Checking out the app.. Anyway, Melinda got her new frame in the mail. It’s pretty awesome. It’s a redline flight Pro. Superlight. Their top-of-the-line frame. We purchased it off of someone we met that was going to Rock Hill for the national meet last weekend. This frame actually went to the world nationals in Copenhagen.
Posted on 23 October '14 by admin, under Uncategorized. No Comments.
It’s been mostly BMX stuff lately.
Melinda was interviewed during that Redline seminar.. and ended up on TeeVee…
High 5 4 Kids: Melinda Elser – WFXG FOX54 Augusta.
I took some video of Rockwell last night during practice… They are getting better every day.
And then Rockwell too some (vertical) video of 50yo me in the same section of track..
🙂
Posted on 22 October '14 by admin, under Activities, BMX. No Comments.
Last night Melinda and Rockwell attended the “Redline Flightschool” BMX clinic. It was taught by Jason Carnes, the USA BMX champion from 2002 to 2007. This guy is in his 40s now and is still built like a rock, and still races professionally. He talked about the gate, the rhythem section, and jumping. Here he is giving Rockwell and Melinda some pointers on the gate. 
Here Jason is, teaching how to work the gate.
And here is a group photo, of the kids after 3 hours of “flight school”! (Melinda is not in there.. The ever vigilant student she is, she asked to go home bofore this photo was taken, so she could get ready for school. Gotta’ appreciate THAT.
And, realizing how imporortant the gate is, I built a practice gate for the kids (..and myself..lol) to practice on.
Posted on 9 October '14 by admin, under BMX, kids. No Comments.
The last 24 hours has been pretty Amazing. It’s going to be hard to beat this run of events. We did a Zombie walk last night with Makeup (Rockwell was feeling sick and did not want to go), we did the color run this morning, We did a “Improve Everywhere” MP3 Experiment this afternoon at 6pm, and then we went to the BMX track and competed there till quarter to nine. Great timing of events.. It was Awesome!
Zombies! We actually found a place down town that would put zombie makeup on for cheap! I should have had more done for what they where charging.. students learning makeup techniques i guess.
Watch out!
Melinda cant help being pretty, even as a zombie! lol.
The group! There where some really good costumes!
The pre-walk meeting.
At the end, the zombie leader thanked his minions.
Then, this morning, we did the Color Run!
This is quite fun.. Especially for 9am in the morning! Melinda about to enter Pink!
In the Pink gauntlet!
Melinda and Dad at the end.. This was after the color throws.
Clearly the best picture of the day!! Isn’t this an awesome picture of Melinda??
Check out this video of one of the “color throws” at the end.. they give you packets of tempra to toss in the air. fun!
And here are all of us later in the evening after the MP3 Experiment.. the kids had a BLAST doing this.. it was so much fun!
Nice picture of Melinda and I, right before hitting “play”!
Good looking kids, right after hitting play.
Rockwell. Need I say more.
We ended the night with some BMX. Melinda and Hannah’s race. This is the race where Hannah, Melinda’s friend, took a pretty nasty spill. Scraped up her hand, her elbow, her side and her knee.. but she STILL finished!! No one can say these girls are not tough!!
One of Rockwell’s heats. This was the very first race he used clips on his pedals. In the final heat he took a pretty nasty crash.. I think melinda was wondering it came in three’s at this point!! Everyone was OK in the end.
🙂
Rockwell and Melinda have been Racing the fall BMX series.. they are doing great!
Our friend Charles taught a 3D printer class last weekend.. Melinda, Rockwell, AND Hannah, from Switzerland, attended! Hannah skyped in.
We had 6 different 3D printers to work with during this class.. pretty interesting!!
Proof!
Melinda has been attending some horse riding lessons. He thought she was riding western the whole time in St Croix, but it turns out her teacher there taught her a few English things along the way. Teacher: “Melinda! you are posting! There is no posting in western riding..!”
Another nice picture.
I just found this one on my computer… I don’t even know how it got there.. but its a awful good one! Somewhere in the VI.
Melinda has been helping me help some friends with a Haunted house. (Plantation Blood) She has painted and even buried a mattress! Here she is with a new fiend.. I mean friend.
Melinda taking after her older sister.. This is how I would find Hannah almost every day I would pick her up from school..her nose in a book.
I ran the Quacks and stacks 5k last weekend.. I came in 3rd out of about a dozen people.. But in the 50 and over class!.. I’m 49 for another two weeks!! I don’t know how that happened.. but someone got cheated out of 3rd place! If I was in the 31 to 49 class, I would have come in 10th place out of about 20 people.. still not that bad for an old man.
Posted on 2 October '14 by admin, under 5K, BMX, projects. No Comments.
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