X games is finally done and I couldn't be more pleased with the week. I had some luck on my side for sure, but I also did put in a lot of hard work leading up to this contest so I'll take it!! It was such a crazy week with riding three events, I had never done that before and surely didn't realize the effort it was going to take. Friday was by far the most grueling day, I had to do Speed and Style eliminations from 11-12, then FMX eliminations were 12:30-2, and then I had to go right from the Home Depot center to Staples center and do Step up practice which was 2-3.
I showed up at Staples with just enough time to hit the wall of death twice before they cut me off. Now I hadn't done step up in years so to go into live TV with 2 warm up jumps under my belt was nerve racking!! When all was said and done Friday night though I was proud of myself, I qualified for both Speed and Style and FMX finals, and tied with Tommy Clowers for 3rd in Step up, which was huge for me because Clowers pretty much put Step up on the map by being the king of it for so many years at X.
Saturday was Speed and Style and FMX finals so I had another busy day. In Speed and Style I had Travis Pastrana in the first round, killer!! I thought for sure I was just going to get destroyed by him and be done in one round, but luck had my back and Travis crashed himself out so I advanced! Typical Mike Mason form though I managed to crash myself out in the second round which was the round that moved you on to battle for the Gold, I was really upset with myself because I felt Speed and Style was really my only shot for a medal. I still got to compete for the Bronze, I was up against Twitch (Jeremy Stenberg) but he ended up beating me by half a point for the Bronze, I was bummed.
FMX comes around and I'm up against Nate Adams in the first round, pretty much the worlds best freestyle guy at the moment so once again I thought it was one round and done for Mike. I went out and just had fun, hyped up the crowd and just rode for myself, and wouldn't ya guess it, Nate messed his run up so I advanced which means I was at worst 4th place!!! I was sooo pumped now, I went out for my second run against Matt Rebeaud with the same exact attitude but this time I got beat, which was totally expected, I was just still happy to be this far! I still had a chance at Bronze if one of the guys in the next bracket had a lower score than me and sure enough Twitch gave up half way through his run which secured me my second X games medal!!!
It was like the weight of the world had been lifted off my shoulders, I know for a fact that I didn't have what it took in FMX to get that medal, there was 5 other guys out there who deserved it more than me, but sometimes everything just falls into place. It sucks because I keep reading on the internet people saying I didn't deserve it and my run sucked and that bothers me. I'm the guy who goes out and has fun and whatever happens, happens. It's not like I think I'm the most crazy guy out there and my run is perfect, but I guess that comes with the job, there is always going to be people out there who don't like you.
Anyways I have rambled on enough, I am just going to enjoy what happend and know that I did put in 100% effort leading up to this. Now I'm getting back to relaxing so I'm leaving you guys....bye!
I showed up at Staples with just enough time to hit the wall of death twice before they cut me off. Now I hadn't done step up in years so to go into live TV with 2 warm up jumps under my belt was nerve racking!! When all was said and done Friday night though I was proud of myself, I qualified for both Speed and Style and FMX finals, and tied with Tommy Clowers for 3rd in Step up, which was huge for me because Clowers pretty much put Step up on the map by being the king of it for so many years at X.
Saturday was Speed and Style and FMX finals so I had another busy day. In Speed and Style I had Travis Pastrana in the first round, killer!! I thought for sure I was just going to get destroyed by him and be done in one round, but luck had my back and Travis crashed himself out so I advanced! Typical Mike Mason form though I managed to crash myself out in the second round which was the round that moved you on to battle for the Gold, I was really upset with myself because I felt Speed and Style was really my only shot for a medal. I still got to compete for the Bronze, I was up against Twitch (Jeremy Stenberg) but he ended up beating me by half a point for the Bronze, I was bummed.
FMX comes around and I'm up against Nate Adams in the first round, pretty much the worlds best freestyle guy at the moment so once again I thought it was one round and done for Mike. I went out and just had fun, hyped up the crowd and just rode for myself, and wouldn't ya guess it, Nate messed his run up so I advanced which means I was at worst 4th place!!! I was sooo pumped now, I went out for my second run against Matt Rebeaud with the same exact attitude but this time I got beat, which was totally expected, I was just still happy to be this far! I still had a chance at Bronze if one of the guys in the next bracket had a lower score than me and sure enough Twitch gave up half way through his run which secured me my second X games medal!!!
It was like the weight of the world had been lifted off my shoulders, I know for a fact that I didn't have what it took in FMX to get that medal, there was 5 other guys out there who deserved it more than me, but sometimes everything just falls into place. It sucks because I keep reading on the internet people saying I didn't deserve it and my run sucked and that bothers me. I'm the guy who goes out and has fun and whatever happens, happens. It's not like I think I'm the most crazy guy out there and my run is perfect, but I guess that comes with the job, there is always going to be people out there who don't like you.
Anyways I have rambled on enough, I am just going to enjoy what happend and know that I did put in 100% effort leading up to this. Now I'm getting back to relaxing so I'm leaving you guys....bye!
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