“The ’something’ is typically a ludicrous concoction of ideas, and then me and Joe to pick up the inevitable pile of spaff left behind in the wake of its inception. We then have to make the ‘something’ a reality.”

“Watching [freerunner] Chase Armitage do a handstand on a guardrail on the edge of a building five stories up was pretty nail biting,” says Ollie “You can’t get that stuff wrong. One false move and he would have plummeted to his death.”

“Also when Joe Rackley released himself from the Zipline as he was sliding down so he was just holding on by his hand 200ft above the water. That was pretty crazy too,” says Tim.

True Bromance

If the whole thing sounds mostly like a bunch of mates pissing about, that’s probably because it largely is. “Yeah we were just mates dicking about,” says Ollie. “It just so happened to be made into a TV show. I mean Tim and Gendle are BFF’s anyway but it didn’t take that long before all of us got to know each other.”

Each of the four brought their own strengths: “Tim has this puppy like energy and enthusiasm,” explains Ollie. “If you can’t be bothered, he can normally make you feel bothered again. And Gendle, I’ve never seen anybody pay so much attention to how stupid they can look. He’s an absolute pro.”

“Despite having hands bigger than most people’s front door, he has the dexterity of a seamstress.”

“Then there’s Joe. Despite having hands bigger than most people’s front door, he has the dexterity of a seamstress.” Rackley, who builds jumps for events like Freeze and makes his own drift trikes in his spare time, was the engineer behind many of the more mental set-ups.

He also brought a straight-talking wit to the crew. “One of the first things he said to me was that I looked like a cross between Anthony Worrall-Thompson and Warwick Davis,” says Ollie. “His humour is, well… offensive I suppose is how you’d describe it. He normally says what we’d would all like to say, it’s just most of us have a social conscious that stops us.”

“Joe, doesn’t, and I love that.”

It wasn’t always fun and games of course. “There were highs and lows,” admits Ollie. “All the episodes were hard,” says Tim. And as is always the case with TV shoots, everyone was working long hours on set. But it all four of the main men agree that the final outcome was well, well worth it.

“I was involved right at the birth of this thing and can’t believe what it turned into,” says Joe. “Me and Gendo and Ollie and Joe really got on,” says Tim, while Gendle adds: “The whole crew had become a bit of a family by the end of it.”

And really, what could be better than spending a summer messing about with your mates? As Ollie puts it: “There was never a dull moment. I mean, how can you not enjoy going down white water rapids in a kids paddling pool, skidding around on electric drift machines in an abandoned warehouse or riding around on a banana boat with Billy Morgan doing backflips onto your head?”

Watch the first episode of The Indestructibles, ‘Bouncing Bombs’, This Sunday (8th November) on Dave.

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