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Jet on Good Morning New Mexico
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By Times Staff
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BMX racers from the across the state gathered at Santa Maria BMX this weekend for a pair of “extra point” races.
Sunday’s Bob Warnicke Scholarship Program race, worth “quadruple points,” raised funds for a National Bicycle League program to support students and their families with the costs of undergraduate studies and trade schools. Warnicke, who had an active role in BMX as a rider and promoter, died in 1994.
On Saturday, a “double points” race held in memory of Steve Dennell, who died in May 2007, benefited local riders. Dennell was a former registered racer with the National Bicycle League and owner of R Country Markets in the Santa Ynez Valley. Pictured above, Spencer Oberlin takes to the skies during practice at the track.
September 8, 2008
Terry the "Unigeezer"
Terry Peterson or Unigeezer, as he is known by his friends, mountain unicycling down a rocky trail near Aliso Canyon.
DREW A. KELLEY, FOR THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
Monday, October 27, 2008
Mountain biking on one wheel? Yes!
MORNING READ: The UniGeezer just wanted to lose his gut. Then he found uni-bliss.
By TOM BERG
The Orange County Register
An alarm rings in most guys' heads around age 50. It is nature saying: You know, you won't live forever! Some respond with sports cars; some with trophy wives; some join the Peace Corps. Terry Peterson? "I said, 'My God, I cannot button my jeans anymore!' " says the professional piano tuner. "It dawned on me I should start exercising." Running, however, was out of the question – hard on the knees. Swimming? Inconvenient. Biking? Boring. "I mulled over the options," says Peterson, now 52, "and they all seemed boring." Until he remembered a short-lived, 1960s fad he tried as a 10-year-old. Since that day, Peterson's waistline has shrunk from 35 to 29 inches. His weight dropped from 165 to 140 pounds. His on-line videos elicit responses like: You're the coolest 52-year-old I've ever known! And he's virtually dropped the name "Terry."
When people see him pass now, they point and holler: "Hey, there's the UniGeezer!" Pure music to his piano-tuning ears.
AIR
The UniGeezer's uni-verse is filled with uni-spins, uni-drops and uni-fests. He founded the Uni Psychos club. And he writes uni-poetry. Guess what he rides. Peterson is not simply in love with unicycling. He is head-over-heals, madly, obsessively, compulsively in love with unicycling; specifically mountain unicycling. That means no low-gear for going up hill – it's all direct drive. And no coasting going down hill – again, direct drive. It means knowing how to jump, hop and drop off rocks, roots and ruts. It means dealing with UPDs (Un-Planned Dismounts), and carving out a line to ride over the obstacles in your path.
"It's a lot like life," he says. "I try not to avoid the obstacles. I like to confront them head-on and get over them."
Yet even the UniGeezer has his limits. Seven times, he's come to this 8-step stairwell in Redondo Beach to practice a drop. And every time he's backed out. He is one of maybe 10 extreme mountain unicyclists in Orange County, one of maybe 300 in the entire country. But they'renot geezers. They're young, with young legs and young bodies. Like the skate rats who've gathered to watch him pull off this stunt. Peterson can't jump as high as younger kids so he must compensate with more speed – to clear the bottom step. If he doesn't fly out far enough, the last thing he'll feel before crashing is his wheel catching the bottom step. He backs up, he pushes off and this time, he launches into the air. Let's pause here to discuss the dirtiest word in unicycling. It is never to be uttered aloud. Never to be joked about. Never to be implied, particularly by humming big top music.
"Unicycling is not just done by people with frizzy hair and a big red nose," says Peterson. "Notice I don't use the words 'circus' or 'clown' because we don't want to be identified with that. It's every bit as hardcore as mountain biking – even more, because we have much less to work with." Peterson's $1,200 mountain unicycle features custom pedals, rim, seat post and seat base – made of carbon fiber and double-walled, aircraft-strength aluminum. "It rolls over stuff like a tank," he says, though he adds that it doesn't feel particularly tank-like. "It's an extension of your body. It's graceful, like a dance on your wheel." He's pedaled up Iron Mountain in Poway and down Mammoth Mountain. "I pass hardcore bikers a lot," he says. "Going up, they're in the lowest gear so I go ride right by them. Going down hill, they pass me, but they're coasting. I have to keep backpressuring to keep from going too fast." Peterson rides every day, piling up 60 rugged miles a week through places like Aliso Woods Canyon and Sullivan Canyon. Your grandfather's unicycle was a novelty act. A toy. Something that would crumple under the feet of today's extreme riders. That changed in the late 1990s – thanks to the Internet. Suddenly there was a place to buy high-tech unicycles. A place to discuss the sport. To plan competitions. And post videos of tricks. Extreme tricks. Into that world, the UniGeezer was born.
