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| Special update for J-rod | ||
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| SX coming up | ||
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I had a rough month...my race in penrith wasnt verry good. I still made semi final but my gate wasnt like it was before. so I pretty much spended a whole month training and really focussing on getting everything back on track. It working alright at the moment...my gate is probably better then it was at start of the season and my sprints are getting faster so nothing to complain about. I rode a fair bit of trails as well the last 3 weeks. We fixed up a big set close to where im staying. We are having two 9m jumps and one 11m one all in one six pack witch is pretty sweet. squit scary if you try to hit it as fast as you can haha :) but yeah gotta hit it fast at the SX to i guess. besides all the training it really relaxed...I'll be happy to go home after the sx and catch up with everybody and what not. |
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| Nike photoshoot | ||
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I just got back from a Nike photoshoot in Melbourne...I just flew over from adelaide for 2days. I must admit this photoshoot was awsome just the people I worked with where awsome and the pictures turned out great aswell. Well about my trip it all started at 5am in adelaide where I left at sams house to go to the airport. I got into Melbourne at 8am and waited for some Nike people because they arrived with the same time but in the international terminal. They picked me up and we left to the hotel. We got there and I was pretty impressed lol...this is probably the most flash place i ever stayed in haha. I had a playstation in my room the gym was like the biggest gym i have ever seen, it even had a recovery section with a hot cold pool and a tennis court inside the hotel. After a few hours i found out it was actually the olympic hotel nex to rod laver arena where they play the Australian open so yeah now it made sense why the gym was so big and they had that tennis court. After checking out everything I had a lil sleep untill 10am and went for my gym session. In the afternoon I had to go to the production people to have a meeting about what was gonna happen on the shooting. Finshed that and it was diner time so we went to china town and got some chinese. Finished a nice diner went back to the hotel and had an early night. today was the big shooting day...I got up at 6am because I had some training to do as well. I finished my training and we drove out to knoxx bmx track for the shoot. We got there and the whole production crew was there already setting up and insane amount of lights and cameras lol just to get the perfect shot. Everything was set up and it was my time to get in the picture hehe. We started of with a picture in the turn. Well it might sound easy but they wanted the picture to be really perfect so I ended up doing at least 150 runs trough the turn ( yes DEEP burn!  ). Well I must admit the picture came out super nice. I had lunch and a lil brake during that the whole crew was moving all the equipment to the second jump for a jump shot. When they where still setting up I did my Video shoot aswell, it some kind of promotional video for Nike. This was pretty funny aswell as I kept forgetting my lines and kept forgetting what i answered lool. its around 4pm now and everything is ready to get the jumping shot...this wasnt verry easy as it was so freakin' windy out there hehe. I got loose a couple of times lol but the picture came out good. Not really the way I wanted it to be because you couldnt really jump properly with the wind but I guess thats alrigth. We where finished and I went straight back to the hotel to pack my bike and have a sleep because I had my flight at 6 am in the morning. CLICK READ MORE FOR PICS |
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| UCI new zealand | ||
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I just got back from New Zealand. We had 2 UCI rounds in north harbour. I didnt look verry good when we walked out of the airport all grey closed and it was cold. It turned out good for the weekend and the tack was awsome aswell. Just the gate was freakin' gay haha. It was way to slow and pretty much every elite flipped it. So did I and my gate was not verry flash in the end, I was more crap then good. I still did alright in my racing on saturday I got a 2nd 3rd and 2nd in my motos and made it into the semi finals. but then in my semi I totally smashed the gate and pretty much flipped the gate again. I went from last back into fift but on the prosection i got pushed to the side and hadd to jump in the grass. It was a bummer i didnt make the main but I just focused on the nex day. The next day started good I got a 3rd 3rd and 1st in my motos. My gates where better then the day before but then in the semi I snapped awsome and was next to willer and kama. Over the first jump kama clipped out and got loose and pretty much took me out. So yeah my race was over and just watched every body else. after the race we had like a whole day off and went for some luge witch turned out in a nuts bumper car race down a hill. I was so much fun but it got pretty late and everybody was hungry and we went back to the hotel. We had some food and just messed around and gave sam a really sweet wedgie lol. then we tried to test how meany people we could get into a queen size bed haha and after that it was like 1 am and as we had to leave at 5am in the morning time for bed. CLICK READ MORE FOR PICS AND VIDS. |
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| Just the usual | ||
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havn't really updated the last days but yea, hacn't been up to much either. Just did my training with the Yeti shredder here. Training is going good tried to ride trails a bit more the last days. Where having a lil competion going here with the backyard gate hehe, we got this leader board out for the guy with the fastest 5 pedals out of the gate.It was pretty close the other day sam got a 1.566sec on his gate the next day I equaled it sam woke up the next morning totally pulled it with a 1.546sec lol (I get it one of these days Samabee!!). Besides training everything is awsome aswell. We went for some put put the other days its was Samabee,cole,me,alex,mikabee,gerkin and possem. I starded of just amazing lol I had al 2 shots then I hade a double hole in 1 I was in the lead with like 17 hits. then the last 5holes I fluked all maximum shots lol ended up 4th haha. Next week where off to New Zealand for the next UCI race. Gonna be lots of fun we hired a penthouse in some hotel with a swimming pool on the balcony. Where taking cards and chips for another big poker nite...and this time where playing real poker lol not the TOWOOMBA version. |
