Greg Pogo

Hey anybody that still glances at this blog!

For the past few months, I have developed an addiction to pogo sticking and learning new tricks. Well, here's my first pogo video! I spent a Saturday filming in Island Lake and a Thursday filming at NIU. I'm pretty happy with how it came out. Maybe I'll have more tricks down by the time I make another video!

http://youtu.be/vbSzAVAbIjM

Just click on that, and you will see what I've been up to recently.

Until another time,

Greg

Knee Machine

I had my knee surgery about a week ago, on October 24th, and I can't move very much. This knee machine does most of my movements of my day for me! Tough life, I know..



I'll be back in action next summer or fall. In the meantime, I'm going to continue watching a bunch of youtube videos of pogo sticking and skateboarding. I might learn something in college, too, who knows?

See ya!

-Greg

My Summer Part 2

This is a little video I threw together while laying on the couch, unable to really do anything.  My summer was going pretty good until I tore my ACL. The surgery I had to repair it also didn't go well, as my meniscus pieces in there caused too much inflammation for the doctor to perform the procedure. My meniscus was all cleaned up, though.

Since the summer's pretty much over, I'm going to start college and see how that goes. 

Later! Enjoy the video, which features Elis Sassi and Shane Cobb.

-Greg

Lena Trials

Hey everybody! This weekend I went out to Lena, IL to do some trials! Despite my injured knee, I felt that I could safely ride trials because of the low speeds and low impacts. So there we went, barely getting there in time for sign up on Saturday.

Saturday didn't go as well as Sunday for me. I don't really ride any trials other than at the events, so Saturday could be considered my warm-up day. Saturday's sections were pretty tough, as they always are. Between riding, I would be one of the scorers, so I got some experience in that. I ended off the day with 39 points in 6th place. But it was fun riding all day! My knee did give out twice, though, one of them being while I got over confident and ran and jumped a little. Oops.

We slept in Shane's pick-up truck overnight. That was quite an experience, for sure. Lucky for me, I didn't have seat-belt buckles poking out at me like my dad did. :P

Sunday went well. I don't know if the sections were that much easier, but I finished the day with 23 points and in 3rd place, 1 point behind 2nd! It was pretty cool.

Later gators.

-Greg

Some trials pics

Here are some pictures from the trials events I've done this year. Some are from Byron, and the others are from the 2 day event at Polo. Check out more trials pictures at

http://www.nitrotrials.com/Nitro/Home.html

That's where I got these from!

-Greg

Ponca City: Day 1

Today was the commencement of the racing at the Ponca City national. Some good racing has gone on for sure. My buddy Shane Cobb had the fourth moto of the day, in which he got 15th or so. Ponca has some pretty long motos going on for every class. 10 lap motos in 100 degree heat is not easy.

My first Collegeboy moto was today, race number 13. It's safe to say that I was a bit nervous, but once the gate dropped it was just another race. I spun like crap off the concrete start. The last time I practiced concrete starts was at MTF a couple years ago. After my start I just tried picking people off and keeping it on two-wheels.

I passed some people and was in 11th place. My favorite pass was when I jumped past someone on the huge triple. Yeah!!

It seemed like the race was never going to end. My dad showed me that I had two laps left, so I knew I just had to keep focused for about 4 more minutes. There's this one jump that's a single-tabletop. I was jumping all the way over it and railing the berm afterwards. There was some mud between the landing and the turn.

Luck would have it that I jumped a little bit too wide and lost traction with my front wheel in the mud, which caused me to lose control and do a superman on my bike! I crashed like that in the superman position...

It took me a couple kicks to get the bike going again, and I was feeling soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooohot!!!

My crash caused me to get lapped, and all I had to do was finish off the lap to finish. When I got off the track the officials pulled off the first 10 bikes, and I was one of them. I got the VIP treatment with cold water and wet towels. Oh my god, I needed that so badly...

I finished 16th in that moto.

I don't have any more motos today because they're only going up to moto 26, which is what you get when every moto is 10 laps long!

Shane's getting a good workout today, doing three motos. I'm going to have the same privilege tomorrow!

Later. -Greg

Ponca City: practice day

Today was the practice day at Ponca City, and it was a hot one! Every class got 20 minutes of practice, and it went all day because there are so many classes. I had three.

In my first practice I noticed how fun the track is! Some big jumps, coupled with fun turns, make the track awesome. The whoops are pretty tough, too.

With the temperature being about 105 everyday, it's really hard to ride after being out there for a little while. Just gotta push through it. Luckily there's a nice, cold shower right by where we're parked. Yayyyy!

Looks like I'm going to have one moto tomorrow. And I won't wear black gear like I did today!

Oh, we ate some chicken CobbNuggets, as well. They're CobbNuggets because they're in Shane's freezer, boo ya.

-Greg Sassi Sassinator #43