Week in Avignon: Behind the Scenes with the Aussie BMX Crew at the World Cups! / vlog pt.2

Join me for an action-packed Week 1 in Avignon, France, as I dive into the BMX World Cups! Get exclusive behind-the-scenes footage of the Australian BMX team, intense training sessions, and thrilling race moments. Follow my journey through the highs and lows of competing on the global stage in this Part 2 vlog series!

wait a minute this is in France that’s cuz I’m in Sydney Olympic Park obviously the flight was cancelled um they put us up here in the Pullman in Olympic Park not a bad view got in uh I mean I didn’t get to sleep till about 1:00 a.m i’m going to try and make breakfast now it’s 9:30 uh and they’ve sent us through a new itinerary Thai Airways um 2:50 so yeah 3:00 taking off again um so yeah we’ll head back over there about 11:30 and hopefully we can get on this one so I’m going to go get breakfast
breakfast catch you in a bit holy schnitle i just wanted to test out the fluffy thing huh it sounded like it was a little loud before but maybe it sounds a bit better with the muffler on hey it is 10 to 11 sienna and Naomi is kind enough to give us a lift um are leaving at 11 so I got about 9 minutes even 8 minutes now to pack my [ __ ] brush my teeth and get downstairs so let’s go a [Applause] f and they scared her head to death handrint she would have just got up and left that’s when she saw Benny stand over by a bar sat back down and waited till he came over to talk later on that night as she was walking out the door up his bike came out for more what’s going on YouTube touchdown we’re in the car uh got picked up oh that’s pretty cool it’s like a river lock we’re driving from Marles down to A Avenueong um so we’re just checking out the ses we head down it’s about an hour and a little bit drive apparently we’re going to head to the grocery store get some bits and pieces for the hotel breakfast all that and then I cannot wait to get back and have a shower feel like I’ve been traveling for days it’s been so long but we made it finally it’s Monday 9 month of June
10:30 a.m so the week has just begun
yes
let’s get to it [Applause] i don’t know what these settings do but just got to the room let’s do a little tour soon as you walk in the door there that’s the toilet bit of a dungeon oh I can’t even zoom out enough with this lens but it’s very contemporary this joint got a plant oh it’s tripped big open shower sink and whatnot big old open area there and then you got industrial looking kitchen going on here got a sink little stove microwave fridge got the works not bad bit of stuff hanging little balcony couch where’s the bed ah that’s right it’s in the cupboard how’s that that’s weird isn’t it you can just get right in here and just close the door close the door black out good night all right got the bike all dialed in [Music] looks good all polished got a couple beef burgers on the go some can chuck an egg on there too i just finished a time video so jump on the time app and I just finished the part one of this World Cup vlog series um so if you haven’t watched part one go watch part one and get on the Tom BMX app go to my profile and check out some of the vids I’ve been posting um they’re location specific but you can just see them in my feed on my profile so get over there check it out and if you haven’t used the time app get on the time app what are you doing great reviews from breakfast here is there chocolate in that or is it actually fruit chocolate you’ll settle thought I would pop around and take a look at this gym that the hotel’s got it’s not even a hotel this is a freaking They’re like apartments oh that is dark there we go that’s better isn’t it so what do we got we got a little jumping running mat thingo going on here little outdoor now this is all like open there’s shutters but it’s all open boxing bags it’s like a little crossfit area just dial bunch of boxes there’s some mats lockers tell you what we could have a mad little party down here e look at all this damn imagine this was your garage they even got bands little the bands cones got the works roller even got a sled i can do some reverse sled damn boy now we are heading to a local gym today um or this morning and then we got track this afternoon at 3:00 p.m so um yeah it’s just a short session we reckon it’s going to be pretty packed there with a bunch of BMXs um so yeah try and get a few exercises in come back chillax and then we’ll go hit the track at 3:00 hopefully it’s not too windy try to get some clips for you um but yeah feeling dialed let’s get it bella on the cam she’s getting the angles look at her go [Music] jesse’s all about it [Music] all right now we try some jumps hey [Music] not bad Jim jackie’s over there getting warmed up there’s a bit of circus going on over here on the green might do some double-legged and then we’ll try some singles in the vans ain’t no other way about it [Music] [Applause] [Music] there it is i can see those glutes they’re popping [Music] he’s like “God damn it let me train [Music] [ __ ] my heart’s about to pop out my chest today
that latte’s going straight to the dome or
That’s my fourth one in the morning
fourth [ __ ] hell i was trying to be jet lag huh
yeah i just like thought you weren’t much of a big caffeine drinker no
I didn’t for like gym and stuff
yeah yeah just not on like cry yeah oh come on right leg come on [Music] [Applause] done i’m done [Music] to the moon oh SD card’s full too by the looks of it well that’s a wrap on gym guys good session i’m going to enjoy a coffee hopefully this records um and we’ll catch you at the track nice bomb build that for years right looks good finish yet
almost set and then I’m done what about you how was your session in and out
couple more sets of sun
