Join us this week for another bonus episode of quick-fire questions with our guests! This week our question was: What is one thing you want to do for yourself this year?

Eliot will listen and comment on the answers of Martin Söderström, Hannah Barnes, Tomomi Nishikubo, Brooklyn Bell, Mylo Fowler, Scotty Laughland, Emil Johansson, and Kurt Sorge.

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Surprise! Even though we're in between seasons at the moment, we thought we'd be extra generous and bring you a BONUS episode this week.

We asked our guests the following quick-fire question: When you started riding bikes, what did you at first think was impossible that today feels easy?

Eliot will dissect the answers of Martin Söderström, Hannah Barnes, Tomomi Nishikubo, Brooklyn Bell, Mylo Fowler, Scotty Laughland, Emil Johansson and Kurt Sorge.

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We’re ending the first season of You Inspire Us with one of Slopestyle’s greatest: Emil Johansson.

This MTB superstar just keeps racking up titles. In this past year alone Emil has had a perfect season, winning all four Crankworx stops and claiming his fourth world championship title. His current 13 wins makes him the most successful Slopestyle champion in the history of the sport.

In this episode, Emil explains what drew him to Slopestyle to begin with. He also talks about his return to Red Bull Rampage this year, what goes into mastering a new trick, and what motivates him to be the best in the game.

Yes, this is the last episode of the season, but we’ll be back soon for a whole new edition focused on the great outdoors! Make sure you subscribe so that it rolls directly into your feed.

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This episode was hosted by Eliot Jackson and produced by Saga Ringmar. Cover art is by Martin Bergström and music is written and performed by KlubbN. Audio and video was recorded by Adventure Production. Special thanks to our executive producer Tina Liselius.

This week we’re speaking to Kurt Sorge, one of the greatest freeride mountain bikers of all time.

Kurt is a three-time winner of Red Bull Rampage and has filmed iconic videos in some of the world's most stunning and remote places. He is also one of the founders of the Fest Series, a series of freeride MTB events organized by riders themselves.

In this episode, Kurt explains how he got into mtb, what it feels like to win Red Bull Rampage, the motivation for the Fest Series, and much more!

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Brooklyn Bell is truly a Jill of all trades. Not only is she a mountain biker and a professional big mountain skier, but Brooklyn also works as a graphic designer with a knack for storytelling.

Brooklyn uses her art to raise awareness of the importance of diversity in outdoor sports. In this episode, Eliot and Brooklyn talk about how Brooklyn got into mountain biking and how she creates alter egos to feel more confident in extreme sports – a world with very few black and brown role models.

They’ll also get into the nuts and bolts of a good brand partnership, and discuss why Bellingham Washington is one of the best places in the world to bike.

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This episode was hosted by Eliot Jackson and produced by Saga Ringmar. Cover art is by Martin Bergström and music is written and performed by KlubbN. Special thanks to our executive producer Tina Liselius.

As a mountain biker, Scotty got his start racing the Downhill World Cups and the Enduro World Series. He then transitioned to a career as a presenter for the Global Mountain Bike Network where he created more than 400 daily videos that racked up over 40 million views.

Today, Scotty divides his time as a professional athlete and a content creator. Tune in to hear Scotty's tips for getting the best videos, his most epic riding memories, and lots more!

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This episode was hosted by Eliot Jackson and produced by Saga Ringmar. Cover art is by Martin Bergström and music is written and performed by KlubbN. Audio and video was recorded by Adventure Production. Special thanks to our executive producer Tina Liselius.

Mylo Fowler is a Navajo photographer who has shot for the National Geographic, Adobe Lightroom, Nike, and more. His interest in photography started while working at a tourist shop in Northern Arizona. There he saw photographers struggling to capture the local canyons because of the low light, and made it his mission to capture the beauty of his Navajo land.

In recent years, Mylo has been combining his love for photography with his love for mountain biking to raise money and install solar kits in indigenous homes without electricity. One of those projects was a bike packing journey over 400 miles from Utah to his homestead in Arizona to raise $50k to power more homes.

Mylo’s journey from photography to philanthropy, and his way of viewing nature and community is sure to inspire you!  

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This episode was hosted by Eliot Jackson and produced by Saga Ringmar. Cover art is by Martin Bergström and music is written and performed by KlubbN. Audio and video was recorded by Adventure Production. Special thanks to our executive producer Tina Liselius.

If there is one person who's not afraid of adventure, it’s Hannah Barnes. Not many people can say that they sailed a boat themselves from the UK to Norway at the age of 15, or biked down a glacier at the Megavalanche MTB race.

After getting on a mountain bike for the first time as a teenager, cycling has become one of Hannah’s sports of choice — among many others.

In this riveting conversation, Hannah will tell anecdotes that take us from a mud hut in Lusutu drinking Chai, to an MTB trail 4,200 meters up in the mountains of Colombia. Eliot tries to get to the bottom of what fuels Hannah’s passion for adventure, and what happens when an adventure goes wrong.

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This episode was hosted by Eliot Jackson and produced by Saga Ringmar. Cover art is by Martin Bergström and music is written and performed by KlubbN. Special thanks to our executive producer Tina Liselius.

Tomomi Nishikubo doesn’t shy away from a world-first trick. This might be why over the past couple of years, Tomomi’s biggest video projects have racked up over 13 million views.

Initially starting out in motocross at the age of five, Tomomi soon moved on to riding trials. After becoming Japanese Trials Champion twice in 2016 and 2017, he decided to focus on producing his riding videos full time.

In this episode, Eliot tries to figure out how Tomomi creates his popular videos, which cities have inspired his riding the most, and what it feels like to ride for big sponsors like Red Bull alongside heroes like Danny MacAskill.  

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This episode was hosted by Eliot Jackson and produced by Saga Ringmar. Cover art is by Martin Bergström and music is written and performed by KlubbN. Audio and video was recorded by Adventure Production. Special thanks to our executive producer Tina Liselius.

Have a listen to our first ever episode, which was live streamed from Crankworx in Innsbruck, Austria. Eliot speaks to Martin Söderström, freeride MTB legend who started out right when the slopestyle scene was just getting started.

This episode was recorded right after Emil Johansson’s record-breaking 12th Crankworx slopestyle win – Martin and Eliot will break down why his run was so epic.

Not only that, but Martin will also go more in-depth into how he started riding bikes and what it was like to first start racing. He’ll also get candid about the toll all the pressure of competing took on his mental health and how he worked to overcome that.

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