FOREVER
Peterson almost always rides with a trusty companion – a Canon video camera that he's used to post more than 100 videos of himself on-line. P>They show him dropping off 5-foot brick walls and 7-foot tractors, bouncing down bleachers and boulders, and jumping across five-foot mountain ruts and up 70-step stairwells. "I've been riding since I was a teenager and he's doing stuff I'm chicken to do," says John Foss, former president of the Unicycling Society of America and a world champion unicycler. "I aspire to be where he is." Watch one Kris Holm unicycling video and you'll see why it's perched to be the next extreme sport. It's daring, edgy and different enough to give riders an air of exclusivity. The U.S. national unicycle championships now draw some 400 riders, according to former champion Jamey Mossengren, 29, of Fountain Valley. The international championships draw some 1,500 riders. Meanwhile, the Moab MUni Fest – which started with two families in 2001 – now attracts more than 300 mountain-unicyclists every March. "It's a Zen feeling," Mossengren says. "Once you get that feeling, it's like you're addicted. You can't get enough." Which is why the UniGeezer pushes himself, even at age 52, to jump higher, hop longer and drop farther.
Back at the 8-step stairwell, he hears the skateboarders goading him on. No backing out this time.
He launches. His unicycle clears the bottom step but he pitches off the front, landing on his feet as his unicycle crashes to the concrete. Without hesitating, he runs back for another try. "I've always been introverted," he admits later. "Almost a loner. This has taught me it's OK to have a connection with people. I don't fear that." This time, the UniGeezer has the distance. And the landing. And the feeling that he just might live forever.
Jake, Our future Olympian
Ryan on the Late Show with David Letterman
Holly at Sundance
Bobby, future Olympian
MONMOUTH ALUM AND NATIONAL JAVELIN CHAMP BOBBY SMITH TO BE HONORED ON SATURDAY
Courtesy: Monmouth Sports Information Release: 09/11/2008
WEST LONG BRANCH, N.J. - Former Monmouth University track and field athlete and newly crowned United States Javelin Champion Bobby Smith will be honored at halftime of the Monmouth-Coastal Carolina football contest on Saturday at Kessler Field.
Smith became the first U.S. National Champion in Monmouth University history after besting the field in the javelin at the Olympic Trials at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon.
Smith’s throw of 249’ 06” (76.06m) was almost one foot further than the next closest competitor, Nike’s Mike Hazle, winning the event for the former Hawk All-American. Smith had the eighth best throw in the trials, earning him a spot among the top 12 in the final.
Raul takes 1st place
Amazing Cole
Cole Massie, Neighborhood Superkid
LET'S FOLLOW THE RAPID RISE of one Atwater Village youngster:
TLC series 'My Life as a Child' - "Monday's opening installment looks at ... Cole Massie, a 9-year-old Atwater Village boy with a delightfully sunny disposition despite the serious challenges cerebral palsy has thrown at him." [San Bernadino County Sun]
Boy with cerebral palsy learns karate - "The sensei announced that in 25 years as a teacher he never had one student score 100 percent on his yellow-belt test. Cole Massie was his first." [LA Daily News]
Kids liven up press tour - "Cole, who has cerebral palsy and was on stage with his service dog whom he called his brother: 'I'm in a wheelchair and all this stuff. I can do things your average person can, just in a different way.'" [LA Times]
Strides Rider in Rose Parade - "We were delighted on New Years Day to see our own rider, Cole... riding atop the Ronald McDonald House Charities float..." [Strides News]
Got Some Game - "The youngster battling cerebral palsy got a group of USC players to get him out of his wheelchair to play catch." [The Press-Enterprise]
Surely there's more to come. Cole's episode of "My Life As a Child" airs Monday Feb. 26 on TLC.
"Fear and doubt never had a chance. Not from the minute Sam Flores laid eyes on 8-year-old Cole Massie wrapping both arms around a handrail at the Glendale YMCA and inching his way up the last 16 steps to make it to his karate class on time.
