Student Clip 04: Zachary Dominque
Audience analysis: Using local geography to connect with the audience

Now, the different courses vary. Colorado was the best mountain biking I've ever ridden.There's a place called Horseshoe Gulf which is where the Olympics held their mountain biking. Yes, mountain biking is an Olympic event. You just never see it because Americans aren't the very best at it. The next course is Moab. I haven't had a chance to go to Moab, but it's supposed to be phenomenal mountain biking. The crazy thing about Moab is there is no defining course. People are able to just ride anywhere because there's nothing really blocking their way except for the occasional cactus. Puerto Rico—I have not ridden in Puerto Rico, either. It has a trail that runs through the entire island. It's supposed to take two or three days to cross, and it's supposed to be wonderful mountain biking. And it takes you through a bunch of villages and a bunch of different sites so you can see the entire country. The next one is Vermont. Vermont I have had the chance to ride. I rode nationals I guess two years ago. It is very technical, very difficult riding and very challenging. The next one is actually Texas. Lots of people come to Texas to ride because it has a very big variety of courses. We have the desert down south, we have mountains up north or northwest, we have flats up north. So, you can have the best of all worlds. Here in the hill country, we have very technical courses, very rocky. The theory is that if you can ride here in the hill country, you can ride just about anything.