Saturday evening, straight after teaching a couple of English lessons, I went down to the old square, near Congress Hall. I had seen on facebook that the Red Bull Motocross Freestyle event was coming to Astana, and as it was free, I thought it would be worth checking out.
The Landing Ramp
Motorbike Flying Through The Air, Closely Followed By a Madman
The sound system they had in place was very loud, and a DJ kept the crowds distracted whilst we waited for the bikers to start their stunts. In between sets of jumps, we had the traditional shows of Kazakh horsemanship (riding two horses at once, wrestling whilst in a saddle, women whipping men and other acrobatics).
My battery was very close to dying, so I was only able to tweet a couple of photos (I’ve removed the tweets and combined them into this post as this site’s front page was almost entirely tweet-based again).
June 5th, 2012 4:13 am
Great picture of the bike in the air!
June 5th, 2012 11:53 am
I just wish my phone’s camera was higher quality, had less of a delay from clicking to taking the picture, and although not such an issue here, could take pictures in lower lighting conditions. The air shot above took six attempts, I had to click just before the motorbike hit the take off ramp.
Please accept our congratulations in a more public area re your pet frog’s good news 🙂