Hi all,
Its been a while not had very much on and started my winter job so been quite busy with that. But just got back from the last comp of the year in Portugal been going for the past 4 years.
Flew out last Thursday met up with Pedro Santo who organised the comp and who is also the DMR distributor in Portugal. We rode a freeride park on Thursday got a few sweet pics. Friday we rode the jumps at the show had to tweek them a bit but they were really good. rode till about 9 that night getting some practise for the comp. went out for a few drinks in the park by the hotel.
Saturday was the day of the comp rode all day again had qualifying at 3 in the afternoon qualified 3rd. the finals were delayed till around 8pm felt like death had my first run and slipped a pedal on a three whip and couldn't make the last jump. played it safe with the last 2 runs and got 7th was a bit bummed about that but had fun. Blake came second just behind Clinton Johns, thought Blake should have won but thats judging for you.
Had a good night out, went into town and outside the club they had a bullring where anyone could jump in and tease the bull till it chased you was amazing and I could have done that all night, there was a beer stand right next to it selling beers for 1 euro so that fuelled our bravery. eventually made it into the club was ok not that great Blake, Peran, Simon and I were Knackered so we headed home around 3am, the others got back at 6am.
Sunday was slow especially since everyone was still half asleep, we had best trick loads of crashing and big tricks went down but Blake won with a super clean flip whip, I got so close to landing a 360 flip got smashed into the ground and that was me done for the day i sat down and chilled in the sun for the rest of the day.
Monday we spent the day checking out Lisbon doing a bit of sight seeing and flew back that evening. was a sweet trip but not as relaxed as I thought it would be but got some cool photos thanks to Simon. check them out below.
Till next time Peace out!!
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