Matthew
Block-2
4-17-08


Crash!

Last winter I was riding my bike and I was really exited about going on my first black diamond, with a friend named Deion Campbell who was a professional bmx (bicycle moto cross),flat tracker, and supermoto rider
We were at the very beginning of my first black diamond and Deion asked, “Are you sure you are ready to do this?” and I said, “Yeah…I think so.” And we went through the 2 foot wide entrance and I took it nice and easy and when he would get to far ahead he would wait for me and it was not rocky but had lots of ruts and when we got to a 1 foot wide rocky section he waited for me and said, “This is the hard part so if you have to go straight instead of going left. Left is one rut with some rocks in the middle of it.” And I said, “Alright. I think I am going to go straight then.” and then I went straight.
As I started to go straight there was left hand turn. As I started to make the turn and the left side was big whop-de-does and tight, to the right it was rocky and wide. I decided to take the right side,……rocky and wide. As I got to the turn I got adrenalin pump because I was starting to fall,……before the rocky whope-de-does. Then once I started to go over them I fell,…on to my wrist. my friend Deion tried to help me out but he was riding with a recovering broken shoulder and my bike is heavy. So he went to get my dad. As I was waiting I saw a boar and I got scared. Then when it saw me,….it ran away. Deion told the rangers and my dad but they took over a half hour to get out there and another guy stopped and helped me and I pushed my bike out and the ranger picked me up as I was on my way back. But know I know if you are not sure about something don’t do it and that was a good lesson learned.