| written by Sebastian Wolter |
Hello,
on the first weekend of November I was guest at „Wetten dass...“, europes most succesful
entertainment TV show (with an average number of about 15 million (!) spectators). I was
betting, that I could land on and destroy 5 apples, that were attached on the landing, within 2
minutes after a 20 meter long jump. With my last jump I finally hit the last apple and finished
2nd in the telephone voting for the best bet. Cool! Thanks go out to Spielbetrieb and Suzuki
for making this possible!
But I did not give myself time to party since I headed down to Italy for some days of nice
practice with Alvaro dal Farra (Thanks for the hospitality, Alve!), Massimo Bianconchini,
Martin Koren and Tobi Immler.
So I was well prepared for the IFMXF Worldcup in Hamburg last weekend. My main goal was
to show the crowd my first ever long distance backflip in a contest. Practice went well and I
did 3 flips. But in my qualifier run things went wrong on my last jump before the „double up“
when I came 10 cm short on a Flintstone-to-Sidesaddle landing. The bike sent me flying over
the bars and so I was not making it into the finals AND could not show my big flip... I was
disapointed, that I could not fulfill my promise from Cologne, so I decided to do the flip in the
whip-contest. I did so, but of course this did not help for the whip-contest result... anyway, I
have proven, that now I am also in the big flip club! But still I am a little disapointed because I
think I could have finished in 4th position that night, without the crash.
I also got a nice interview (in german) at „Spiegel online“:
http://www.spiegel.de/sport/sonst/0,1518,447061,00.html
Now I am sitting in Spain to ride with Morgan Carlsson, Rino Holm and Fab Bauersachs in
André Villas SUZUKI-FMX Park. When I come back I will ride the last IFMXF
worldchampionship round in Poland. After that it’s time again for the Air & Style in Munich as
well as the SuperCrossOver. After that I will call it a year...
Cheers,
Busty
[www.airwastl.de]
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