In winter 2002 Sprung 5 was released, a bit late because the wheels had come off due to distribution issues and we soon called it a day for Sprung. Alex Rankin, 25 at the time and Co-Founder of Sprung spent the summer being a BMX and MTB bum traveling around Europe shooting for various clients, at the same time Dirt Magazine publishers 4130 were expanding due to a general feeling of success and optimism not least brought about by their enthusiastic advertising manager Tim March, who encouraged Mark, Chris and Barbra Noble to give Alex a role producing some new films, the first MTB film was this "Earthed". released in November 2003 it showed the travels of Alex Rankin and his lens focused on the worlds best DH and MTB racers, follow @alex_rankin on insta for more stories and updates relating to Earthed and @SprungVid on YouTube for those earlier films in full. this version has three Muted songs due to copyright blocking, the Dammed Neat Neat Neat on the No Clips BMX section, ACDC Back in black on Vermont and Big Bill Broozney on one of the intros, please play those sections with the right tune or just enjoy the footage.