I know this subject has been talked about over and over again and mostly everyone that lives a training lifestyle will agree with me. I'm talking in relation to that 4 story high "Supercross" starting hill. I sat there thinking about the Olympic format, and how the UCI is a big confusion/contradiction. When I think of the Olympics, I think of similar sports like track and field, Velodrome cycling, swimming, etc. Are these sports exciting? Well, that depends on what you're into. I personally think NASCAR is lame but the stands are still packed at every race so it must not be that lame. Either way, it is what it is and if you like it you like it, if you don't you don't. The UCI brought in that starting hill to "make the racing more exciting." I wonder if in swimming, rather then everyone starting from a stand start at the front of the diving board, jumping in the water and swimming to the finish, that they should start at the back of the diving board, run as fast as they can and jump in the water. Or, in track and field, do the runners need to start on top of a hill so they can run faster? My point is, these sports have stayed the same for many years and BMX is all over the place like a kid trying to fit in at school. First the X-games dropped us, but I can tell you one thing, coming off the side of a mountain jumping 60 feet over roads
at Woodward West was a lot more gnarly and exciting to watch than a 4 story starting hill into jumps that are too small followed after the first turn by jumps that aren't too much bigger than the jumps you'd see inside Reno's Livestock Convention center. In true Supercross (motox) racing, there is no hill. In fact, there isn't even any jumps until after the first turn. It's a big drag race to turn one and then it gets gnarly with sometimes over 100 foot jumps. As much as I've seen BMX change over the years, I've got to say that this format is super cheesy and a wack attempt at "Being Cool." So if we weren't "Extreme" enough for the X-games, did that give UCI BMX a complex in turn introducing the big dumb hill? When I go to these Supercross events, I never know who is going to snap me and cut me off if I'm just a hair late. On a regular hill where you're actually using power, some of those same dudes have already disappeared by the third pedal and you're competing athlete vs. athlete, not athlete vs. wack hill vs. wack track. My point to this, I don't know really. Doesn't matter what I think cause it won't change anything but I've always been good at voiceing my opinion anyway. I like to race on flat hills and go fast with speed I worked hard to generate, not gravity enhanced, although I'm down with big jumps. If flat hill, indoor, bugs bunny sprint tracks are lame, then I'm lame, that's fine. Def. don't have anything to prove, grew up in Lavin's back yard where most people wouldn't be down to drop in. Jumped 60 feet on real supercross
, raced fake supercross
, got rad for the fans in the stands [or lack there of]
, but at the end of the day I'm all about some old fashioned 
BMX racing.