DARKFEST 2024 – Official Highlights

Big Air Ahoy! Prepare to be shipwrecked with all your favourite Freeriders off the coast of South Africa in the official Darkfest 2024 highlights edit. Relive the jaw-dropping, NBD sends, getting all the behind-the-scenes commentary from the world’s gnarliest freeride mountain bikers.
The 2024 edition’s heavy line-up delivers 23 solid minutes of the most technically progressive mountain biking ever seen by glassy eyes, along with a fistful of savage slams that can be felt through the screen.

Featuring riding & antics from: Sam Reynolds, Clemens Kaudela, Adolf Silva, Sam Hodgson, Tom Isted, Brendan Fairclough, Nicholi Rogatkin, Theo Erlangsen, Graham Agassiz, Matt Macduff, Paul Couderc, Kaos Seagrave, Daniel Ruso, Elias Ruso, Bienve Aguado, Kurtis Downs, Szymon Godziek, Dawid Godziek, Matt Jones, Lukas Schafer, Johny Salido, Carson Storch, Dan Paley, Talus Turk, Dylan Stark, Andrew Neethling, Jack Schliemann, Vaea Verbeeck, Chelsea Kimball, Robin Goomes, Vero Sandler, Harriet Burbidge-Smith, Vinny Armstrong & Gemma Corbera.

Filmed and edited Aspect Media.

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Rider Sections

00:00 – Intro
00:56 – Adolf Silva
01:24 – Dan Paley
02:00 – Tom Isted
02:37 – Carson Storch
03:31 – Haircuts
03:54 – Vaea Verbeeck
04:38 – Robin Goomes
05:43 – Harriet Burbidge-Smith
06:01 – Matt Macduff
06:44 – Paul Couderc
07:15 – Matt Jones
07:46 – Dylan Stark
08:57 – Talus Turk
09:22 – Kurtis Downs
09:59 – Lukas Schafer
10:37 – Nicholi Rogatkin
11:34 – Graham Agassiz
11:52 – Kaos Seagrave
12:34 – Brendan Fairclough
13:01 – Dawid Godziek
13:08 – Szymon Godziek
13:29 – Theo Erlangsen
13:58 – Jack Schliemann
14:27 – Vinny Armstrong
14:45 – Gemma Corbera
14:55 – Chelsea Kimball
15:51 – Billy Meaclem
16:32 – Bienve Aguado
17:21 – Kurt Sorge
17:50 – Sam Hodgson
18:37 – Johny Salido
19:13 – Daniel Ruso & Elias Ruso
20:59 – Credits

Ow, ow, O my god! ow, ow, ow! Ho! Big air! Ahoy! Big Air Ahoy! Big air ahoy! Big air! So clean! not really. Ever experienced anything like this? The lips are huge yeah Thomas. There was just a quick rumor cicling that Isted might hit the one ten, he flipped it first go.

That was irresponsible. At what point did you decide to flip it really? Quite late, about there. by far the craziest guy I’ve ever. It was very tough. We do it. Yeah, You good, you good. I don’t know. I don’t know. Are you ok? . I’m fine.

And I just feel so bad for Carson following me. So I think he would have actually got into landing after watching the videos. But because I jumped off, he jumped off. He was at least, like, five feet higher than me. So at least you would have got to the case pad At least.

It’s weirdly windy here now in the course, but the 90 felt like it was calmer this morning. So I just thought if there’s going to be a time it’s not perfect. Yeah it went well it was sick Yeah, it feels really good. But like going into it is stressful.

This dawn wall coming at you, my God. So good to have Two tyres down on that thing. The first. my. big air arghhh. These guys are crazy, craziest guys in the world over here. No. Wind Today. It’s going to go of. Going to have to buy a wheel. Sick as fuck .

Cant wait for the seat. First one on dirt. Yo, yo. That is, like, easily the biggest 180 ever done in a mountain bike. And it’s so gnarly. It’s like you don’t even know if it’s possible. Is That’s how gnarly it is.

Like there’s only one guy in the world who could do that, and it’s fucking Dylan Stark. You don’t break the other one. I missed this point. But how blind, how? It’s insane just to be here with all all the dudes, just with the whole crew. And the jumps are insane. For real.

It’s like the stoke is high, for sure. It’s dark, fest is wilder than ever this year. And I got the hard tail with me. And the speeds here at Dark Fest are just, like, incomparable to anything else. we ride, really. So I want to bring the hardtail for me to just feel

That speed on this small bike and do some moves on this step up. It feels outrageous. I’ve got the flip, but I prefer cashing this jump than jumping it straight. The train feels glorious right now. I don’t know that that scared me off the start, but it felt kind of money.

Wow. Damn hell yeah. I’m hyped. Matt should you. no, no. You fucking beast look, you ain’t gonna want that was bad ass. Stoked. We haven’t had many good evenings. So I had to send. Yes. yeah. Fortunately, I cannot wear my pads. Yeah. Because of the cut that I have on my knee.

Chilling on the jumps, trying to not to crash big trains going down. it’s an honor. Everything was better back in the days, man. I fucking got this. Got this. my God. O God. Ah!. Yeah, It’s ridiculous. You off the lip. You got, like, so much time to think about it.

And like the scale of the lips make no sense. You sit on them for so long, like, are we trying the 110 but The conditions are not easy, but we’re on it. Good morning. Big air for breakfast. Yeah. my God. my God. I’m good. Yeah, That was a savage.

Thats going to sting in the bath. Hogey is the strongest man in the universe. What’s up, boys? No problem. Yo, yo, yo, yo, little stiff air, nah nah And I’ve. Come on right here. Let’s go. Huge crash. Yeah, I mean, we tried. I think if I would have stayed on,

I could have rolled it around on. But I *Censored* Sorry, guys, Danny he unfortunately crashed behind me too. we’re all good. Nothing happened. Rip the jersey a little bit, but the rest is fine. You have to pull so hard of that lip. That’s a huge one. We will get it another time?

Ah dude I compressed my chest so much. Savage. For the vero nutty P Sandler for the best whip, he’s not actually here. But Dan Paley everyone, ladies the spank best whip yet again Vinnie Armstrong. The mind bender best trick for the boys to the point where I don’t even know what it was.

It was Kurtis Downs. The ladies mind bender best trick by Kenda and the best moment is Robin and Haz with a flip train on the step up. For the boys. I mean, testing the jump is one thing and back flipping it is another its Tom Isted. The gopro best run this year,

A clean sweep everyone voted the Bimba. Yeah, the Queen of darkness 20 who actually says 23 on the thingy. But we mean 24, Its Vaea. Actually, a bit of a weird one because the king is not even here. Everyone is Elias Ruso. Yeah.