Friday, January 2, 2009

Girls Gone Wild



Today was a high energy day for the SMS girls.  From the van ride to the park to the van ride home they dominated the airwaves and airspace.  I had the pleasure of riding with Sadie, Emily and India.  With an 8 jump park leading to the pipe, all the girls are getting better in the air.  The focus is on grabbing like you mean it and landing 180s.  Sadie has frontside almost down, and Emily's half-cabs are almost ready for the bigger jumps.  Threes soon for Emily too.  Both girls are starting to spin backside in the pipe, and Sadie filmed some nice airs.  Emily and India both stepped to the hardest rail in the park, a long down-flat-down.  Emily runs it clean every run and India boardslid the last down, but slammed.   All documented and, on that note, we have about 200 usable clips from this trip and three of the kids have already started their own edits.
Rick had Shelby and Jenn with him and their mission was 360s.  Shelby started spinning 360s last spring and took a lot of hard falls.  She has stuck with it though and was landing them today.  Heck yeah Shelby.  Jenn has discovered a love for riding switch, its hard to tell which way she rides.  She is charging into jumps switch and landing Cabellerials.  At the end of the day she was trying cab 5s.  Much respect to these two for pushing the team.
On the drive home the girls took over the IPod and blasted pop music while singing along at top volume.  Randall, Tikos and I were cowed.  It was a full takeover by the SMS girls team.  One of the cooler days of coaching I have experienced.  
Of course the guys ripped too.  But they all recognized the girls energy and gave tons of support and props.
Day off tomorrow (for the kids anyway!)
Ian

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