Jordan



" What an exciting weekend IN Taupo last weekend with the World Junior MX held at Digger McKewan Park Taupo. This is the first time this event has been held outside Europe and hats off to Taupo Motorcycle Club for the fantastic job they did in staging a very successful event.

While the weather was not kind on Saturday for practice and qualifying both Campbell King and Cam Dillion both qualified in the top 10, setting the stage for a very exciting Sunday! With only two motos deciding the World Championships the guys had to ride hard from the start - no room for playing catch up.

Sunday was slightly better weatherwise but with puddles on the pumice it was still very wet and looked pretty slippery.

How excited were we to see Campbell take the holeshot in Race 1 of the 85cc class - WHOW! All of Taupo was yelling for him - that was so impressive! Running in the top three for a good part of the race he unfortunately crashed and never regained his momentum - but he sure showed that he is a class rider capable of dicing with the best in the world. These motos were 20 minutes plus 2 laps - huge races!

Cam Dillion worked hard in both motos running in the top 10 most of the day. Good on you Cam!

Eli Tomac was tipped to be very fast before the event started and while he did not get the best of starts he mowed down the other riders in the first moto coming from way back to head off all the other riders and finish 1st - Man this guy is fast! It looked like he just got faster as the race went on.

The second moto was much the same story for Eli, but this time finishing a close 2nd to Ty Simmonds with both boys showing their class with some exciting racing. This second place was enough to give Eli the World Junior 125cc Title - well done Eli! It was exciting for Honda to host Eli and for him to take the title! While not riding a Honda anymore, Courtenay Duncan from Palmerston Otago is known to many of our members after she came to the Honda Kids Club Campout at Waikaia last January. She was certainly a crowd favourite and placed 9th in the first Moto. Don't forget here that she was the only girl racing at the World Junior Championship so you can imagine what happened in the 2nd moto when she finished 4th - All 10,000 people at the Taupo Motocross track were screaming for her! What a fantastic result for Courtney and the Honda Kids Club say a huge CONGRATULATIONS COURTNEY! She is officially the fastest 85cc Woman rider in the World and obviously has a bright future ahead of her! Courtney placed 6th overall which is fantastic. Like everyone else around the Taupo track we had no voice left after the moto - we were still crocky on Monday!

The chance to see the best Juniors in the World was a rare treat and we know of a few riders who are already looking to the World Champs next year which are being held in France. For the rest of us this event sure showed us what can be achieved with hard work and dedication. Congratulations to all our riders who took part - you are all legends!" ripper rugby || ​ ​ ​
 * friends... || Nicholas || Nick || Jake || Mitchell || Tayne ||  ||
 * family... || Brenda || Peter || Mason || Devon || Jordan ||  ||
 * sports... || Rugby, || Golf, || Motocross, || touch, || bike riding, || rugby leauge,
 * around the house... || lawn mowing, || tidying the house ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * on the farm... || tractor work, || fencing, || feeding the cows || feeding the calfs || digging out culvets || getting the cows in for milking. ||
 * sport teams... || otago highlanders || allblacks || tall blacks ||  ||   ||   ||





MOTOCROSS RIDERS Nate adams..................................Travis pastrana...............Jeremy stenberg.............................Levi sherwood James stewert.............................Chad reed..........................Mad mike jones......................Davi millsaps... Scott murray..................Tood potter...........Jeremy mcgrath.................Ryan villipoto................Cam sinclair Mat rebeaud....................Mike jones...............Blake williams.............................Mike larocco.............Adam jones Sebastion tortelli .....................Ricky charmichael...........................Courtney duncan.................Cam dillion........ Cambell king...............



This is my report on earthquakes:

** Earthquakes ** happen by a rupture of 'tectonic plates' not 'dinner plates' in the earth's crust. They are always happening but we cant feel them.

In 1899, 700 km south of San diego, Chilies largest earthquake caused 2000 deaths and 3000 injured. At the end of the ** earthquake ** over 2,000,000 people lost their homes.On the scale it showed 9.5. When everything was cleared out over $550 million dollars was lost.

When an ** earthquake ** happens things fall off shelves, things break and things break into 1,000,000 pieces, especially beer bottles.

The Ritcher scale is used to describe ** earthquakes **. The Ritcher scale was designed by Charles F Ritcher in 1934. The Ritcher scale is used to measure earthquake.

** Earthquakes ** are a pain, annoying and dangerous. So when ever you are in one get somewhere safe.

SPRINT COACH Scott McLaren, my cousin is the new Sprint Coach for the Auckland Blues 2009 Super 14 team.

He got the job through his physio who was the old sprint coach for the Auckland Blues.

When Scott trains them he will be working on explosive speed up to 20 metres, Biomechanics of movement (The study of the mechanical laws relating to the movement or structure of living organisms)technique, and top end speed(as fast as you can go in a matter of time).

Training sessions start at 7:35 am to 12:45 pm, 1:35 pm to 5:45 pm. Scott trains them 2 to 3 days a week, no matter what the weather.

Scott dosen`t just train them for money, He does for helping the team out for training.