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i love it! i live in detroit michigan in a house we call 'The Shack'. It is probally the closest thing to 'The Shine House' that exsisted in multiple different parts of Ohio, before most of your guys time.

we love having people over anytime, from anywhere. you roll threw detroit, you gotta free place to stay, free food to eat, and a free ramp to ride. whats that? ramp to ride?

yeah. we gotta 6ft mini ramp back behind our house. we're adding onto it constantly, so come check it out some time.

im finishing this year out in michigan, i intend on moving to NC sometime next year, I've thought boutta buncha places, but NC seems to be the whip.

More new tricks for this year? Loads. Dont worry, ill have some videos up soon, so later in the year you will be able to find everyone else doing them. haha! homies gotta stop recycling shit! bahaha

i love to have fun, and i love to meet new people, so send me a message, and gimme a hollar.

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here we go again..

Not much after being on the injured and sore list, i've been riding real good lately,  and looking forward to the contest series coming up.. i missed Dew Stop 1, and have been riding everyday to make sure at Dew Stop 2, id be fully ready to do my thing..  well nix that again.

Yesterday morning i was up early and wanted to film a clip for an online promo vid..  everything is going fine, I feel great, I’ve been real active lately, heck i just turned 23! but for some reason .. sommmeeee  reasooonnn.. gr.   i was looking for my video camera that actually got stolen when our house was broken into last week,  im looking for it everywhere, and decide to maybe check behind my TV.. still no luck.   as im getting up from being on my hands and knees,  i am feeling this sharp pain in my left knee as im slowly standing up saying to myself  'what’s this.. no... no.. noooooooo" and before i could fully stand up right.. i knew it.   my freaking left knee popped out of the socket. great.

 now last time this happened, only being once before as is, i walked 2 steps without knowing what happened, and it popped back into place. Hurt like hell, but it at least went back. this was right before the mega tour started, 2 days prior to be exact.  Well not this time.     

this time my knee cant pop back into place, i cant figure out exactly what it is, but Kris K showed me this website  "http://www.kneeguru.co.uk/html/steps/step_04_meniscus/tear_types.html"

and it looks like i have a serious one.   I’m about to go to my chiropractor to see what he can do for me, if not, then straight to the ER.   for what it matters, wish me luck.   i don’t have enough money for surgery, nor do i want it to need it at all.

i wanted to go to dew tour damnit.  And the props rock n road tour.

son of a ..

 

ahhhhhhhwell.  Ill be posting pictures of my new bike later today, it is the whip. 

 

 

 

dangggg

just wrote a huge blog entry and vital had me logged out for inactvity before i could publish it! ill try doing an update again later, gotta run homies!

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have a safe n fun summer day ya'll!

few more days till megatour

Ahhhhhhhhhh.   Well things have been good lately.   I thought my neck / spine was messed up from Metro jam, but things dont seem to be that bad, the pain is slowly going away.  Its been about 2 weeks now and Ive ridden maybe 3 times.   So hopefully before the megatour starts ill be in the least amount of pain as possible.  Even just yesterday i was diddle dallying in the street and accidently popped my left knee out of the socket for the first time ever.    It sucks bad.   I got it wrapped up and trying to hold it together.     

Been bored here in Michigan, really looking foward to a year of traveling.   My girlfriend made it to Ratty [ happening as I type this ] and im bummed im not there.     If any one see's this and see's her,  give her my love! 

 

Got some changes going in my life, so that atleast makes me happy.  Change's for the best, always.

There will be a video soon, i swear.

 

hollar everyone, ride safely. 

haro / vital comp

just wanted everyone to know it was one of the best times ive ever had in my entire life..  and ive had a lot of 'best' times but that weekend is by far up there in the top 3. so again, thank you to everyone that atleast cheered me on and all the people that went on the trip. everyone was amazing, too amazing.

 

nick cooper is my boy, im so happy he won.

so is marcus, also a old buddy.

these guys are defitnally gonna put some people to shame

 

nyquist, darden, mackay, and tony d are also some very  nice guys and amazing people to ride with.

 

the (spined) 3 flip will be brought back this year. 

 

more to come later.

until then, thanks 

broken toe

2 nights ago the albes team was at Rays in Ohio (great park) and after changing up a bunch of my parts on my bike, things were feeling a little bit funny.   I was pretty drained even before we got there, so my session didn't last too long anyways.  It came down to playing in the foam pit with Hollywood/Mike.  I ended up landing on my bike and needing help out of the foam, for some reason my right foot got the worst while my entire left leg landed on the crank arm wheel and back end, again not quite sure what happend there.  ftw.

 Topping that off, since about 3 weeks ago I knew my big toe hurt sometimes when i landed with it on my right crank arm for some reason, just a weird angle. Now after landing on my bike and I looked to see why my right foot hurt so bad and my big toe and the bone leading toe it are swollen bad, and purple. I cant even walk on it.  Im really bummed and dont know what to do. Hopefully the splint i have on it will do its job, and everything else will kind of just go away.

bummmed.

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Hollar.

 

Thanks again everyone that has rated my video and either way supported me on the bmxboard or anywhere else.  I really want to make this trip!  


For the sake of it, I rendered it in a larger video format, so it looks a little better and if the video doesnt work post a comment with your os style and ill try to hook it up.  

IF you can right click and save this link, it will save me bandwith on the site its hosted by.

http://www.infantrybmx.com/GLM/harobig.wmv

 

I will hopefully post another video / the rest of the video within the next week or two, thanks again for checking it out.

 

 

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  • Vital BMX member Zach Gerber
    Zach Gerber Posted:

    5/9/2008 8:47 PM

    I love you Mr. Sparks! I'm going to TRP tomorrow the 10th. Be there!

  • Vital BMX member Josh Perry
    Josh Perry Posted:

    5/9/2008 2:07 AM

    thanks for the comment. how you been man miss you hope all is well.

  • Vital BMX member BMXkid18
    BMXkid18 Posted:

    2/5/2008 7:14 PM

    hey thats sick how you have a mini in your backyard....you should come to my house and get my mom to let me and my dad build a mini in the huge yard we have...i would have a mini if my mom was cool with it....lol sick bike by the way

  • Vital BMX member ChadKagy
    ChadKagy Posted:

    1/9/2008 9:20 PM

    You rule!

  • Vital BMX member Bonde
    Bonde Posted:

    9/2/2007 3:02 PM

    Holla Sparks!!!

    Whats up? Whats new, You must be one of the coolest riders around!

    out

  • Vital BMX member Aburg
    Aburg Posted:

    8/25/2007 7:41 PM

    hey sparks, team Canada hear,how's life

  • Vital BMX member Cassrageous
    Cassrageous Posted:

    7/24/2007 8:30 PM

    done and done.

  • Vital BMX member puker
    puker Posted:

    6/13/2007 1:37 AM

    you are my favorite bmx bike rider

  • Vital BMX member Baun
    Baun Posted:

    5/25/2007 1:41 AM

    so when you gonna come ride the new chenga with me?