September is our slowest month of the year and both are flying with pretty good loads.

'The Flying Tomato' - that pretty much sums it up. He's pretty much a goofball. It's all about having a good time. He's not too worried about who's who and what's what, or what sponsors are cool. He just lets his riding speak for himself. That's the way it should be.

It was pretty weird not to place anyone in the top six. The scores that were flying around were just incredible. There were 9.8 and 9.7 marks all over the place. I had to shake my head. These (opposing) girls are good but those are college and Olympic-type scores.

My father's originally from Buxton (N.C.), and he loved those geese flying overhead. His favorite were the Canadian geese. He could go out there and honk just like one. And on the day of my daddy's funeral, when the hearse pulled up our driveway, a flock of Canadian geese flew overhead in a V formation, honking away. I could almost reach up and touch them they flew so low.

I thought that we looked pretty good. We were really flying in the first quarter. We wanted to take the early lead and put pressure on Floyd. Our success on the boards is that we're very athletic. We may not be the biggest team out there but we are very athletic.

That was a pretty humbling experience. You're kind of flying through the system and everything's going great and all of a sudden, you walk in and, in all actuality, you ain't (expletive). It was a good experience but at the same time I think I took it out on the field. I was a little timid and shy and afraid to be who I really am.