Claymore Challenge

Hey Everyone, Well I'm in America, At Highland Mountain Bike Park for Claymore Challenge, Gold FMB event. I flew in on Tuesday last week, met up with a few buddies and was stoked to see the course and what was in store for us riders. Got to the bike park around 8pm so had a quick look at the HTC which is a sick indoor training facility with Foam Pit Resi and some fun box jumps. We checked into the hotel and went straight down for a swim and chill in the hot tub. Had my first day of practise on Wednesday, built up the bike then played a bit in the HTC learnt a few things then went up to check out the course. The course was amazing zigzagged down the hill with drops, Boner Logs, Berm jumps and some sender jumps. Had a good day of practise never came off which was good and managed to whip the boner log which i was stoked on. Went back to the hotel and of course straight to the pool and hot tub with a beer in hand. chilled there with a couple of the riders then headed out for dinner. Thursday was Qualifying day and I was feeling nervous with this being my first US comp. had a bit of practise in the morning then found out what heat I was in, it was the last one and I was pretty much last. it was a 2 run best 1 counts format. I dropped in for my first run and it all went to plan. flip table the step down to whip on the boner x the drop 3 table the Geax booter Whip the death jump down whip the quarter hip flip table death jump no:2 table out the wall ride to flip no hands on the last 30 footer. stoked I got my first run good and after waiting what felt like hours I was up for run 2, wind had picked up but dropped in did pretty much the same run but 3 whipped the Geax booter. second run went even better than the first. Had to wait ages for the results and out of 60 riders that were there they only took 15 so it was very tight. Results came in and unfortunately i had missed out by 2 places so i was bummed about that but still happy to have experienced the whole event. For the rest of the time there I trained in the HTC got some new stuff and learned to 360 drops so I should be good for the next event which is Colorado Freeride Festival. I had an amazing time chilling, riding, meeting new people and learning new stunts. Ill be posting loads of pictures on my Facebook and Instagram so keep checking to see what I'm up to. Just waiting in Boston airport now. got loads of time to kill before i fly to Denver for my next adventure. So until then look out for photos and updates of my trip through Facebook and Instagram.

Cheers for now