So Worlds is over and my week rest off training is done and dusted and im back on my grind harder than ever to carry on building and chasing my goals/dreams. Its been good to take some time and reflect on a lot of things over especially what the future holds for me in BMX and my plans moving forward have become a lot more clearer and solid with some good decisions being made by myself and the support staff that help me over the weekend in Cambridge.

This coming season a couple of exciting things have been in the pipeline and one of them is I will be riding for Gatorade new Zealand. Super pumped to be supported and have one of the best sports drink on the planet hydrating me and keeping me fuelled up for the coming season in training and at races all over the world. Also looking forward to repping there brand as much as I possibly can and being part of there team. Check out there website link on my homepage to see what they have to offer.

Also I will be heading back to the United States next month (September) to race the final round of the world cup circuit out in Chula vista, California. I will then be staying on for another block of training and racing in California until the ABA grand's in December before I head back home. Ill be training an living with one of my good buddies Barry Nobles. Super excited to be heading back to continue racing where i left off 4 weeks ago in the toughest race series in the world second to the world cup series.

 So the build up to world championships went well. I flew back home to New Zealand for a week then went over to Brisbane, Australia for some much needed big hill time out in sleemans. That track is definitely in the top 5 best tracks I've ever ridden!

 The team and I flew back into Auckland on the Wednesday night and was up early Thursday morning for a team press conference and then headed off to mish for one last wake up session before the weekend in the gym. Love lifting tin in that place! Then finally headed off to the track in the avo to support some buddy's who were racing cruiser and check out the track for the first time as there was some big questions and speculations raised over the standard and tightness off the track.
I would love to vent some thoughts on that matter but its over and done with and at the end of the day, everyone was equally having to ride what was put in front of us so that was a plus I guess.

Practise came around Friday night and within 3 laps had jumped and ticked off everything out there which has been my main goal heading to these last few races is to get things ticked off as fast as possible so I can get comfortable out there as soon as poss and ride on the limits! the only thing I had to get sorted was the gate as we didn't get any due to the ramp and gate not being finished or ready to drop.
Saturday morning was just about getting the body warmed up and punch out some gates before time trials Saturday avo.
Time trials came and went and put down a comfortable lap with a few mistakes here and there but kept everything stock as poss.

Racing came around Sunday and qualified out of motos with ease. we then had a 4 hour break and was straight into elimination rounds of 1/8ths which was a different story all together. Got an ok gate and managed to get to the bottom of the hill first but being out in lane 4 I didn't get across enough into the first turn and got the nudge from underneath and went down coming out of the first turn....my day over!!I was devastated to say the least. It felt like I was tracking and going ok and things were pulling together like I had planned only to be slammed back to reality I guess. I sulked for a couple of hours and most of the big names either went down or got blown to pieces in the first turn as well which made it a little bit easier to swallow but still didn't stop the disappointment and anger feeling creep in...

Its been just over a week now and I'm starting to get back into it after taking a week off to wind down and headed over to Ruapehu for some much needed snowboarding with krew and got back out on the golf coarse. I've evaluated everything as far as prep went for a big race and found a lot of areas that I need to pick up on so those areas will be my main focus moving forward and am amping for what next season has to offer!! Ready to pump some more hard yards and continue chasing my dream......

Also I want to say a big thank you for all the support of my family and friends for soming up to support me. Also a big thank you to my sponsors, without yu guys a lot of this wouldn't have been possible! Crupi bicycles, Taranaki elite athlete foundation, Tsb bank, Bikenz and all the staff and people involved with helping on my journey.

time to go shred the local trails...over and out