VOL. 50 ISSUE 18 MAY 7, 2013
That was actually my first time
to South America. I've only been
to Mexico a few times. It was my
first X-Games experience and I
was there to have some fun and
it all worked out. I just did what
I could do to put together some
solid runs. I tried some things to
change it up a little bit with some
transfers and nobody else was
doing that.
Did you take any risks or
were you playing it safe considering it was your first XGames?
Well, it was Brazil so I definitely played it as safe as I possibly could - plus the fact that I
have X-Fighters just three weeks
away. So I wanted to save myself
for that and not do anything over
my head. I mainly focused on the
bigger tricks that I had in my bag
and tried to hold them a little bit
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longer and execute them as best
as I could to try and impress the
judges.
How were the fans in South
America compared the ones
we are used to seeing here in
the states?
The fans are crazy - they're actually insane. During the entire
show, and even the awards ceremony, the fans are just going wild,
screaming like crazy. I ended up
throwing out all my gloves and
goggles into the crowd. I even
threw my jersey to the fans after
the contest. After the award's ceremony, I didn't even have a shirt
but, yeah, there was definitely a
lot of people out there going nuts
and I wasn't really expecting that.
It was really awesome, especially
because we were out there in the
middle of nowhere in the middle
of the jungle basically.
How was the course in Brazil?
Jessie Olson built the course;
I've ridden a few of his courses
before, but it was all pretty normal stuff - you know 75-foot ramp
jumps, an 80-foot dirt hit, but the
bigger one was a 110-foot rampto-dirt and those were like the
main jumps and the ones that everyone was doing all of their main
tricks on.
What's your schedule like?
I work out with a lot of moto
guys over at Icon Sports and with
a lot of the employees from KTM
and stuff. I try to get over there
and work out like three days a
week, but as much as I ride and
practice on my bike sometimes
