| Outer Limits Tour goes AK by daneferguson |
| Really excited to be riding at home again alongside Paul Thacker. Updated stops on the Outer Limits Tour Wasabis Bar, in homer, Arctic Man, and the Snow Cross Finals @ Alyeska Resort. |
| posted on Monday, March 15 2010 |
| Tearing up the east coast by daneferguson |
| Sorry about the hiatus!!! i have been on the road and the rave x guys have been bustin my balls about keeping the fans updated so that is my new thing!!!! Been on the east caost doing a bunch of the Rave X Mission Trailers Outer Limits tour shows, havin a blast have done 10 shows this season in the North East. Had a blast cant wait for next year to start up. Thanks to all the fans on the East coast and all the support of all the venues!! Sorry the website has been neglected, the webmaster has been super busy and I havent stayed on him!!! Were working on that, HUGE thanks to all my major sponsors!!! Mission Trailers, RAVE X, FXR, hmb.org, Also a big thanks to Bell and Spy for the free product, and AMDS and team CC for always helping out at home!!! |
| posted on Monday, March 15 2010 |
| aaaaah yeah by daneferguson |
| Turnagain has opened and it is still snowing. I won't be at the ramps for a while. |
| posted on Thursday, November 26 2009 |
| Hi Ralph by daneferguson |
| I was excepted to X games 14 today. Give me a call. |
| posted on Tuesday, November 17 2009 |
| A D-rail update!! by daneferguson |
| -DARRYL- If you can read this. Stay positive and keep battling. We are trying to raise as much money as possible so we can convert your house into a wheelchair skate park. (or pay some bills if you want to be responsible.) I'm going out tomorrow to work on that trick we talked about at the hospital. Good luck with your battles. Dane Here is the latest and greatest from the Tait family. I know there is a lot of people here and all over hoping for Darryl to make as speedy a recovery as possible. To our AMAZING GLOBAL SUPPORT Team !!!!! Our prayers are being answered, my dear family and friends!!!!! THANK-YOU, LORD!!!!! YAHOOO!!!! Darryl's healing so tremendously and even the medical staff are amazed . Our boy accomplished lots in last 24 hours and we are all so proud of him!!!! He sat up in his bed several times and all his blood pressure readings were great. He did work with the physiotherapist getting up on his feet to getting into a chair !!! THAT WAS HARD WORK !!!!!!! He told us later he thought the chair was built for a very short person!!!!! The occupational therapist dropped by to do some work with him as well. Amongst everything else going on they fit in 3 chest xrays. They took out his large tracheal tube and put in a much smaller one. THIS IS TERRIFIC because he is off the ventilator and on the trac mask. He is totally BREATHING on his OWN!!!! YAHOOO!!!! HE CAN ALSO TALK NOW and the first words I heard my son speak was, "I LOVE YOU.MOM!!" The flood gate of tears were released and they just kept rolling down my face. To hear those words spoken from Darryl meant the world to me !!!!!! With the arrival of each family member he declared his love to Gran, Curtis, Becky and most importantly to Jamie. We all had about the same reaction !!!!! MY GOODNESS, OH, THE JOY IN LIFE, IN THE SMALL STUFF!!!! They truly are the treasures of our hearts!!!! He is back on the feeding tube and his stomach is handling that well. They might put him on a soft diet tomorrow which will include a much desired CHOCOLATE MILKSHAKE( a real one - made from real ice cream)!!!! His nurse, Liz, is going to make sure he gets one. Darryl has been dreaming about that milkshake for a long while!!!!!!!! That is his carrot to relearning how to swallow liquids and the soft food with a smaller trach in his trachial passage. This trach tube will come out in the near future but they will want something left in his air passage until after his medivac transfer to Vancouver. The only step back is he has some secretion built up into his left lung so they put a drain tube back in it. IT WAS AN AMAZING DAY and we can REJOICE & BE GLAD IN IT !!!!!!! WOW, that was truly a big day!!!! We love you all lots, Jamie, Barb, Curtis, Becky & the man of the day, D-Rail!!!!!! |
| posted on Friday, October 23 2009 |
| d-rail's getting surgery today by daneferguson |
