demo man
24-07-2006, 09:47 PM
Sorry about the delay (again) - i am in the middle of swapping computers - it got a little messy tonight trying to find and move the Word file this one came from. oh well, better late than never!
so, once again, i am proud to introduce, Glen Jacobs!
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a184/demo_man/813086869_l.jpg
14. What is your favourite part of building mountain bike trails? Is it seeing the smiles on rider’s faces as they hit up your stuff, playing in the dirt, or maybe something else?
I love it when everybody finishes a ride and cant stop talking about what just happened. It’s my personal passion to push towards our sport into the future and raise the profile of the sport through exciting and innovative designs. This is my favourite part. Developing a professional and sustainable future for all our athletes. We have some of the best riders in the world, and everyday I see riders who I know can end up standing on an international podium. If I can help in anyway to push the sport forward through challenging tracks while making everybody a better athlete I love that. A track must be so challenging on every level, while delivering absolute quality and fairness to all who ride it. Multiple options with excitable variety! It pains me to see a riders career shattered because of amateurish course designs, unfortunately there are too many under achievers out there without course vision or just trying to bring the sport down to their small way of thinking.
15. What are you working on at the moment?
Our company MVA, have 18 projects running at the same time all over the world, the main ones are mt stromlo and mt buller. Mt Stromlo is one of the first MTB Parks in the world, which is close to a major city. I think the exciting thing about stromlo, is the huge mountain bike culture in the city of Canberra, the clubs, the passionate riders and of course on the worlds first professionally designed bike specific destinations. I can wait for the National Championships in January 2007. At the moment we are working on the Cross Country trails, these trails have multiple options, skill levels and routes. August we start on the Canberra’s first International Downhill design. This Dh will be designed as a World Cup course, and will take months to construct, with crews working around the clock on its completion. Then around November we start on Australia’s latest professionally designed 4X – MTX course. This huge monster is soaking up close to 180 thousand tonne of soil. It will have the latest ‘D.O.S. System” technology (the future international standard) paving the way for Canberra and Australian riders to compete and train on a ‘state of the art’ professional course, similar to Hobart and Newcastle.
16. You travel the world quite a lot for various reasons, how does the Aus. MTB scene compare to others?
It is so far ahead in design style, creativity and rider professionalism (just look at our riders world cup results) Unfortunately we are years behind in government awareness and media awareness, hope it changes soon. The most positive vein in all of this is that the more professionally designed venues that are built, the more platforms are available for our athletes and national series to evolve. The better the sport is, the bigger the sponsorship and the better the future is for all involved.
17. What are your tips for people trying to succeed in the MTB industry?
Do everything you can to make it better for everybody, do it all for the right reasons, listen to those who have gone before you, and don’t make the same mistakes someone else has. Most of all, when you aim for something, think big, pro and then double it. There is a huge positive future in mountain biking if everybody steps it up, instead of a piss weak “that will do” attitude. I see it this way, if a football club had to go set up a site every week before a match, bring in toilets, tents, bunting and cut the grass and put up goal posts, that footy club would stay very small, because members would gradually get pissed off doing repeat work with no results. But if you had a pro vision of our sport, with a permanent site linked to nature, a major meeting area with cafes, bike shops and facilities capable of handling huge growth, then the sport and industry could only grow with opportunities for all involved. Again, don’t think small; our sport is one of the best activities in the world, at so many different levels, so approach it with a professional attitude. It doesn’t matter what part of the Mountain Bike industry your involved in, think of an exciting and positive “end result”. This approach will reward you and us with an amazing future and lifestyle.
18. Describe your riding style:
Safe and smooth
20. What would you change about your riding style?
Remove safe.
21. Last time you were approached by the police was:
Last week at a nightclub in Canberra, a friend of mine who joined the police force, asked me what I wanted to drink, she didn’t wear her uniform until later that night.
22. Last car accident:
Years ago I put my ute in a creek doing doe’ees and silly stuff with Sean McCarroll and some mates. It started raining hard, and a flash flood came, we got all our bikes out of the back, but lost a lot of cd’s, gloves and goggles from inside the car when water flowed through and over the car. We eventually towed it out, drained it and drove home. I did the same thing once trying to drive to a deserted island off on one of the beaches in north Queensland, when I drove through the water in my 4x4. I thought it was shallow enough to drive to the island, and ended up driving off the end of a reef and sinking my car, luckily I had my jet ski in the back and we rode back to shore and waited for some friends to come and re-float my car out.
