Yeah Kayc,
Sweet pics, there are a few good ones of me in there, haha. Just by
trying to upload mine I understand how much work it is. Do you do them
one by one? If not how? How many medals did you end up with? Three?
Four?
It was the time of my life, seriously. I will definitely be there in
years to come. I won the intermediate trials which I was stoked about. I
got a medal, and a hat and a tire in the draw which someone else can
explain. I was the first in my class to do the box line and as far as I
know, (you had to jump into a box then out the other side), and the only
one to do the end to end car line I think. You pedal grabbed from a
small ramp onto the back of the trunk but the trunk was so slick it was
impossible to get a grip, everyone just kept sliding off, haha. If
anyone was wondering why I was hammering the car with my uni it was to
try and rough up the surface a little for grip, it didn't really work
though. I was amazed I got 65 cm in high jump, 2.5 cm short of my record
onto an object. It was my first time jumping a bar. I missed my first
two attempts at 70 on the first day of high jump and had to do my last
the next day which I missed horribly because I wasn't warmed up or in
the zone anymore. Long jump I got 150 cm in the comp but 155 afterwards,
I've never measured that kind of thing before so I don't know if that
was good for me or not. I was blown away in the UMX. First real time on
a 24, which I borrowed from a very nice guy (name?) that had the seat to
high for me. It was my first time in real snow too, and I kept trying to
put my weight on the pedals which was totally wrong, and I kept spinning
out. Didn't hear the results for that but I was last in the first round
heat. I got 360 uni-spins down, now working on 540's, 180'd a five set,
did nine backwards, and almost cleared a seven before almost taking out
an old man.
Some of the craziest things I saw would have been Zack's about 30",
pedal to pedal grab from the side of a spool to the four foot platform,
Ryan's near BC wheel plate grab to the trunk of the car, about 3 feet. I
never saw him land it but I saw him come close, plus it was right before
I was leaving so he could have made it after. He made the height with
ease. And finally in the best trick comp, Ryan's 6 foot drop to the
metal pole skinny, shattering the spool it was supported by. That was
nuts.
A couple of us went for a short ride outside the venue on a couple sets,
which was pretty sweet and then everyone came out and it was ok but not
as great. Next year we should plan for a street ride like out on the
town.
I met a lot of really cool people too. Brian, Mike, Justin, Owen,
Anthony (best accent I have ever heard), Kevin, Jess, Kaycee, Guillaume
(pronounced Giome), Ben, Phil, Angela, Carl, Sara, plus a host of
others.
Brock I got some vid of the higher part of the high jump, one of the
demo's (but it was a bad one, sloppy compared to the others), and almost
the entire Ryan Leech demo for my brother.
The highest in the high jump was Ryan with 92 cm, I believe, and Evan
there was like 10 different events/categories so it isn't a given who
won.
The batteries died in my camera so I only got like ten up and they are
mostly from the plane. But I got like a hundred to go.
Angela and Kaycee, can i put some of your photo's of me in my gallery? I
will credit you and put links to your respective galleries.
It was sweet,
David
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