We laugh at danger and break all the rules.

Pro Downhill Slowmo – 2009 U.S. National Championships from Litter Mag on Vimeo.

Palmer comes in 12th! Pretty solid effort. He’ll need to be faster if he wants to be in the mix for world cup dates. Here is litter Mag’s brief wrap up. A full wrap promised for tomorrow. Word!

Pro Downhill Track POV Cam – 2009 U.S. National Championships from Litter Mag on Vimeo.

It’s the weekend so I’m keeping it short. Litter Mag, helmet cam, US Nationals, Big Jumps at about 1:50.

I’m off to laugh at some danger.

Pro DH Jumps & MTX Practice – 2009 U.S. National Champs from Litter Mag on Vimeo.

I’ve been waiting for this all week! Litter Mag (who’s coverage of this event has been kick ass) has finally posted up some footage of the US National Pro DH and MTX course.  So are these jumps as big as they said? Well, in a word yes. They are super smooth and very very long (just the way your mum likes it). I can’t wait for the footage from the racing this weekend. This course may finally put the “FUCK YEAH” back into DH!

If some racing footage goes up over the weekend I’ll get it up here, if I can find the time between shredding sweet trails and chilling on my stoop. 

Oh yeah, and ………. GO PALM!

Amateur DH Track Slowmo – 2009 U.S. National Champs from Litter Mag on Vimeo.

Cool slow-mo edit posted by Littermag today previewing the US nationals DH amateur course. After watching this I am super keen to see the elite course. One of the riders in the edit is Australia’s own Jared Graves ripping along for yeti.  However, the best part of this for me is watching the bikes work in slow mo, you can really see the suspension soaking up the hits and the riders shifting their weight. Pretty cool. Oh yeah, pretty sure it’s Graves boosting that long double. Looks like an awesome course.

Two days to go to see if Palm can upset the favourites!