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B4evaKool "race a motorcycle" Podcast Ep. 15 · B 4EVA Kool "Race A Motorcycle" Podcast

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My name is Rex 45. I am fortunate enough to have
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the one and only Eli block on the show.
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Welcome to the show. Thank you for having me.
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I'm just bring the mic up. Just at third.
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There you go. How you doing today, man?
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I'm doing good travel a little bit decide to stop by film.
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A little podcast with you. Thank you for having me.
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Those great opportunity, I appreciate it.
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Now, you know you may not even know what a jump.
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Bin because, you know, you're, there's a lot to cover today.
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But let's talk about, you know, how you got into racing and and,
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you know, we'll go from there. So as a kid growing up, I had a
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dirt bike. My dad got me on dirt bike with
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training wheels, had two and a half years old.
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So, you know, I rode till I was about like seven or so and it
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never got into it. Never loved it.
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So, my dad brought me to a go-karting and from seven years
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old to 14 year old kind of Fell in love with it just got me.
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I always thought like the thought of racing is what I
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always loved. I always had motorcycles around
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was the kid but I always loved the thought of it just never
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doing it. So when I did go karting from 7
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to 14, I 18 I think seven or eight local championships.
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Definitely taught me a lot in the long run coming to road
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racing but and as I say how was that I getting into go-karting
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because that's something I'd like to get into you know in In
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you know, was it easy you know based on where you live and
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stuff like that, a lot of go-kart track score close by and
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you know, did you go like just carding first so just goes like
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straight racing. So I had an indoor place which
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was really close to me, and they had probably the most realistic
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stuff to date really on track Harding.
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So I live maybe like 15 minutes from us.
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So that's where I started until I did all the local stuff and we
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had actually some really good local Carter's Race with us.
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We had NASCAR drivers that are racing in NASCAR now come and
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start where we started in. You know, I was about 12 years
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old or so, when my dad started to bring me out for outdoor
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carding and National stuff. But I got offer from a National
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Cart team and I tested for right before and just you know, I
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guess it just wasn't what I thought it, I thought it was
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going to be. So, you know, I was looking at
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Legend car racing and my dad just never thought we would have
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the funds to do that stuff and kind of Put me into reality and
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kind of brought me to where I was in when I was 15 years old
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when I was working with my dad at penguin, I always used to
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work at Kanan working the gate for penguin doing all that type
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of stuff and just sitting around all day and one day my dad I was
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just super bored and I was like dude next time you're coming out
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here riding with us so I don't care no matter what you're doing
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it. So I'm sick of you being bored
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here and I know you love the people here, so why don't we get
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you on track? And that's where I started.
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Wow. And you know, did a lot of the
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carding make being at the track on a bike easier.
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I guess, you don't know know the way but you've coached some.
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So, you know, you see other folks struggle where, you know
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did was it like you re at home because of the, the carding.
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All right. Yeah, it was really it was is
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obviously it's a lot different. You have two wheels 24 but you
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know Apex is breaking. Get a rolling on.
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Throttle. It's always it's the same exact
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thing. So, I mean it was a little bit
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different Corner entry slide and compared to, I mean, obviously
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on the Mozart, I could slide into the corners and you know,
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it was definitely making it a made a lot easier transitioning
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into it. So, you know, I mean, I'd like
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to, I don't know if someone were to get into racing, I would
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probably recommend you to, you know, start doing some carding
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it teaches you a lot about line Choice Apex and you know,
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luckily in my case Was as my dad in a lot of people have said,
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I'm super talented when I got on a bike and I just clicked with
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it and you know, I can't say anything because it's just
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myself. But you know, luckily I did
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adapt very quickly to the bike and you know got to speed really
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fast and what was that? Like I mean you're young kid.
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You still pretty young but you know, you're coming in and
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you're you're flying through a different class.
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Well, different license. How did you feel about that?
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And at that age where you like did you just feel natural or
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what you like? Why can't believe I just did
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that? Yeah, it felt really natural.
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I mean every time I got asked a question until like about like I
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was 17, I didn't know what I was doing.
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I was just out there doing what I thought I had to do, you know?
