Darren Berrecloth

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My name is Darren Berrecloth and i live in a small town called Qualicum Beach

I originally started riding bikes when i was a kid well what am I kidding everyone rode bikes when they were kids because we had no cars. The first real bike i had was a specialized rockhopper hard tail, and it didnt take me very long to destroy it, before i knew it the wheels

were bent the bars were bent and i did not have enough money to keep fixing it.

So my local bike shop convinced me to buy a bmx if I wanted to keep doing jumps So I did then I started racing and one thing led to another and here i am.

A professional freerider for specialized, travelling the planet searching for the sickest terrain and riding comps. I am currently tavelling a ton and am super excited to have the opportunities to explore the unkown and push my own limits everyday. I keep pinching myself to make sure its not a dream but yes it is reality and yes I do ride for the best bike company in the business.

hobbies; Snowboarding, snowmobiling, fishing, hunting, skiing, bmxing, motoxing, quading, wakeboarding, and building trails and stunts.

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Achievements

Monster park champion 2 times in a row
Crankwerx whistler champion
Nissan qashqai tour champion
Adidas slopestyle champion three years in a row
Voted rider of the year 2 years in a row at the bike magazine awards
Voted rider of the year 2 years in a row by freeride germany magazine.
Voted best segment of the year at the bike magazine awards
Red bull rampage I have two 3rd place finishes
2 2nd place finishes at the chatel mountain style
This current year was the first year we had a world tour and I ended up in 3rd place for 2010.
I've been featured in magazines from outside to mens fitness and of course hundreds of pages have been ran in mtb magazines across the globe
I was nominated for alternative sports person of the year at the Laureus sports awards in portugal
Voted as one of the 25 coolest people now by Outside magazine

I me myself and I am going a little crazy

July 19, 2010

I me myself and I am going a little crazy, stir crazy that is, from the incessant waiting in order to get to wherever I am going. I at the moment am waiting to get off this ferry in order to get home. I always giggle to myself when I constantly sing the song, "in a hurry to get things done" since that song always rings so true. So anyways I am sure your wondering how the competition went for myself this past weekend, well I will tell ya.

In qualifying I had a good run and qulaified 3rd. So come finals day I started my practice and man this course had 15 hits, all of which were trickable. So what that interpreted to was, a lot of tricks needed and many places to screw up your run. My practice went decent until I tried to tailwhip one jump down low on the course and I always struggled with this jump since you came out of the corner and had to brake a ton and the lip was very inconsistent. I ended up bitch running it like 10 times, which frazzled my brain so i just moved on and whipped and switch 360 the big jump at the bottom which perked me up a bunch before my first run.

My first run was going great until I tried to whip that dumb jump and I brain farted and ended up doing a half whip to half whip back to ball ride, dont ask me how it happened cuz I was even confused. I managed to finish the run and ended up in fifth from that run.My second run was gonna be dialled and it was going great until I blew 10 spokes out on one of my 360s..... so that was it for me I ended up in fifth. Pretty happy with fifth considering I screwed up.

Now as I am about to embark on another few days at home before the next huckfest of a contest, I am happy, I love home..........................

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