SX CHECK

 I survived week one of SX testing. That in itself is a huge accomplishment for me. Before this week I had never ridden a SX track at all. Going into it I knew I had to take my time because I didn?t want to make a dumb mistake from rushing to get everything figured out right away. Instead I set goals for myself everyday and I was pretty good about accomplishing them before the sun set on that day. I am feeling more and more comfortable every lap I do but it is definitely a whole lot different then outdoors. The hardest part for me was judging the speed for jumps because the trajectory of them is so much different then motocross. In outdoors you get more distance the faster you go but in SX the faster you go the higher you go. I mean you do still go further but you have to also account for how much higher you go at the same time.  I still have the hardest thing in SX left to work on and that is the whoops. TP came out to the track to ride with me and tried to convince me how easy they were by going thru them with no feet on the pegs. He decided he wouldn?t ever do that again but he still made it thru them. Luckily I have a WMA race this weekend and I was able to use that as an excuse to postpone having to go thru them then. But it is still inevitable. I?m going to call next Tuesday my D day because that?s when I have to get it done in the whoops. So I hope you all can wish me luck that I will survive that day. Right now I am off to Washougal to hopefully get a win. Oh crap! I forgot my boxing gloves. Wish me luck TG