Its been a long season and a lot of traveling, but this week I was pumped to have a show in my home town. Ocala, Florida was the host of the Tough Truck Challenge. Jake Coombs, Ryan Barre and myself were scheduled to do a FMX demo on sat and sun. The winds got a little strong on sat afternoon, Ryan got blown a bit off track after hitting the 75 footer and went down. Ryan wears a good quality helmet, chest protector and a leatt and i think that kept his injuries from being a lot worse. He did break one collar bone and crack the other, hit his head and got a concussion plus 2 broken ribs and a deflated lung.

Ryan will be in the hospital for a few days but will make a full recovery... FMX is a tough sport and things like this remind me that we are not ballerinas. With Ryan out, Jake and I decided to keep it safe for the rest of the weekend, jump some of the smaller gaps and keep the tricks to non release stuff.

The crowd was pumped with the fmx show and the tough trucks were very impressive, using part of the Hard Rock motocross track along with a huge rock pit to create a killer course. Watching these 800 horse trucks with 50+ inch tires climb near verticle walls and jump big dirt hits was an impressive sight.

Well i have been flippin consistantly for the last 2 months, but cant seem to get a variation yet. So my goal this week is to get a hand or foot off before i head up to canada for the first of the 09 shows up north.

hope you all have a good week and stay safe...

Cheers,

Paul


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