The Alli DewTour China invitational Vert comp is finally here, due to some travel complications our field of 7 was expanded to 8 to ensure we had enough riders in the comp. When it's a comp with such limited numbers it's always better to have one more than one less. I started my day off pretty slow from my crashes yesterday in practice, my body is really sore but I like the ramp and have hopeful thoughts for the first comp of the year. I had a bit of bike maintenance to do right before practice and medical had to do some maintenance on my body too, both jobs were done as best they could with what we each had to work with, ha. Practice felt good and everyone seems to like the new ramp, they were all looking really good in practice.

After it was all said and done Jamie came out on top once again with unbelievable height through his whole run of back to back tricks. Stevie McCann was 2nd place pulling out the always elusive triple whip, being the 3rd rider to ever pull that behind Coco & Zack so that tells you how hard Stevie wanted to take the top spot at this comp. The Brit has the Ausie nipping at his heels for sure. I pulled off the final podium spot pulling some of my usual tricks and only adding one new addition, the one handed X-up flair. Hopefully my run at the Chicago Dew Tour will be more refined and feel better to myself since I'll be in less pain but I'm very happy to have placed as well as I did. Simon Tabron and Jimmy Walker round out the top 5 riding exceptionally well with new tricks out of each of them, it's going to be a good year on the vert ramp. Skate finals were directly following our event and then a lot of us went to have a celebration dinner at a Jazz Club.

Chad

Getting that back wheel straightened out before the final practice session.

The commentary during vert practice was highly amusing from the on air talent of the Dew Tour in the states.... Mr. Bestwick. If you could hear the words that fell out of his mouth for 20 min straight you would understand why Flip is holding his stomach from laughing so hard.

Hard to tell but Stevie McCann is flying through the air blending in with the black background doing a tailwhip lovin the new ramp. Point & Shoot cameras aren't made for indoor action, forgive me for even trying to capture the action but then again this is MY blog so I'll put whatever pics I want on here. ha ha.

Erin from the Dew Tour is assisting me with the autograph session

Time for an interview with the Chinese Sports channel

Here's my view

Right before the Skate comp started I shot Andy Mac on top the top of the roll in and shortly after he stood on the top spot of the podium.

Yeah, dancers on the ramp. At the end of the BMX practice these girls came running onto the bottom of the ramp but didn't pay attention to me being in the air riding the ramp. oops. Came really close to taking a few of them out and I'm pretty sure that me in full pads on a bike would not be hurt as badly as them but they would be dressed nicely even if they were laying on the flat bottom of the ramp.

Podium pic, those trophy's are pretty cool. I think it's a glass microphone but either way it was nice to get a different style trophy.

This spot is near the Jazz Club and it's a screen that plays different scenes on it at night. This night was a phoenix on fire flying back and forth, the area is a shopping center called The Place. Keep It Simple Stupid. ha ha.

Me and a phoenix to finish out the night before we head into he restaurant/club for dinner. Good times in Beijing and no one went to the hospital so it was a successful event for the BMX Vert crew.