Crashing and Injury

Yesterday while out riding at Gap Creek i came off and had a massive crash. This has lead me to think about all the Pro's that get injured all the time. Unlike me they have the series and their money from competing that they are missing out on, whereas for me just miss a week of riding. I can now understand how Pro athletes may feel. Here are some photos of my injuries (some are unable to be shown)

My shoulder

My elbow. This resembles all my knees and elbows.

And finally my head. I got a massive egg and some scratches on my lip.

Dirt Jumps

Just another quick note...
I am currently in the process of building/fixing some dirt jumps that i found just down the road.
I have ambitious plans whic may or may not become reality.

Peety

Wallrides

Some sick wallrides that i found on the internet. As you will remember i am house bound because of that dust.

Freeriding

Freeriding is the most complex genre in MTB, namely because it is so open to the induviduals interpretation.
For example some people may only consider freeriding as massive drops and gaps, whereas some may think you need no trail merely a big mountain. Then there are the genres of street freeride, slopestyle freeride, DH freeride, northshore freeride and jump freeride.
See below for examples.

Peety

Dust Storm!

If you look outside my house all you can see is a redish haze. This haze is from a massive dust storm that has swept up to brisbane from sydney. Because of this I am stuck inside and cannot go riding. so i had a look on the internet and found a few awesome Freeriding pics

Schladming

This weekend in Schladming in Austria the 8th and final round of the DH and 4X took place. As you all probably know Jared graves won the 4X (even though he already had the title wrapped up), although the big news is who won the DH. it was a four way battle and anyone could have recieved the overall title depending on the result.
Here are the race results:

In 3rd place: Greg Minaar. Minaar was last years World Cup Champion.

In 2nd place: Sam "blinky" Blenkinsop. Blenkinsop did take the win here last year. 

And in 1st place: The king of DH in 2009 Samuel Hill of AUS.

But what does all of this mean for the overall standings. As I said before any of the top four could have taken the title.

But who did take the title you ask. Well the Santa Cruz Syndicate team took the team title, with riders like World Champion Steve Peat, last years World Cup Champion Greg Minaar and British boy Josh Bryceland.

Anyway back to the induvidual Overall title:

Here are the results:

5th-Mick Hannah (990pts) GT

4th-Gee Atherton (1166pts) Animal/Commencal

3rd-Steve Peat (1258pts) Syndicate

2nd-Greg Minaar (1349pts) Syndicate

And the World Cup Champion is:

1st- Samuel Hill (1469pts) Monster Energy

Overall Podium

left to right: Gee Atherton, Greg Minaar, Sam Hill, Steve Peat (its a good last name) and Mick Hannah.

1st and 5th are both Aussies I knew it was gonna happen.

So the race season is done and dusted,now its back to the local scene.

Peety

Internet Coverage.

Just one extra little note. I have been hooked on the internet of late, the internet has made the spread of MTB news almost instant.

 Just today I went on to http://www.dirtmag.co.uk/ and found out the winner of the fourcross final in round eight of the world cup, the fourcross final only happened last night and I was able to see that Jared Graves of Australia had won this morning. Like wise I will be able to see who won the downhill, that is happening today, early tommorow morning. 

The internet coverage of the world cup also allows me to see the weird, crazy and quirky side of the races.

For example today I discovered that a gorrila crashed the World Cup and was posing for photos. Although I suspect it was merely a man in a gorrila suit, but the interenet just said gorrila so it must be true, right? 

Thats all Folks.

Peety

First blood

Well here I am, starting what Ive been wanting to do for months now. I have finally got this blog thingamajig going. Anyways, this blog will be more focused on the extreme side of MTB, Ie Slopestyle, Downhill, Freeride etc.

Now I will focus on the local Slopestyling scene, around where I live there have been a few new jump spots and a smattering of northshore development (MTB obstacle course made from wood), I am also in the process of designing a jump park in my back yard.

Freeride is a section that is hard to measure growth in, because you dont necessarily need tracks that are publicised, the genre is more about getting out and doing more riding than building and letting nature do the building.

The local Dh scene is coming on strong with more and more tracks emerging, I have still to try most of them but I am getting there. Some of the tracks I have ridden have been absolutely brilliant, sadly though I have discovered some that have not been maintained well enough.

Thats all, I have now taken my first blogging blood.

Peety