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This is the page where I'll put details
of all the events I go to or poddy or steer riding schools I attend or whatever
else I do.
I haven't done any steer riding for a
while because I've been busy doing lots of other things. I
haven't given it up though, I'll get back to it again before long because
it's still what I love doing best. I
did a lot of skateboarding for a while a couple of years back and it was great
fun. I've got three different skateboards and they all got plenty of
use. Me and my friends used to go to a skate park at the local Salvation
Army Centre every Friday. I learned to do grinding and kick flips
and I spent a lot of time going down the speed ramp. Great stuff and
good for keeping the leg muscles in good condition! Heaps of kids
went to the skate park. I
went to school in a different State for a year, and didn't do too much skateboarding
while I was there. I got into Rugby League in a pretty big way and
played in the Grade 8 High School team. It was ace!
I played in Forward or Centre positions. We played every weekend and
our team did really well. We had matches with Hughenden, State
High, BTC and Hughenden again and won them all. Another
thing I have done a lot of is bike riding. There was a big dirt
area near where we used to live that was set up with tracks and jumps like a BMX
track. It was terrific fun. I've always loved BMX riding and
used to compete in this sport, so it was great to get back to it for a
while. This is another sport that's really good for building up the
leg muscles, so whenever I get the chance I get into it to keep myself fit for when I start back at
rodeo again. Haven't done any
updates for a while because of being bogged down in school stuff, but
we're into October now and its past time for a bit of a catch up. First
off I'll do a quick backtrack to the Katherine Show in July last year. I was
home for this and rode in the Poddy ride. First rodeo riding I'd
done for a while and I was really glad I'd been keeping fit by playing
other sports or my muscles would've known all about it the next day!
None of us Poddy riders rode time but we all had a ball and it was great
catching up with my rodeo mates again. Been
getting into athletics a fair bit at school and we had an inter-school
competition. That was great fun and I did pretty well at
it. I came 2nd in the long jump with a 3.9 metre jump. Might
not seem much to the big guys, but that's a fair way when you're not grown
up yet. I got 3rd place in both the 100 metre and 200 metre sprints,
but my best was coming 4th out of about 120 competitors in the long
distance race. I was 1st out of all the entrants from my school in
that event. That was a race and a half and great fun. Started
off the school break with some beach fishing at Mission Beach in
Queensland. Caught a 1 metre hammerhead shark! Oh boy, that
was great. We stayed fishing until midnight but I didn't catch
anything else. Wish the holidays would stre-e-e-e-e-tch out for a
good long while. |