GS Trophy 2022 Qualifier South Africa

[Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] we're trying to select the three best riders to be team south africa for the international gs trophy and then there's aspects of riding skill teamwork camaraderie and the spirit that it takes to be a good geostrophy participant we've been involved with the gesture efficiency 2010 so we have a fairly good idea of what it takes to be a good participant in the gs trophy [Music] south africa has won the gs trophy for three consecutive times over the last three international events and the previous one we came second we big guys and we understand how to ride a js and we eat meat you know it's the way we grow up here we have muscle and we friendly guys and we know how to ride a motorbike and we know how to be good riding partners and buddies everything that the spirit of gs basically requires or entails is available in abundance in south africa and amongst our riders [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Applause] the biggest challenge for us is to build a course that's challenging for the top guys but he's not going to hurt the bottom guys safety is obviously of paramount importance to send everybody home with all their bones intact at the same time be able to come up with a challenge that allows the guys to donate some sweat we found the balance between difficulty and safety to stage an event that becomes basically an experience of a lifetime and not hurt anybody in the process foreign [Music] uh [Music] we always say nothing else does everything as well as a gs it's a go anywhere bike you can take your wife and put it on the back and ride gravel roads to cape town and the next day you can be in the rocks in the suture and the bike does all of it so if you only have one bike in your garage there's nothing else that does everything as well as the jeez [Music] [Music] um [Music] [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Applause] [Music] [Music] so [Music] foreign [Music] i don't really have any feelings at the moment because it's just unreal cereal yeah it's it's it's amazing it's amazing so you just go out there and you absolutely try your best we'll make a an excellent team together we're strong and we're mentally strong and we will fight for it and we'll we'll go for gold i'm super excited i tell you this has been a long term thing it hasn't happened overnight and i'm absolutely stoked in all honesty i did not expect to do this well there's there's guys out here that really that really they train every single day and they good competition yeah i think you've got a mix of everything we've got uh veterans new guys everywhere i think we got a pretty good team going and i look forward to going to albania with them well the pressure is definitely on i mean we're either fourth team to after going out and trying to win it so i think we got quite a complete balance to go back to the trophy to defend it for the fourth time so there's a bit of a legacy to follow but uh i think we've got what it takes hopefully [Music] [Music] you

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Published: Wed Sep 29 2021