They say Red Bull Rampage is gnarly, and they’ve got the Red Bull Rampage crash reel to prove it, but there are somethings you can only truly believe when you watch them unfold in real time.

In practise for Rampage, the finals of which start at 5.30pm UK time on 16 October, today, American slopestyle star and freerider Nicholi Rogatkin, the cash roll king, took what is being called the most brutal crash in the history of Red Bull Rampage. And any fan of mountain biking will know that there have been more than a few nasty bails.

On his first practise run, Rogatkin had just finished a techy section and was preparing for a huge drop, when his front wheel skidded and he was thrown over the edge of a cliff. He smacks off a rocky patch and tumbles what must have been between 20-30ft down to the floor below. But what happens next is even more amazing…