How to do a Competition Ride- Zack Michaels

The important things to remember when entering a competition are that the small points make the difference. If you can lay down a spin or two that you know you can get every time, you will have ten or twenty extra points. If some other competitor decides to throw one huge air blunt or airscrew, and then flush off of the feature, they have a lot of points, but nothing that is impossible to achieve with smaller point amounts. If  you can get two spins down and then both roundhouses, and other easy tricks that you get 100% you can easily surpass people who just throw one big trick. Basically what it comes down to is that you should start off your ride with the highest point amount that you nail 100% and then move towards your bigger tricks that you don't get every time and end with your "hail mary" moves that you probably won't get but have big point amounts attached.