Coppull Regional, its all about having fun

Awsome, the mobile update worked and Rich liked it, a few comments about the blog today at the track which was ace, nice to know you guys are enjoying the read, except Silson, sorry man but I'm all about being PC mate.

So yesterday I decided I was going to make a full day of Coppull. Its worth getting up that extra bit early to give you some free time to drag out practice and only ride when you want too. So 8am i left the house and made it onto the track by 10. Pretty windy down the 1st straight but meant the last straight tail wind might lead to some moves going down. I again decided cruiser and 20", it was a good idea, and tbh it went pretty well, a lot better than bradford anyhow, cruiser was grand prix again so my 1.2.1. meant i had to win the 4th to get the points, twarn was gettin closer every moto and i kept leaving room to see if he was willing to make the move, he wasnt and i lead it from the 1st jump to the line, c'mon man, you've got the skills, where are you?!!!

Payback was OK, i think i could have made the main if i wasnt doing cruiser aswell, but, meh, ifs n buts n all that. Was with the big guns untill the 1st corner but then got tired n had nothing, cruised round the moto's just making the B-main, had a pretty good lap managing to snap the other guys and had my pick of lines round the track to take it, Boota did well missing out on the payback main by 1 moto point after doing his first full laps in 6 months.

The A main was awsome, Cal, Flem, Reidy, Ivesy, Levi, Kyle, Ethan Taylor and... Liam Snazel! Mrs Flip was on the finish line and couldn't believe it when hearing Snazels name on the mike. Cal lead from the start, this win should do his confidence a load of good. Reidy busted a mint move in 2nd to last corner lining Flem up, getting the step up smooth and swooping. Reidy interview coming soon.

Got another chance to see Mr Halls gate today and it really is growing on me. Bradford have just picked up a one man start gate and will recieve a two man version at Preston regional next month. I'm pretty excited, the gate works of a battery, magnet and spring, has random, NBL and ABA voice sequence, and a timing mat. This should be awsome! Great photo OJ, you can see Twarn watchin for tips. Sutty's already updated his blog after racing today, not only is the guy fast on the web, but he's looking rapid round the track, keep it up man, Cheddar 30-39 main has your name written all over it. Talking of which, its round 3 of the national series at Cheddar next weekend, and, I am excited! Cheers to Abi and OJ for photo's.

Anyhow, hung around after racing for a couple of hours and had a wicked sesh, just messin around and enjoying ridin my bike.

love life, love BMX

Cal takes Coppull

30 seconds ago cal strickland took payback from start to finish, daz reidy bustin the move on flem in the last corner for 2nd, with flem 3rd and ivesy in 4th. More pics, report and reidy interview coming later.

ready for the weekend

All's good in the hood. Tomorrow i plan to try and give the mobile update a go from Coppull regional, so keep checking back for the results and a picture as it happens! As well as the North Regional its the 4X NPS this weekend down in Chicksands, good luck to Nigel and Oggy going down from Bradford as well as paddy and all the other BMXers making the trip. On a blog note, been reading Suttys blog alot, check it out in the links, its a good read.

I went to a possible venue for a new track in Leeds on Friday with Jez, the track is on a Youth Group site with football pitches, high ropes and motorbike course. The field where the track is gonna be is right next to the canal and kinda has an amphitheatre vibe going on, so gonna be great for atmosphere when events roll round. The plan is for a 300m ish track with a duel trails line running on the outside around half the track. Lets hope its as awsome as it could be. Then i hit Fearnville for abit, managed about half an hour before it started raining, so cold my i couldnt feel my fingers, riding on my own i dont really fancy pushing it just in case somethin happens, but its good to give the legs a spin.

Gate session at Bradford today, a good few gates giving me the holeshot at practice, its hard when oggys not around to gauge how fast i'm actually going. We closed off the 3rd straight and started giving that a go backwards, did some cornering moves with Flip, Snazel, Nige and Rob and Josh T, then had a few runs at the 2nd straight just copying each others lines. The youth are the future, its all about the carrot and the stick!

Pic, Snazel, me and Flip after a mint Bradford session

Jager bomb!!!

