Sam Reynolds talks DarkFest 2024 insights, injuries, rider lists and EXCLUSIVE news!
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4.9 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2024
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Sam Reynolds is back in studio with Olly for a pre DarkFest chat! During the episode Sam talks about how much money it actually costs to host the event, his heavily contrasting life as a Dad and big air bike rider, his recently ankle injury, how he compiles the rider invite list, how to flip huge jumps and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | And that was it. Stomped it down on a bit of uneven rock or dirt on the downer track and I've |
| 0:05.2 | ruptured three ligaments. There's a bit of bone bruising in there and evulsion fractures which I believe |
| 0:11.2 | are where the ligaments pour a bit of bone out. Right, I'm proud to announce today we've got, I'm going to give you a new nickname. |
| 0:26.6 | Is that allowed? |
| 0:27.4 | Okay. |
| 0:28.3 | The Godfather of Big Air. |
| 0:30.4 | Oh, yeah, that one's wicked. |
| 0:32.2 | Yeah, I think you're old enough now. |
| 0:33.4 | You can be Godfather, right? |
| 0:34.2 | True. |
| 0:34.6 | Yeah, and it not be like too offensive. |
| 0:36.7 | Yeah, yeah. Okay. Sam Reynolds? True. Yeah, and it not be like too offensive. Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:37.7 | Okay. |
| 0:38.2 | Sam Reynolds. Yay. Thanks everyone. Thanks for coming. Nice to be back on the poddy. Yeah, too right. You haven't been in this iteration, have you? I iteration. Of the studio. No, no, new studio. I went in the last one. This one's very nice too. Oh, we've both got our socks out. This gets really, this gets really bad press. |
| 0:57.7 | People don't like seeing our feet move. I've just noticed it. Like, it comes up in the comments and everything. Well, the reason I don't have shoes on is because I was being polite on the clean floor. Agreed. And I like to take my shoes off when I walk into someone's house. So I have done. That's the first reason. And the second reason why my foot's actually on the table is I've got a bit of an ankle injury at the moment. So it's resting up there. A raise position. Perfect segue, dude. That's absolutely incredible. Right. Can you explain to me what your day has been so far today and what it's going to be in the coming weeks just sort of before we move on to why your ankle is up on the table? |
| 1:36.5 | Okay. |
| 1:36.9 | Well, yeah, I'll explain as to why I'm not in South Africa right now because basically I've been out there the last for two weeks starting off the event the |
| 1:44.8 | build and getting things ready for Darkfest that's pretty intense two weeks so you very so |
| 1:51.6 | what happens you fly over what talk us through what it takes to because I guess people are |
| 1:57.6 | used to just seeing the highlight clips and it looks like the the jumps are, you know, there, a perfect condition. |
| 2:04.4 | Yeah. |
| 2:04.7 | And they're working fine, but a lot goes into that. |
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