25. Most foul food ever eaten:
Taco Bell in the US, and Sheep balls in Slovenia, they weren’t that bad, just the thought threw me.
so, once again, i am proud to introduce, Glen Jacobs!
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a184/demo_man/813086869_l.jpg
14. What is your favourite part of building mountain bike trails? Is it seeing the smiles on rider’s faces as they hit up your stuff, playing in the dirt, or maybe something else?
I love it when everybody finishes a ride and cant stop talking about what just happened. It’s my personal passion to push towards our sport into the future and raise the profile of the sport through exciting and innovative designs. This is my favourite part. Developing a professional and sustainable future for all our athletes. We have some of the best riders in the world, and everyday I see riders who I know can end up standing on an international podium. If I can help in anyway to push the sport forward through challenging tracks while making everybody a better athlete I love that. A track must be so challenging on every level, while delivering absolute quality and fairness to all who ride it. Multiple options with excitable variety! It pains me to see a riders career shattered because of amateurish course designs, unfortunately there are too many under achievers out there without course vision or just trying to bring the sport down to their small way of thinking.
15. What are you working on at the moment?
Our company MVA, have 18 projects running at the same time all over the world, the main ones are mt stromlo and mt buller. Mt Stromlo is one of the first MTB Parks in the world, which is close to a major city. I think the exciting thing about stromlo, is the huge mountain bike culture in the city of Canberra, the clubs, the passionate riders and of course on the worlds first professionally designed bike specific destinations. I can wait for the National Championships in January 2007. At the moment we are working on the Cross Country trails, these trails have multiple options, skill levels and routes. August we start on the Canberra’s first International Downhill design. This Dh will be designed as a World Cup course, and will take months to construct, with crews working around the clock on its completion. Then around November we start on Australia’s latest professionally designed 4X – MTX course. This huge monster is soaking up close to 180 thousand tonne of soil. It will have the latest ‘D.O.S. System” technology (the future international standard) paving the way for Canberra and Australian riders to compete and train on a ‘state of the art’ professional course, similar to Hobart and Newcastle.
16. You travel the world quite a lot for various reasons, how does the Aus. MTB scene compare to others?
It is so far ahead in design style, creativity and rider professionalism (just look at our riders world cup results) Unfortunately we are years behind in government awareness and media awareness, hope it changes soon. The most positive vein in all of this is that the more professionally designed venues that are built, the more platforms are available for our athletes and national series to evolve. The better the sport is, the bigger the sponsorship and the better the future is for all involved.
17. What are your tips for people trying to succeed in the MTB industry?
Do everything you can to make it better for everybody, do it all for the right reasons, listen to those who have gone before you, and don’t make the same mistakes someone else has. Most of all, when you aim for something, think big, pro and then double it. There is a huge positive future in mountain biking if everybody steps it up, instead of a piss weak “that will do” attitude. I see it this way, if a football club had to go set up a site every week before a match, bring in toilets, tents, bunting and cut the grass and put up goal posts, that footy club would stay very small, because members would gradually get pissed off doing repeat work with no results. But if you had a pro vision of our sport, with a permanent site linked to nature, a major meeting area with cafes, bike shops and facilities capable of handling huge growth, then the sport and industry could only grow with opportunities for all involved. Again, don’t think small; our sport is one of the best activities in the world, at so many different levels, so approach it with a professional attitude. It doesn’t matter what part of the Mountain Bike industry your involved in, think of an exciting and positive “end result”. This approach will reward you and us with an amazing future and lifestyle.
18. Describe your riding style:
Safe and smooth
20. What would you change about your riding style?
Remove safe.
21. Last time you were approached by the police was:
Last week at a nightclub in Canberra, a friend of mine who joined the police force, asked me what I wanted to drink, she didn’t wear her uniform until later that night.
22. Last car accident:
Years ago I put my ute in a creek doing doe’ees and silly stuff with Sean McCarroll and some mates. It started raining hard, and a flash flood came, we got all our bikes out of the back, but lost a lot of cd’s, gloves and goggles from inside the car when water flowed through and over the car. We eventually towed it out, drained it and drove home. I did the same thing once trying to drive to a deserted island off on one of the beaches in north Queensland, when I drove through the water in my 4x4. I thought it was shallow enough to drive to the island, and ended up driving off the end of a reef and sinking my car, luckily I had my jet ski in the back and we rode back to shore and waited for some friends to come and re-float my car out.
25. Most foul food ever eaten:
Taco Bell in the US, and Sheep balls in Slovenia, they weren’t that bad, just the thought threw me.