I only made the connection now, as I wrote out the title, that it’s weird to win an event put on by your major sponsor. But, I guess it’s like Garrett Reynolds winning the Nike 6.0 Open or something. Regardless, you know he earned it and that there weren’t any shenanigans of sorts within the judging.
Here’s another contest, like Dew Tour Portland, where some unsuspecting jumps were brutally destroyed by Brett Banasiewicz front flipping them and such. His runs were wild. Cashrolls, front flip ETs, back flips, triple tailwhips. The kid is SERIOUSLY a video game character … Details
“ON THE LINE! ON THE LINE!†were the only words we could make out from two Asian riders we met after hiking back to the top of D1. Jack Reading and I had been filming all day, when we met two riders who started talking to Jack, but he couldn’t understand what they were saying. One struggled to say that he couldn’t speak English very well; however the one thing that was clear was that they knew Jack. After a few seconds of thinking, they finally started yelling, “ON THE LINE! ON THE LINE!†Instantly, Jack and I knew they had seen him in the movie, which was released last Spring  … Details