On The Pegs December 2018 - Volume 3 - Issue 12 | Page 70

On The Pegs
DANIEL MILNER
To be able to come over here to Chile and be
so consistent through the week and end up
on top, it’s my dream. I’m absolutely stoked
to be able to do that. It’s a lot like Australia
over here, dry and we ride between the gum
trees, which I was a little bit shocked to come
over here and see gum trees. That’s one of the
Australian plants. To be out in-between that,
it kind of made me feel like I was at home. So,
absolutely stoked to be able to bring it home,
and also the team. The team rode so well all
week. So we’re stoked to be on the top step.
This year has been a good year for me back
home in Australia, and I carried that confi-
dence, I guess you’d say, over to here. When
we were walking the tests, we all spoke and
said this is as close as we can get to Australia.
All us guys are pretty pumped. I think that
motivation rubbed off on everyone and we all
rode as good as we could. Josh (Strang) hasn’t
been back in Australia for a long time now,
so for him to ride as well as he did over here, I
think that’s a pretty big thing. It’s a lot differ-
ent to the woods back at Josh’s home, which
is in America there. It’s a lot different to what
he would have been used to, and same with
the American riders. All in all, it’s been an
awesome week and we’re stoked.
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