| Here is his fathers up date from yesterday. There were lots of GOOD THINGS that happened today: (1) they took out the right lung drainage tube!!! YAHOO!!! The secretions were so nominal that they did that procedure first thing this morning. (2) The bacterial cultures came back negative (3) He had all kinds of bowel activity, today!!!!!! ALLELUIA!!! First, since his accident. (4) The Physiotherapist was in late this afternoon and had a GREAT session with Darryl. He is mentally ready to get at rehab once they stabilize his back. (5) He had ultrasound work done today, determining he has no blood clots!!! Thank-you ,Lord for another good piece of news (6) And here is the HAPPY DANCE NEWS, are you ready for it??????? THEY ARE GOING AHEAD WITH HIS SURGERY TOMORROW AT 8:00am WITH THE FINEST ANESTHESIOLOGIST AND THE FINEST ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON IN NORTH AMERICA !!!! God has the BEST TEAM lined up for Darryl's surgery!!! We are all beside ourselves with JOY and GRATEFUL HEARTS !!!!! The ICU medical have determined that the fever Darryl has been running the last couple of days has been as a result of neurological damage. Neurons giving the body the wrong messages. SO WE ARE GOOD TO GO!!!! YAHOO!!!!!!! We are counting on your prayers especially NOW, that God would guide the surgeon's hands tomorrow and give the entire OR team peace, strength, and wisdom that transcends all our understanding to perform each of their responsibilities for this particular surgery (it could take up to 8 hours to perform). That the team would be filled with Your love for our son, Darryl, and have the spirit of cooperation amongst them to do their very best. Prepare Darryl in everyway possible for this surgery, his mind,body, and spirit, Lord Jesus. May you be revealed to us God, through what you are about to accomplish in and through the hands, hearts and minds of the OR Team and those who are praying for our beloved Darryl !!! I personally give you the Praise and the Glory in all that will take place in his surgery, through Jesus Christ, your Son. AMEN!!!!! Good night to you all!!!!! We look forward to giving all of you an update tomorrow!!!!! We have much to be grateful for!!!!!! with much love, Jamie, Barb, Curtis (Becky), and especially Darryl |
| posted on Wednesday, October 21 2009 |
| D-RAIL'S DADS LATEST UPDATE by daneferguson |
| Hi, to all our support team in all parts of the world !!!!! I am in AWE that we have people praying all over the world for Darryl (Canada, United States, Mexico, South America, Africa, Australia, Europe, Phillippines and Singapore) WOW isn't that unreal!!!! We consider ourselves very fortunate to have our son covered from all four corners of the globe!!! I know our Heavenly Father is hearing the prayers from all of you !!!! Thanks for being there because when we are feeling weak we are strengthened knowing others are bathing Darryl in their prayers!!!! Today has been a tough day. They have taken Darryl off the heavy sedation medication so he is more alert but has to work harder to manage the pain. They are keeping him comfortable for sure, it's just tougher on all of us. He is more aware of the pain and everything else in his life. He is breathing on his own with a slight assist from the ventilator so that is VERY GOOD NEWS. He is regulating his breathing so he is working hard to get his lungs in good shape. It is like running a steady pace for a marathon but there is no end in sight. IT IS GOOD HE HAS THE CAPACITY TO DO THE JOB. Darryl's temperature continues to spike up to 103 degrees but at present is hovering around 100. They believe the infection is probably in other parts of his body from small pockets from previous internal bleeding and that is why the fever is still present. We are still on track with the surgery for this Wednesday at this point. Antibiotics are being administered to assist his body So we wait and continue to beleive that even though we don't see much progress things are being accomplished by our Lord. This verse keeps going through my head, "They that wait upon the Lord, shall renew their strength. they shall mount up like wings as eagles. They shall run and not be weary. They shall walk and not faint. Teach me Lord to wait." So Darryl is doing the running with his lungs and we are all waiting on the Lord to accomplish Darryl's healing. Rovic continues to be a great support for us all. His parents drove down from Montreal to give us a hand. When me moved into our apartment here in Boston they helped us get settled in and with the help of their daughter in law (who lives in the area) went out and got us some groceries and all the supplies we needed to get set up. The generosity of others just keeps flowing our way and we are humbled by it because saying thank-you just doesn't seem enough. We, too, are growing to new depths of appreciation. We are really looking forward to Becky's arrival tomorrow. It will be good to have her by our side and I know Curtis will be extremely happy to have her here to give him her love. Have a good evening our families & friends and know Darryl and we, his family, are being well looked after here in Boston. With all our love, Jamie, Barb, Curtis, Becky and especially Darryl |
