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- [Host] Whoa!
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- So, normally when we come to Whistler and we make a video
we end up riding with our bags on
and our cameras, all over the mountain
and we thought maybe we're spreading ourselves
a little too thin.
So, for this year's closing weekend
we want to focus on just one trail.
And we have chosen Dirt Merchant
- [In Unison] Dirt merch.
- [Host] Is it Whistler's favorite trail?
Is it the world's most famous Pro Line?
- (overlapping) Is it better than A-Line
- Oh, double jinx
- Again.
- I would say it's my favorite trail.
Yeah. We're gonna go
down this trail all day and feature by feature.
Master it.
All right.
So we are here at the very first section of Dirt Merchant.
It starts with a squirrel catcher, which is
usually like a difficult stunt
at the beginning of the trail
to deter people who are inexperienced
from riding the rest of the trail.
But it's about three feet.
- It was six earlier
(laughs)
- Three feet.
I think if you're going at speed, it's six feet
but it is not ideal conditions out here.
We then immediately take a left hander
- Into the chunk through the bomb holes.
- And we hit a sharkfin.
- [Matt] So the squirrel catcher, left hander, shark fin.
First step up.
Alrighty, let's try it.
- Whew.
(All In by Konata Small Plays)
♪ I'm all in ♪
♪ All in ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah ♪
♪ I'm all in ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ I'm all in ♪
♪ All in ♪
♪ I'm all in ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ I'm all in ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ I'm all in ♪
♪ I'm all in, yeah ♪
♪ I'm all in, all in, all in ♪
- This step up, might be
one of my favorite jumps on the mountain.
You can take it as left as you can to hip it.
Or you can just go straight
so you can get sendy on this one.
♪ Even now I'm here, looking at you. ♪
♪ You looking at me like ♪
♪ Hey. Hey ♪
♪ Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay ♪
- Joining the session?
- Joining the sesh
- Plan is to ride some bicycles on some mounds of dirt
and possibly take flight.
- [Matt] What's the plan over here?
- We all gonna stack the footy.
That's what we do, baby.
(All In by Konata Smalls Plays)
♪ Hey, I'm all in ♪
♪ Every morning, this is a calling ♪
♪ I put my heart in, yeah ♪
- Well, this, yeah.
Well I don't know about now
but this is definitely my favorite jump in like 2015.
- [Matt] What do you mean right now?
- In 2015
(all laugh)
- [Matt] What?
- No, it just felt really good back in the day.
It was like, Oh, I can like session this all day.
I actually like spent like half an hour
with Jason trying to get one shot.
- [Matt] Okay, Kaz, you get one try.
It's 1:40
We only have three hours of bike light left.
- Lets go.
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♪ This is me ♪
♪ I'm 100 with you ♪
♪ And that's how I keep it in the streets ♪
♪ On the daily I be grinding ♪
- All right, next section.
We got a step down, into a big table.
Into another step up.
♪ Yeah. ♪
♪ 'Cause there no such things as halfway crooks ♪
♪ I don't even know how half way looks ♪
♪ I do everything to the fullest and hit like a bullet ♪
♪ No wonder ya mans stay shook ♪
♪ 'Cause I gotta to make it, it's mine for the taking ♪
♪ The timing is perfect, there ain't no debating ♪
♪ I'm showin' em greatness, yeah ♪
- Woo
- Yes.
That's why I'm here, baby.
- Well, you should go throw it down for us right now
(All in by Konata Small Plays)
♪ Hey, I'm all in ♪
♪ Every mornin', this is a calling ♪
♪ I put my heart in, yeah ♪
♪ Hey, I'm all in ♪
♪ You see the performance ♪
♪ You see me ballin', better record it, yeah ♪
♪ Hey, I'm all in ♪
♪ I'm on my way ♪
♪ I'm all in ♪
♪ I wanna be great ♪
♪ I'm all in ♪
♪ All in ♪
♪ Yeah, I'm all in ♪
♪ Whatever it takes ♪
♪ I'm all in ♪
- Oh
- [Kaz] What the hell?
- Woo
- Ah
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- [Hailey] No way!
- [Ollie] Oh my God.
- Watch out.
- [Ollie] (laughs) Oh my God.
- [Kaz] Oh my God.
Well, Hailey's crank arm just fell off her bike.
So that was a short-lived session.
Seems like the mechanic
over tightened the crank or something.
But nonetheless, it's just me now.