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I wouldn't I wasn't I didn't know what technique I was using.
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I knew I would just do it. I couldn't explain it to anyone
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until I was about 18 or 19. When I started like really
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Taking my racing seriously and you know the more laps I did the
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more things I would try I would always when I started focused on
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doing as many laps as possible so I can get faster and I just
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loved it. All right and now you say many
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laps as possible. Like how many laps and a day you
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talking? When I first started racing at
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Loudon, obviously for the first three rounds I was in the coach.
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So I mean novice to amateur the I would just do every practice
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possible. I want to start coaching they
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had me as a control Rider, so, right around do as many laps as
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you want. Just pick up people if they
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crash and do that. So when I did that for my first
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season in 2019, when I was an expert, I did every single
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session during the day, I would knock it off track.
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I can only time I stopped was just to fill up my like, not
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even eat, just a few low clouds. Fill up.
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Nice. Nice.
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That's pretty impressive now. So I guess around age 18, you
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decide to to take it more serious or just kind of look at
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your riding technique. So I mean because it from what
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you're saying it just sounds like you were just a natural
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Rider. Once you started paying
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attention did you see like you know okay I need to change this.
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I need to change that or you just could explain it better.
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I guess I can explain about because I tried more things.
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I would like go around and say okay, you know what, if I tried
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doing this this lap and you know, a lot of people it's it's
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easier. Then do it.
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Now, when you say this like to even example, like easier said
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than done, like when I say go, I'll go scope 20 feet deeper
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into the braking Zone that I ever have and see where it
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brings me, you know, try different techniques.
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Okay, maybe instead of breaking. So deep Break 5 feet earlier and
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use less brake pressure, you just different techniques that
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help me like, okay, if I take a wider entry cut down earlier,
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it's just, I always, always always mechanic.
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I was just, I don't know, like, Bill off carding to just do one
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line every single lap and the only time I moved out of it, but
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to pass right now in road racing There's an opportunity where
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okay, there's a main race line but you can maybe fade five feet
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to the left or right and try different things and maybe it
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helps you on Entry or exit. Got you got you and that's where
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you started to assume just get quicker.
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Yeah, it definitely all it opened up.
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My horizons and definitely made. Go a lot faster.
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And you know, luckily, my progression throughout my whole
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entire start of my career, probably from 2018, when I first
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started riding to, you know, where I am now is super quick.
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I was consistently dropping 610 so we can up until I was down to
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the 15s Hannah motard. Oh wow.
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And that is. That is pretty impressive.
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Now, does the dirt riding on a dirt to help you more with the
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motard? Or it's just from And around on
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the cart I would say you know until I didn't start riding dirt
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until 2021, okay? So I think it's just learning
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how slide on the track. You know, I would do even like
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when I was saying trying things, I would come to a corner and
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just try slide, you know, just rear brake, whole bunch of front
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brake, grab some downshifts and try sliding.
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It might not look good. Like all the pros, but you learn
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how slide. And, you know, as you progress
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more speed, you get more comfortable with the front end,
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pushing the front end, chattering and When you learn
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different techniques, how to get rid of it or ride through it.
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Got you now you sliding both wheels or the rear.
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You know, it depends on what you're doing.
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Currently, when I'm on the Mozart it's everything sliding.
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Got the front end and rerun sliding through and sliding.
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In chattering the front, the front might be chatting about
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the rear sliding to catch up with the bike so and when it
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happens now do you do ride in style little motard versus I
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mean I know and we'll get to the middle weight but are you
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keeping the bike more up in the corners and sliding around?
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Oh, you still like sliding around knee down.
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It's just all the lean angle you carry them.
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It's I won't change my writing style depending on anything
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that's happening. I'll just ride like normal but
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you know, like the front end if the thing that taught me a lot
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was just understanding my dad's suspension.
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Got my dad's, a mechanic is an amazing mechanic and, you know,
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he taught me he just from hearing that he's not even
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talking to me because me and him our relationship wasn't like,
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okay until about two years ago. We didn't talk about, suspension
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me to talk about changes. We were just, you know, this
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doesn't work. Okay, well, the bikes to the
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bikes fine. It's just you okay.
