikers will talk crap on a quad, but it's like, dude, |
| 0:10.4 | I love riding quads. That's why I just make it look. I just love doing those wheelies. |
| 0:14.3 | So effortless. My dad was pinned in the thornbuck. Yeah, you know, trying to save his life. |
| 0:19.6 | Like, I've jumped 396 feet successfully. Ever contemplating, like, maybe this isn't worth it? It took me a while to, like, want to have fun on my dirt bike again. How you liking the cold? I already know how Gabby's liking the cold, but what are you thinking? I like the cold. I don't mind the cold. |
| 0:38.0 | Yeah, you, today was perfect riding weather. Yeah, it was, it was pretty rain yesterday. Like, I love wearing huddies, so, huddy season. Dude, same. Right now is perfect. Yeah. Yeah, I was worried about the cold with you guys coming up, but, uh, and the sprinter van up here, and you're like, No, I actually like the cold. |
| 0:53.1 | I was like, oh, well, this is my actually worth. |
| 0:54.0 | Yeah, and I've experienced the real Minnesota cold before, so this isn't cold. Because you used to rip snow bikes. Yeah, when they did snow bikes and X-Gaves. Yeah, I was ripping those. So I'd go to ERX up and I forget what the town was in Minnesota. Yeah, yeah. First time I went through it, I was negative 40. I had the flu. I was like, this is gnarly. |
| 1:11.8 | Trying to ride with numb hands holding on to that thing. I was in Minnesota. Yeah, yeah. First time I went through it, I was negative 40. I had the flu. I was like, this is gnarly. |
| 1:14.6 | Trying to ride with numb hands holding on to that thing. |
| 1:30.8 | Ben, you wrote a snow bike at E. Air X-Muns, do you? Yeah, I did. I crashed. I crashed. Yeah, I crashed, too. I went over the bars, though. I came off the face and my bike ran out of gas midair and I just like endowed. |
| 1:30.9 | Did it hit you? |
| 1:32.3 | I don't know. |
| 1:33.3 | I don't know. |
| 1:33.3 | I don't know. |
| 1:33.4 | I don't buy with the big old track if that thing tackled. |
| 1:35.2 | I think I got out of the way, but we were doing a Polaro shoot. |
| 1:38.2 | And all they kept saying the entire time was don't crash. |
| 1:41.0 | Just like don't do anything you're not comfortable with. |
| 1:43.0 | Don't crash. |
| 1:43.8 | Before anything, |
| 1:44.5 | before you rode around a berm, |
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