On The Pegs February 2018 - Volume 3 - Issue 2 | Page 75

On The Pegs
Vol. 3 Issue 1 - January 2018
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OTP: Louise, do you miss competing in trials events? You were
on the national circuit for many years and won many titles?
LOUISE: Yeah, definitely. I miss the atmosphere and the fun
weekends that they are and the people. I definitely miss that.
I do miss the competitive side of it too, training. I always loved
training for competitions more than maybe sometimes riding
the competitions. Yeah, I do miss it.
KARL: Yeah, for sure. I miss it too. Trials, I’ve always loved it. I
think I always will. I do miss it a lot. It kills me during the sum-
mer when I can’t be at a national because my childhood was
every year going to all the nationals. I still think that trials is the
biggest part of my life. All the families and the people who are
in it are who made me who I am today. It sucks when I can’t be
there to be in the sport 100%, but I’m trying my best. On my
off days I go try and ride with as many people in local clubs as
I can, just to stay in tune with the sport and promote it more.
Still trying to do as much as I can for it while being away from it.
OTP: How much time do you get to spend at home?
LOUISE: Not much time. We had a break between our old
tour and this tour. That was like a two-month break, and then
since we started it’s been six months, almost seven months,
and we’ve had only one week off so far.
OTP: Q: When you first started, you guys had to actually go
to Tampa and live down there? It was like a six-month process,
wasn’t it, learning your parts?
KARL: We were down in Tampa I think for three or four
months, building the show, doing rehearsals, learning fight
choreography. Actually the learning how to fight, it’s tough
trying to teach motorcycle riders how to fight. We’re in a show
with a bunch of martial artists and gymnasts who can manipu-
late their bodies really well, and you got us who really aren’t
the most flexible. We don’t use those muscles ever, so it was a
process learning how to fi