“Can you wake her up off the floor?
We're landing now.” After a pretty good night sleep for an airplane
with Jeanee and I taking turns one on the floor, and one taking the
two seats we reached New Zealand!
immediately after landing we went it up to the go karts at the top of the mountain looking over Queenstown. The view is bomb and the go karts are awesome. Jeanee and I tried to go double so on e could steer and the other film, but they said I don't count as a child, and that you have to be only three feet tall to ride alone and I am above that height ;) so I had to hold the GoPro in one hand and steer with the other, which resulted with me almost tipping/hitting the wall, freezing my fingers, and eventually dropping the gopro, slamming on the breaks and causing a pile up. Seriously would have been way safer if they just let Jeanee and me go together.....always is
view from the top of go kart you can see the track and the view!
So the next day we showed up to pipe training at 11, cause we thought it started then, actually ended at 11, so I ran up the pipe and got 1 run, yolo there went training, so instead slid some rails, it was bomb.
The next day we hung around the lodge all day as training kept getting delayed and delayed due to fog, but not cancelled. That gave some quality lodge chillen and some catch up on all the ins and outs of life that occurred over the summer.
After those two very productive days we had one day of legit training that I actually showed up to on time. Spent time getting the rust out from not being in the pipe all spring/summer.
Jeanee and I went to opening ceremonies, and we got to ride in on the jet boats with NZ college students holding the flags of all the countries behind us, and then all the boats did simultanious 360's! SO MUCH FUN!
Next day was qualifiers. Showed up to
fog, and a delayed start and girls ended up starting at 1:15. First
run landed solid, but was rushed and missed my grabs. Was 15th after
first run, cleaned up my tricks for second run and improved 9 points
jumping up to 8 and qualifying for finals!
Yesterday was finals, and we showed up
too.....FOG, worse fog then the day before, and a delay, turned out
to be a pretty good delay as training was supposed to start at 9, we
thought 10 and had arrived accordingly. Finally we did start training
at about 11. Took 2 straight air runs, a run of spins, and went for
my first ever 9 in the pipe. Brought it to my feet, but caught an
edge and tomahawked. Went back up, did a run focusing on waiting and
boosting on the five, went back and went for and landed the 9 hella
stomped!!!!
For my comp run I did a run of both way
fives, a flair and a 7. All grabbed, but unfortunately I scrubbed a
bit on the flair and didn't have a good seven because of speed
issues. We had to wait around all day until 2:45 when they finally
officially cancelled second runs. I had wanted to do the 9 second
run, but had to be content with the run I did and stoked that I left
the mountain a better skier then I arrived.
I had two great days of comps for
halfpipe. There were no head games, no nervous shaking, no excuses.
I stayed calm through the slight technical mishaps of missing
training, not being able to get into a pipe this spring or summer
after I had been prior told I would be, and didn't let wanting to
prove to people I can ski pipe, and knowing I can be better get in
the way of me skiing the best I could given all circumstances, I had
wanted to land a 9, went out in the flat light and did just that.
I am very happy and excited that I had
such a great time competing pipe at the NZ winter games, and 7th
at a platinum pipe event is the best result I have yet in pipe, so
I'm stoked!
More to come real soon as we get on the
slope course, go bungie jumping, and see how the slope comps shape
up!
you can always check out all the info on the Facebook page and website for the winter games!
<3 MoCrazy
