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8/13/2015 10:17am
8/13/2015 10:17am
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8/15/2015 6:02am
History Lesson:
years ago EVERYBODY was saying that it was SX that had honed the skills of the USA riders and had enabled them to start winning the MXDN year after year............
Now I hear on PulpMX from the experts that it is actually SX that has hurt the USA riders and allowed the Euros to start beating them.
So what is it guys?
you can't have it both ways.......
years ago EVERYBODY was saying that it was SX that had honed the skills of the USA riders and had enabled them to start winning the MXDN year after year............
Now I hear on PulpMX from the experts that it is actually SX that has hurt the USA riders and allowed the Euros to start beating them.
So what is it guys?
you can't have it both ways.......
Meanwhile, European riders spend very little time on SX tracks and they focus almost entirely on outdoor motocross. It's helped them catch back up in motocross, no doubt. And that's probably why some guys who come over here (Rattray, Tortelli, Chiodi, Albertyn) really struggle at first (or always) in supercross.
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Why has that changed suddenly? Is it the fact that every mini rider in US, Europe, Australia, Asia and Africa grows up watching SX races and develop their skills that and that way gets better at MX also?
As an old school person I point to the SX influence on our National tracks as a contributing factor to us getting gapped by the Euros. SX is here to say but there is nothing keeping us from having our tracks keep true to traditional MX roots.
some thoughtful comments from Europe and the USA
We haven't lost because we aren't fast enough, we've lost due to being inconsistent.
Riders in America will always have the larger skill set until they start running SX across the pond.
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I am really surprised to see so much insight from the Americans, they are figuring this thing out really fast.
and yes, yes loftyair, you are ABSOLUTELY right, jumps are indeed WAY WAY too much in the way of the MX action these days.
I have posted again and again...... with the amount of jumping these days there is practically no time for the guys to just get down on the ground and RACE.
You can't race when you are just hanging around up in the air...... and these days they are just hanging around up there with all their whips and scrubs, it is just way too boring and causing way too many accidents.
I agree with you 100%, get the jumps out of MX and SX, get the riders back down and let them race against each other like Johnson, Ward, Hannah, etc.
Regarding who is better what a pointless discussion. I'd rather talk about how much the moon weighs than waste time on the who is fastest, who is better, etc. but for sure the US riders have their hands full with racers from across the pond at the MXdN the last few years.
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