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Coming to a solo event near you soon, Kid Conemangler
Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2008 6:51 pm
by Steve Ekstrand
I just updated my photobucket page with todays camera dump.....
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Robert got the kart....
Today we went to Apex Kart track Apexracing.com and went to Dave DiMond's Kid Clinic and pre-season warm-up. Wow! What a cool day. A racer is born. 5yrs and 25days old is the starting point of Robert's racing.
Here's a few sample shots...
Re: Coming to a solo event near you soon, Kid Conemangler
Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2008 7:08 pm
by Kurt Rahn
Awesome! Looks like he had a blast!
Re: Coming to a solo event near you soon, Kid Conemangler
Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2008 8:10 pm
by Taylor Kurtz
the next Lewis Hamilton right there :gpower:
Re: Coming to a solo event near you soon, Kid Conemangler
Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2008 8:18 pm
by KJ Christopher
Taylor Kurtz wrote:the next Lewis Hamilton right there :gpower:
And then Steve will be taking his new porsche backwards thru a hedge into a park.
Re: Coming to a solo event near you soon, Kid Conemangler
Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2008 8:43 pm
by Steve Ekstrand
Robert says he's going to marry both Hannah Montana and the cute girl who works at the kart track.
I'm hoping next year we can get a McLaren development contract.
The next Lewis Hamilton might be a gurl..... Chloe St. George the dark haired girl in the middle of the classroom line up in the red suit is the outgoing 5-7 champ. Arguably the best in the country. She's moved to a rotax kart now as she just turned 8. She's good. I mean like scary good. And focused. Dave would offer coaching suggestions and she'd pick it up immediately. Already great, and easily coachable. Plus, calm, polite, sweet little girl. Robert has a tall mountain to climb to get that good. But today was a great start. I am really concerned how this will translate to a sea of cones though. The 7/10th mile kart track was simply no problem. Navigating one our courses for a 5yo sounds impossible. He says, "no problem daddy".....
Re: Coming to a solo event near you soon, Kid Conemangler
Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2008 9:12 pm
by Kurt Rahn
Robert says he's going to marry both Hannah Montana and the cute girl who works at the kart track.
Then moving to Utah or the Middle East?
Re: Coming to a solo event near you soon, Kid Conemangler
Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2008 9:13 pm
by Mako Koiwai
So cool that you can do this for your son! You're a lucky man. :king:
Re: Coming to a solo event near you soon, Kid Conemangler
Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 10:17 pm
by Ethan West
I definitely wish I had that 13 years ago!
Re: Coming to a solo event near you soon, Kid Conemangler
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 12:04 am
by Tadd Ekstrand
Steve Ekstrand wrote:I
Robert is like "who the hell is this guy???"
Re: Coming to a solo event near you soon, Kid Conemangler
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 6:50 am
by Steve Ekstrand
Coach Dave was saying things like "ride the brake and you're going to lose"...... And Robert was going, "Oh No! I don't want to lose!"
Re: Coming to a solo event near you soon, Kid Conemangler
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 8:48 am
by Mako Koiwai
Robert is like "who the hell is this guy?
Like Father Like Son ...
Re: Coming to a solo event near you soon, Kid Conemangler
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 9:14 am
by Aaron Goldsmith
Steve Ekstrand wrote:"ride the brake and you're going to lose"
Like father like son?
Re: Coming to a solo event near you soon, Kid Conemangler
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 9:55 am
by Robert Puertas
"What's this sticky stuff in my pocket?"
Re: Coming to a solo event near you soon, Kid Conemangler
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 10:01 am
by Tadd Ekstrand
I think we might have to start a caption contest
Re: Coming to a solo event near you soon, Kid Conemangler
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 10:04 am
by Mako Koiwai
"What's this sticky stuff in my pocket?"
.... I must have made the same expression when I discovered I had forgotten the yogurt cup in the pocket of my ski parka ... after I had fallen down on that side!
Re: Coming to a solo event near you soon, Kid Conemangler
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 10:15 am
by Steve Ekstrand
It was pretty funny watching the class time.
Coach Dave would ask rhetorical questions and Robert would always answer them for the class.
He was late to the last session. "sorry I'm late, Mommie made me potty."
Whenever the coach would point out the bad results of doing something we'd wrong we'd get the "Oh no!"
And whenever it got technical we got the classsic.... "Why?"
Re: Coming to a solo event near you soon, Kid Conemangler
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 1:17 pm
by Mike Shin
Ahhh, I wish I got to do this as a kid. Only if my dad were as cool as you!