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WHOOP Podcast

Risking it All to Make History with Mountain Biking Legend Nicholi Rogatkin

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Recovery, Health, Life Sciences, Data, Optimize Performance, Science, Hrv, Fitness, Wearable, Health & Fitness, Sports, Strain, Whoop, Sleep

4.6690 Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode, Director of Sports Marketing Jeremy Powers is joined by Freestyle Mountain Biker, World Champion, and the first-ever Slopestyle Triple Crown Champion, Nicholi Rogatkin. Nicholi currently holds the most wins for any FMB world champion, with 25 wins and counting. Nicholi and Jeremy discuss Nicholi’s introduction to the sport (2:09), the ins and outs of competition (9:09), surviving crashes and injuries (11:51), Nicholi’s riskiest Red Bull Rampage run (20:08), setting his...

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0:00.0

They said that from where I fell from the top to the bottom is like 40 plus feet.

0:05.7

And this felt like eternity.

0:07.5

First, I was trying to grab some bushes.

0:10.7

They didn't do nothing.

0:12.1

Then, like, my face slid off the rocks.

0:15.5

I wasn't wearing goggles that day because it was such a bright day.

0:17.7

I didn't want the goggles to make me a mistake what I was seeing.

0:20.6

So no goggles.

0:21.6

So then I just like scrape my face off of the edge of the clip, still trying to stop, still trying not to fall off the cliff.

0:27.6

And then went and then I was like trying to find myself in the air during this and I swear this felt like a lifetime.

0:35.6

You have enough time to think like, whoa,

0:37.9

like is this the end here? Like it's like kind of some deadly feeling moments. What's up folks?

0:43.4

Welcome back to the Whoop podcast. I'm your host Will Ahmed, founder and CEO of Whoop. We're on a

0:48.4

mission to unlock human performance. If you're thinking about joining Whoop, don't hesitate.

0:53.6

You can go to whoop.com,

0:55.0

sign up for a free 30-day trial and get the full whoop experience and wearable.

1:00.2

On this week's episode, Woop, Director of Sports Marketing, Jeremy Powers, is joined by Nikolai

1:05.7

Rogatkin. Nikolai is one of the most impressive American slope-style freestyle mountain bike riders of all time.

1:13.4

He is a world champion who has pushed his body and the sport to boundaries that at one time seemed impossible.

1:20.1

Nikolai has landed nearly impossible tricks like his famed 1440, which is four rotations in the air,

1:26.7

and is continuing to etch his name in the mountain biking

1:30.1

history books. Jeremy and Nikolai discuss getting started in mountain biking, training and

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