| posted on Monday, October 19 2009 |
| Ruff Riders premieres in AK Oct. 17 by daneferguson |
| October 17th Turnagain HardCore and Ak Freestyle will be premiering the release of 2 new videos in one night. Our local Alaskan bmx pros have release their newest video called "No Bike's" showing at 8 o'clock, and for the first time, "Ruff riders 5" A bad ass snowmachine video from Sweden starring Daniel Bodine and produced by world renowned filmer Petter Grimborg. 6 o'clock freestyle show featuring Jason Semler performing a back flip for the first time since he broke his back flipping the Richardson highway in 2006. An indoor bmx park with multiple performances by David Clay and the NO Bikes bmx crew. Riders.David clay,Aaron Gates,Zac heinen,Wane Anasogak,Terrence Mitchell,The Fleagals,Derrel Williams,Matt Ridgway,Andrew Lazaruk,George Bolter,Ryan Hibert,Loren Lyftogt,Slade Scherer and many more, >Sponsers Revision clothing and No bikes.com Dirt bike and snowmachine demos by Ak Frestyle Full bars and beer garden will be available at the event from Noon to 10 pm. $2.00 Bud & Bud Light @ Club Elixir for after-party only. Bud or Bud Light will be 3 for $10.00 before 5 pm!!! Extreme sports movies will be playing thoughout the entire event. Visit www.clubelixirak.com and www.fantasieson5th.com A T & T Sports Pavillion, 11111 O'Malley Centre Drive, Anchorage near the corner of Old Seward and O'Malley noon bmx Jam session 1:00 moto Jam session 2:00 woman's snow machine Jam session 3:00 bmx Jam session 4:00 moto Jam session 5:00 men's snow machine Jam session 6:00 Combined Freestyle Show (Jason Semler will be performing his first flip since he broke his back in 2006) 7:00 Replaying THC 8 8:00 the no bikes video 9:00 ruff riders 3 10:00 after party Club Ellixir is official after-party; address: 1911 E. 5th Avenue, Phone 272-9224 NO COVER CHARGE!!! Specials at after-party: $2.00 Bud & Bud Light @ Club Elixir for after-party only. |
| posted on Friday, October 2 2009 |
| I'm back by daneferguson |
| Thanks to Jeff Mullin and many other people, I just won both Yamaha and Pro Model Helmets their first snowmachine gold medal, in the Next Trick event, at winter X games 13 in aspen Colorado. I won with a trick I call the "Twist-off". It's like an off axis flip that I have done off of wind lips at Turnagain. I named it the "Twist-off" after my good friend Christoph vonAlvensleben who past away last spring. Christoph and I had been riding together since before we really knew how to jump. We were always pushing each other. Trying to out-do one another. When we got into the video filming crews we received a lot of different nicknames from the various groups and Twist-off" happened to be one of the nicknames he got. One day out at turnagain Christoph was doing some super inverted whips off of a wind lip. I kept trying to do the same thing and I kept wadding up. Finally after about 30 minutes of trying to copy him i decide if i couldn't do an upside down whip i would try to flip into it and whip out of it. It worked out and now it's named after him. I never really intended to bring this new trick to X games. Originally i was hoping to do a double back flip. In early January I went to Fitzland where Jimmy Fitzpatric showed me how to do the double on a crf150. That turned out to be totally useless when I spent the next several weeks at Electric Mountain Lodge in Colorado trying to get parts to make my sled run 100%. At this point I had to rethink what I was going to do. Thats when I decided to try and replicate a windlip in the side of a landing and officially name it the "Twist-off". Luckily while I was at the lodge Jeff Mullin was there ripp'n it up and saw I was having sled problems. He hurried to purchase factory Yamaha's practice freestyle sled so that he could lend it to me for X games. Then Yamaha hooked it up with parts, mechanics and prize