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Until you start, I heard him to have a conversation with other
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people about chatter and what what it actually is, the
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definition of it is what taught me how to get rid of it in
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certain situations, it's not. Okay, nice.
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So about the time you started listen to it, I mean, and that's
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something that's difficult. So I, you know, I have a 12 year
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old that plays tennis and, and she's it, will, she does a
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couple of those boys. So she's, she's really good.
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But, you know, it when they when you're younger, it's hard as
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especially when you're hearing it from.
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You or your parent, right? It's harder to have that
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information so again and so, you know, I'm, you know, obviously
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you're a lot older than that but it is it just reminds me like
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yep like I can I can see it's like, you know, you're figuring
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a lot of things out and you know you you you have to get to a
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point where now you. Okay.
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I need to get to the next level. I gotta start, you know,
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listening and learning from folks that have more experience
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because at that point it's your natural Talent can only take you
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so far. Our and in that experience of
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other folks and input and stuff like that, takes you to where
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you can sustain that that top level of course.
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Yeah. My dad always brought up the
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idea or the example like Marc Marquez is riding coach.
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Do you think he's faster than them?
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No, then why aren't you listening to me?
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Like I have so much experience. I have experience to go as fast
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as you want to go. I just can't personally do it.
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I don't have the I'm not willing to I'm don't have the talent to
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but you have the the talent to and if you listen and you use
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what I'm telling you, I'm not. I would never try to hurt you.
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Dude. This is what I want you to do.
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I want you to go and it just gives me list of things and then
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you know, if I tried it, it worked then I'm like, okay,
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overtime, I was like that was just coincidence but, you know,
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until I got a lot a little bit older, I started really
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listening to them and it's helping a lot.
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And was it like a defining moment when they happen or just
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kind of, you know, it's one of those things.
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You know like again I'll go with my kids there that they look
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like they ain't listening but, you know, a two days later it
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was like I was listening and and and and you have had an
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opportunity to to kind of try what they suggest or was it like
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okay from this day forward. Because I want to get here, I
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got to do, you know, X y&z. I think there's more just
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progression. It was just over time, I would
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listen and then you know, sometimes he wouldn't give me,
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you know, at times you wouldn't give me advice obviously just
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because, you know, he doesn't he doesn't see what's going on.
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But then, you know, once I probably in 2021, is the first
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time we actually started talking about suspension, we started
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trying changes, we started actually doing stuff because the
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motor is a base that he's built over 15 years of riding, so
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people tested it and developed it.
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And I just got handed it. Which allowed people didn't
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really think help me at the start of my career, but it
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doesn't just because I have a certain bike or because I have a
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certain power doesn't mean that's why I'm fast because I,
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you had I can't even tell you how People told me that you're
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only fast cause your dad's your dad's bike.
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Well, you know, I approved on different bikes that I'm a lot
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different. I can go out there.
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I went out and car keys, Honda motor it with a shot Tire,
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right? And, you know, he's like, okay,
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well, you know, you just go out there, have some fun ride it,
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you know, I'll be happy if you get 17 because he was trying to
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run 17 s. Alright, I come back with a 15-8
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and he's like okay do it now do you use things like that as
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motivation when somebody says it's the bike or It's your dad
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or or you know D does that do you die cut, does that roll off?
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Or do you go? Oh, I'm going to go prove them
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wrong. Yeah.
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I've always Built My Career off of proving people wrong.
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I've always, you know, I'm one of those kids where, you know, a
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lot of people, you know, I respect Eric would crazy and you
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know, I didn't do a lot of his classroom stuff because I was so
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ADHD that I couldn't sit and really focus that long but you
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know, when I hear people say, oh you can't do that especially
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like, you know, Shane are bone was a big help in my career.
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You may, when I always told Shane died when he said, okay?
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14 surpassed my mom started and then Eric would said, no it's
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not the only reason you could ever get it was because it's on
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your bite, your dad's bike, the contradicting, both of them just
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made me push as hard as humanly possible.
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All right? So I suspect 2023 now.
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You know, you, it doesn't matter, right?
