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Thursday, April 12, 2007
Busty Wolter update....staying busy...
The last two weekends have been the most intense Night of the Jumps weekends ever. On the first weekend of April it was time for the event in my hometown Berlin. I was very motivated and rode well in my qualifier on the first day until I stalled my bike. I started it real quick again but when I was on the approach to the ramp my time was over. So I did my Double-Up trick and already new that I missed one jump. This kicked me out of the finals, I was frustrated. Afterwards I got told I could have done my jump when I saw that the time was out since I was already on the approach. I am too german I guess... HAHA! So I was super motivated for the next day.Everything went well in the qualifier, I even did one more jump than I had to do to make up for my mistake from the first day. In the finals I stuck my frist ever Nacnac Backflip to dirt and finished in 6th place. That was all I could do, because the level was very, very high. Everybody who thought Berlin was sick was proven wrong only one week later in Graz at the second IFMXF Worldchampionships contest. Some riders stepped it up even more compared to Berlin!
The track was very cool. Finally we did not have to ride in a circle, had 3 big landings and a very innovative Step-Up to Step-Down jump that send us about 15 meters above the flat ground! Another cool thing was that we had a full day of practice before the event started, because on easter sunday we had a show in the afternoon and the contest in the night. The level in the contest was even raised compared to Berlin. Fredd Johansson learned Indyflips during the week, Romain Izzo showed his first Seatgrab backflip and guys aas Ailo Gaup get stronger and stronger after their injuries.I rode pretty good and was happy with my riding, but ended up in 8th position. But I was only 10 points behind Remi Bizouard, that is not that much. And even Remi didn‘t make it to the finals! I did not know what more I could do for the next day. I guess I have to go out and learn some gnarlier flipcombos... I did pretty much the same run and ended up in 7th position, only 4 points behind Mat Rebeaud. But honestly I would have been in 9th place. The judging on sunday send out the impression that all they wanna see is flips. So as a protest, I guess, Mike Mason did a flip-free run on monday. Thanks, buddy, for showing that there is still big-name guys out there who have the right spirit and do FMX for the right reasons! Speaking of the right soul: Adam Jones did a whole goonride run after messing up his first trick. You are in the club, too, Adam! I still get tears in my eyes from laughing when I think about this run...
So these two boys would have been in front of me. Remi Bizouard stepped it really up on the second day by pulling his first ever 360 attempt to dirt in the finals. He came really close and just slid out a little bit in the landing. Remi gets the „biggest balls award“ from me for this weekend!
In two weeks I will have a weeklong show at the BAUMA in Munich, after that I will be on a two-week roadtrip with Fuel TV from the USA for their Euro-Episode. YEAH!
See you!
Busty
Next events:
22.-29.04.2007 BAUMA expo for CAT, Munich / Germany www.bauma.de
19.05.2007 Cologne Centurions American Football, Cologne / Germany www.centurions.de
20.05.2007 FMX Show at ADAC MX Masters, Reutlingen / Germany www.adac-mx-masters.de
Pics by: Andre Villa - Christoph Leib
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