Kaos Seagrave: Quitting World Cup Downhill, Going Full Freeride, Growing Up in FMD Racing & More
The Ride Companion
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🗓️ 4 June 2025
⏱️ 108 minutes
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Kaos Seagrave joins Olly and Davi for one of the rawest and most inspiring episodes of The Ride Companion yet. From racing World Cups as a junior to flipping 90-foot jumps at Darkfest, Kaos opens up about the exact moment he walked away from downhill racing, the mental battles behind the scenes, and what it really takes to go full freeride.
He shares what it was like growing up alongside his sister Tahnee, how their family built FMD Racing from the ground up, and what it meant to be hand-picked for Deathgrip 2. We also dive into his dream of riding Red Bull Rampage, the challenges Europeans face getting invited, and why freeride gives him more purpose than racing ever did.
This is Kaos Seagrave like you've never heard him before.
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| 0:00.0 | Was there a point where you were like, okay, Tarni's actually good at this? |
| 0:04.8 | Chaos is actually good at this. |
| 0:06.6 | I swear they're awful. |
| 0:07.5 | I'm sorry. |
| 0:07.7 | From one of the fastest down on riders on the circuit to leading the charge in an exciting |
| 0:22.6 | new wave of free riders taming the biggest jumps in the world. |
| 0:26.6 | He's also got the coolest name in MTV. |
| 0:28.6 | Welcome to the ride companion, Chaos Sea Grave. |
| 0:32.6 | Hey, thank you for having me. |
| 0:34.6 | You got to say that's quite a good intro, isn't it? Amazing. |
| 0:38.3 | I'm glad you put fast racer in there. |
| 0:41.1 | I don't think after juniors, that was ever the case, but I'm happy you put that in. |
| 0:45.8 | Whatever. |
| 0:46.8 | No. |
| 0:48.2 | Do you know what? |
| 0:49.0 | I think the annoying thing about World Cups is that, like, actually just to be racing there, you're one of the |
| 0:55.9 | fastest races in the world. Full stop. I guess you got it with Bren as well, because |
| 1:00.4 | Brent is really fast, like, but we were really slow at World Cubs in the end of it. Like, when, |
| 1:09.6 | yeah, like, no, but like, because obviously Bren was Bren when, yeah, but at the end of it like when yeah like no but like |
| 1:11.3 | because obviously |
| 1:11.8 | Bren was Bren |
| 1:12.5 | when yeah |
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