money. So 24 hrs before the comp I got to barrow a brand new 4 stroke I'd never ridden. A couple laps around a field, across a parking lot, 2 whips, 2 flips and then I had a gold medal. I'm defiantly stoked Jeff with the nitro. I can't wait until he brings it to Allaska this spring. Incase you were wondering the helmet I was wearing can be purchased at http://promodelhelmets.com/ It is a new company started by the makers of the Turnagain HardCore video series. Also the clothing can be found at http://www.fxrracing.com/ I want to thank everybody that helped me along the way. THC, FIF, CSS, TDC, HMK, Dakota Diggers, Yamaha, Jeff, Fitzland, AMDS, My wife, family, friends.......... |
| posted on Wednesday, February 4 2009 |
| Sweden X by daneferguson |
| I recently got invited to Sweden by Daniel Bodin for the new annual event called Sweden X. Sweden was great and so were all the people that helped to put on this event. Daniel was in charge of building the course and it turned out great, as long as you don't like safety decks. 4 super kickers with 2 that crossed so you were jumping over the other ramp. It also had a snow step up and step down as well. At the first practiced I was stoked to try out the course. I was working my way through all the ramps tricking and flipping everything. When I moved over to the snow step up I started having problems. The jump was dug with an excavator and was not exactly straight and square. None the less I whipped it and I grabbed it, but when I went to flip it I must have got off my smooth line, cause when I rotated around I found my self coming in perpendicular to the landing. I wadded my knee and of to the medic I went. They said I strained something, and thought there was a chance that something may have broke but the nearest MRI machine was over 3 hours away. My knee swelled up quite a bit and that evening, after talking it over with Daniel, we decided that I should not to ride in the comp the next day. Then the next day came and I changed my mind again. These fans were so great just in practice I figured if there is a chance that I can ride than I will. I have rode with a fractured bone in my ankle before and this didn't hurt as bad as that. The problem is when I rode on the fracture before I ended up breaking the end of the bone off and I got 2 screws and missed spring riding that season. With this dilemma on my mind and unsure of my injury I decide that I would perform on the only super kicker that had a safety deck which also happened to be closest to the crowd. Going into the comp I didn't really expect to do to well so I was just there to entertain. I brought some extra stickers and H.I.P. movies to give away to the crowd and as an added bonus to them, I let the crowd choose what tricks they wanted to see. I gave them 4 basic signals whip, flip, bar trick, and grab trick. Every time I rounded the corner I would check with the crowd and the majority ruled. They had me start with the flip went through the basics and then 2 more flips to finish my run. The crowd loved the interaction, the kids loved the stickers and I'm sure the people that got hit by the flying dvd's were stoked as well. It turns out that Levalli chose not to ride cause he didn't get enough ramp time in the USA, Sam got waisted and screwed himself, and I was lucky that Hoyer, The Duck and Ted Culbertson (who got the rookie of the year) bobbled just enough to let me into the finals. In the finals it was the same deal. I let the crowd choose my tricks. Of course they started me out with a flip but as my run went on some smart ass got the idea to start calling combo's. At first they called for a flip/ whip which I did not do. That's basically what took me down the day before. I wasn't going to play along, besides the whole point in just hitting the safest ramp was so I didn't push it to hard and ruin my knee, but then they called for a backflip/ bar trick so I figured I would sort of play along by landing the flip no handed. They eventually called for a whip/ grab and I threw a whipped out 3 o'clock indy, and then I wrecked a huge whip to finish my run. In the end we finished in this order; Bodin, Norgard, Blaze, Kourt and me. Bodin shredded the whole course with flip variations, K O D's and all his sick tricks. After reshaping the step up and asking me if I thought he had enough power to make it, he ended his victory run by flipping the step up. Norgard through down almost as hard but crashed in the final round. Blaze did the best run I have ever seen from him in person. Kourt is the best at the tricks he does but just needs to flip and use the whole course to make regular podium positions. I am back home now. The knee still hurts. It wakes me up at night and is soar to walk on but I'm still riding. I am really looking forward to going back next year and hopefully beating Bodin on his own turf. |
