INTERNATIONAL BMX star Logan Martin thinks nothing of travelling huge distances to compete but not to train, which is why the 21-year-old jetsetter is often found in a Redland Bay gym, close to home.
His high-powered training sessions paid off when he won the BMX Pro finals, part of the Festival International Sport Extreme World title, held at venues in France, China, Andorra and Malaysia last year.
He competed against the best riders in the world at all four venues, which attracted top athletes in competitions across 25 sports including skateboarding, inline, BMX, mountain bike and wakeboard.
He won the event in Chengdu, China, in October and was again in top spot on the podium in Malaysia in December.
Pushing the limits is what keeps the quietly-spoken Logan on track to reach his goal of an X Games gold medal in freestyle BMX.
Going into a contest is a big thing for Logan who loves being put under pressure to do his best and to make sure the gym training pays off.
He also hopes to one day play a mentoring role for kids in Redlands and pass on some of his techniques to youngsters keen to break into BMX.
Life as a well-paid top athlete could have been very different for Logan, who graduated from high school at age 17 and went straight into a career riding.
He grew up in Crestmead, not far from the Gold Coast, and said he started riding "for the same reasons as everyone else".
"I first started going to the skate park with my brother and then when I went to high school my school friends were also going there as well, so it became a hang-out spot," he said.
"But only now do I get to travel the world for my job doing what I love."
For the past three years, he has competed all over the US, Asia and Europe, being out of Australia for weeks at a time over seven months a year.
His sponsors, which include apparel company Jetpilot, put Logan in touch with trainers at Redland Bay's P2P, which also trains football players.
Although Logan said fame and fortune had not changed him, he had spent some of his hard-earned cash on tattoos.
"I do have quite a few tattoos but they don't have any meaning except for one I have the word 'family' on the inside of my arm and that is the only one which has meaning," he said.
"The rest is just artwork on my body and don't have to have a meaning.
"My uncle is my tattooist and my pop, my grandma, my step-grandma are all tattooists in my family."