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Because I mean, after last year, I guess they can't say you can't
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do it. No, I know, I know especially
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like, even on the 400 is, when I forgot I got fast on.
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That I wrote hit records, it was like, well, that's that's a
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built bike. You're cheating.
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Yada yada. Well last year I came out after
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not running a 400 all year. I bought a 400 off of bark on
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racing. Suspension was super soft.
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I was bottoming out in every single Corner.
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The thing was understood. We unrestricted it, but the map
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was set for restricted. So at 10,500 RPM the map went
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flat Sonoran. Oh well more like there's no
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power coming after 10,000 RPM. So I was on mixed fuel.
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My dad actually had his accident I weekend.
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Ariel he had a crash in the pits so he wasn't there all weekend.
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So I was just out there doing everything on my own and I still
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went out there and ran half a second off my track record on a
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bike that I never rode before I had to sentence on and then you
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know, it's just the proving Factor, you know, I believed in
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myself and that's the main thing everything in life is just a few
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believe in yourself and you tell yourself you can do it.
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No matter what anyone tells you you guys follow through.
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No. Yeah, and and so now when you're
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out there in In the races like you know, you know how easy it
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for you to lock in, you know before race or like what are
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some of the things you do before you go out there and is it is it
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more you just you just having fun or you or you looking like,
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okay. Well, you know, I'm going to
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push hard in the beginning and then try to maintain what's the
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mindset like it. I've changed my race tile all
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over the last year actually this year.
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Yeah. I used to be a Red Mist Rider
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where every single time. For the race.
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I would put my visor down and there's just one my vision would
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just go. Like, I was like straight line.
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It's like, okay, I would do it every single time and, you know,
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it got me to super fast. Like, don't get me wrong, it was
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everything when my mind went blank but also came with some
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consequences where, you know, I would crash or I made stupid
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mistakes where I made this year on the motor and the dash where
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I got suspended for one round. So after that, I kind of I mean,
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I've worked with My mental coach Jake, have with rack racing or
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now it's behind the best podcast and you know, I've been working
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with him for six months now and it's just like understanding
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what the mental side of our sport is because every, as I
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think the fact is 80% of sports is mental.
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Yeah, I would say that. Is, that is definitely a high
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number. Now, was that like a, you know,
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that that's something that you decided on your own just say,
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okay, it's time to get the mind right?
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And I mean it, You know, where an error now, where that is the
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way, right? You know, a lot of the top folks
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now was sitting down with mental coaches.
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I think he thought I would owe him our teen and, and some of
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these other Riders and, you know, Petco and in these guys
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that are at the top top level. So, is it kind of like, How can
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you like just maintain the high level?
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Is that what you were trying to fix or work on?
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Or I think it was the biggest thing was just looking forward
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to this year. We had some really big races
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coming ahead and I was super ahead of myself.
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I was supine my head was super big because I've always been,
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you know, my ego is always been very big, which is a, not a
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great fact or not, not very good, but the kind of has to be,
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it has, but you have to be able to harness it and control it,
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right? I'll get in trouble.
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I had, I was very confident myself.
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I would walk around. Like, I was the number one there
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and, you know, I didn't, I wouldn't say random things that
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people, I wouldn't say I'm the best.
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It's just, I gave off that right, right, right.
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Where I got in trouble with you, people saying oh, your kids
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doing this, your kids doing that?
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Everyone would come to my dad. No one would come straight to me
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because I was still a kid and they still do it.
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People still do it. People come to my dad.
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Oh your kid did this. He's 20 years old.
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Yeah, go to him. So it's you know, I have Worked
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on it. And, you know, now I've put
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myself into a different mindset where, you know, I thought of
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I'm thinking of racing in a way that I've never thought of it.
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You know, I've always been, I always thought of myself as
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super mentally, strong Rider, which I was, because I didn't
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use my brain, right, right, natural talent.
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And now I've come to a point where a lot of things affect me,
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because I would just if anyone said anything before race, I
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would just go into a Zone where I was just super aggressive.
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Super, I'm approved, this person around, improving this person,
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wrong, everything that Anyone's ever seen in my whole entire
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life. Like it's not the way that you
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want that you should be writing. Yeah.
