Wednesday 19th Jan

Have been in OZ since Sun, just about recovering from the jet lag - although I was asleep by 9.30pm last night and wide awake at 6.30am this morning. That works out well though as our training sessions have been earlyish morning.

In true weather witch stylee it got cold as soon as I got out here. But has now warmed up and is a scorcher today!! (Although, I think I prefered it yesterday when it was cooler).

We've had a couple of team training sessions now. They have gone well, but there is never enough time - we have split the team (we are also with the Swedish team for practice) into two groups and have half an hour for each group, this allows for quicker time between each ride, but half hour isn't that long to get moves sorted out. I've been working on my loops, and managed to get a couple of good ones today but the hole is really fast and more often than not I'm tumbling the loop and falling over! I was watching some of my competition today - Lynsey is getting some good entry moves (although she is still working on sticking them every time). Tanya faux (Aus) is getting really strong rides with blunts both ways, loops and lots of cartwheels. Not many people are getting scoring blunts as it seems hard to get out of the pile, and get enough angle without flushing.

All the brits are liking the hole - it's nice to be able to go into a feature and not worry about getting a trashing (as in Graz). The eddys are good as well so if you do flush you can go straight back into the feature without wasting too much time - hopefully this will make people go for more adventurous moves without needing to 'spin to win'.

Flea


(thanks to Rew, Dan and Blokey for the techie updated bits on the website!)