The boys are shooting me.
I'm gonna go try to click my one foot table.
Wish me luck.
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- It's the best trail in the bike park.
- [Matt] Oh yes it is.
- Yes.
(whoops)
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♪ Just livin day to day ♪
♪ Actin like the sky is not gray ♪
- [Host] Yep, Kaz, you wanna show how the normies do it
and then Ollie will show how the freaks do it.
We got the norm core and the hardcore.
(cheers)
(laughs)
- Aye aye captain!
(upbeat alt-pop)
♪ Nothing really feels the same ♪
♪ Am I just crazy ♪
♪ I'm going crazy ♪
(upbeat alt-pop)
- Well, he's had two chances and he's cased both times.
(laughs)
- He's blaming it on you Kaz.
- No I asked him
- Oh, okay. Okay. He blamed it on you the first time.
Now he's blaming himself for the second time.
So we're gonna give him a solo lap.
Alright pressures on buddy.
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♪ Actin' like the sky is not gray ♪
♪ Just another cliche. ♪
- [Matt] 3:19, we got a little less of two hours,
- Yeah, we're almost done,
the first section of Dirt Merchant.
But yeah, there's a whole second half
and it's the pro line. So.
(whoops)
- You guys just wanna go to the drop and hip?
- [Matt] Okie doke.
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♪ But everybodies got all day ♪
♪ (upbeat alt-pop) ♪
(yelling)
(upbeat alt-pop)
- All right, welcome to the pro line.
This is the first three jumps
and there's just something about that first jump there.
It's like a little too long.
You end up casing it and then there's
kind of like a step up here that
you tend to case that too.
Let's see what happens.
Yeah, people just kind of kind of give up in this zone.
- Hey. Why'd you give up man?
Oh, we are just live here on IFHT, I can't think past
- [Matt] Why didn't you do the The drop or the jumps?
- Oh, because I just run out of skill, man.
I don't know.
- [Matt] No, be honest, be honest.
- Big, that huge burm is just (beep),
I almost went over the bars
trying to hit it full speed the other day
and since then I've just been
braking and cruising this section.
Just hard work man.
- [Matt] It is very hard work.
- So much work.
- So we're gonna pass it and we're gonna move straight ahead
to the step up, step down thing-a-ma-bob
you wanna show us how that's done?
- I can go to. Yeah, I can do something mad.
- Well that was Tom Bunney,
designer of a few Mahalo My Dude t-shirts,
get yours at mahalomydude.com.
Tom's a super talented artist, and a talented bike rider.
So he's gonna show us how it's done.
So you skip between the two.
Jump over, land on the large transition there.
All right, Tom.
(screams)
- What a psycho.
- Well, when you're an artist as talented as Tom
you're a little psycho, that's for sure.
- I've not met Tom.
Hi Tom.
- That's how you do it.
So if you scream, you go farther.
Generally that's what happens in mountain biking.
Louder you are, the further you go.
- [Matt] 4:04, we got one more hour
and this is the part of the day
I've been looking forward to.
Welcome to the big old drop.
- This is not the biggest though.
- [Matt] Yeah, the second one's bigger?
- [In Unison] Yeah.
- [Matt] Christina just measured it out
and it's about 6 billion feet long and 24 feet high.
Those are official measure measurements
- Here at the base with a big drop
someone has taken the time to put in some stairs for us,
so we can get straight to the top.
- [Matt] You wanna hit it?
- Yeah, I'll hit it.
♪ Slow it down, ain't gonna stop me ♪
♪ Can you hear the sound ♪
♪ I've got my own beat ♪
♪ My own beat ♪
- 1, 2, 3
♪ It's very easy ♪
♪ 1, 2, 3 ♪
♪ It's very easy ♪
♪ Easy, 1, 2, 3 ♪
♪ 1, 2, 3, It's very easy ♪
♪ Easy, 1, 2, 3 ♪
♪ It's not easy ♪
♪ 1, 2, 3, ♪
♪ It's not easy ♪
♪ 1, 2, 3 ♪
♪ It's not easy ♪
♪ 1, 2, 3, It's not easy ♪
♪ Easy, 1, 2, 3 ♪
♪ It's not easy, 1, 2, 3 ♪
♪ It's not easy, easy ♪
- Closing time.
That's it.
That's a wrap for the Whistler Bike Park for me.
It's only Friday, but I'm outta here.
- Ready?
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(whoops)
- I'm tuckered on that.
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