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Derek
Guetter hanging off his Can-Am DS450
ATV
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Wabasso, MN (11/16/2010) -
2010 has been insane! I started the Nuclear
Cowboyz tour in the beginning of the year, and
let me tell you it was the biggest most incredible
thing I’ve ever been apart of. 3 months
into the tour I under rotated a backflip and
broke my ankle pretty seriously, spent the next
5 months recovering, slowly but surely getting
my confidence back, and now, I’m FINALLY
landing backflips to dirt once again! Pretty
significant series of events has made this year
anything but ordinary.
In September Jon and myself traveled to Manchester
England for a Freestyle Mania show, put on
by Feld Entertainment. It’s been a few
years since I’ve been to England so
I was pretty excited. Everything went well
for what we had to work with, the take-off
ramp we were using was way steeper than what
we are accustomed too, Jon actually over rotated
his backflip but luckily was ok. He just did
a little butt slide down the landing, no big
deal. Ha.
October we spent a fair amount of time in
Montana performing 4 shows all across the
state, and Jon just finished a Canadian tour.
I was mostly consumed with helping my Father
with Harvest, and had a few chances to get
some backflips into the foam pit as well.
Time sure flies by when you are busy, October
came and gone in a flash!
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The Guetter brothers Derek and Jon backflipping
their Can-Am DS450 ATVs |
Derek
yet again lets it hang while his Go
Pro helmet cam captures the footage |
Here’s where I start to stress..
So this past week I finally did the big dirty
and landed a few backflips to dirt again.
Man it sucks going threw those first initial
flips again. Physically it’s a pretty
simple maneuver to perform; emotionally it’s
the fastest way to turn your hair grey. I
had booked a show to backflip inside the Metrodome
in Minneapolis Nov 13, and there I was Nov.
8 and I haven’t landed a backflip in
over 8 months. Talk about a bit of pressure!
Good news is I survived the week, flips were
feeling great, and Jon and myself killed the
show doing backflips side by side! We flew
in my oldest brother Dan to shoot photos and
we got some great shots, even strapped a Go-Pro
video camera on my front bumper, looks amazing!!
We have 1 shot of Jon and myself upside down
at the exact same time, very good chance that
you will see that in a magazine ad or blown
up poster, it’s so ridiculously awesome!
Feels great to finally get that confidence
back that I’m a master back flipper,
I cannot even begin to tell you how many nights
I laid in bedterrified about messing up a
flip and being sidelined again.
Jon and Jody are expecting their first baby
girl this week! Mila is days away from coming
into this world and Jody couldn’t be anymore
anxious! Pretty excited to be an Uncle too!
Now I’m basically preparing for next
year’s Nuclear Cowboyz tour. We are
traveling to 11 major cities all across the
US, and this year Brother Jon will be riding
with me in Dallas and Pittsburgh, and Colten
Moore will be joining the remaining 9. Last
year we had just under 200,000 live spectators,
and considering we are riding mostly in hockey
arenas, that’s pretty impressive. Not
to mention the segment I got on FUEL TV for
the making of Nuclear Cowboyz, this next tour
is only getting bigger and better! Jon is
scheduled for another Masters of Dirt tour
in Europe for February and March and eagerly
awaiting those shows.
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Guetter
brothers air out their Can-Am DS450
ATVs
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I want to give a HUGE shout out to everyone
at Can-Am BRP, the support and people behind
that company are hands down the best in the
business! Looking forward to another great year
showing the world what we can do with the DS450!
Thank you Heather at Maxxis, Jason at BCS performance,
Daryl and Jennifer Rath at Rath Racing, Lance
and Heather from HMF performance for these awesome
exhausts, Wayne the king from PEP suspension,
Justin at G4 graphics, Mark and Carey and Warnert
Racing for hooking up a Can-Am Outlander Xxc
this past weekend for the Metrodome event, and
Todd at Fox Racing for getting me into their
sweet new gear! So incredibly stoked with the
people behind us, they make my job easy as pie
to do what we need to do, so I wanted to say
a big THANKS to all of you.
Last but not least I want to thank my Fiancé
Larissa for keeping me focused when I’ve
been everything but calm and relaxed during
the entire backflip process once again. And
yes you read correctly, I am engaged!! We
are very excited for what the future may bring
and she has been a huge part of my life and
my riding the last few years, I cannot thank
her enough for going threw this with me!
Look out for the Guetter’s in 2011,
we are up to big things! CHECK THIS OUT, Go-Pro
footage from our flips inside the metrodome!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1lW3C6cxOE
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-Derek G
Quadfreestyle.com
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G3 / Quad Freestyle
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