So things had been tracking along nicely. Regular gate sessions with some of the fastest dudes in the world down in Chula Vista, throwing down dollar bills everytime you hop on the gate for the holeshot. If you thought you tried hard before hand to win in practise,think agian! Best training and closest to race situation you will ever get! No one wants to give an inch! Also regualar timeing sessions going down on the gate at Barry Nobles yard leading into the night, and the normal day to day routine of sunny Californian training. I had moved into power phase and starting to freshen up for this weeknds race in Nashville, Tennese then the worst thing happened. Into my second set of squats on 75% of my usually squat weight (170kg) and felt a little click in my back mid way through the squat. I racked the weight and relised somthing wasnt right so left the session at that. I hadnt done anything difrent then normal but i guess when you start to reach goals and potentials you relised you never had then there is definitly big big risks involved. As the day went on the more the pain came on. 3 days later things were still the same if not worse with not being able to do anything but lie on the couch, floor or bed so off to the docs and physio i went today to sort out whats going on. Had some good news and some bad news i definitly did not want to hear from the doc and straight away thought the worst but as galbraith would say, it all depense how you look at the things that makes it good or bad...harder said then done but definitly looking up now for sure!!
So I made the call to miss this weekends race with the potential of missing next weeknds race in Salt Lake also and try and get it healed up and ready to throw down for the race after that in 4 weeks time in Rockford.
Learnings from this annoying and very painfull injury......always look at the brightside, warm up heavily for excercise and tick the boxes!
Back to the couch I go.....

This week ive been battleing the man flu like crazey trying to not let it get me. After resting up for a couple of days i think i finally am on the tail end...fingers crossed! So I got to do some sprints this morning and wake the body back up. Its only been 2 days off it but damn ive missed it haha.

My buddy  from back home Daniel Franks aka muhamad franks, aka bin franks sent me some photos of a shoot we did with the BMX High Performance team just before i flew out to California. Check them out below.....

All for now......

 End of the weeks here and another week done and dusted in sunny California on the training grind. I moved into power phase this week, so its time to turn all this strength and hard work into power and speed. Week started off a little rough from the burn of a delayed string of flights back home from the race in charlotte and getting the man flu during the week. Almost shaken it off and ready to bang it out next week and get back into the routine and continue building the horses.
 On friday i headed upto L.A. and met up with all the team at Crupi and got to check out what goes on behind the scenes up there. Super pumped and super excited to be getting a whole lot more support and backing from these guys in helping me on my continueous journey in BMX in the 2013-2014 season. Exciting times ahead for sure!
 We also did a few photo shoots for some new parts they're working on and went over some new designs of some other things hitting the shelf soon, so watch this space.........
Check out there website http://www.crupibmxracing.com/ for any parts or bikes you may need. Great team, great parts, great company. Get on it!  

 So this weeknd just gone was my first stop on the ABA National series in Charlotte, North Carolina. It also being my first ever ABA race. The racing is very diffrent to what im used to say the least. Back home in Australisia and at World Cups im used to big steep ramps and medium height hills to start off of. Over here the hills are very very flat so power, strength and horses really come into play. Also the level of racing out here in America is second to none! Every race has thee worlds best attending. The current Olympic Gold medalist, World Champ and the top guys from Australia, Europe and all over the world, making the aba circuit pretty much the toughest series to race in the world, second to the World Cup series.
Willy and i flew into Charlotte on the thursday and where luckey enough to meet, chat, airport hop, and be sitting on the plane in front of Travis Pastrana. If you dont know who he is, we are no longer friends haha. Legend of the moto x world for sure!

 Practise came around friday night and got the gate and everything sorted on the track ready for the first day of racing saturday.
Saturdays racing came around and i qualified through motos and semi finals. The mains here are run over 3 races. In the first final i placed 4th and had a solid lap coming out of lane 6. Second final i didnt quite get out the gate to well and go the squeeze heading down the first straight and was stuck mid pack and couldnt find my way back through to place 6th. Then the last main i got probably one of the best gates of my life and was first equal to the first jump but overshot the first jump a tad and at this level, that was enough for the guys next to me to gain an inch and shut me down straight away. I placed 6th over all for that day. i walked away happy to make the main, and happy to make some $$ for sure but not so happy i wasnt on that podium.

 Day 2 was a little different. Felt the burn big time from the previous days racing but once the gate dropped all that went out the window and got on with racing. Once again easily qualifed through motos but things were a little difrent once i got to the semis. Drew lane 6 on the outside of a short first straight. I got down the first straight solid and in the front 3 but being on the outside, got held up and bombed making it to hard for me to fight back to the top 4. That was my day done with a 5th place in the semi and leaving me to cheer on my buddy willy from the sidelines in the final.

This weeknd made me relise that 1 inch is 1 inch and theres no way anyone is going to back off no matter what. When it comes down to it once you go through qualifying, in a semi final and final at this level over here, there are 8 guys heading down the first straight within 12 inches into the first turn not wanting to budge or move for that inch! Where unlike back home, the comparison to that inch is usually around 2-3 bike lengths.

 I flew back into cali late lastnight and hit the tin yard this morning. Time to make some gains, refuel and continue building the machine before my next race stop in 3 weeks in Nashville, Tennessee.

BOOM! Peace

Well this week did'nt start off as bright as I thought it would have. Rolled out of bed monday morning to New Zealand weather! Raining, cold and miserable. I thought this was California. Luckely well be back into the mid 30s by the end of the week and things will go back to normal. So the weekly schedule got shuffled around abit and got into in the gym first thing monday morning. Today again was the same unfortunitly but got some solid fine breaks to grow some more horse power in the legs out on the road. Now its time to start freshening up for the weeknd with one more maintanance gym sesh and hopefully a light track session tommorow afternoon if the weather plays ball as me and willy fly out to the east coast of USA on thursday (friday new zealand time). Amped and excited to say the least for this weeknds race, as its my first ever ABA race. Cant wait to line up on that gate and throw down!
 
In other news, I did some sprint testing a few weeks back with the team back in Cambridge, New Zealand post New Zealand Tiltles on the watt bike. Super pumped to see alot of improvements as far as results go from the last testing i did which was 6 weeks previous. Time to continue climbing the ladder!

Check out this video if your struggling to get off that couch back home because its raining and train! Go get it!

so this is my first update!finally stopped procrastinating and actually got this thing up and running.ill do my best to keep this thing updated and evolving as much as possible,so work in progress.....
check back here with whats going down in my bmx career and in what part of the world im in.enjoy!