Those steps were supposed to be Flores' way out of this dilemma - the fear and doubt he was feeling.
The fifth-degree black belt sensei - a master karate teacher - feared no man. But he had come to fear this little boy with cerebral palsy who wanted so badly to learn karate.
For hours, Cole would sit in his wheelchair in his room watching pirate movies on TV and practicing karate moves to help the good guys win, says his mother, Michelle Massie.
For his 9th birthday, he wanted only one thing, he told her. Real karate lessons.
For weeks, Michelle called every karate instructor in the Yellow Pages only to hear the same answer:
"Sorry, we don't take severely handicapped children in wheelchairs as students. We are not trained to train them."
The Glendale YMCA was her last hope. A friend had told her about Flores, and how all the kids there loved him. Their sensei spent as much time in class teaching pride and respect as he did teaching them to fight and defend themselves.
If anyone could see past the wheelchair and her son's physical disability and know what to do, it would be this 50-year-old sensei with the big heart.
Michelle crossed her fingers and dialed his number.
Flores put down the phone and took a long, deep breath. Those old enemies of his were back, slowly crawling up the back of his neck. Fear and doubt.
"I knew I wasn't trained for this, and to be honest, I didn't want to do it," he said.
Flores thought long and hard, but in the end he called Michelle and gave her the bad news - couching it with a plausible excuse.
The elevator at the Glendale YMCA only went up to the third floor and his karate class was on the fourth floor. There was no handicapped access to get Cole to class in his wheelchair. I'm sorry, he said.
Flores hung up feeling as low as he had in a long time. Fear and doubt had won.
Michelle hung up and started to cry. She had nowhere else to turn. In a few minutes, she would walk into her son's room and tell him she had tried - but failed.
He was a great kid, never gave her or his father, Will, a second's worth of trouble or back talk. They had told Cole he could be whatever he wanted to be, not to let his wheelchair and cerebral palsy define him.
But it was defining him, and that made Michelle angry. She never made it to Cole's room that day. She picked up the phone and called Flores back.
"Are you saying the only reason Cole can't take lessons is because of those steps?" she asked him.
Sam smiled. He could see what was coming. This was one tough mother and kid that his fear and doubt were going up against.
"I'll carry my son up those steps if you'll take him," Michelle said, holding her breath.
There was a long pause. "Mondays and Wednesdays at 3:45 p.m.," the sensei said. "See you there."
And that's where Cole has been every Monday and Wednesday at 3:45 p.m. for the past nine months, arriving half an hour early so he can cling to the handrail and inch his crippled body up those last 16 steps to make it to class on time.
"I carried him the first six months, but now he wants to do it himself, show his sensei how far he has come," Michelle said last week.
Cole has nothing to prove to anyone, Flores says, watching the boy struggle up those steps last week.
"It used to break my heart watching him, but now I only feel pride and respect for him. This little boy is the essence of the karate spirit. Even though his body will not allow him to do what other kids can do, he never gives up.
"He has become the inspiration of my class, and teaching him karate has been the most rewarding thing I have ever done."
There was a special class last Saturday at the Glendale YMCA for Cole Massie's 9th birthday.
The sensei bowed and stood in front of his 20 students, who bowed back. Cole sat with them in his wheelchair, practicing all the modified moves Flores had devised for him.
Cole knew his test for a novice's yellow belt - the first color belt in karate - would be coming up soon. He just didn't know when.
Flores led the class through all the techniques, asking Cole before each one what it meant and how to say it in Japanese.
"I didn't tell him, but this was his test," Flores said. "Cole may be limited because of his physical limitations, but he grasped and excelled at the mental, spiritual essence of the karate spirit."
At the end of the session, the sensei announced that in 25 years as a teacher he never had one student score 100 percent on his yellow-belt test.
Cole Massie was his first.
Flores walked over to the boy and handed him his yellow belt as the class began clapping and cheering.
With a smile that lit up the room, Cole Massie looked up at his sensei, then over at his mom and dad. "I knew I could do it. I earned it," Cole said.
Yes, he had. One step at a time. Fear and doubt never had a chance."
Radical Riders Perform at the Tri Valley Rodeo
Jan and her team, Korrie and Nick
2008 3rd Annual USPTA Cardio Tennis
National Feeding Shootout Competition
October-November 2008 -- A great time was had by all at the 2008 World Conference at La Quinta Resort, and the Shootout qualifying and final was no exception. Thirty-two professionals competed in the Thursday qualifying competition for the last five spots.