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No, I mean I think and, you know, you know, point out
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Michael Jordan, he did this for years.
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He'll find reasons to motivate them but, you know, I think, you
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know, and I don't know when you talk about folks, come into your
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dad and saying things, I don't know if that's on a track stuff.
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Or, you know, when you're off the bike and hanging out that
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kind of stuff because on a bike, but like, any sport, you really
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have to have a Killer Instinct, and you know what I mean, but
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you have to be humbled at, you know.
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And and when you Young, you're going to thump your chest.
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It's it's hard, not to but you learn quickly like okay.
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Well if I want to sustain this thing then I then I have to
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carry myself a certain way and you can see that now with John
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Moran and and what he's going through right now with the
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Grizzlies and stuff like that. And you know this guy got
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millions of dollars and it's just when you're young you're
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going to make mistakes. I don't as long as you, I think
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you have support and people that support you that can kind of
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say, hey man, it's time to moonwalk it back a little bit
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because As you're going down at a place that, you know,
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especially you know, when you got talent right?
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I mean, I think anybody should do it.
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Regardless, if you have talent, don't have talent.
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But you know, when you have talent, it's not that doesn't
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get you to where you want to get to.
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It's like the surrounding factors and then, just how you
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move. Yeah.
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My dad's always been the way that he raised me was.
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He's a very, he's a brutally honest person so you know, he'll
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sit, he'll set me straight straight my place, you know, and
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you know, a lot of my friends, I have a lot.
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Older friends that hang out with.
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So they also, you know, like they'll I'm the little brother
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so they'll always pick on me. They'll make sure they sent me
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in my place so I know who I am, you know.
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So it's really like you know, not saying you have to have that
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but you know that's what's helped me a lot.
21:36
You just having people that keep me straight, make sure I'm a
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level head and, you know, I've been very blessed to have a
21:45
great group of people around me. Nice.
21:48
So it's 2023. Last year you did four rounds on
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our six. What's the plan for 2023?
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Plan is you know I'm doing all of loud and I'm missing one
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round due to mode America, but I will be racing.
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I think like five classes at Lau, not a 600 and a 400.
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So I'll be racing, I think I'm mainly only going for the money
22:10
around or races. So I'll be doing some races off
22:14
like the endurance races. But mainly I'ma Do the 600 loud
22:18
in the 400 loud. I'll be racing The or actually
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team ECB this year and bark on racing have teamed up to have a
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three-round support. So, Collins been generous enough
22:30
to support me and my dad are side of Team.
22:33
You see Racing for three rounds. So to mode America round.
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So I'm the ninja 400 and Janu cup, okay?
22:39
And he'll be helping us with allowed Classic on our six.
22:42
Oh nice. And now what's that?
22:43
Like pretty standard mode America?
22:46
Because I think he did it either a couple of Seasons some Around.
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Yep, I did two rounds in 2022, two rounds at a Pittsburgh
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jersey, and then in 2021, I did Virginia, Pittsburgh jersey.
22:58
It was that like running and mold America.
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It's, you know, at first, it's the first year as a, it was
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humbling. It was very humbling, you know,
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I thought I was going to, do you think you're going to do a
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certain way, but based off, like certain facts, like the weekend
23:15
before my first monomeric around, I beat been at Loudon.
23:18
Man's been battlin, four top fives, all year If I show up at
23:21
monomeric and I get my ass handed to me, you know, I'm back
23:24
in the pack, just, it's a different, but it's a different
23:27
bike different set up, different everything, you know, there's
23:29
different tricks and parts that you have to run.
23:31
And you, it's kind of like you're fiddling with the line of
23:35
being legal or not. Right?
23:37
So, you know, now over time, you know, at first you like at my
23:43
second round of Jersey, I was battling for fifth, so I learned
23:46
a lot but in that time I was like surprised I was Super
23:50
surprises like okay, I see I'm racing this guy.
23:53
Oh my God. Like you know you you're putting
23:56
these people on a pedestal right where you shouldn't be.
23:59
Like if you really want to be the best, then you shouldn't be
24:02
putting these people out pedestal.
