today show
BMX was the TODAY SHOW this morning. Link.
April 30, 2008
April 28, 2008
Mohawks and MooMoos
Downtown on the way to dinner at a crosswalk we saw the most ridiculous crew of scooterers. On one side were three nerds on self balancing scooters with flouresent mohawks attached to their helmets, and on the other side were two older heavyset ladies in Moo-moos on mobility scooters. The two women eyed up the nerds as they were crossing the street and said to eachother " I bet OUR scooters are faster than those things" and sped off. I was laughing. These riff-raffs should just have a race and find that 12.5mph max, varooommmm.
April 26, 2008
If your not "F1RST",,,Your last.
A FILM BY CLAY PORTER
When Clay produces a film, it is special to me, because I remember where he started and the passion he had as a youngster to arrive at this level. Producing, editing, filming, fundraising, traveling, writing, and premiering, Distinction Productions, aka Clay Porter (at age 23), is a one man show. 6 films into his collection, the cinematography and focus has evolved a long way since the days of "The Spectacle". I know for a fact that Clay poured his heart into making this video, it is apparent with the quality. He goes beyond making a video with cool music, it's a real life storyline of monumental events documenting downhill mountain bike racing during the 2007 season....
April 23, 2008
No more dribbles:)
I recommend you check out the "Podium bottle" from Camelbak. The bottle doesn't release water until you squeeze, no more caps to pull out or push in. It's great for riding and has lockout :). I also use a L.U.X.E. Pack for missions:). Thanks to Azule at Camelbak!! camelbak.com
April 20, 2008
last day of the otter..
MONTEREY,CA
Today was the Pro downhill event. I didn't get to go out and watch finals cause I was teaching a women's clinic 
, but the word on the street was that it was similar to last year's pedalfest, which means if you are not coughing, burning, or about to vomit by the end, you didn't go hard enough :). Track looked really blown out and loose, with blasting wind in your face, it's extra nice heading into open uphill parts of this downhill course.,,
April 19, 2008
SeaOtter
MONTEREY,CA
Slalom Saturday. This is the best event at Sea otter, but today was the windiest, coldest, slalom day I can remember, painfully frigid. I had 7 layers on, like a burrito, and was still cold. I am not racing, but here supporting Bryn, sponsors 
, friends, hiking bikes, having fun, etc. Two races left in my BMX selection process, so mountain bikes can wait for a little bit:) But I love them all the same. New gear, bikes, parts, and teams make Sea Otter special, but mostly it's a reunion of sorts, first race of the 2008 season, minus the XC bandits who are over in Belgium racing a world cup. Enough pictures to make up for the story?...
MEN'S SLALOM 1st.Minnaar, 2nd. Peaty 
, 3rd. Neethling. 4th Kurt Voreis
WOMEN'S SLALOM 1st.Sabo 
, 2nd. Buhly, 3rd. Fee, 4th. Rachel Atherton.
Slalom qualification combines a run on both sides, red and blue side. Bryn had 3rd fastest qualifier on one course and a slide out on the second qualifier, so his combined time didn't make the cut. :( unlucky.
April 15, 2008
Chicago media summit
CHICAGO, IL
Right from Australia to Chicago for a media summit. It is like a big gathering of select hopefuls from all sports to get the bulk of the media promos and questions out of the way, primarily NBC, but others too. 450 journalists in all, they said...
April 13, 2008
SX- the kind with motors
Think I forgot about the motocross?? not a chance. Millsaps won this weekend, and Windham has been plugging away with 2nds and 3rds, making the points gap for the overall down to 16 on Reed with 5 rounds to go. Guess Reed had a bad crash in practice and went to the hospital with shoulder and chest injuries, so maybe this thing will be a battle till the end?. amaproracing.com
April 11, 2008
SX BMX- Australia
Not much to write about, long ass day 9am-3pm, warm up cool down, warm up cool down, warm up cool down; early practice, time trial 1 and time trial 2. here are some pics from practice. Every american qualified out of the time trials, so tomorrow is game day. I don't really feel like writing a report for the weekend, not my best riding, didn't watch much either. Go to www.bmxmania.com if you want to know what happened.
April 07, 2008
Adelaide SX
Here is the drawing of the track. The ramp is supposed to be like 4 feet shorter cause it is indoor, and the first jump 5' longer than Beijing's first jump with a case pad, bit more of a huck?. 
. Here's some random info, Adelaide is in a half hour time zone, so we are 7.5 hrs ahead of California time:)
April 06, 2008
gremlins!!
Made it to OZ!!! Highlight of the trip was the safety information card on our Quantas connection to adelaide. According to the card there are no Gremlins permitted, but I swear we saw at least one or two sneak on.:) It was funny, kinda mean, but come on, you gotta see the resemblance!!!
April 04, 2008
"MY name is mike D and I get respect.."
In case you were wondering,,,Mikey Day manualed down the supercross ramp (on the Beijing replica track), over the first jump, over the second, over the stepup-double-stepdown into the turn, around the first turn, and all the way through the women's second straight without putting his wheel down or pedaling, ,,WTF. He is the best. The roll down that hill is super fast and he kept it going the whole way!!. Fans were in awe. CHHHhhhaaaammpppp.
April 02, 2008
up top
We are leaving this saturday for another BMX supercross event in South Australia. Hard to believe it has been a whole year since my last visit to Aussie:( can't wait. Anyway, 3 more Olympic points races to go; OZ next week, Denmark in May, and Worlds in China....
Robin hoods
CHULA VISTA, CA
The archers are having the second round of their 3 Olympic trials events here at the training center. I always thought Archery was just something to do at camp, but you can go all the way to the olympics with it apparently. Anyway, it was really windy today, a shifting wind too, and the targets are 70- 90 meters away. I could barely see these targets and they would hit the gold center nearly every time. Each pull of the bow is something like 50lb of tension. You hear is the release, see a part of the trajectory, and pull out the binoculars. Different breed of people, very tech I suppose. Guess the lower your heart rate the more steady your hand for shooting, so cardio does come into it. Looks like a medieval carnival up in here:)
NPR- Public radio
You guys will get a kick out of this NPR story from our race at West Palm Beach a couple weeks back. This is what you get when explaining what we do to people who have no idea about the sport. They reach a lot of listeners, so although a little cheesy, this is huge. I'm going to have to work on my sailor mouth, getting bleeped out on National radio might give the wrong idea about me to families at home. Kinda funny once though:) NPR.org