The final competition on Friday consisted of 20 participants who earned their spots by winning at their division convention or qualifying at La Quinta. The 20 were divided into four groups of five and the top two scorers from each group moved on to the quarterfinals where they were seeded based upon high score.
There were many skilled feeders over the two-day competition and up until Friday the national record had been 66. In a very exciting semifinal between Jauregui (Southern California) and Adrian Games (Intermountain), Daniel broke last year's record by shooting a 68! Now that is an amazing skill. Daniel Jauregui and Daniel Leal (Southern) competed in an exciting final where Daniel Jauregui outshot Daniel Leal by 1 point. Congratulations to Daniel Jauregui, the 2008 USPTA Cardio Tennis National Feeding Shootout champion, who took home $500 in prize money.
Each year the competition is tweaked a bit to make it more challenging and keep it fresh, and 2009 will be no exception. We encourage all of you to try the competition at your division convention in 2009 and even if you don't get to your division convention it is a great way to practice and improve your feeding skills at home, as well as a useful tool for training your staff. You can find the shootout format, rules and video at partners.cardiotennis.com.
From Left to Right: Daniel Leal (Finalist), Michele Krause (National CT Manager), Daniel Jauregui (Champion)
1st place winner of the 1st annual trikke tribred race at Madana Inn
In amateur racing, the starting line is filled with kids who are determined to be the next big thing. Ricky Carmichael and James "Bubba" Stewart both had incredible amateur careers, but few make it to the big time. For one, the competition is stacked; just to achieve good results, you have to be on your game 24/7. And two, the price to get to the races is gnarly when you add up all the expenses. Over the years, I have really noticed a sea change in amateur racing from the days when I was racing as a kid. The pits are littered with big diesel motor homes, and it seems as if each kid has four bikes at a minimum: These young racers and their parents aren't messing around.
I have had the pleasure of spending time with up-and-comer Travis Bright and his parents, Tammy and Loren. Bright and I often ride at the same private track hidden in the orchards of Ventura County, California. It didn't take long for him to catch my eye as he showed blazing speed aboard his 80. As I came to know his family, I could see just how serious they were about racing. Basically, it's full-time work for Bright and his parents that requires just as much time as the jobs that pay the bills. Competing at this level isn't for everyone, as your entire life is dedicated to racing and producing results, with the biggest focus on Loretta Lynn's Ranch in Tennessee, site of the AMA Amateur National Motocross championship. Don't let this scare you: As serious as the Bright family is about racing, a tight bond among them is clearly evident; after all, motocross is a family sport! Although Bright is only 14, he is well-mannered and has a good head on his shoulders. Racing is fun for him and his family, and more important, he is still allowed to be himself and be a kid. Sadly, some minibike parents rob their kids of that freedom, hoping to groom them into the next Bubba; but in most cases that just doesn't happen. I think there is a fine line when it comes to racing, but no matter what, you have to keep it fun, and this is what the Bright family does.
Travis Bright
DR: When did you first start riding?
TB: I first started riding when I was about five, and I had a PW80. I started racing when I was about nine years old.
How did you get into racing?
We went to a supercross, and my mom decided we were going racing. My dad wanted me to race before then, but my mom wasn't into it. It took just one supercross, and she was all about it.
What allowed you to progress so quickly with your racing?
I started racing at Gorman and L.A. County Raceway, and that went really well, but I seemed to become a lot faster once we started racing [everywhere in Southern California]. The classes are deeper there, and racing with those guys made me better.
How long was it before racing became serious?
My third year racing, we went to Ponca City for the National; I knew then I wanted to take things more seriously and wanted to race all the time. I was able to progress, and now it is all I think about.
As seriously as you take racing, is it still fun for you?
Oh yeah, it's still tons of fun, but it's definitely a job now and something that [requires] 100 percent. I work as hard as I can at this; you have to if you want good results.
What does your weekly program consist of?
I'm homeschooled now, so on Mondays I go to school and turn in all my work for the week and bring home new [assignments]. After I leave school, I try to get some of my homework done. On Tuesdays, my mom takes me to I-5MX, and I ride for most of the day. On Wednesdays, I do school work for about four hours and then ride my bicycle or my 50. Thursdays, I go with my dad to Glen Helen or RaceTown 395. On Fridays, I try to kick back and hang out with friends if I can. That's really important to me.
