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Decided to go to the gorge for multiple reasons. There's a lot of history here
Actually, the first guy video I saw was in the river
So I think that's always have been a kind of place that people wanted to go to there's so much to do
There's a lot of snowboarding so the park riding came kind of obvious
I've been seeing heaps of footage of a lot of my friends riding in the park
The slider project is a public park. Everybody can go there and just ride and have a good time
It's really cool that there's this park out there that everybody can use
Everybody's helping a hand putting features in the water or you know like maintaining the park doing crowdfunding doing events
Like the Hood River slider jam
So I think that is great about park riding. It gets people together. It's all really cool and it's a really cool fight
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Features for me is something new. It's very strange in the beginning
It's a lot different because the wave is coming at you. You can go with lower speeds on a solid kick
You really need to go full speed and just go with it go flat and try yourself into the trick
I
Definitely had to adapt and I just feel that a solid kicker can help so much in progression on waves and the other way around as well
Yeah, it's just good fun. It's the perfect thing to have on the flat water spot
The tow side double flip
I've done it in Brazil actually of a natural wave
So I was really like eager to try it off the solid kicker
Or sure it was gonna happen
I had a few couple of good tries had a few couple of bailouts and I kind of feel annoyed about because you know
I bailed out and I could have been able to land it
Doing new tricks is such a mind game and sometimes when you want it too bad, it just doesn't work out and
Conditions are sometimes not there. Yeah, I'm kind of bummed out that it didn't happen
But it's it's good when you can't do a trick, you know, it keeps you interested in kiting
Otherwise, it would be just so easy and boring. So it's part of it
You know, you just have to learn to deal with it not always the best with it
But you know, I'll just come back and do it. I
Think there's a huge
Potential of progression and park riding
Especially of the kicker and I think it's gonna be a lot about spins seeing triple passes double flips
Maybe some double mobs seeing all that kind of stuff
I think it's only recently we really been pushing it to the limits
I think you can go even way harder yet, and I think it's gonna look really sick in the future
We only gonna progress and I think we're gonna see a lot of good stuff coming out of keyboarding park riding. Definitely
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