Lost Shoe: Kryspin

            The date today is January 22’nd 2018.  We are here at the Energy Solutions Arena in Salt Lake City, Utah.  The crowd is going crazy as we all sit here and wait for the BMX session of the X-Games to start.  Just as everyone thought it was never going to start, all of the riders rode their bikes out through the curtains and up on to the mega ramp!  As they were all introducing themselves over the microphone, one of the many rider’s names caught my attention.  His name was Kyle Baldock, I looked up and asked myself “could it be him?”  It was him!  My long lost cousin I haven’t talked to for a couple years, and I end up seeing him in the X-Games.  Im not gonna lie, its been one of my dreams since I was ten years old to ride my bike in front of a bunch of people for the Dew Tour  or the X-Games, so I was a little bit jealous!  But I was mostly excited to see him, he is one of my hero’s, along with kid ink!!!  Anyways I sat and waited for it to finally be Kyle’s turn, it seemed like it was taking forever!  His turn finally came after like 20 minutes of waiting.  I was so excited that I could barely stay in my seat!  As he dropped into the first quarter pipe to start his run, I could see the fire in his eyes.  I knew that he was planning something big, but what could it be, I wondered?  I decided that I was thinking about it too much, so I stopped.  And then it happened!  He hit the box jump and pulled a dipped three whip over it, aired out of the quarter pipe, and started riding for the box jump again.  I think he was about to pull his finale, I could just see it in his eyes, and he was almost out of time.  As he went up the box jump, everything seemed as if it was going in slow motion.  I couldn’t believe what I was seeing, he attempted a double frontflip cliffhanger.  At that moment the whole arena went silent.  Baldock was down on the ground, not moving…  I got up and ran down to where he was laying, followed by the medical crew making me back off, they wouldn’t let me see him.  I was very worried as the ambulance drove off.  I looked over and saw my cousins shoe laying over by the box jump, so I went over, grabbed it, and set off for the hospital…