Cross Country
September / October 2009, issue 125
The US team at the World Hang Gliding Championships was made up of some fun guys - great to meet them all. Every one a nice, genuine person - hence the profile
IT'S LIKE A POP BAND. There’s Dusty, the gum-chewing quiet one on drums, Zac, the zany wild guy on bass, Jeff Shapiro, the mild-mannered eagle-eyed friendly-guy-with-tattoos on lead guitar, and Jeff O’Brien, the straight-down-the-line lead singer. In the background, the pop impresario role is filled by Davis Straub, the older, devil-may-care voice behind the Oz Report, the hang gliding blog.
At the Hang Gliding World Championships they stood out because, well, they acted like a team. Unlike other nations (the big exception being Italy, the winners) they weren’t riven by intra-team feuds, soap-opera style selection dramas or clashing egos. And they were good. Jeff O’Brien won the first task, two of them made the top 10 (Zac Majors fourth, Dustin Martin seventh) and the team came sixth out of 32. Were they happy with that?
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