Center of Gravity – Day 1

Ever wonder what goes on inside Dangerous Dan’s head? Apparently a bunch of earwax….

So this is the Center of Gravity, which is a new mid-summer beach festival in Kelowna. Take a bunch of beach volleyball players and mountain bikers and toss them on the beach. Good idea.

It’s a small event at this point. Just a handful of locals like Casey Groves, Garet Buehler, Sterling Grassick, Romo, Doerfling, Schnepf, and Super T.

That seems to be enough to put on a show though.

The first day required some tuning on the jumps.

The boys didn’t seem to have too many problems. A handful of unknown locals really spiced up the show.

Here’s the roll in ramp from a fun angle.

Our man Rob was running the elevator. Watching a few of the guys ride UP the rollin was more fun though.

Of course, there was also some beach volleyball if you wanted something different.

I don’t know what it is, but I spent a lot of time watching volleyball…

Or you could try to watch it all at once.

How do you like my new fisheye lens? Actually, Romo kept over-rotating his three’s, and went through a bunch of wheels. Too much ‘zest’ can ruin the sauce….

DJ’s, flow show, beer garden, volleyball. Nice one with two guys airborne on the same hit.

Super T wants you to join him and the other zombies in their brain eating activities.

Cheeker and Romo.

Random guy (Mr. White) that stole my camera.

Yeaaahhhhhh Booooooooyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Oh, and I got to be a judge for the best trick comp. Here’s a look at one of my fellow judges score sheet (one Shane Jensen, former child star).

I got the crap end of the deal apparently. Check out what these guys got to judge.

Oh yeah…

Some kind of show, isn’t it?

It came down to these two.

I was kind hypnotized by the colour blue at this point.

But the judges saw it differently. I’m satisified with that decision….

Jump Building

Not much riding to be had these days, as there’s still plenty of snow out there. However, with a distinct lack of fresh pow this week, we found some time to build a few hits at the local DJ spot.

Some guy just showed up with a Bobcat. Do you believe it?

So yeah, we have a few pretty big table tops now.

Justin did lots of shaping, but the dirt was mostly frozen hard. It’s gonna get nicer over the next few days for sure.

Theese ones need to dry out a little bit more.

Loo, and hours worth of digging in two seconds….

Oh, and we also hada lunar eclipse. Not the most earth shaking of celestial events, to be sure, but still kind of cool.