24:03
So you know, like 20 21. I fixed that.
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I got my first top 5 Jersey on. I got engine from Bob Robbins.
24:13
I was generous enough to let me use it for that round.
24:16
It was good power. It just had the mapping was a
24:18
little bit weird. So bogged down the Little bit
24:21
but you know, we figured it out but I rode with it.
24:24
But um, you know this year when everyone's talking about the
24:27
classic, you know all these big names coming and asked me about
24:30
it, how I feel. It's and then another ordinary
24:32
race for me. I'm just coming into it.
24:35
You know, I'm excited to see what these guys can do it, our
24:37
home track but I don't, I don't think there anything special
24:39
compared to what what? Yeah, I mean, you know what, the
24:42
track record is is you guys are running close to it.
24:45
So we're there, I mean, you know, last year we were down And
24:50
Scott are an 11-9 and Iran consistent 12 flats from the
24:54
last round. So I'm definitely, you know,
24:58
going down to Barber doing a test on the new Michelin tires.
25:01
Okay? I did that, you know, sadly, my
25:04
trainee blue, third session, but luckily we had Zev who I just
25:07
dropped off the bike to he, let me Swap all my parts over and
25:10
his bike, run it. And, you know, it's, I'm looking
25:15
real time for. I'm looking really good for this
25:17
season. I'm really forward to Just
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riding your, I haven't ridden in a little bit.
25:23
You know, I went down to the barber.
25:24
Went down. A Jennings did some coaching,
25:25
but I also did like two days of riding or sorry.
25:28
Bushnell at the car track but I'm just, I'm feeling really
25:33
good. I've been working out now, you
25:34
know, I never worked out before this year, I am always used my
25:38
youth to my advantage right now. It's, you know, if I want to be
25:42
the best, I got workout. I'm doing an aerobic workout
25:45
workouts where its high intensity for as long as you
25:48
possibly can. So, I'm doing, And bike rides
25:51
for an hour where it's 180 heart rate, average.
25:55
So 53 minutes. Wow.
25:57
It's just, it's too pushing myself and my dad's been helping
26:01
me a lot. Push me work.
26:03
Giving me plans to work out, you know, we figured out over over
26:06
the offseason. My endurance is not the problem.
26:08
It's just my body, you know, I'm not, I need to start my, my, my
26:12
parents are making me go to yoga now.
26:13
Ya know. That's, it's, it's tough when
26:16
you're young because you don't want to do those things but you
26:18
know, that will help you. A lot and it's great that you're
26:21
buying into it, especially the yoga part because that's
26:25
something that you can take forever with you.
26:27
But, you know, you just have to be so flexible.
26:30
And so now I have you also changed your diet as well with
26:33
the with the working out. I try.
26:37
But you know, it's not like I eat, I mean okay back away from
26:41
that one. I do eat bad, not horrible.
26:44
Alrighty, well a lot worse but you know, I could be eating a
26:49
lot better but I've never. I had a problem.
26:50
I saw T exist under that during the race weekend, he wasn't
26:54
eating right and he didn't feel good.
26:56
I've never had that problem. So, you know, maybe it's because
26:59
he's so fit, he's really fit right leaned out.
27:02
He's maybe his body, so used to being at that certain it's just
27:07
like running a race bike. You tune yourself to a certain
27:09
fuel, maybe he's tuned his body to eat to a certain level, where
27:13
I'm my body's in a good. I'm in good shape, but I've
27:17
built myself off of eating. McDonald's and such.
27:21
Yeah, you know, I'll eat like I've been working on because
27:24
I'll have crazy money but with my job I ever single day for
27:28
lunch, I'm eating from, I'm taking stuff from home now.
27:31
Eating, I'll go grab, go grab a soda but like eat what I have at
27:35
home, instead of spending more money that I need to spend for
27:38
raising, right? Right.
27:40
Which is going to be big this year.
27:42
Now, do you think that folks are out-of-towners as I like to say?
27:48
I going to be coming from the first round at Out into kind of
27:51
learn a track in and do tests. In the first two rounds you
27:54
think folks are just going to show up the day of and what a
27:57
weekend of. And so I know for sure, a lot of
28:00
the guys are going to be there for Round 2 round one.