What is it like being homeschooled?
I recently began homeschooling for the ninth grade. I do my work and get it done when I need to-I should probably get it done a bit sooner than I do. Being homeschooled gives me the opportunity to ride at least twice during the week, and take the time off to go to all the big Nationals during the year.
What is your main focus for the year?
Winning Loretta Lynn's. I will be racing the 14-16 Mod and Supermini [classes].
Words with the head of the house: MomDR: So you were the one who allowed Travis to get into racing?
TB: Yeah, Travis had been riding since he was about five, and I never planned on his racing. There were two things I didn't want him doing: playing football and racing motocross. We all went to a supercross, and after that I was hooked. My husband said Travis would be really good at this, so we bought him a KTM 65 and he raced for the next year at Gorman.
What is the hardest part of being a minibike parent at this level?
Watching your son go out on the track, and seeing him go as fast as he can every lap. I turn my back when he is on the starting line; after he gets through the first turn, I start watching.
How do you manage all the time spent away from work?
I'm fortunate to have my own business, but it's really hard to make it all happen. I feel that if Travis is giving 100 percent, then we have to give 100 percent, too. It's tough, but we make it work. At the level he is [approaching], we are also very excited for him, and that makes us all work that much harder to be able to do this.
Even though you and your husband have good jobs, is it hard financially to race at this level?
It's very hard financially, but we have great support, which helps tremendously. Without some of Travis' sponsors, we would not be able to race as much as we do. Basically, it's just opening the checkbook and using credit cards, and paying the bills when they come. We feel that in this sport if you want to be the best, you have to have the best [equipment].
Do you think some parents push the whole racing thing too far?
Oh yeah! When we first got into this sport, we saw a few dads who were just awful. The kids know what they're doing, and they know they need to be up front. But I think there are a lot of dads who try to live through their sons, and that adds unneeded pressure. Everyone makes mistakes, but it gets old seeing some of the things parents do. There are a few dads I don't care to be around because it just takes away from what we are doing.
Do you think racing at this level makes it difficult for Travis to be a kid?
I thought that about two years ago, because we were going to the races and he was missing school dances and wasn't able to hang out with friends on weekends. He went through about a six-month period of wanting to just hang out with friends, so as a family, we sat down and asked him if he wanted to just race on a part-time basis. After he gave it some thought, he told us he wanted to race. I really don't think he feels he has missed out on anything as far as being a kid. In racing, we have met great people and gone to great places. Motocross is very social for us, and Travis still has his friends back home.
Travis Bright - Road Rage
The Cost Of A Love For Racing
Photography by Corey Neuer
writer: Corey Neuer
Interview with Travis
Danny takes 1st place
Interview with Alfred
Brandon places first in two races
JD makes the cover
Michael makes the cover
AWESOME AUSTIN "JET" SPOTLIGHTED ON KQRE LOCAL NEWS
Terry the "Unigeezer" featured on KTLA morning news
California Beaches: Santa Monica
The original Muscle Beach isn't the exclusive domain of bodybuilders. Soccer players and other sports-minded folk turn out at the ocean-front site.
Alfred Kendrick, in red pants, fights in an Afro-Brazilian Capoeira Batuque group. Capoeira is an martial art developed initially by African slaves in Brazil, starting in the colonial period. It is marked by deft, tricky movements often played on the ground or completely inverted; it also has a strong acrobatic component in some versions and is always played with music.
(Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
April 28, 2009
Gauchos win national title
Saddleback Roller Hockey squad
defeats St. Charles in final of Junior
College Championships.
By MARK GARCIA and JILL FOX
The Orange County Register
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It didn't take long for Saddleback College's newest club team to make a statement. One year after coming into existence, the Gauchos Roller Hockey Club came away with a national championship, April 2-5, at the National Collegiate Roller Hockey Association's Junior College National Championships, held at the Sportsplex in Feasterville, PA.
Saddleback defeated St. Charles Community College of Cottleville, MO, 4-3 (OT), in the final.
In overtime, St. Charles' Andy Draper was assessed a controversial call for tripping at the 6:08 mark. Saddleback's James Irwin didn't waste any time in making him pay as he scored an unassisted goal at 6:32 to give the Gauchos the title.
