Euro X Games
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
After the worst drive of all times ( exploded tyre in the first hour (2 hours delay for fixing it), snow chaos on the roads in Germany and Austria (another 1-2 hours delay), ending up at a mountain pass between Italy and France that was closed (4 hour detour drive, at that point it was past midnight), getting 2 speeding tickets in the mont blanc tunnel (30 kmh too fast on the Italian side/210€ fine an 33kmh too fast on the French side/90€ fine; the tunnel itself was 35€ – i paid 335€ to go through a fucking 10 kilometer tunnel) , getting to Tignes at 4am after 18 hours in the car!!!) i made it to Tignes for the first Euro X Games ever.
The course is somewhat crazy, 6 jumps in one run and 2 speedy jibs. The first day there were still some true gaps in there, but somehow they changed that within one night completely – they made everything poppier, filled the gaps in and made step downs instead. Then the weather was shit and practice was pretty sketchy today. Lots of people got hurt. I´m not sure if its a smart idea to ride this course after just coming back from a knee injury. I guess i will just go with my feeling and be sponteanous when it comes to qualifiers.
Jump number 4 and 5, a speedy rainbow thing and jump number 6. Actually you can even ride the take off next to the rainbow jib as another jump, then you got 7 jumps in one run. Probably the most jumps in a contest run ever. crazy shit!