28:03
There's was called Atlanta Motor America is that weekend?
28:07
Okay. So round two, everyone's coming
28:09
from what I've heard, Insider information.
28:11
There's a Dunlop test on Thursday Dunlop rented out the
28:14
track. Wow, so on Thursday, before
28:17
around to, they'll have a lot of the Riders.
28:19
They're testing. So when we're pulling in there,
28:21
there's going to be people on track so whole bunch of people
28:24
are going to get Starstruck but yeah I know I know a lot of you
28:28
guys will be there. I know round one armies are
28:32
round two, is going to be a mock race for the classic.
28:34
It's going to be. There's going to be half the
28:35
field there, I believe so it's going to be a nice little if
28:40
anyone's really questioning it. You know this is going to be
28:42
their final kind of test to see right rank up and I'm looking
28:48
forward to it. I I know.
28:50
Going to miss Ali. I'm going to be there for the
28:51
classic but I know I mean misery either first or second round,
28:54
but I gotta assume it loud and it's going to look a little
28:57
different in May with amount of folks that show up.
29:01
And I can't even imagine like media coverage and vendors and
29:05
everything else, probably it should be very, very, very big.
29:10
It's gonna be huge. I'm really excited for anyhow.
29:12
It's my I've always liked, never liked growing up.
29:15
I never really knew about the loud in class, like I knew of it
29:17
because I my dad raced but He never raced it but we always
29:21
went up and watched it, so I never liked knew the history
29:24
behind it, but as I got older, I learned the history about I'm
29:26
like damn, you know, I really wish that we could have, you
29:30
know, had our, I could erased our Pro local race but now it
29:35
gives me an opportunity. I'm super excited to get out
29:37
there and race. My first Pro Race especially on
29:39
a 600 at our local track at our local fans.
29:42
I got I got a whole bunch of family and friends coming up so
29:46
I'm really excited to show them because you know, they've always
29:48
heard about me racing I've ever seen me So I ride woods with
29:51
them. I ride Motocross with them.
29:52
They've seen me there in that I had a friend come up last year
29:55
and he's like that's looking with my dad on the front
29:58
straightaway. That's not him.
29:59
That's not the same kid that I knowed.
30:00
The kid hits trees is on the straight away at 140 miles per
30:04
hour but and I said, mention Ridin woods and and let's
30:09
explain that a little bit and I assume that's different from
30:12
like the dirt track or trail riding.
30:14
Yeah, it's I do tours to series I race natural, which is Is a
30:20
thing as New England Trail Association to our Trail Racing
30:23
Association, so it's Hare scrambles.
30:25
So it's a little more tighten that technical races for two
30:28
hours. And then I do J day which is
30:31
half Motocross half woods which is like probably the biggest
30:34
series on the East Coast right now.
30:36
Wow. Yeah.
30:37
I've seen some videos and stuff. I haven't gotten a chance to go
30:42
there but it seems like it's a huge turnout.
30:45
It's always fun. I love doing them.
30:47
Now now folks are trying to reach you.
30:50
How can they find you on social media?
30:52
So, my Instagram is Eli block underscore my Facebook, because
30:57
Facebook is weird. It's Eli, Cole be on Facebook.
31:00
It doesn't accept block as a last name and I didn't feel like
31:02
calling Facebook at the time. So everyone's got to know me as
31:05
he like Colby. So she like Colby on Facebook
31:08
and my email is Eli block 96 at gmail.com, got you got you?
31:12
Got you? Wow.
31:14
So okay, so you're Racing 3 motor America rounds this year
31:18
and five. Loudon rounds, I believe.
31:23
Six. Now 06, okay.
31:25
I think they, because they added the seventh round in India.
31:27
They did pretty much same thing. Nice.
31:30
Nice. Now, are you going to also do
31:32
coaching as well? And and, and what's that like
31:36
coaching? I mean, you're still young
31:37
writer but coaching New Riders. So I've always been into
31:42
teaching ever since I was a little kid even at like, when I
31:46
was like, oh Carter, I was like eight years old teaching summer
31:48
camps doing that stuff. So it's always been in me.
