So in practice the first day I jumped the last jump, didn’t even do a trick, and my hand wanted to slip off the grip and it sent me sling-shotting into the berm straight to my head. Pretty much knocked me out. I managed to get up like I was super tough and walk off the course. I sat there talking to medical staff while my ears were ringing and my vision was totally blurred, but I trucked it out and managed to ride for about half an hour longer until the concussion sunk in and I was back at the hotel feeling like I wanted to die. I shook off the concussion and managed to get back for the 6pm practice and do some more runs.

The following day was finals day, and I woke up feeling pretty good. I went to practice and I wanted to knock out some big tricks so I was feeling good come finals time. Well another crash in practice slowed me down a little bit. I crashed a flip-bar to whip on the first set and smashed my hip. Nothing serious, but still sucked.

Come comp time I was feeling ok and ready to send my runs. I managed to pull off my first run. It wasn’t exactly what I wanted, but it was clean so I can’t complain. Now it was time for my second run. If I pulled this off, I could have possibly wrapped up the comp, but, as always, hahaha, it didn’t go as planned, and I caught the barspin in the flip bar to whip not even on my grip and had to cheese that run. I wasn’t too upset but that meant it all came down to my last run. If I pulled my last run, I could win the cup. If I didn’t pull it, it was all over and was probably another re-peat of last year.

Well I was pretty determined to not that happen. That was until I dropped in for a warm up lap and ended up having a gnarly collision with Rob Darden who was crossing the course. Lucky nothing was hurt or broken on me or my bike and I was able to get up and run back up to the top of the roll in and do my 3rd run. I was the last rider to go and I had to land this last run.

Well at the end of the day, I didn’t do what I really wanted to do, but I didn’t crash and I pulled off my run. I couldn’t believe that I won the Dew Cup for 2008. It still hasn’t sunk in, but is slowly getting there.

I wanna thank all my family for making the trip over from Australia. I’m glad I could pull it off and make it a worthwhile trip. Stay tuned for the next update. We have some exciting stuff coming up this week.

Cheers,

Cam