Saturday - rode Tyrol with Annie & Edgar. I just have to say, I LOVE TYROL'S PARK!! And I love the guy who builds the park too 8-) Annie & I started doing 180s off the smaller jump. That's the 1st time I've actually done a 180 off a real jump, I was so excited to land them I would just laugh every time. After the 2nd or 3rd one, they were easy! The only hard part was, after the landing got all rutted out, it was a little hard to balance riding out of the hole. On one of them I couldn't gain control, and saw myself heading towards Annie & a rail, so I just laid down to stop myself. Next thing I felt the nose of Annie's board going into my arm, and then I saw Annie's face upside down infront of me. We were laughing so hard we couldn't move. I was tailpressing the down box, but the hole at the end was so big, my knees are still sore from the drop. Annie got a shiner when she came off of a rail just as some kid was stopping in her landing. She almost took out a couple more guys who were sitting in her landing, but I saw them and yelled at her not to hit it. I think I may have saved some lives!

Sunday - wanted to go back to Tyrol, but everyone else was going to Chestnut & Annie & Forrest gave us some passes for the demo day, so I went there. Forrest spent the morning throwing up everything he drank the night before, so Edgar & I went, & later Forrest & Annie showed up. Their park was pretty good, but takes a while to get used to. You can't see stuff, have to figure out where to go to hit certain stuff, then have to figure out where to stop so you don't get in the way of anything. I was hitting one of the jumps & boxes. I demo'd a Burton GTwin board and the black & green snakeskin-looking bindings. The bindings were really comfortable, and I like the keyless toe cap adjustment, but the toe cap ratchet didn't work very well. The GTwin is an awesome board, lots of pop! I still like my K2 Mix the best, but that GTwin would be my 2nd choice for a park board. I also demo'd a Flow Push board, but it was a little stiff for my taste. Probably a better freeride board for girls who don't ride park much.
I saw a guy with the white Travis Parker TX board, so I asked him about it while I fondled his board a little - I didn't lick it or anything, although I wanted to. I'm going to get that for my powder board

Here's a picture of the pretzel 'log' ride I built at Chestnut. I think they should hire me on their park crew ;-)


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