1999- Attempted my first backflips. I attempted somewhere between 15 and 20 throughout the course of a few weeks if I remember correctly. I carved a jump out of a dirt pile approximately 4′ tall near my neighborhood. Kept landing upside down.

2006 – (pretty sure) Did my first backflip at Centennial High School (where I went to) on a semi-large dirt jump approximately 5′ tall with a distance of perhaps 8′ to the landing. I tried a solid 12 earlier that day and kept crashing hard, even having to carry my bike to Sunset Cycle to fix it up. It was when Phil Book told me not to pull back hard, but rather go with the curve of the jump, that I finally landed one. Phil Book, Derek Peterson, Tim Bertrand and a large number of other people were there, either as bmxers, lacrosse or soccer players nearby.

2014 around Christmas time-I finally started riding a training facility with larger ramps than the free ones at local skateparks. This training facility is known as the Twin Cities Fantasy Factory. From here on my trick vocabulary was about to explode from where it previously was.

 

Arial Tricks Prior to 2014

-360

-x-ups

-barspin

-No hands, No feet, one hand, one foot, no footed one hander, nothings, one hander one footer, etc.

-Superman

-Can-Can

-No Footed Can-Can

One Handed no footed Can-Can

Backflip (once, at CHS dirt jump)

-tire grab

-360 tire grab

-turndown

-360 turndown

-frame stand lander

 

 

2014 Arial Tricks

-Relearned flips after 7 or 8 years

-Superman Seat Grab

-Superman to No Footed Can-Can (Washington County Fair, inspired by Dallas Wiemer)

-Superman to Pendulum (Washington County Fair)

-Superman to Tuck No Hander

-Nothing superman

-nothing superman to can-can

-nothing superman to no footed can-can

-nothing superman to pendulum

-Super Flip

-Turndown Flip (First show I ever did. Open Streets of Minneapolis)

-Can-Can Flip (I think Milaca County fair… the one with the terrible wood/sand runway. Also where I did an interview for a radio station and sported their sticker on my helmet [still on there])

-No footed Can-Can Flip

-Pendulum Backflip

-No handed Flip

-No hander to no footer Flip

-Nothing Flip

-Peacock Backflip (This one got my name out there in the bmx world. Mat Hoffman reposted this on Facebook, Instagram, talked about it to a lot of people and even sent me a personal email congratulating me on it! Receiving that email was one of the most fulfilling moments in my bmx career, if not the most.)

-Double Backflip (Last show of the season in front of Penn Cycle in Richfield. I had just learned the heart-breaking news that my grandfather [my best friend and whom I’d lived with, in addition to my parents, bro and dog, since I was 8] was unresponsive on my way to the show.  I hadn’t even tried one in the foam pit in probably over a month. I was in a different state of mind during that show than I’d ever been while riding a bike. I believe that had a lot to do with me throwing a double flip.)

-Double Fork Grab Backflip

-Double Fork Grab to no hander Backflip

-Double Fork Grab to Nothing Backflip

-360 Flip (ALMOST LANDED! Put a foot down so technically it didn’t count)

-one handed can-can

-tire grab can-can

-tire grab no footed can-can

-Pendulum

-One handed Pendulum

-Triple no footed Can-Can

-One handed triple no footed can-can

-Double Pendulum

-One Handed Double Pendulum (last show of the season. Same day I landed my first double backflip. In front of Penn Cycle in Richfield.)

-360 Double Tire Grab

-360 Tuck no hander

-360 No Footer

-360 one hander

-360 one handed tabletop

-360 one hander no footer

-360 one hander to no footer

-cliff hanger

-Cordova

-ALMOST LANDED a cordova backflip. Rolled away

– Cannon Ball

-One handed Cannon Ball

– One handed no footed frame grab

-No footed double frame grab

-Tailwhip

 

 

2015 Arial Tricks

-360 Tailwhip (1/20/15 at the Factory)

– Bar spin

_ Truck Driver

– Truck driver to no footer

-one footed x-up

-360 One footed x-up

 

 

Kisses From Katie:

My rating of this book:

My summary of the book:

 

This is a nonfiction book written in first person.

A teenage girl with all kinds of wealth, Katie Davis leaves a life of luxury to live in one of the poorest locations on Earth, a place infested with diseases and pain. She relies on God, devouring the Word like it was as important and precious as air, and constantly gave thanks to God for the promises he made in the Bible about what was in store for her should she obey Him diligently. Miracle after miracle occurred, and this INSANELY hard working, overwhelmingly loving and faith filled girl ended up courageously and powerfully changing the lives first of a couple villages, then after word spread about her she changed the lives and hearts of many many thousands of people.

One of my all-time favorite books. I purchased a couple so I could borrow one out here and there.

 

 

Some summaries/descriptions of this book by others:

What would cause an eighteen-year-old senior class president and homecoming queen from Nashville, Tennessee, to disobey and disappoint her parents by forgoing college, break her little brother’s heart, lose all but a handful of her friends (because they think she has gone off the deep end), and break up with the love of her life, all so she could move to Uganda, where she knew only one person and didn’t even speak the language?

A passion to follow Jesus. 

Katie Davis left over Christmas break of her senior year for a short mission trip to Uganda and her life was turned completely inside out. She found herself so moved by the people of Uganda and the needs she saw that she knew her calling was to return and care for them. Katie, a charismatic and articulate young woman, is in the process of adopting thirteen children in Uganda and has established a ministry, Amazima, that feeds and sends hundreds more to school while teaching them the Word of Jesus Christ.

New York Times Best Seller Kisses from Katie invites readers on a journey of radical love down the red dirt roads of Uganda. You’ll laugh and cry with Katie as she follows Jesus into the impossible and finds joy and beauty beneath the dust. Katie and her children delight in saying yes to the people God places in front of them and challenge readers to do the same, changing the world one person at a time.

“I have absolutely no desire to write a book about myself. This is a book about a Christ who is alive today and not only knows but cares about every hair on my head. Yours too. I’m writing this book on the chance that a glimpse into the life of my family and me, full of my stupidity and God’s grace, will remind you of this living, loving Christ and what it means to serve Him. I’m writing with the hope that as you cry and laugh with my family you will be encouraged that God still uses flawed human beings to change the world. And if He can use me, He can use you.”