Crankworx - Whip off Worlds
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 Fire it up! Danny Hart, Sam Reynolds & Josh Bryceland getting things going with a fun train down the gauntlet trying to hit hecklers in the face just how they like it. |
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| One doesn't just drop into Whip-off Worlds... One warms up first. In this case, it was massive trains of dedicated whip artists...including Casey Brown. |
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| Rat boy getting sideways early on during the warm up for the whip-off. Rat-boy thrives on whips--breakfast, lunch, and dinner. |
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| Warm up in the bag, it was time for a pre Whip-off rider's meeting, aka the "Laying Down of the LAW" by Sven Martin, "Whips only--straight airs and any other trick that doesn't have a whip involved will get you pulled." |
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| Andreu limbering up for the slopestyle tomorrow... So easy staying the right way up. |
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| With the rules laid down, it was on. |
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| Jackson trying to look slimmer. Purple really adds size to your hips. |
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| I put some 20's on my whip. |
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| Aggy, lapping up the atmosphere at the start... |
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| ...and throwing down style for miles. |
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| A lot of the World's fastest were in attendance to show they can bust a move when the clock's not ticking. |
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| Getting nasty early was Bernardo Cruz of Brazil. He was going large, but more importantly, going to 90 and beyond on almost all of his whips. |
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| "I wanna see the sun, blotted out from the sky; I wanna see it painted, painted, painted, painted black; yeah"--The Rolling Stones |
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| Ed Masters, Wynn Master's sibling, was happy to let it all hang out in a set of flip flops. |
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| Not content to get his whip on with flip flops, Masters was also jumping with a megaphone slung across his back, blaring out an earsplitting warning siren anytime the Kiwi was on track. #crazykiwis |
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| Always good to see Eliot Jackson on the trails. The Yeti rider may have retired from racing for health reasons, but everyone was glad to see him in the house. |
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| Jackson digs a knee into the armpit for turbo extension. |
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| High fives all around for Jackson. |
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| It's a whip contest.. Bike whipping. Not some messed up S&M show where you take a lashing for pleasure. Not everybody got it. |
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| Always stylish, always smooth; Fairclough getting sideways. |
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| Ty McCaul whipping in the wet; the skies opened up two times during the jam format comp, but it didn't seem to deter either the riders or the spectators. |
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| Eddy Masters shows off a fresh Vancouver pedicure. Health and safety what? |
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| Vanderwhip |
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| Literally balls out on the Whip-Off! |
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| "You mind stepping back a bit? No crowding the jump, please? Unless you want to have tire marks on your face?" Sven Martin managing crowd control. |
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| Rampage hero Kurt Sorge... a whip force to be reckoned with. |
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| One side benefit of being the organizer of the Whip Off Worlds is you can go anywhere on the course you want to go. Sven Martin with one eye on incoming traffic and the fish-eye lens on Vanderham. |
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| Casey brown bringing home the gold for the few ladies who were bold enough to step into the comp; hopefully we see a few more next year. |
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| Brendan Fairclough mugging for the cameras.Hard to believe Bren-dawg's still riding (and racing) on a blown knee suffered in last year's Redbull Rampage. |
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| flipwhip |
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| Swedish Steez |
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| Watching the whip comp was like checking out a parade of ridiculous, luxury automobiles. Here we have a fast, expensive car, such as an Aston Martin. Winning whip with Bernardo Cruz. |
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| The man with all the prize money seeking verification that the winners will spend it on things which will benefit their development in the long term. Not Jagerbombs out of an old fork stanction. |
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| Another view of Cruz's winning whip. |
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| Red Bull/One Industries' Cruz, the happy champ once again. |
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| Cruz, the whip master for Crankworx 2013. |
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tells everyone to step back away from the jump because it could be dangerous to the riders....
STANDS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE JUMP WITH HIS CAMERA.
Jandles = Jesus + Sandles
Also hes gotta be the only black rider on the circuit that I have seen which is surprising as black people are at the top of nearly every other sport out there.
Maybe you didn't notice , but it's some thing i have noticed is a lack of black riders in top level DH , which as I said I find strange because black athletes are at the top of pretty much every other sport out there.
BMX , MX , F1 , Athletics , skate and many more have thier top black competitors but not in biking which I just find odd.
Though I do applaud your attempt at being politcally correct by pretending you didn't notice he was black , it's not racist to notice hes not white ya know
He said basically it is about opportunity, and the lack of opportunity trickled down from segregation. He said that it was only a few generations ago that you weren't allowed to play professional baseball or even go into many public parks if you were black. You tend to live a similar life to your parents: they ski, you ski (or board). They ball, you ball. That's why the black athletes are into the sports they are into. He told me he went skiing in Whistler and his family came across another black family skiing - each said to the other "I thought WE were the only ones!"
Also, a quick Google found this: www.theguardian.com/world/2010/may/17/white-people-95000-richer-black
If your family has only assets of $5000, how the hell are you going to afford a $5000 DH bike?
If you are a young talented black athlete and your family has less money, your opportunity comes in getting a scholarship to college. And for which sports are you going to get a scholarship? Football? Yes. Basketball? Yes. Cycling? Nope.
On top of that, some sports require a certain degree of affluence. DH is one of them. Hell, I know lots of white people that can't afford it so no surprise there aren't a lot of blacks and mexicans here in the states doing it.
But I care less about the color of my skin and more about whether or not my bike is working!
Suggestions: 1) Live feed!
2) A pro division and amature divison so the not so popular riders get chance to move on and compete.
3) Better and more organization. It was a gong show up there.
Over all it was the best MTB event that I have ever participated in. So much stoke!
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this is what DatDK looks like in person. He is whiter then the color itself.