Winter Splinter2007
Life is Killing Me
Wow, took long enough. It's time go move to the guys who ride for money. Mmmmmmmm, money. I just spent most of the day trying to figure out what to replace our bathroom countertops with, money is good. Don't let 'em lie to you kids, being an adult isn't all its cracked up to be..
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This is Kevin Newman's son, Josh. I know this is Kevin Newman 's son Zach because he e-mailed me and said that the fashion police were going to arrest him for his attire. Sadly, if I was on the jury, I'd vote for a conviction. |
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The absolute weirdest part of this whole contest is I don't think I have a single picture of Motherf***ing A-ron Baird doing a tailwhip. I'm sure that I'll prove myself a liar in a couple of pages when I find the pictures of him trying to disembowel himself via a triple tailwhipectomy. |
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Not that I don't have plenty of pictures of OTHER people whipping, mind you. |
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Or even boomeranging. |
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And handplanting. Wow, seriously, for a guy I totally didn't remember (don't feel bad, I didn't remember much of anything except Scott Gould coming within three inches of me on a flair attempt, Bast's wreck and that one dude's bike coming at my head) Zach put in work. |
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And just that fast I'm a liar. |
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Still, a 2:1 non-whip:whip ratio for Baird.
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3:1 |
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Skylish. |
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OK, it's not obvious what's going on from the picture, but Jon Bast here was going for a frontflip transfer from the spine to the box. Had he pulled it it would've brought the house down. He still managed to bring the house down, but, it wasn't quite the way he intended. See, where his head is? That's his body's pivot, that more or less remained steady in space while the rest of his body rotated around it. This is important because it helps you better picture how high he was when his body and his bike stopped rotating at 180 degrees through the 360 degrees it takes to make a "flip." At this point, no longer rotating he just fell like a stone directly onto the deck of the box, which is the second luckiest thing that could have possibly happened to him. Landing on the backside would've been better, but he didn't land flat back on the joint, which likely would've snapped him in half. He managed to get up afterwards and walk around. He spent a lot of time under the vert ramp hunched over in agony, but he walked away. I haven't heard word on how he's doing, but I'm hoping the damage was more to his pride than his body. |
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Others stepped in to take up A-ron's whip slack. |