"We came out tough, had a bad break, took a couple of penalties and went down," said Tyler Fick, a freshman defenseman for the Gauchos, in a press release on the NCRHA Web site. "But we came back and won. 'One team, one dream' – that's the motto we followed all year long."
St. Charles struck first, with Mike Russell scoring a power play goal, assisted by Andy Draper, after Fick took an early interference penalty. The Gauchos, however, returned the favor by getting a power play goal of their own when St. Charles' Matt Johnson took a hooking call at 6:22.
It only took Pat Kolyouthapong 18 seconds to notch the game at 1-1. At 8:20, Cougar forward Kenny Gales scored on an assist by Russell, and the first period ended with St. Charles in front, 2-1.
With a little less than three minutes remaining in the second period, Rob Alexander scored the equalizer on an assist from Gaucho's teammate James Irwin, making it 2-2. That was the only goal of the second stanza. In the third, each team potted a goal. St. Charles struck first, with Andy Draper firing in a shot that was assisted by Johnson at 4:40. Less than a minute later, Alexander, with a helper from Fick, tied it all up again at 3-3.
Saddleback goalie Taz Viloria made 17 saves on 20 shots, but came within inches of allowing the winning goal when a St. Charles shot clanked off the post in overtime.
We started off bad and went down early," Viloria said. "When they hit the post in OT, it was scary."
Saddleback College plays in the National Collegiate Roller Hockey Western Col(legiate Roller Hockey League (www.wcrhl.com). The NCRHA is the governing body for college roller hockey, and consists of 134 college hockey teams from all across the country. Locally; Chapman, CSU Fullerton, El Camino, CSU Long Beach, San Diego State, UC Irvine, UC Riverside, UC San Diego, U of San Diego and USC are also members of the WCRHL.
Saddleback College's team was founded on April 8, 2008, by Viloria, who was the goalie for Mission Viejo High School's varsity roller hockey team at the time. Viloria was getting ready to attend Saddleback College in the fall, and had a strong desire to play college hockey. Since Saddleback College had no hockey team, he worked extensively with the National Collegiate Roller Hockey Association, to make his dream of playing college hockey a reality.
Viloria, a nationally-ranked roller hockey goalie, was able to recruit several talented players to join him on the team. When all was said and done, Saddleback ended up with two teams, one playing in the Junior College (JC) division, and one playing in the B division.
Both teams were successful this past season, with the B team having a 12-4 regular season record, and making it all the way to the playoffs at Nationals before being eliminated. Quite an accomplishment considering the team almost folded in September because they did not have a goalie.
Had it not been for Irwin, one of the most talented skaters on the A team who stepped up and offered to play goalie for the B team as well, this team may have been finished before the season even started. Instead they ended the year being ranked 10th in the country in the B Division.
The JC team began the season by winning the College Division of the "Give Blood Play Hockey" tournament (www.givebloodplayhockey.org/tournament) held in Irvine in September. They went on the have a regular season record of 13-3, beating many Division 1 schools along the way.
Taz
Abby in the News
CA High Schools Embrace Skateboarding
Posted by: Heather Limestahl
Los Angeles (myFOXla.com) - Most schools don't allow skateboarding on campus.
However, now some high schools in California are embracing skateboarding
as a competitive sport.
Carlos Amezcua has the video report.
CHRIS, ABBY AND JASON
Christopher Navarro , Abby Znarsnay, & Jason Navarro (SPORTYTALENT team members) meet @ the brand new FILLMORE Skatepark for a day of riding the new style of concrete extreme park. Opened in early May 2009 , Fillmore Skatepark has riding areas for any style or type of rider from novice to expert. The entire park is rideable for either skateboards , scooter or trick bmx biking. As Abby and Christopher noted , the bowl offers an outstanding boarding experience and flows with the rider. For BMX trick bikes, pulling some air out of the vert is the thing to do. Jason attempted many tricks and drew lots of oohhs and ahhs from the crowd. This is a must skatepark to ride for any skateboarder or trick bike rider who wants to go BIG !
written by GIZGAZ 2009
TRENT
JET HIGHLIGHTED IN SPORTS ILLUSTRATED FOR KIDS
Jet, a kindergartner, placed 14th at the U.S. Kids Golf Desert Shootout last December. This season, he averaged one birdie per nine holes, hit 85 percent of his fairways, and made par 70 percent of the time. His average drive measures 110 to 130 yards.
