Cam White takes on the Windy City
6/22/2009 •
Team Mongoose rider Cam White was in Chicago for the first round of the 2009 Dew Action Sports Tour. Cam is the defending champion from last year so all eyes are on him this year. Cam put in a good day of practice on Thursday but was not too stoked on the fact that the dirt jumps were concrete. Sounds like there were a few storms coming into this event and the only way to get the jumps to stay together was to add some limestone which turned the jumps into cement. Since Cam was last yearÂ’s champ he got a free trip to the finals for Friday night. Cam wanted to put a solid safe run in on his first run of three so that is what he did pulling it clean with a 360 to Flip Turn Down and finished with a Suicide Truck Driver over the last set. That would put one in the bag but Cam knew he had to step it up to have a shot at the win so that is what he did. Cam dropped in for his second run with a 360 over the step down went for a flip to bar spin back flip but slipped pedals and would have to throw that run out. So it all came down to the last run of the night and since Cam went very last it was a pressure cooker up there for sure. Cam dropped in with a 360 over the step down he was looking for the flip bar to whip but got sent weird and pulled a flip bar to X-up to get through and finished with a double whip over the last set. At the end of the night Cam would slip to 12th place. He was not real happy with that of course but consistency pays off in a series like this so look for Cam to kill it in Portland Aug 13-16.
