Grind MX 5 " Marianne Brodeur Edition"

In a room labeled as Nitro Circus Crew in the BELL CENTER backstage,
Jarryd McNeil is waiting alone for the press to come to give an interview.
Will join us shortly after Blake (Bilko) Williams, to make us laugh
out of our lungs with his eternal jokes, and the triple backflip star Josh
Sheehan. The interview starts with a joke from Jarryd, and will continue
within the same funny spirit with those three freestylers. Meeting with the
simplicity, the talented and the
generosity in one room.
Thank you Nitro Circus, thank you guys for your precious time.
JMN: Are you nervous to the show (laughs)?
It is a pretty wild show, there will be a lot of stunts going down, a lot of
crazy interactions and people flying everywhere in each direction.
GMX: Jarryd Mc Neil, you are a freestyle athlete. Did you ever have a
fear that kept you from doing something?
JMN: My biggest fear for a while was doing the back flip, it took me a
long time to land it. Mentally, like, it’s one thing from doing it in the foam
pit and taking it to dirt is another step. It took me a couple of years to
finally get my head around the difference between the foam pit and the
dirt.
GMX: Josh Sheehan, Robbie Madison, Jarryd Mc Neil, Bilko, Ryan Williams.
What do you eat in the morning, you Australian guys, to be that
crazy and so talented?
Bilko (who has arrived and who’s making fun of Jarryd in his back): We
eat vegemotes (laughs )! It is disgusting.
JMN: I would say coming from Australia, obviously it is not a small
country, but the action sport industry there is somewhat small, because
of the population of Australia being small. I think when we watch on TV
like ESPN and whatnot you see Americers being like the center of action
sports. So, for us, watching TV, growing up, we want to be like that, so
we have goals where to get to the big stage, to get to America. All of
action sports, we just dream of being in America to the competitions and
events. That is what drives us, Australian guys, to get there.
Bilko: Yeahhhhh!
GMX: What do you think about the evolution of Freestyle?
JMN: The front flips are becoming pretty standards, a few guys are doing
them. I would say the triple back flip is a one wonder trick for the moment.
Who knows, maybe in a few years Tom (Pagès) or someone else
will step up and do it, maybe not. I guess what people are back to is the
Evel Knievel stuff. That stuff is like the world record distance jump, that
obviously keeps getting beaten every year. But when you start talking
about back flip, it is like life or death, on the stance you know. The front
flip and the little variations are pretty cool, like Tom Pages does with the
Bike Flip, where he flips the bike but the body stays right. Variations
are innovating the sport, with the 540 Alley-oops Flair for example. The
body varials too are becoming more popular with the guys. Those tricks
are somewhat safe and people can do them on a daily basis, where is
you start talking triple back flip that is like all another aera, that is Evel
Knievel stuff. Stuff that is meant to be filmed on TV and you know that if
something goes wrong with that kind of trick... There is no safe way really
about it. Obviously for Josh they took the right precautions to make it as
safe as they possiby could. They did a lot of airbag practise, and then
a landing ramp that had an airbag on it but when it came down to the
wood landing that’s pretty life or death.
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