| posted on Saturday, April 26 2008 |
| The New Web Site... by daneferguson |
| Just got a new web site up still workin out all of the kinks, take a look at the YouTube videos on the video page...you can also now buy stuff online like the new turnagain hard core "hit it pussy" video... |
| posted on Wednesday, March 26 2008 |
| Rock Star by daneferguson |
| I just got back home from a long road trip. First I took 2nd in the Impact fx comp in Great Falls Mt. Then I went over to Cooke city for a week to practice with Sam Rogers for X games. After that I went to Electric Mountain Lodge with Daniel Bodin and Todd Welch from Colorado Sled Style. We hung out there and hit the ramp the week before X games. Blaze and the twins were there and Levi stopped by as well. At X games I placed 7th and set a new record. 130 foot ramp to snow back flip, But best of all I'm now with Rock Star Energy Drink. |
| posted on Wednesday, January 30 2008 |
| disappointing snow fall by daneferguson |
With one inch accumulative snow fall for this season we are finding it hard to push up a good landing to practice for winter x games. Turnagain Hard Core and The Swanson Steel Company came up with a generator and compressor so we could blow snow. When we finally got the snow blowing we got 6 inches in the first hour then the weather got warmer and the snow turned to rain. We are now waiting for the weather to get cold again so we can continue to blow snow. |
| posted on Sunday, December 23 2007 |
| I Made x games by daneferguson |
| great news I made it into the x games freestyle event. |
| posted on Friday, December 21 2007 |
| freestyle demo by daneferguson |
| there is gonna be a freestyle demo at harrys track in the valley on sun. october 1st . For directions go to www.AKRACING.com |
| posted on Tuesday, September 19 2006 |
| Indefinite Etiquette by daneferguson |
| The new music is by a local Alaskan group called Indefinite Etiquette. This is their first album and they are currently working on their second album. |
| posted on Tuesday, August 29 2006 |
| delta trip by daneferguson |
| Last week we made a trip to delta. We went to watch Joe flip his new yfz 450. We started by flipping mini bikes but after not to long Joe went for it on the atv. He came in too fast and didn't rotate. He bailed and was not hurt but he bent his rear axle. We spent the rest of the time building jumps and riding mini's until my bike got ran over by the dozer. Then we had to go. I want to thank Anthony Downs for letting me barrow his bike, a yzf 250. I was planning on just going for a trail ride but some how we ended up out at the ramps and I had to try flipping a four stroke. Fortunately all went well and I was amazed at how quick they rotate. Thanks Anthony |
| posted on Tuesday, August 8 2006 |
| pictures by daneferguson |
| I have put up the pic's of me flip'n the step up on the 125. And Traves has some pic's of him flipping at Jims Creek yesterday in his photo section. |
| posted on Thursday, July 27 2006 |
| new video by daneferguson |
| I have gotten some mail about the summer video I'm working on. If you are e-mailing ideas of who or where to shoot please leave a return adress and a phone number. Bobby you didn't leave a return adress but the answer is yes you should have a small fan on the radiator. |
| posted on Saturday, July 22 2006 |
| oh what a weekend by daneferguson |
| First we flipped my 250 into the lake. Then the next day some friends came out to hit the foam pit and Traves came up with a great idea we pushed the mini bike ramp up to the woodchip landind and made a little step up. Originally Traves was gonna flip lisa's kx110 but he sprained his ankle practicing in the foam pit. I ended up flipping it on the cr70. I wanted to try my 250 on it but we burned it up at the lake then today Lisa let me use her kx125 to flip. It was a small flip and it took 5 wrecks but I finnally stuck 3 in a row. There is a sequence shot of a mini flip in the dirt riders photo section. I'll put some more up when I get them. |
| posted on Thursday, July 6 2006 |