Hey what's good everyone? Well I gotta be honest, X didn't go as planned for me and if you watched the X games over the weekend you probably thought I wasn't even there! You know its a bad weekend when your hi-light of the event was only jumping a dirt hit that noone else did! Yea and that's about all I can say I accomplished haha! I'm only kidding. Its just such a strange feeling when months of hard work and preparation go down the drain in a blink of an eye. And in our sport it happens that fast and with out warning. The entire week was going good, I felt good in all my practice sessions, I felt confident and had the courses wired and all that. Even though my 7th in Best Trick might not have raised your eye brows, I was still pumped on how my 3's looked and was carrying that confidence into saturday for speed and style and fmx.

But just when I was about to get things goin, I ran in to a lil bad luck. On sat morning we only got 1 lap to warm up for speed and style so I thought, "Id better do all my rhythms exactly as I would in the race cause this is all the practice I'm getting". I did a start rounded the 1st corner and started jumping through a rythm section. Just as I was excelerating off a lip, my bike seized a piston and sent me head first over the bars. I took the bars straight to my right groin, landed on my back and somehow tore 2 ligaments in my ankle. I crawled off the track ( to avoid getting ran over), laid there for a minute and kept thinking, this cant be happening! I tried to recoop for speed and style, buti was just too stiff and a lil foggy up stairs from hitting my head a lil bit.

So I decided to play it safe, rest up and try to keep loose for the fmx comp that evening. But as the results show it didn't really work for me.I came out that night and got myself mentaly ready to do work. My run started out decent, but a cordova flip my 3rd jump in really pulled hard on my groin and kinda set my back. The rest of my run slowly fell apart and I was eliminated out of the 1st round. Thats not usually what happens to me! At 1st I was really pissed and if you watched on tv, I'm sure you could tell! In the 2 days since I've reflected a lot on what happened and all I can say is, ya win some and ya lose some. Instead of being so bummed on my mechanical failure (which I have no control of anyway) I can be pumped that I'm not serously injured and ill only be off my bike a couple weeks. I know God has a plan for me and even though it didn't work out as I planned, I know it's for the best.

I visited my friend Nicky Danielson in the hospital yeaterday just before he went into surgery. Nicky cased the 120ft ramp in practice on the weekend and broke both legs, left wrist and dislocated his hand. As I talked with him I kinda put it all in perspective. It can always be worse. And that's not some corny excuse to make myself feel better, its only truth. I didn't get any medals this year (not even close) but I'm walking, talking and able to ride another day. I can still win the Dew Tour overall so what do I have to be bummed about? I have the best job in the world and wouldn't trade it for anything. My glass is still looking half full to me!

My thoughts and prayers go out to all the athletes injured over the weekend and I encourage you to do the same. Big ups to Kyle Loza, Kevin Johnson and Jeremy Lusk for all bringing home golds.

That's what's up! Thanks to everyone for reading and your continued support, God Bless!

--akapatchy