Well its been an epic week in Florida
I did the Jacksonville Monster Jam on sat night with JJ Romans, Brody Wilson and Scott Hanlon. Everyone rode very well and with Brody's "side shows" and Scotty's "look back double grabs" we had the all of the 75 000 fans on their feet for JJ's finally flip.
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Then all week it has been a huge jam session on the FMX park at Hard Rock and Hard Rock's owner Glen Knox has built a kik ass free ride line that the boys were sessioning all day long. Its a 1/2 mile loop with five 100+ foot jumps on it. Only Mitch Cooke and Brody Willson were hitting the 140 foot step down ... Mitch getting it past flat and Brody doing seat grab indys.
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One of the other favorite jumps is the 110 foot table before the big step down... Jay Rowe, Billy Van and Brody were blasting killer trains on it and throwing out some sick tricks - video in progress, ill have it done soon.
Im still trying to get comfortable flipping, I moved the ramp back to 65 feet and have been doing 12-15 a day. Its getting less scarry and im getting more consistant. I have now done about 150 and i think im finally starting to "feel it". Only problem is i have a show in Louisianna this week end and will not be flipping for 4 days while im traveling ... hope i still remember how when i get
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Cheers,
Paul
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