A months worth of practice has paid off!

Wow things have been busy and its been a good while since I entered anything on the blog and. Ryan and I are now only 5 days away and the reality of what we have come up with is starting to settle in and the logistics are proving to be almost more difficult than the actual sports. We were at a church dinner tonight and a friend Stefany Pike asked me when I was going to update the Push Blog, so I thought I would do it tonight. Thanks for the reminder Stef.

There was a nice article on Ryan and I last Sunday in the San Diego North County times talking about our upcoming Push date. Click here to read it.

We have been using our last 4 Saturdays to practice many new sports.

4 weeks ago we went Carve boarding, thanks to the donation of two boards by our friends at XDream Sportz. They have a great shop filled with stuff related to the action sports world and are huge into kite boarding. The Carve Boards are a riot but we didn’t know how quick these things really were and Ryan and I both had to bail off our boards, jump a side walk with our bodies in the air and roll in the grass to avoid wiping out on the street. We looked like really bad stunt doubles but at least we were safe. We shot video of it but haven’t got it edited yet.

We then went parasailing off the cliffs of Torrey pines and that we unreal. I can honestly say that the feeling of flying is as good as the feeling of dropping down a giant 25’ wave. I can see why so many people are addicted to flying off the cliffs of La Jolla, What a rush! We cant wait to do it again. Dave the owner there was very nice to take Ryan and I up for comp flights and he is an amazing pilot. He was such a nice man and really liked what the Push stood for. If you are ready to try something totally thrilling, please stop by the Torrey Pines glider port and ask for Dave, he’ll totally set you up.

Later that day we went mountain biking on the hills behind our home. It was a nice climb but the terrain was a bit gravely and rocky and you had to be a bit careful or you could end up with some nice bloody souvenirs. I forgot how important good legs are when you ride and they got a bit tired on me a few times but it prompted me to start working on my legs in the gym more.

3 weeks ago Ryan I were taken out by X-Games 2nd place finalist and owner of StreetLuge.com Justin and his good buddy and fellow luger Rick. We met them then followed them to and older road in San Pasqual near the Wild Animal Park and had the time of our lives. It was a total blast and the first few runs went great. We got close to 40 miles per hour while lying flat on what they cal a sled. These things are amazing and cost about $900 new. They showed us how to do it by first making a few runs and then we were put on the sleds. We did the first two runs at a good speed and I think we did pretty well for first timers. The 3rd and last run was really good until towards then end and I made a mistake and sat up too far over the front trucks, got speed wobbles and then rolled it at about 30+ MPH. That doesn’t feel good when you’re not wearing elbow pads. I was using home depot style work gloves, an old ski jacket and desert pants. I still have a mostly healed up raspberry on my right hip and bruised and scabbed elbows to prove it. We have the whole thing on video. Check it out by clicking here.

Last weekend we went Wakeboarding at San Vicente and had a great time. Ryan did great and got right up every time but also spend a fare share of time head first in the drink. Overall he did awesome but I could tell he he was a bit frustrated that he didn’t do better. This was my 3rd time on the water and I did much better getting up but still struggled riding and also spent some good time eating my own wake. I would say that my younger son Braydon got more air that we did while riding his knee board . Check out the video Ryan made.

We didn’t get out this weekend due to the Cub Scout Fair that I took my younger son Braydon and his fellow webelos to. Here is a picture of them staring at a cool contraption a bunch of older scouts made using wood, rope, old soup cans, hoses and water to mix up fresh cream and ice and make ice cream. It was really cool.

Ryan had a relay race swim tournament today involving schools from all over southern California. I asked how they did and he said that they won every race they were in. There was a great article on Ryan and his life long friend and fellow swimmer Tom Chard. They have been swimming together since they were about 6 years old.

I think this enough for now but I will probably start blogging every day between now and next Friday and will give some more details along the way.

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