Yo, just a quick shout about what's been going on in the world, monday was back to uni and reading about walking being good for you, wow. A pretty cool thing I've been looking into this week tho is training and competing in one sport giving you an advantage in another, i.e. transfering from playing football at a good level but not the greatest, getting into rugby and already being pretty good just because of being physically and mentaly trained at an invasion game, again it sounds pretty simple but some studies recon future elite athletes do more physical activity at 8 years old compared to people who end up doing sport at a uni level. mental.

anyhow hit the gym Monday and Tuesday but decided to give it a rest on wednesday and went down to the place to be... Chesterfield! So grabbed a lift of Jez, who is just back riding after time off with a broken wrist, and Jordan was gonna make the most of gate time with nothing going on at Leeds yet. Tuffys got it going on down there (I owe you £2 buddy), not many riders but all pretty quality, DC doing 6 full effort laps in a sessionm, he's coming back from China with a medal! I've gotta admit i only did 2 laps, i felt slow and sluggish, it wasnt until the end of the night that i finally got a couple of good gates, and felt like it was worth doing a big effort. Its one thing being fast at your local stomping ground, but when you go to someone elses it puts you back in check, Ive got a long way to go! If i've got the time (and petrol) im all about traveling to do gates wherever they're on, it can only help

Got back to mine and the front room was full of hot ladeees, a quick shower and 2 big bottles of beers later and we hit town. I recon the best nights are always the unplanned ones where you just end up going out cos your in a good mood, and when i get back in from gates i tend to be pretty pysched most of the time. Found a club called Wire which we've heard abit about and thought we'd give it a go, it was pretty quite and apparently wednesday night isnt the night to go, but it was better than i'd expected, massive dancefloor and little "cave"esque booths to chill in. After a couple of beers the adrenaline wore off and i got tired really quickly so hit the jagerbombs, and that was the downfall, didnt last more than 2 hours out and went home asap, a really good find tho, we will be going back!

Pic, me and DC.blogspot.com

Work it Harder

What a week, i guess this is my first proper post about life and all that, now i'm getting linked up all over the place i guess someone must be reading this. Just the weekend to update on then, I was planning a trip down to mansfield to do some gates on saturday with Jez and Jordan but with Coach J having other commitments i made my way over to my local gate session at Bradford. The weather held out and i got some solid gates in, my timing seems to be spot on but i look at the gate and have a mental block about it not falling so chicken out every now and again, think its time to start looking at the lights. David Brown who is a Bradford local and ex British Champ is killing it, lets hope to see him at a national sometime soon. After a few gates i took a few of the better riders into the container to watch a section of the http://www.stileindustries.com/ "how to race BMX" DVD on gates, i think its good for them to see it in this format so its not just me and Billy getting on their back and telling them to do stuff for the sake of it. Back on the gate after that and all riders showed an improvement, some really starting to show potential.

Today i wanted to head over to Fearnville in Leeds for a session, so called up a couple of buddies and were all ready to rock and roll but the weather took a turn for the worse, Snazel got sick and we decided to give it a miss. I'm really starting to enjoy the track, ok its not the best to go to for hang time but as a BIG race track its going to work, the start hill is pretty big and should be great when we get the gate running, 2nd straight is fast as, but easy to mess up and loose speed, the 3rd all about getting smooth through the doubles and hitting the downsides and the last straight has more lines that Pete Doherty, its just a mint place to play around.

Yer so that didnt happen so I did a gym session followed by some sprints, oggy has really helped me in the gym and given me a few new things to try out, it seems to be working, im killing cruiser and Twarn is nowhere ;) The whole house is pretty fitness mad at the moment, Ciaran is doing 200 bicep curls a day, housemate A (doesnt want to be mentioned) is obsesed with bulking up to be bigger than the maximuscle guys so is training with Owen and all about the protien shakes. I'm just doing my thing and enjoying riding, havent got the patience to do all this cardio lark tho, get bored to easily.

Pic, Me, Ethan, Dan P (current cruiser points leader) and Twarn and Coppull last year