Nowadays young dirt jumpers focus on tricks such as double or even triple barspins, tailwhips and maybe one or two bangers: 360 whips or flip whips. Tricks that would win every contest back in the day are now pulled off in typical qualification runs. You could say the ‘dirt scene’ as we know it can start to get boring and there are very few riders that really stand out. I love it when people pull signature tricks and put their own style into every move. Creativity and style are the two main things in riding bikes for me. I love FMX inspired tricks, but they are still not as popular in dirt jumping.
I don’t like winter as the day starts at 7:00 AM and the light goes out by 3:30 PM so I need to wake up early. I hate wasting daylight sleeping. That’s why I get myself together every single day by the crack of dawn and ride my pitbike to the training spot. It is not far away from my home and the size of the bike makes it usable on the same jumps as my Dartmoor jump bike. It is the first winter ever I have not lost riding time during the cold days.
Polish winters are typically harsh and we get some serious in snow at this time of a year. But this season has been kind enough for us and we have temperatures above freezing in the day time. Our regular spots are not working due to the problems with wet conditions, but we have put some shovel work into ‘The Pit’ step-up section and it works perfectly. This area is sand so we don’t have any problems with frozen earth on jumps. It's the perfect winter spot. We added a new boner log to the step-up section so the chances for some new tricks have doubled!
Anyways, keep warm and stay focused on your goals folks!
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Usually I'm that much into dirt edits because they are all the same: most pro riders seem to have the same style and do the same tricks. Also I'm getting bored with many of these so called 'world's firsts'.
Don't get me wrong, the cash flip or cliffhanger for example, are what I call a world's first.
But so often I see a trick and someone put an extra barspin in it and calls it a world's first, while in my opinion it's not a world's firs;, you just added another barspin.
World's first 360 double bar, a month later worlds first 360 triple bar, a bit later a worlds first 360 quad bar. It's really sick and those are tricks I can't even dream of being able to do myself, so I have huge respect for the riders. But I don't like seeing that that is the only way that most dirt/slopestyle riders think they can improve.
That's why I have huge respecet for Szymon Godziek.
He stepped out of the game where everyone copies eachother and created his own style. And it is so sick to watch!
After seeing/reading this he became my favorite dirt rider on mtb. He has so much style!
I really hope Szymon will be an inspiration for other riders to stop copying eachother and to get creative create their own style
Respect!
Not doubting they must be hard as fook, but they really aren’t worth the effort...
I wonder what he's gonna try to do a flip over next to get all your pussies wet!!!!! Hahahahaha!
Maybe no one else attempted it because they weren't Oakley riders. Or maybe because they have some integrity. Maybe the good riders (keep in mind Strait is excluded from the argument because he is in fact, a f*cking baws) thought they'd be original, creative, less than scream in your f*cking face obvious about what they were going to do. Like Fairclough was, like Lacondeguy was, like Semenuk, like Ty, like Claw. McGarry seems like a rad dude, but I coulda told you ahead of time & bet my life on the fact that he was gonna flip his way down the whole course. How did I know? You know how I knew. Just like I knew ahead of time that Zink was gonna try to flip or 3 one of the biggest things on course. He didn't even try to do it off of a different big thing from last year. It's OK to be honest. You don't have to be politically correct everywhere you go. It's just time for some riders to stop using their glory days (I'm not really sure when Zink was ever really anything more than Kyle's best buddy though) to keep on keepin' on & let the guys like GODziek step into the light where they belong, so this sport can keep on keepin' on. C'mon man. Just C'MON! I've seen flips nearly that big on BMX, without contest money on the line. So there!
Just in case you missed it. Norbs makes comments how he thinks the only person that could hit the Big Gurl is Kyle. Zink flipping that is big mountain progress. And it was creative, I've never seen anything like it or the 3 he did in 2010. Zink is 2010 FMB world tour champ and a Rampage champ, how can he be Kyle's donkey tail? Good thing Godziek is gonna be a regular on the FMB world tour. Now he will get a chance to prove himself against his peers. He will do the big tricks on the air's he can handle. But the judges are going to be looking at what he does on the big hits. And then I guess we all have our own opinions about how the events should be judged. I would prefer they judge according to who took the most risk. Someone like you might prefer more technical smaller tricks and lots of them. So we are on opposite sides of the spectrum. And the judging as it is today is probably somewhere in the middle.