31:52
I've always liked teaching people and seeing people do
31:54
better. But you know I started doing
31:57
that with penguin and you know, I've been it's been hard over
32:00
the last two years because I've been trying to focus on,
32:03
actually the last two years, I've been testing things.
32:05
So I've never done that testing part as we talked about before,
32:08
but now I want to work on testing different things, which
32:11
is kind of like, conflicts with coaching, but you know, like, I
32:14
coach for evolved GTI coach were paying when I coach from a GP
32:17
New Jersey and South Florida. So I love coaching the little
32:22
kids. It's so much fun with my GP.
32:24
You got four year olds that are just like anything.
32:27
You tell them to do they'll do it.
32:29
You know go drag her all about okay?
32:31
Don't know how to ride a bike that is do it right?
32:33
Oh yeah. No it's you know kids are
32:35
sponges and it is a beautiful thing to see you when they're
32:39
out there on these small mini bikes and having a good time.
32:43
Yeah, I coached Joe laub. A guy that race up allowing his
32:47
son, Joel, Junior. They live 25 minutes.
32:50
So I used to go down every week and do actually help my racing
32:52
allows well. I used to do coach circled rows
32:55
with them cone drills and parking lots and I used to take
32:58
part of them and you know, it's when I did them I started
33:02
learning like even from the first time I ever did cones
33:04
rolls with him. I still could teach him because
33:07
I know what to do, but my form on the little bike, even got
33:10
better, you know? So over the however, many times
33:13
have done it with them, my form, and my everything has gotten
33:16
better on the small bike, which is crazy.
33:17
And it's contributed to a lot to my I riding nice nice.
33:21
Now, you talked about the the train in there and also, you
33:25
know, the physical training part and now as far as bike, what do
33:29
you do for training, how much Ridin do you try to get in
33:34
without even racing? So I do a lot of trail riding
33:39
and we're driving because we have a lot of places near my
33:41
house. So I mean, Midsummer I'll
33:44
probably riding two to three times a week.
33:46
So if it's, you know, a Wednesday night ride where we
33:50
That that's the live a little guys.
33:52
Do Wednesday night rides down in this place, we have a like five
33:55
mile Woods Loop, where we have double a pro riders down to see
33:59
router. So it's on your group and go, so
34:02
you got that. So we'll go out there.
34:03
Do 23 hours of riding there, then, I'll ride another time
34:09
during the week whenever I feel it and then I'll probably have a
34:11
race that weekend. So I think I've like 2524 events
34:14
this year scheduled between road racing Woods racing jday netra.
34:19
Doing like a grand national cross country race which is the
34:23
am a version of our Woods racing.
34:26
So I'll do that, I'll go to Indiana, do that race going to
34:30
go to like Pittsburgh jersey before the monomeric around and
34:33
do some testing. Okay, and I'll go down to West
34:37
Virginia in a few weeks and get some Shakedown on my 400.
34:40
Got you guys, now, with all that and all that you've said, we're
34:43
going to wrap this up. How much fun are you have in
34:46
doing doing what you're doing? And how much fun has it been in
34:49
Alaska? Just straighten.
34:51
I loved it all the way up until 2021, and then it became a job.
34:56
And then after I 20, 21 and 22 is going to do dirt bikes only,
35:01
I was gonna do like my five rounds at Loudon and race dirt
35:04
bikes only and then I got injured a lot and then I got
35:08
suspended. And now I'm on the 600 so it
35:11
brought my love back for racing. Now them on a big bike and I'm
35:14
learning again and I have people to battle with and I never
35:16
really had that. I was always racing the clock at
35:18
loud. I was always Okay, can I better
35:20
in my lap time? Could I didn't have anyone to
35:23
race with so now it's a have someone to chase down and you
35:26
know maybe one day soon I get back to that point but you know,
35:30
if it doesn't then I love to race with Scott Scott's an
35:32
amazing writer he is definitely awesome, man.
35:35
Well I want thank you for coming on the show, man.
35:38
Thank you for having me. My name is Rex, 45, seal a block
35:42
piece.