Next stop was the new City of Kelowna funded dirt jump park. As always the weather pulled through, the sun came out and the riding was on! Before ever riding or seeing these jumps I had heard a huge range of opinions about the park, some positive, but unfortunately mostly negative. Now, after riding them myself my official opinion is: they're RAD! and are definitely an awesome addition to the Okanagan riding scene.
The park has five different main lines all with substantial roll in's and even a fun little pump track to keep the little ones distracted from rolling around the bigger jumps. Most people were pretty stocked on flowing through the lines with nothing crazy going down until Slinger made a late appearance. Slinger (who I've only seen riding his bike twice this year) tricked pretty much every jump he hit in every run he took, only stopping when he either crashed or made it to the end of the line. He was only there for about 20 minutes but in that time we saw whips, flips, bar spins, super man seatgrabs, no footer cans, nothings, cannonballs and all sorts of terrifying, life threatening crashes. Definitely entertaining to say the least!
Kelowna dirt jump park
Andrew Lazaruk
Slinger mid line trickery
After the dirt shred sesh people slowly migrated over to Benlee skatepark for some chilled riding and prize giving. The highlight for me was seeing Slade's gap to second stage ice on the kinked rail; unfortunately I missed the photo but it was wild to watch! The prizes got dolled out to riders willing to do tricks for new parts and cloths. All in all it was a fun day with a good variety of riding. Can't wait for next year!
Part of the turnout
Matt Desson
Andrew Lazaruk
Prizes for tricks
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