Last week in Queenstown i took my trampoline and gymnastics skills to a whole new level, Teaching myself a few new tricks: Triple front flip, Double twisting double front and triple twisting double front.
Check out my edit all filmed in slow-mo, edited and uploaded from my iPhone.
WOW! Today was probably one of the best adventure days i’ve ever had.
After yesterdays driving challenges i finished as the 3rd fastest girl driver and was assigned as 1 of 12 team captains with 5 people in each team.
Day 2 of the Burton High Fives Event was jam packed with everything.
Bush hunt for your last pro team member using GPS coordinates and a compass, Knife Throwing, Segway driving, Shooting clay targets, Tonka Truck Dirt Moving, Sheep Herding (which ended up failing as the sheep would not cooperate and escaped across the river on to an island), Jet Boating in one of the worlds fastest jet boats, 4×4 doon buggy ride down almost verticle cliffs and over huge boulders, cruising around in ATVs and ending the day with the most epic helicopter ride.
The off snow challenges and adventures are now over and tomorrow its back to training in the halfpipe before the Official Burthon High Fives Competition on Thursday 12th (slopestyle) & Friday 13th (halfpipe)
Check out some shots from today!
Day 1 at the Burton High Fives Event in New Zealand consisted of a good amount of adrenaline driving activities. GoKarting, Slalom Race Course, Wet Obsticle Skid Race Course and a ride with a professional mini driver!
I pulled some pretty good times which i was stoked about and could not stop smiling. It was a pretty awesome day and i am deffinetly excited for tomorrows activitys.
Check out some shots from Day 1:
Newspaper Article: Check out Sydney’s Daily Telegraph (7th September 2013 p.99)
The Story:
IT’S only fitting that, in a life lived upside down, Stephanie Magiros chases a life of winter. Magiros has been doing things upside down all her life.
“That’s the easiest way to explain me,” she says.
“Ever since I was five I’ve been upside down. When you’ve been doing it every day of you life it becomes second nature to you.”
Magiros started as a gymnast but five years ago the 22-year-old switched to the snow-board, and is hoping to earn a trip to Sochi next year as part of Australia’s Winter Olympics team.
She was doing somersaults on the snowboard after five weeks, something many still can’t do after a lifetime on the powder.
Earlier this year she was backflipping her way out of the ANZ Stadium tunnel, upside down again, leading the Blues out for Origin I.
Magiros is currently the third-ranked Australian in the snowboard halfpipe with three qualifying competitions left. Four snowboarders will be chosen when the team is announced in January.
They could do worse than taking Magiros, who is about the toughest athlete to wear the green and gold. Earlier this year her appendix was about to burst and her doctor booked her in for surgery.
She was horrified. Recovery would take six to eight weeks and she had a competition in five.
Just weeks after the surgery Magiros was back on the board and going for a training session with fellow Aussie Alexandra Fitch in Sierra Nevada, Spain, when a whiteout rolled in.
“We took a wrong turn early,” she says. It didn’t turn bad until they heard a running river which didn’t show up on their map.
“We didn’t know whether we were going to fall into the river,” Magiros says. “It was scary at first, but we had to go into survival mode.”
They were lost for six hours, finally rescued in a gully 4km from where they were supposed to be.
Two days later she was competing again.
Check out my story and video on the Australian Olympic Team Website.
http://sochi2014.olympics.com.au/news/a-life-spent-upside-down
Today is 6 months until the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
The Australian Olympic Media Team have done a fun article asking athletes from all different sports how many of certain things we will do in the next 6 months. Check it out!
http://sochi2014.olympics.com.au/news/in-the-next-6-months-i-will
The Australian Olympic Team website for the 2014 Winter Olympics is now live and includes all the hopeful athletes on the Shadow Team.
Check out my profile.
http://sochi2014.olympics.com.au/athlete/steph-magiros
