On The Pegs July 2018 - Volume 3 - Issue 7 | Page 108

On The Pegs
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PAT SMAGE CRITIQUES THE
TENNESSEE SECTIONS
The sections were really technical, for the
most part. They were all just kind of pinpoint,
technical. A little bit slick but enough traction
where you could stay on the points as long as
you were on that one-inch line. Quite a few
turning. Got a jumbled rock section. Some of
them were moving, so it was really hard. You
pick your line but then it kind of forces you off
that line. It just took a lot of fight and strength
to kind of wield the bike through it and keep
it moving in some spots. It ended up being for
the most part really technical. Just a couple
with a few big hits, but nothing too crazy. Ev-
erything was pretty safe. A little different style
than we’re used to, I guess.
If you were an inch off your line you were
pretty much going to find a hole or mess up
the next part. It was real easy to take a point.
It was hard not to turn it into a three also, be-
cause once you get off your line and find the
holes sometimes you can’t really get out of
them. It was really a lot of mental focus to try
to stay on your line and really keep it moving
through everything.
Number nine was probably the hardest. The
entire thing was jumbled rocks. The middle
part of it was really tricky with the one main
pointed one. There were a few different lines
to pick from, and I wasn’t too confident in any
of them. So it took a few tries to finally get it
clean the last loop, but I was happy to hold
onto that one, even though it was very close
to fiving and had to pull something out of
nowhere and ended up doing a couple really
big flip to just save myself. Just really wanted
to clean that one to finish up the loop.