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from the editor
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Ups and Downs
Last month we were awarded a place in
the 2018 Fast Track 100 – not bad for a
company who started out trading from
the back of a van! But at the same time,
we’re facing a lot of challenges if we
want to keep up that sort of progress.
Unluckily for me, being a parent doesn’t
come with allowances for hectic spells
at work – cue plenty of lost sleep and
stress…
Faced with pretty much any kind of
adversity I always come back to one
concept: you will get knocked down in
life, but you come back throwing harder.
It’s an approach that’s served us well
over the last 14 years, and one that’s
pretty familiar to the people we spoke
to in this issue.
Whatever sport you go for, if you decide
to dedicate your life to getting to the
top of the pile, you’ll need to be able
to overcome injuries, doubt and your
competition. In action-sports especially,
anyone who achieved anything did
so after failures. And whether that’s a
missed landing, broken leg or a bruised
ego, what sets those people apart are
the lessons they’re able to take.
We’ve told a lot of those stories in the
four years we’ve now been putting
out FsX Magazine, and this issue’s no
exception.
We hear from FMX god, Adam Jones,
who throws tricks like no one else - with
finesse and extension you wouldn’t
believe. AMA & MXGP superstar, Ben
Townley, who has done it all over the
world and beat the best of the best. Ski
superstar and Double Olympic Gold
Medallist, David Wise, who has had
major dark times but came through to
triumph.
If that wasn’t enough, we hung out
with the DC snow team in their Méribel
chalet - cue Après Ski! Michael
Laverty also checked in with English
WSBK rider Leon Camier. We spoke
to downhiller Charlie Hatton, plus our
usual ‘5 minutes with...’ interviews and
a look at etnies’ new skate film. Sit
back and enjoy!
Ben Richardson
Editor
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018 is proving to be a pretty
interesting year so far. In the
blink of an eye almost half
of it has passed - and as is
traditional in business, sports and life in
general, it’s brought triumphs and trials
equal measure.