The February part will lead us crisscross through the Czech Republic with a short diversion to Slovakia. We will visit two bmx halls in Chlumin and Senkvice. We will remain under roof in Downmall in Liberec and also in one of many circuit trainings in oval track in Prague. With snowscoot we will visit the HEIpark in Tosovice and then we will call on racing tires on ice in Tabor.

Four weeks, six localities, three various bikes, one snowscoot. Marble, stairs, soil, wood and even ice and snow under the wheels and runners. Training, race, duties, and amusement in five minutes! The Czech-Slovak part has also its Czech-Slovak Superstar… The Twelve catches fire as well as rhythms of the authorial composition February by Jan Mocnak. This time the cameraman Rob Trnka had a hard row to hoe to manage catching all essentials planned by Michal…

“We could have saved some of the themes for future, but if we wanted to make the Twelve just the way we had planned to do it, we had to adjust to the Michal’s pace. Twelve isn’t any fictitious TV series, so what happened in February doesn’t belong to March part. The way how Honza Mocnak managed to solve it is only another proof that he is an absolute pro and it was a joy to work with him,” evaluates the past four weeks the screenwriter and cameraman Rob Trnka.

So over the last few days we got a couple of days of much needed rain, altho everything is dry now it gave us a little time to fix up an old trail and build some freeride hits. Here is what Jason and I came up with from filming one afternoon in some nice Aussie lighting. enjoy.

Alan,

Decline’s feature article this month is on a trip I did with the STUND Crew, Mike Kinrade, Steve Romaniuk, Garret Buehler and James Dorfling. So lucky! Sven Martin met up with the crew as we filmed the 4^th STUND Webisode with Tam Forde and put this story together.  Here’s a little peak…

My ultimate goal was to get a shot that would catch ANY rider’s eye and inspire. I wanted them to check it out, think it's a super sweet move, THEN realize it’s a girl! Pretty stoked when Sven figure we got the shot with this naural gap!

Big thanks to master minds of STUND, aka Kinrade and Romo, for inviting me on the trip. You guys RULE!

Also got a great rider profile in the current Freehub Online Magazine.  The coffee table edition goes to print later this Spring.

Pipe Dream, Silver Star - Photo by Mason Mashon

Aline, Whistler - Photo by Mason Mashon

Can’t wait to see where my Rocky Flatline takes me this year!

Here is a little relaxed ride my friend Grant and I had last weekend. Jason came along and we did some filming on some single track. The rain has arrived here in Australia which is perfect cause it means i can finally build some new stuff to ride and helps make the trails all grippy again

Alan

A few weeks ago I mentioned that I destroyed my knee and it turned out that I’ve completely torn my ACL in half and fractured my Meniscus while shooting for a Race Face web edit. Booo! So now I’m awaiting surgery and getting a ton of design work done. So far, so good! Enjoy! www.taylorleigh.ca

Check out Darcy Turenne’s See Jane Jump Women’s Mountain Bike Festival! ALL WOMEN OF MTB MUST ATTEND! Should be a dope weekend! bye.

Calllliforrrniaaaa.

I am a bit of a sucker for good weather, It doesn’t have to be hot but I just hate being cold and wearing thermals and big jackets all the time. ha. Such a little whinnnner  California is totally my style, loving the hoodies!  It’s great being down here. Been flexing it up in the gym and getting some riding in. I think I am going to go shred some DH this afternoon…

I have a women’s ride day coming up on April 3rd in conjunction with Specialized and Scotts Valley Cycle Sport. Everyone is welcome! It is limited to 20 women and FREE. If you are in the Santa Cruz area give SVCS a call (831.440.9070) or stop in to sign up. There will be 10 Specialized women’s demo bikes available and a couple more men’s bikes will be available if needed. It should be a rad day…I am pumped to get some women out on bikes, teach some basic skills and give everyone the opportunity to make some new friends! Once you start riding, you can’t stop

March has just begun and there has been a lot of snow disappearing in Whistler.  I am super stoked to get out and ride even if its just into town. Last week i went down to the city with a couple of my friends to do an early season ride. So we headed to the Bridge Jumps which is a must if you are in Vancouver, it was to wet to get through the set so we drove to Port Coquitlam to ride the lafarge jumps which are also super awesome and fun to ride. I had a super fun time even though it was only forr a day. Right now I’m just preparing for the riding season and looking forward to getting new bike’s around late April.

The weather has been awesome over the past few days!

Thats all for now.

I built up my new hardtail for the season and went and shot a little video. I built it up using a lot of the new respond parts so check it out!

You can see the whole bike build here.

February and training is getting fun, well maybe not the uphill part.  I had a chance to ride DH with Aaron Gwin in Auburn and then we hit some local dirt jumps.  Not only can Aaron rip at DH he can also shred dirt jumps on a 20″.  Mitch Ropelato also took a couple of days to ride in the Gold Country.  We had a good session of DH shuttles in a a pounding rain storm in the canyon and the next day took a cross country ride with Scott Sharples, Scott is a beast when it comes to climbing hills but Mitch was hanging tight.  Mitch and I then hit up Epic indoor skate park in Roseville, CA they recently opened it up to bikes .  Earlier in the month I went down to Santa Cruz and back out to the valley to  film Fogelsode #16 with Jack, I tested out my Meta 4X I had set up for Slope Style and we had some fun.  Gym, Riding , Sleep, School, Food life is good.

These photos have been languishing on my hard drive since early January, so I thought I’d post them up. I rarely use a remote flash these days, and more rarely shoot dirt jumps, and even more rarely bring a ladder out, but here are a few shots that I liked.

Rider: Wink Grant