It's awesome to see how psyched he is for his little brother, even though Tyler is about to overtake him as far as rampage skills are concerned. Tyler is a beast, but still I could not watch my brother do that kinda stuff. Also I really miss Cam, he was my favourite rider since he was thinking about getting a big bird tattoo on his forehead. I would love to know why he took some steps back from competing... I mean it was even before he was having a family. Maybe it had to do with his ever popping shoulder? Does anybody have some intel?
I believe he doesn't want to risk injury as the field is becoming stacked with tons of new talent. Plus with the household name like Cam McCaul, he doesn't have anything more to prove. So now he can enjoy the lack of pressure of competition while riding for fun.
@mazze It seems like he's doing things for fun now, making movie, appearing in nitro circus, judging, commentating... I wouldn't blame him, if he can still be part of the scene without the hassle of competitions he'd better enjoy it !
If who ever produced this segment is reading: Thank You. Last weekend, my daughter was afraid to drop into our local dual slalom track. She was embarrassed, in spite of myself and her friends telling her it was OK to be scared and back off if she wasn't feeling it. She watched this with me tonight, and without any input, immediately recognized the same sorts of fear and emotions. A few seconds of video - T Mac rolling up the drop over and over - was able to convey what I could not with my jumbled explanations. Thanks for showing us the side of a top level rider that most of us can relate to.
Good on ya dad. There's dads everywhere that could benefit from behind the scenes stuff like this to share with our kids as springboards for talking about the exact same kinds of things that might scare them.
I watched the drop about 5 times, sat here for about 10 minutes thinking of something funny/cool/witty to say but couldn't come up with anything except holy f*cking wow!
Any idea how big this compares to the Agassi/Lacondeguy (sp?) drop? When Strait won with the no hander, I remember TMac hitting a dirt drop of the same size but he didn't get any recognition for it because it wasn't the Redbull Sender.
it was not so much of a diffrence i guess altough i believe that one andreu did was even bigger also cause he overshot it a bit; and also i think so because ive seen the pictures of that drop maybe if we see the pictures of this one maybe we can guess; anyway this was scary big with bonebreaking or even worse concecuences props for hitting that only the best of the world can hit that stuff... 650db now oh well bigger wheels bigger hits i guess still i will remain 26. any lads out there riding 26?
Tyler is a beast, but still I could not watch my brother do that kinda stuff.
Also I really miss Cam, he was my favourite rider since he was thinking about getting a big bird tattoo on his forehead.
I would love to know why he took some steps back from competing... I mean it was even before he was having a family.
Maybe it had to do with his ever popping shoulder? Does anybody have some intel?
props for hitting that only the best of the world can hit that stuff... 650db now oh well bigger wheels bigger hits i guess still i will remain 26. any lads out there riding 26?
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