couple more sets of sunshine we’re good [Music] and he’s baby i don’t go i don’t go can’t be mean this time just leave in the middle of the night his watch on your table his boots on your floor the car’s parked right outside your back door to leave him asleep in your bed and your halfish color for the sun oh oh oh oh oh oh [Music] what up this is round one on Saturday uh you got Booty in one Molina in two Fuin in three and I’m in four i had to get out for this one kixto there in five but got a good gate was out with him bit of backside tried to get around the outside of Duan here drop the shoulder and then bang collateral damage baby so coming into the turn here as soon as I got the elbow and thin I should have been but then I guess Molina kind of pushed out a little bit as well which is why I kind of drifted out a bit but soon as I was clear here I should have been on the pedals and try and close that gap a little bit more cuz then bang I may or may not have got in front of Kalixto there i mean he turned so low so tight dropped the shoulder like I think someone was going over the turn regardless but is what it is i kind of hit the backside of that last corner and sprained my wrist on this one it wasn’t too comfy all right here’s the eighth final sixth choice after winning the LCQ i got Louisan however you say his last name on my outside i got out held him quillin hit the gate um I was able to push through into third here on Matise so holding pretty comfy a little nutty there but covered my line out of the second corner got on the gas and then I messed up here see manual jump up jump across i should have manual up jumped across so I tried to cover my line in the last corner and then bang washed out tire blew i don’t know which one came first i don’t remember hearing it blow up so I think the drift is what caused it to slide like that so through third straight I jumped up here when I should have manual see how everyone else manual up i lost a little bit of speed didn’t get any backside out of it it’s not that bad cuz Matt was on my outside anyway i kind of realized this i went a little wide i tried to get a little wider here on entry but then I tried to carve down see how much I’m leaning over i tried to kind of carve down a bit there to hold my line so he couldn’t high low me and then I just front wheel started going back wheel started going next minute I was just sliding across the ash felt so that wasn’t fun quali position um just had to suck that one up and get ready for day two oh [ __ ] here we go again
oh [ __ ] here we go again day two
we got a couple wounded soldiers out here myself Jordan Callum went down yesterday who didn’t go down yesterday
me bella didn’t go down sienna
sienna didn’t
Jesse Isaac
Jesse pretty much anyone who did well
yeah anyone that podium
and if you didn’t do well you hit the deck you ready to oge
let’s oge let’s oge let’s oge
huh
we’re on oh [ __ ] there goes the ankle [Music] it’s
just a flesh wound
just a flesh wound we’re good
look you stupid bastard you’ve got no arms left
yes I have
look it’s just a flesh wound [Music] [Music] that was a struggle
i get that that’s took a whole minute what’s the game plan here just easing into it this morning don’t need to learn the track we rode it enough this week all I got to do is just warm up feel good all
righty
let’s go let’s go [Music] couldn’t even grip the bars
yeah I seen you rolling around
so I thought screw the rest of practice so I’ll just try and have
a couple cut more panadol we’ll try to strap it up a bit better and just see if I can even grip but I couldn’t even grip standing on the gate let alone pedal [Music] what’s going on YouTube i um we made it to a hotel here in Netherlands um not the best weekend for me in France i It started off really strong um I was in a pretty good position in round one on Saturday and just was kind of collateral damage got sent off the turn and then fought back in the LCQ won the LCQ got into a good quality position in the eighth was sitting third and washed out in the last corner all by myself my tire did blow i just can’t confirm whether I washed out because of the tire or if I slid and the tire popped after I slid i reckon it’s I reckon I slid cuz I was leaning over a fair bit trying to cover my line um sometimes I ask too much from corners so you got to be conscious of that my wrist was a little too sore from actually going over the corner it actually wasn’t from sliding out in the corner sliding out I just kind of got a bunch of grazes all down my side but um when I went over the corner I kind of jarred my wrist a little bit to catch myself um so then Sunday I tried to I warmed up we strapped up my wrist i had a few panadol couple volar in um did everything I could to warm up went out to practice and um I could couldn’t even really roll around to be honest it it was too sore i gave it a little more time because we probably had about 40 minutes after practice before racing so I gave it a bit more time tried to warm up some more see if getting some blood through it would help and about 5 minutes before I had to go up for my race I just called it medil kind of gave me clarity on that i was in an hour and he said “Look make a decision before you go up there you don’t want to be halfass and on the hill.” So I made the decision to pull out hoping that uh I’d be feeling good for this weekend because I was so close like it was borderline wanting to race i um I either you know I feel like I could have gripped and done an okay gate but the problem is you can’t just do okay gates here so thought it was best to rest feel like I have the speed on the weekend so hopefully can put it all together again this weekend and see some results shout out Time BMX these guys helped me get over here along with Tangent Products my main sponsor Rift Tangent um couldn’t do it without those guys and of course DP heating cooling allowing me the time off to come here and do this kind of stuff they’re always supporting me so um they’re the guys that support me the most and I appreciate it [Music] ever since that night she’s tried to leave him many times can’t quite get away see more jails in court and lawyers than she like to say [Music] that’ll never change