Author: edwardott22

My genius hour project is going to be fixing up a dirt jumper, I did some planning ahead and have already bought the dirt jumper. It definitely needs some work. I plan to wash, add a brake, repaint, and replace the tube in the back and change grips and chain. The things I am scared will be hard is wiring the brake and repainting. Repainting is scaring because if u paint the wrong places it can ruin the bike. Wiring the bike is really tideaous and tricky. When I hopfully finish these tasks I want to work on riding, jumps, park and tricks (manuals, wheelies, bunny hops)

Here is the order I would like to complete these project in

Wash

Paint

Brake

Change grips, tube and chain

Ride

For my presentation I plan to show how I came up short in my goal and what I learned, what I tried, what worked and what didn’t. I think I will make a small slide show and have videos go along with my points. I plan to have very little words on the slides and read off a small script. I also got my cousin to send me more videos of the season.

Unfortunately I happened to be sick this past week and my parents flew away to Mexico so not much has been done for my genius hour. I have a plan of what I want my genius hour presentation to look like; I will start by telling the audience what my background is and how I started skiing at a young age. Then about how I did not achieve my goal and what I learned from it. To finish the presentation I will make a video comprised or all my clips this season

Over the course of the this last week I went to Launch Pad, although it was pretty gross I was able to control my flips, and to lay out the flips. It was pretty fun too. Here are some videos.

I missed last Friday due to genius hour endeavors in Fernie BC. It was 5 deggrees there, and not much new snow but that didn’t stop me from trying some more backflips. I am also going to launch pad to get more practice this Friday. See videos below.

Over the holiday I went to Lake Losuie a fair amount, over that time i tried some 360’s and a backflip. I am making plans to go to a trampoline pad, to work on form. Unfourtanlty I cannot say that I landed the backflip but I can say I’m over the hump, meaning its not as scary. After the attempts I watched alot of videos finding my mistakes. Thier was a ton more control from attempt 1 to attempt 2. See below,

Most of my plan is working, just a minor setback with the instuctor thing not going to happen, and if it were to happen it would be spring break which wouldbe to late.

Lake Lousie e-mailed me back this last week and said they don’t do lessons for airel flips so my plan is to email various peopl and or buisness’s for tips instead. I also went to my cousins house and made a new jump with hope that it will be a good enough for a back-flip. My cousin and I spent the entire time building and we didn’t get to ride it, but we know we need more speed. Some good news is I got some new skis and I have some confirmed dates of ski trips, a week starting at new years and 3 days in Fernie after the break.

Over the last weekend I went ot Lake Louise and went skiing. I was feeling slightly sick and had a minor headache so I didn’t go very hard, my legs were also feeling it as it was the first real time I went skiing so far. I worked on style for most the day and tried a couple 180’s (halfspins). I am going again definilty after new years and I might go for some eekend before then.

I was wrong about the ski trip it wasn’t last week it’s this week and now I have the videos from last week as well. I learned a lot from that weekend the first being, that the rail is too short and the problem has been solved by finding another rail in my Cousin’s house. Here are the videos.

This week was been good and bad, the bitter cold has made it frozen my cousins rail and my own rail, but it has been snowing so it has been good in that way. I also spent lots of time watching ski movies (clips not like netflix), and how to videos to give me a little guidance. But this weekend I’ll be going to Lake Lousie and I’ll go skiing.

While I was at my cosuins house I tried a 360, the jump was a little small but I still got most of the rotation. I am far better at 180’s now because I can stay backwards with more control. If my cousin doesn’t send me the videos this class I’ll post them in the next blog.