| written by Sebastian Wolter |
Hello everybody,
after the last two and a half weeks I am thinking about getting „LIVE FAST“ tattooed on my fingerknuckles... since it seems to describe my pace of
living right now pretty well. Ok, I don‘t think I will get the tattoo done, but If I look back and ahead I would say my old body is running full gas.
At the Sputnik Springbreak Festival I had three jobs: riding FMX show in the middle of the night, playing my first ever concert with my band Dan
Dryers and producing / co-producing with my newest project SPOTeclicious a TV show starring me and my mechanic Mini. Everything went well,
but this was the first and last time that I will do a FMX show at 2:30 in the morning. The time is killing every motivation to jump a bike anyway, but it
doesn‘t help if the showtime is moved forward a little bit, you fell asleep in the camper and just get woken up 3 minutes before your first jump. Still
sleeping (at least it felt so) accelerating to the ramp for my first jump it felt like my first time ever on a bike...
With too less hours of sleep after this exhausting weekend Christoph Leib and me started our trip to Brno / Czech Republic to meet up with the italian
DaBoot crew, Martin Koren and Jan „Johnny“ Brabec in Johhnys private dirtjump heaven. This was the start of our „Euro Invaders“ roadtrip, an
idea of Alvaro Dal Farra and myself. In Czech we hit huge dirtjumps, which were up to 50 meters long, and proved that you can do stuff like this in
Europe. The next stop was in Sweden at Fredrik Johanssons Sweetspot. We had some fun sessions there even though the temperatures chenged
from 26 degree Celsius in Czech to below 10 degree in Sweden... from Sweden we went back to Germany and sessioned Stefan Bengs‘ park with
some sick double line trains. The italian crew also loved the sightseeing and partying in my hometown Berlin.
From Berlin we went to Alvaros park
in Italy to finish another cool roadtrip. The driving in the car was pretty much, I drove 5.000 km in only 10 days... But the Euro Invaders trip for sure
was not the last one that we did and you will be seeing cool footage of the trip soon in the internet and in magazines all over the world.
From Italy I went straight to Winterberg / Germany to the ixs Dirtmasters Bikefestival. Our new Upforce mobile landing had its debut during the
VANS Rocknight at the festival. The crowed loved it and I guess we will be back next year. After the FMX show it was time for my next Dan Dryers
concert and it went amazing! I think I will not call us band anymore, I prefer the term „freakshow“ now... the crowd loved us and nearly was tearing
down the security fences BEFORE we even started playing. Two hours later we finished the concert which will definitely go down in the history of
Winterberg!
But as if the last two weeks were not exhausting enough for me I could not take a break, but again had to jump in my car and drive through the night
to the IFMXF Night of the Jumps in Hamburg. What would I do without my mechanic Mini, who drive all night while I was trying to get at least some
sleep in the car. In Hamburg the practice went well, but I definitely was pretty tired. Everybody rode pretty well and the competition was pretty tight.
Before my first flipcombo I had bad wheelspin in the corner, because the rut that Fredd Johansson had left with his fourstroke in the previous run
was only filled up with loose dirt and never got compacted. This wheelspin slowed down my approach to the ramp and I was happy that I still pulled
a flip and did not case the jump... but of course I did not pull my combo. For the next flipcombo in my run the same happened, since it was the same
ramp, the same corner and I just used it for flips... of course I knew this would not bring me into the final. I was bummed... but at the same time I
showed a Tsunami for the first time in a contest run (finally I figured out how to do it constantly...) and my Superflip was going well, too. In the Whipcontest
I was really pushing it, but it was not enough to beat Massimo Bianconchini, so I ended up 2nd.
Now I try to get as much energy back as possible because June is waiting with a lot of stuff for me and my schedule is as tight as never before...
Hm, maybe I should get „YOU BETTER GET SOME REST AND SLOW DOWN THE PACE OF YOUR LIFE BECAUSE YOU TURN 31 IN TWO
WEEKS“ tattooed ... but I don‘t have that many fingers...
And check out my website www.bustywolter.com for little news-bits in between these newsletters!
Cheers, Busty
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