May 31, 2011

C-Mac's Sessions: DH and Hucking


C-Mac's Sessions: DH and Hucking on pinkbike.com

Short video from around Queenstown doing some self shot DH and getting used to my new Corsair Dominion (cheers dogboy) at Mini Dream. Song: The Flatliners - This Respirator

May 28, 2011

Stuff

Hey, its been awhile since i did anything on here, been super busy lately getting some extra money for Canada and riding.

First off I had a sweet photo shoot with Derek Morrison from Adventure Media Group and got some amazing shots!  So keep a look out for them in the next wee while.

B roll shot from Derek.
Hit up Adventure Media Groups Facebook for some more B roll shots.  Apparently I was quite lucky on this shoot that I didn't have to shoot until it was pitch dark which Derek apparently has a reputation for, got to get the shots though!

The day after the shoot I flew up to Auckland for the NZDJO.  My mate Jim (who happens to be the best badminton player in NZ) picked me up and we headed out to woodhill.  It didn't take long to get used to the jumps as they were pretty much the same as the year before with only afew speed differences.

Photo by Christian Wafer
Sunday was I allover the show in the morning, I hadn't had much sleep but after afew runs I was feeling normal again.  The comp got underway about 12 and everyone started throwing down.  It was a three round format in which the riders slowly got whittled down to around 10 in the filnal round i think.  Between the rounds they had best trick comps on two separate jumps, the first one was on the smaller jumps up the top, langlands was throwing down but went down on a flipwip and did his collarbone then almost straight after that another rider went down doing a 720 and bunged up his shoulder pretty badly.  This put a huge damper on the contest and was hard to get motivated to ride after 20min of waiting around.  I didn't feel like riding after the two injuries and I'm sure alot of the other riders felt the same.  We got underway again though and I had to physic myself up with music which I rarely have to do but it worked.  In the next session I flipped the stepdown which I was stoked on with plans for something bigger in the final.  After the second round they had another best trick comp on the big double, I was pretty tempted to try a big trick on it and try grab some cash but I managed to hold myself back as it was only 4 weeks until the Claymore challenge and wasn't worth risking getting hurt.  Matt Harris did a flip over it along with Elmo Cotter doing a sweet flip table thing over it but in the end Lewis won the money with a huge indy superman!

Finals came around and I decided to try fronty the stepdown as I really felt like doing a fronty but didn't want to risk it over the big jump.  I threw it twice and got worked but was allgood, was an awesome crash though!

Video of Crash from Jim

In the end Lewis Jones cleaned up with Phil Mclean and Chris Beverland in 2nd and 3rd.  It was awesome the see Chris up there as hes been ripping forever but I haven't seen him on a podium before.  I ended up getting 4th and Elmo Cotter 5th (although I thought we got 4th equal).  I defiantly didn't deserve to do any better than I did as I concentrated to much on afew big tricks rather than tricking every jump every run, I've learnt from my mistakes though.

Highlights for me were Tanis perfect 3wips and 3tables to ET, Phils superwip and Nick Dethridges 3 Bar.

Next stop for me, Claymore Challenge hopefully!

May 13, 2011

Southland DH champs

So I haven't raced in about 2 years because I normally cant be assed waiting around to do my run, I'd rather just pound out some laps.  I was really looking forward to doing a race again though and what better than to do a race on the hill where DH all started for me, Bluff hill.  the Southland MTB bike club had just built a new track as the old one had been logged.

My race day didn't get off to a good start, bad enough that I thought I wouldn't be able to race.  When I got picked up my bike was wheelless as I was changing over to muds, so I chucked everything in the van and we headed out.  Turns out I managed to leave my rear axle sitting on the floor at home, some things you can ride without but an axle is rather important!  Not a good start.  I rang up good old mum to see if she could bring it out for me, she could but only in time for my 1st race run.  Its normally nice to get a decent amount of runs in on a track before you race it.

Mum turned up just in time for my 1st race run so I sneaked in a quick practice, had a huge stack, and then raced back up to the top for my run.  1st run was sweet until I came out of the trees and then I couldn't see a thing because of the misty rain covering my goggles so i stopped and ripped them off, not normally the best way to get a good time but who cares it was the best fun I've had on a DH bike in awhile.  It was pretty muddy which is what I seem to enjoy the most when I DH.  We got a second race run so it was allgood, my run went sweet and I got loos so good times.



Turns out I managed to win my class and get fastest time by 7 seconds ahead of mr pro Dam Mccombie.
Maby I'll do more races again...