I might be the biggest procrastinator around. I have really dropped the ball on keeping you guys up to date on everything. So here is a brief recap of what has been going on in the last month. First off at southwick I had some more Gieger bad luck. In the first moto I ran into Tatum Six’s bike. I thought I avoided it pretty good but I guess I still clipped it. It ended up bending my back brake pedal under my frame. I essentially was riding with the back brake on until it completely locked the wheel up. Oh well, I guess those are things you have to deal with sometimes. The next race at steel city I really just wanted to have fun. I struggled a little in the first moto and slid out in a corner on the last lap. Fortunately, I was finally able to put it together in the final moto of the season and get a win. The only bummer was that I lost the overall for the day by two points and a final spot on the podium for the year by two. Its pretty incredible that even with the terrible season I had I was still in the hunt for an overall podium. Anyways since then I have been back to Puerto Rico to surf a little, avoided some major hurricanes and went to the RedBull MotoGP in Indy. Up next for me is the MXON in England. I have a good feeling its going to be a mud race. Thats motocross though and it will be fun either way. So stay tuned and I WILL keep you posted. No more procrastinating. TG

 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

You may be wondering what any of these have to do with each other. As I mentioned I was going to Redbull Flugtag last weekend and these were just some of the teams there. 

  It was one of the craziest things I have ever personally seen. There were something like 30 teams of the most ridiculously crafted machines. There were pirate ships, fire trucks, giant rubber duckies, even a sandwich, all with the idea of flying of a runway built thirty feet above the water. Needless to say none of the ones I mentioned did anything other then drop strait in the water. The only one that actually flew went something like 91 feet which was awesome. I wasn’t just there to enjoy a good time while drinking redbull cola though, I was one of the judges. First thing I had to do was walk around and judge creativity of the teams’ crafts. I got a chance to see all the crafts up close and it was amazing to see the work that they put into to building them. There was a team of local firemen and they had built a fire truck. There was incredible detail to everything but I don’t know how they could ever think it was going to fly. I mean it was a giant red fire truck. Anyways after judging creativity we had to judge performance and showmanship. That basically involved what the teams did before they pushed their crafts off the edge. All the teams put together little routines that they would perform to some pretty creative music. Some of the routines involved sword fighting and even a mario cart race but most of them were just some ridiculous dance routine, which were memorable to say the least.  All in all it was good fun and quit the experience. Now I am out in California riding supercross and getting ready for x games. Free from the tropical storms and all the rain of Florida. I’ll give you guys an update about how that is going for me next time. So until then, have fun TG

So this is my blog space. I get to write pretty much whatever I
want and you guys can read it or not. Like I can tell you how I
spent two hours in Ikea today because every track in Florida is
flooded right now. I don’t know why they call it the sunshine state
when the day only consists of about four hours where it isn’t
raining. Its been a rough time for me being able to ride the last
couple weeks. Last week while I was out practicing I crashed pretty
good and got a concussion. That put me out for about five days
because I don’t like taking chances when it comes to head injuries.
Luckily the surf came up and I was able to surf all weekend, which
made it not so bad. Then I only got two days in this week before the
monsoons came. At least next week I will be out in California where
it definitely doesn’t rain. I’ll be heading out there to get some
supercross testing and practicing in before the X games. But before I
do that I am going to be a judge at the Redbull Flugtag event. If you
have never heard of it, it’s where people build these ridiculous
looking crafts, then they get on top of a 40 foot scaffolding and
jump off. The point is to fly further then anyone else before hitting
the water. The majority of them are failures and they just go strait
into the water and it’s pretty hilarious. You can check it out at
redbullflugtagusa.com So if any of you are going to be around Tampa
on Saturday you should check it out because I know you aren’t going
to be dirtbiking this weekend. Anyways I’ll keep you guys posted on
how it goes and I’ll try to get some pictures. Until next time, you
can be glad you don’t live in the rain state.

TG