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| New hong kong ride | ||
Yesterday me and Alex decided to buy a cheap car to get around cuz its way cheaper then renting a car. Well we found one really fast...went down got insurance and drove off  the car is actually alright it just makes some funny sounds once in a while but yeah its only for 1.5 month so i guess its better then nothing.  |
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| just training | ||
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I'm still here in Adelaide with samabee, matt attack and kirkham training. Training is really good...I just got pulled my matt attack the other day cuz he stole 3 scoops of super pump haha. we also had a mad gambling night...with some poker and some pool and 100$ on the line it was good fun. First game of poker i lost all my money on my 3rd hand already haha I bought myself back in the second game and won like 80$ hehe. Alex wasnt having the best time out there as he lost 60$ in 1 night hehe. he tried to win his money back to chellange me and samabee for a double pool game against him and cole. I was pretty close in the end but me and sam had to sink the 8ball and i just fluked it in haha :D. The next day we went to some horse race and alex tried to make some bets to get his money back. I think he made 25$ out a 2$ bet so thats not bad. the other days where pretty chill just did training went to some waterslides where is minced up to lil kids by accident . they where just not fast enough I guess. Well im out now going to bed and get ready for another day of training tomorrow. |
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| back in Adelaide | ||
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Because the weather wasnt super good in melbourne...me and alex went back to adelaide to catch up with our training. There isnt much going on here these days just me alex and sam doing our training and chilling out in the house cuz it pretty hot outside. we will be here untill next week and then we fly out to new zealand for the next UCI round |
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| Australia update | ||
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I didnt had internet the past weeks so thats why i took a while for this update. anyway im doing good here in Australia. I had my first race in Nerang 6jan, this is pretty much where everything started. Everything went really well i must say. Just the weather was not really good. I arrive in australia and it was really hot but we where waiting for the train to go to Nerang and it started raining and didnt stop untill i arrived in adelaide. anyway about the race...first of all the amount of rain we got was insane. racing was pretty slow we couldnt get around the track so they had to put the finish line half way down the first straight it was that muddy. Besides that i felt really good my gates where good and I passed motos easy and with a 3rd in semi I made the main. in the main was just funny I came in to the first turn 4th but got burned out down the second straight and for a moment i was riding in 7th down the 3rd straight then on the last straight everybody else burned out and i still had some momentum going and I went back from 7th to 5 hehe. Day 2 was a lil bit different it seemed like everybody that made the main the day before was strugling on the second day. It was still raining and super muddy so you could use some extra energy. I passed motos easy and in my semi i took a good gate and came 2nd in the first turn but i was so tired from yesterday and just didnt got the energy i needed en every straight somebody past just on speed. I ended up 5th and out in semi. well efter those 2 torture round I flew to adelaide and staid with the willougby family. training there good finally some good weather a bit hot sometimes but better then rain i guess. after that week i flew down to sydney to race the XBR summer series and do a pro team challenge. I staid there for 6 days and we had 5days of racing so it was pretty rough. But i did really good we got a 2nd in the team challenge in the overall and I won the XBR summer series in Pro open. after the whole series we drove straight to melbourne for the UCI round in park Orchards. the uci practise on friday was good weather was nice my gates where awsome so I was pretty stoked for the next day. well guess what I woke up at 8am and it was pissing down with rain. So yes another mud race for me. I got to the track and everything looked so wet but was still hard so that was a good thing. in the race I got 2nd in my first 2motos and won my last one. In the semi I had lane 7 and with Luke madill, kama kazi, brian kirkham,alex cameron on 1,2,3and 4 I had a pretty hard semi. I had a good gate and got 2nd in the first turn but with a lil mistake on the 2nd straight i dropped back to 5th and had to work my way trough the pack in the rhythem section. It worked out good I got trough and made it 3rd in the last turn and qualified for the main. The main was not really fun hehe I didnt make it past the first turn. I totally spun out at the gate and was in the middle in the pack then in the first turn somebody crashed in front of me and i went straight over him so end of my race. now ill be flying back to adelaide to get back to my training and get ready for the UCI in north harbour new zealand  |
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| New big trip | ||
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I havnt been updating these past weeks because i was really busy preparing my new trip. Me and alex will go to australia to chase uci points untill 14th of March. I'm currently in HK, I got here yesterday evening and pretty much finished my first day here. Today was quit busy because i had to sort everything out with my visa card (I lost it couple months ago). Anyway i got it sorted after a half day of making phone calls and running around like a chicken. Me and Alex will be leaving on the first of January. I wont be training these days because its new year and then where leaving so dont really have time to train and sport institute is having a lil christmas break aswell. I'll keep you update about the trip in australia. |
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