High Stakes | movie | 2021 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Extreme sports bring with them great highs, but when things go wrong, the results can be devastating.  This documentary  | dG1fc1M4VEFkbnlGbEU

Transcript

00:00 Mountain biking can get under your skin.

00:03 It's like the best job ever.

00:05 It's fast, unpredictable.

00:07 He was a contortionist on a bike, that was what scored the point.

00:11 Requires skill and fearlessness.

00:14 He was and is a star.

00:16 Like any extreme sport, making it to the top is tough.

00:19 I live and breathe mountain biking.

00:21 But the pressure of staying at the top is tougher.

00:24 I just felt like I got shot with a shotgun and the pain was insane.

00:29 I honestly think that riding mountain bikes is probably the best job you could probably have.

00:38 The only riders you knew about were the ones in the movies and he was one of very, very few mountain bike superstars.

00:43 First ever photo shoot ever, ended up back in the front cover.

00:47 He was travelling the world, doing exactly what he did to me, beating people.

00:53 The godfather of British Slope style and dirt jump scenes, Chopper had a rep for riding hard.

00:59 I remember him saying, "I'm dying, I feel like someone's eating me."

01:03 I genuinely did make the call to my parents and said my farewells.

01:07 And that was definitely the toughest time of my life.

01:11 Very few think about, "Well, what happens when I stop?" when they're in the middle of the career, because that's not what's important to them.

01:18 I felt like I was worthless without a bike.

01:21 To start looking around for help and support, it just doesn't come naturally.

01:25 That's the first time I've done a truck for about two years. I'll take that.

01:30 Getting back on a bike doesn't fix the problem. Learning to live in a different way takes a long time.

01:36 It's almost like I needed to go off the rails in order to find myself again.

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01:48 (dramatic music)

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