Days Of The Wildman

May 8th, 1993 -First Day of Backflips

Actual Journal entry
I Went to Sheep Hills in the afternoon. Its getting good! I had a mattress on a landing & six people holding a blanket. I tried BACKFLIPS! I pulled it on my 5th try. YES! Then a lot of the P.O.W.s & I went street riding at the H.B. high school. Then we rode back to the P.O.W. house. There were some new ramps in the backyard. Its really good now. A lot of people are staying there. We had a big ramp session. There was supposed to be a party at night, but nobody really came."

Looking Back Now

The year 1993 was WAY before anyone had ever jumped into a foam pit. When I learned flips, I had never actually seen anyone do one in person. I had seen the movie Rad & photos of Hoffman doing them, but I had never really seen how they were to be done. So I took a blanket (safety net) out to the trails. I had Pete Dylewski, Alan Foster, & a few others hold onto the corners of the blanket. I told them that if I was coming down on my head to hold tight. But if it looked like I was going to land on my wheels to let go. I was well stoke that I pulled it on my 5th try.

An that was 12 years ago. Crazy. The P.O.W. house was always full of dirty BMXers. It wasnt uncommon to have 15 -20 people riding the backyard ramps at any given time. We always had fun there, but the parties were never that great. There would always be a bunch of BMX dudes there. But most girls were scared of the dirty couches, the stained carpets, the gross bathrooms, the holes in the walls, being outnumbered 5-to-1 by guys, etc -www.TODDLYONS.com"