ABBY
Abby Zsarnay recently competed in the Sony Playstation® Am Jam Tour at Woodward West in Stallion Springs, Ca and took 1st place in the Vert Competition. This qualified her for the Finals and a week of Summer Camp and training at Woodward East in Pennsylvania.
Abby Zsarnay takes a first at the Sony Playstation® Am Jam Tour
Sports
Published: April 02, 2008
Abby Zsarnay recently competed in the Sony Playstation® Am Jam Tour at Woodward West in Stallion Springs, Ca and took 1st place in the Vert Competition. This qualified her for the Finals and a week of Summer Camp and training at Woodward East in Pennsylvania.
Abby, an 8th grade student at Ventura Missionary School, started skateboarding about six years ago. Three older boys in her neighborhood started her out when she was little, putting her on a skateboard and rolling her down a homemade ramp. Now she’s an accomplished skateboarder. “It’s a lot of fun to get out there and learn new tricks,” she said.
Abby says becoming a professional someday is a goal she has. “I want to work up to that,” she noted. He dad says eventually they’ll seek sponsors. She goes through a few boards a year and her shoes need to be replaced every few weeks.
PlayStation® has teamed up with the most recognized name in action sports training, Camp Woodward. They are looking for new and upcoming talent ages 7-18 in BMX Freestyle, Inline Skating, and Skateboarding. Abby will attend the training week in June at Camp Woodward in Pennsylvania and at the end of the week, the individual in each sport who show the most talent and promise wins $5000, PlayStation® prizes, and the use of Woodward facilities for the entire 2009 season.
A Magical Dance-Drama Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe
Candice Cross (Astra/Amalia) - Candice Cross received her Bachelor of Arts in Dance from the University of California, Irvine. There she started an on campus organization entitled Transcendence Art Theatre to facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration among fellow artists. Her goal is to integrate the performance of music and dance in the greater Los Angeles area as a means of engaging the community through the arts. As a certified Pilates instructor she teaches her students the importance of mind to body connectivity through centering, balance, and control. Ms. Cross has taught ballet, jazz, and modern dance throughout Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley. She hopes to continually grow as an artist through performance, instruction, and collaboration.
CANDICE
Golf Talk Radio with Mike & Billy Podcasts
JET
Holly on USA Character Road Trip
Austin-Jet the 5 year old golfing phenom joins Mike & Billy in the ESPN 1280am studio
TRENT
Unofficial Coast Guard Recuiting
Trent Bowman, 8-year-old skateboard prodigy, shows off his Coast Guard skateboard deck by popping off the coping to do a frontside at the AST Dew Tour, at Cleveland. Trent Bowman is the new unofficial Coast Guard recruiting initiative.
Jun 29, 2009
San Diego's JD Swanguen and Colo-RAD-ian Lisa Myklak smoke the Mt Hood Ski Bowl DH Track that dropped you 1600' vertical in 4 to 5 mins depending on nerves, brakes, line choice, tire pressure and your sole determination.
A huge field of racers from all over the west coast attended the Fluidride Cup #3 race...Enjoy the video!
JD wins Fluidride Cup #3
HOLLY ON THE COVER OF LA TIMES MAGAZINE
JET ON CHANNEL 4 NEWS
Governor of New Mexico proclaims August 8, 2009 as Austin Jet Day
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MICHAEL
Michael Paul served in the Army during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. He was later selected to attend Ranger school, and was assigned to an elite Long Range Reconnaissance and Surveillance unit. Michael suffered a spinal chord injury (L1 incomplete) in a parachuting/ skydiving accident, but has since became a competitive wheelchair athlete, excelling in both tennis and downhill skiing. He also has been working on his Masters degree in Human Service and Counseling. As a Mission Continues Fellow, Michael worked on his certification as a professional adaptive alpine skiing instructor and worked with the National Sports Center for the Disabled (NSCD) and Wounded Warrior Clinics teaching other wounded veterans to ski. Ultimately, Michael hopes to work as an instructor for the various wounded warriors clinics and be involved with adaptive sports programs or spokes person for disabled sports.
Ryan, his Dad Larry and Ryan's awesome coach, Adam
SKATEDOGS
Jake Kaminski gets silver at Easton Cup
JD wins Ray's 3Ride
Taryn
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Colby
