"Still doesn't have my interest at all..."
Then quit posting.
No, I don't watch skate videos. I liked the skating at X and the big air contest, but I don't think the stuff they do is better. All the X riders were not very impressive except for the tricks I listed above. Trust me, Chupperson. If you even see Props Year End 2002, you'd enjoy it more than someone flipping a piece of rolling wood back and forth. Plus, a huge disadvantage about skateboards is that they can't go anywhere and if they can it's a rough ride unless it's a ramp made for tricks (like X).... actually, they still can't because the ramps get wear and tear with holes or deformations in a layer of the wood so it still messes you up.
I went to Ramp Ranch today (and Empirebmx before that, also) and I had so much fun!!!!
Crap accomplished for a change:
-No footer off a HUGE bank
-One footer off small box jumps, etc., and that huge bank
-Harder (and scary) one hander off the huge bank
-Hip transfers
-Feeble Grind
-Accidental Sprocket Slide (Grind)
-180 in the halfpipe
-Very long and nicely executed fakies (can't get the freakin' rollback, though)
-Wanted to try a sprocket stall, but I've already bent the teeth on my sprocket although it probably wouldn't have messed them up anyway and the only ramps I could try it on were pretty dang steep.
-Wanted to try a Fufanu, but I guess it just didn't happen.
-Cleared some box jumps
-Uh, got some air...
-Uh, got some bails (into the foam pit) and some humorous (stupid mistake) wrecks/screw ups. Heh, all the easy stuff... I wrecked on, like some of the grinds....)
-FUN FUN FUN AND AIR AIR AIR WITH TRICK TRICK TRICK
-They had a foam pit, but the foam was tossed outside in front of it next to a HUGE and I mean HUGE HUGE HUGE roll in (go to the site after reading this to visualize all the crap I did and what I jumped off of...), so I went half way up the huge roll in on my bike and was just bailing into the foam. It was FUN. Then I just rode into, stopped, the just fell over. Then, I got convinced to jump off the HUGE roll in into the foam. Boy, was that scary as heck. It's like 215 feet high and looking at it from a 5'9" point of view makes it even scarier. I had to elbow drop in or it'd feel wrong to me or it might hurt (although my other friend was landing on his feet and falling over). I was jumping as if it was a trampoline then elbow dropping. It was pretty fun until the foam "dust" got in my eye. It felt like pepper spray, gah!
Day before:
You know how when bulldozers dump dirt leaving an almost perfect ramp behind? ...Aw man, one of my friends packed it and we rode the crap out of it. It was at least 5 and a half feet tall and really steep (about a 70-80 degree angle with a very similar backside. It felt like a spine and was fun to perfectly air out to go back into the tranny. Got air and did some one footers. Wanna try those no footers now that I know how to do them on most ramps. Much fun, but they were supposed to be torn down Monday (according to my dirt jumping friend) so I highly doubt they're there now... but he says they'll be put back somewhere else repeating the process every Monday. I WANNA GO BACK TO THEM SO FREAKIN' BAD!!!!
Well, that sums up my past couple days. They've been great (besides the fact that I have to kick my left crank back all the way when it gets loose... but I'm getting a new bolt for that! yay!)
Links:
www.empirebmx.com (Shop I went to, pretty dang cool, they have everything yet the store itself is kind of small. If you're sponsored by them they let you use their ramps in the back. Perched on the corner 14th Street)
www.austinskatepark.com (Ramp Ranch)
222... I mean...!!! (Dang typos)
www.ninthstreetbmx.com (Great trails in Austin)
(NOTE: Do my posts seems... eh, what's the word... congested? It feels as if I am typing too much information into the same sentence or list and crowding everything making it very confusing. Has anyone else noticed this and will they point it out to me please just so I know? Thanks.)
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