Vero Sandler on injuries, fresh motivations, Monster Energy and building backyard dreams
The Ride Companion
TRC Media House
4.9 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2023
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Vero Sandler is one of the worlds leading female freeriders who has literally carved her own path in the sport. On this episode of The Ride Companion Vero joins Olly and Davi in studio to talk about her current injury, how her riding motivations have changed since quitting racing, trick progression, her back yard build project, signing for monster energy, advice for your girls and much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah, it's a bit of a sad story, really, with formation, because it's such an amazing event. |
| 0:04.9 | It's so important. |
| 0:05.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:06.2 | Like, really helped to grow the women's free ride scene. |
| 0:10.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:11.0 | And there's just a bit of a mash-up with the people organizing Red Bull Rampage and promises being made, being broken, which unfortunately resulted in |
| 0:21.8 | no women's category at Rampage and no formation this year, which was pretty shitty. |
| 0:28.0 | But I think there's been a lot kickoff about it. |
| 0:31.1 | Okay. |
| 0:31.3 | So I would hope. |
| 0:32.3 | Yeah, there's definitely a movement, right? |
| 0:32.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:33.2 | So I would very much hope that that will spur them to get this shit together. |
| 0:46.0 | Okay. So I would very much hope that that will spur them to get their shit together. In fact, we're recording now. |
| 0:47.9 | Welcome to the show, Vero. |
| 0:50.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:51.4 | That's good, isn't it? |
| 0:52.2 | You haven't really told me how to use this. |
| 0:54.1 | I did off air. Don't do it, isn't really told me how to use this. I did off air. |
| 0:56.2 | Don't do it, don't do it. |
| 0:58.7 | Yeah, so if it stays like that far away, it's pretty good. |
| 1:01.8 | Yeah, it's nice like that. |
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