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500 Tries for One Trick – Fabio Wibmer

September 21, 2026 · 1 h 6 min

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What does it take to try the same trick 500 times — knowing that the next one could still go wrong?

Fabio Wibmer has built a career doing things on a bike that most of us wouldn't even attempt on two feet. His videos have reached hundreds of millions of people, but behind the viral clips is an obsessive process of repetition, visualization and calculated risk.

In this episode of Going Mental, Jan Frodeno sits down with Fabio to understand what actually happens before he commits to a trick where there is no room for error.

Fabio talks about fear, why visualization can make a stunt feel like he's already done it and the moment when he has to switch off doubt and go all in.

They also get into his "trial and error" philosophy, growing up in a tiny Austrian village, being inspired by Danny MacAskill, dealing with perfectionism and the pressure of creating for an algorithm that constantly demands more.

And Fabio explains why, despite more than a billion views and increasingly ambitious projects, the feeling he's chasing is still the same one he had as a kid jumping his first homemade ramp.


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