Conny Bleicher

20.04.2009 | comments [0]

Hi there, what´s up? I’m back from sunny California. It was an amazing trip with an awesome crew: Julia, Diana, Cilka, Cecilia, Sarka and Lisa, who joined us a little later. We spent our first night in LA. Before heading to June we went shopping in 3rd Street and refreshing our tired feet in the ocean. With tons of fresh energy we were driving down to the mountains. The next few days the Chicken Jam took place in Mammoth: First day was just a training day… Unfortunately Cecilia bruised her back pretty badly and she was off for the rest of the trip. That was a bummer! Next day was a long, long day. It started with the Slopestyle Qualifier and after a short lunch break some of us also competed in the Halfpipe Qualification. Lucky me I made it into both Semi Finals. With a 3rd place in Halfpipe and a 6th and last qualifying spot in Slopestyle.

On the next day, Saturday, it continued with the Halfpipe Semis and Finals. It was another sunny day with a perfect shaped pipe - for Europeans standard – haha. I had tons of fun riding it and even did pretty good. I made it into the Finals and in the end I got 8th. Stoked! Sunday was supposed to be the Slopestyle day, but due to heavy storms it got postponed to the next day. Our bodies were happy about a day off though. The wind was gone on Monday and the competition could take place as planned. The park consisting of a hip, a jib, three kickers in a role and two wallride options in the end, was fun to ride. Nobody out of our crew made it into the finals even some had really nice runs, but the level was pretty charging. Our young rocker Sarka broke her collarbone on her first run… Another injury bummer! I’ve never seen such a tough girl like her – no tears, no complaining, nothing as a big smile still!

Chicken Jam was over – MS Superpark was on. The next three days we spent riding in June. We were a bit tired of the last days so we started the whole thing pretty slowly. Besides that half of the crew was injured, Julia was suffering from a bruised heel as well. Anyways on the second day we had a great sunset hip session and on the last day we were handplanting the quarter… Last night – party night! After a delicious sushi dinner we were dancing the night away at the Nikita party in Lakanuki… Our “holidays” were almost over but there was still another day in LA to go: We love Veniceeee! Peace, love & happiness, conny