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Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast

Mountain Bike Skills with Phil

Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast

Singletracks.com

Sports, Wilderness

4.7574 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2018

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Phil Kmetz is a 3-time Collegiate National mountain bike champ who has podiumed at several US National Championships and has competed in UCI World Cup events.  His popular YouTube channel, Skills with Phil, has more than a quarter of a million subscribers. In this episode, we talk with Phil about Youtube, mountain bike skills, urban downhill racing, and his vision for a mountain biking wonderland.

--Keep up with the latest in mountain biking at Singletracks.com and on Instagram @singletracks

Transcript

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0:00.0

Something unexpected has arrived in Happy Meal. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Hello Kitty and friends are teaming up for the ultimate collab.

0:08.3

Joining your little ones on a fun-fueled adventure. Some fun, some food, it's all inside this happy meal.

0:16.3

Until the 2nd of February from 11am includes one pre-selected book or toy whilst it's last.

0:20.1

Hey everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast.

0:23.3

My name is Jeff, and today my guest is Phil Metz.

0:27.2

Phil is a three-time collegiate national mountain bike champ,

0:30.3

who has podiumed at several U.S. national championships,

0:33.9

and has competed in UCI World Cup events as well.

0:37.3

His popular YouTube channel, Skills with Phil,

0:40.0

has more than a quarter of a million subscribers. Thanks for joining us, Phil. Thanks for having me.

0:45.3

It's great to be here. Let's get started with your background. What is sort of your mountain

0:49.3

biking background? How do you get into the sport? Yeah. So that's, it can be a longer short answer,

0:54.1

depending on how I go about this.

0:55.6

Well, you're a young guy.

0:56.5

It can't be that long, right?

0:57.8

Well, I've been racing, I've been racing since I was five.

1:02.2

So, oh, wow.

1:03.2

There's some history.

1:04.0

Yeah.

1:04.6

I race BMX very competitively since I was five.

1:08.1

And, you know, in 1999, I was, or 2000, I was five. And in 1999, I was 2000, I was nine. And I finished eighth into world championships.

1:16.2

Whoa. At nine years old? Correct. Okay. I didn't even know they had world championships for that age.

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