Jeff Alessi

well done and i hope all goes well and you can get to where you want to be, but didnt you say the same thing at the start of this year?

Best of luck to you Jeff!

Best of luck to the other alessi brother.......does tony know yet ?

I received a few messages from Jeff last night, and out of respect for him I won't get into what they were about on here. What I will say though is that he seems to have put these problems behind him and get on the right track with a good attitude. Hopefully he has good seasons to come. I'm definitely looking forward to seeing him on the bike mixing it up with these guys.

Best of luck, Jeff! Keep your head up and keep pushing forward!

Best of luck Jeff....and also to bro Mike in everything you do. Go 4 it

good luck jeff. i remember showing up to perris raceway back in the day and the REAL Jeff Alessi showed up and waxed me and Mike each and every moto that day. When Jeff Alessi is on, the dude is the real deal. Just needs to stay healthy for a season or two to show this true potential.

Good luck next year!!! I have always been a big fan of Alessi's. Was great to see Mike have a really good season this year.

Awesome! This is great news. I sure want to see this kid stay healthy, and show what he is capable of. Get out from under everyone elses pressure, and ride to his ability, healthy, and happy. Good stuff Jeff!

First and foremost...best of luck Jeff. Sometimes, when the reset button is popped...a little refocus gets the motivational juices flowing, and the desire comes back. Hopefully you can use that to become what a lot of your fans believe you can become.

Furthermore...the I KNOW what he's talking about (but it's too heavy for you guys)...and the, I messaged/texted/talked to/telepathically tuned into bla bla bla, is a feeble and downright silly grab for attention. Nobody gives a shit...it's between you and Jeff, keep it that way. Come in here, say good luck or some other positive contribution to the thread and move along. Anything else can remain unsaid...it's irrelevant to anything other than your own attempt to be the guy that knows a little more than the rest. Lame

Good luck to you Jeff but you need to ride hard the whole moto. Not give up after your passed. Looking to pass them back not looking behind for the next rider to pass you.

Huge Alessi fan here. Have met you a couple of times and you were a nice guy so no disrespect here but why allude to something then not explain what you were implying? That just leads to more speculation.

It's not my business but it would seem better to either put it all out there so it can be understood or keep it completely quiet.

Brad.....with all due respect man.....but this thread brought up some issues Jeff was having......either on the track or off the track.....it doesn't matter. But it sounded like whatever it was , it was something he thought was holding him back. And with that being said........the dude has lined up on the gate at tons of nationals and SX over the years......I'm pretty sure he gets how the racing thing works , and don't think he needs any advice from someone he doesn't know on a friggin' message board!. He has people close to him for that.

Good Luck Jeff give it all you got

Good luck Jeff!

Good luck, and why everyone just has to know what happened is lame. Just leave him alone.

I'm all about people making changes for the better and leaving the past behind. The only thing you can take from the past is a lesson and learn to not put yourself in those troubling situations again. I personally had to make the biggest change in my life with quitting alcohol, almost half a year ago now and it changed my life forever, for the better! It's never too late to get your life back on track if your ready to do it.

Best of luck to Jeff and this year, I've become a Alessi fan and have been cheering Mike on at the Nationals!

Good for both of you. I have a cousin that I'm very close to and I have seen him ruin his life with alcohol (became homeless) and I'm proud of both you guys.. Stay strong..

+1

I once went 13 years without a drink.

-Then I turned 14.

Good luck Jeff.

I will be posting on my Facebook in 3 minutes something that may put light to your questions. Thanks.

Can someone copy and paste it? Some of us don't have Facefart.

At the end of this day my work is done, i still feel a will inside of me now that I've helped myself to maybe reach out and help someone else with the knowledge of what I know can help someone. So here it is, many of you may be struggling with some of the many things I struggled with, and now I know my struggles were my decisions, just like yours probably are.

First, for me to explain my situation I must explain I was a very sheltered kid who only knew racing and that was all I had to worry about-the rest was taken care of by my mom and dad, all the way till I was 19. I remember when I was given control of myself I immediately had a bunch of new decisions day-to-day to face, and like many I made many wrong decisions because I was young and wanted to have fun, if a party came up I wanted to go because I had my own freedom to do what I wanted, and with the initial freedom I said it wouldn't hurt if I went out and did stuff and experienced life a little bit and had fun.  I will say having fun Is not wrong, as long as it doesn't leave you feeling like you've done something bad for you, for me as a racer I've always know that drinking soda or eating candy or having Taco Bell after riding or training was wrong, and as a kid if I had those things I would feel guilty after, it was because I knew it wasn't good for me and I knew it wasn't ME. So I knew going out to a party wasn't good for me and for most people going out and drinking and getting drunk will leave you feeling a bit not happy with yourself, when I would drink it would make me unhappy, the way I ignored it was by doing more things that made me forget about the wrong I was doing with my life, and usually those thing would also leave me unhappy in myself even more. 

I didn't see through it all cause I had no one to talk to about it cause I was surrounded by people who were doing the same things, it took me surrounding myself with Christians who had came to the Lord to help them past what they were becoming that they didn't want to be, just like I had been doing. Like a flood I was up to my neck in bad decisions and to forget those things I would drink, not knowing that 30 minutes later the flood would come back twice as high and knock me down even more and leave me weaker, the reason it was making me weak was because I'd have to learn this, inside of me is 3 people who choose what I will do, one is the good, one is the bad, one is the decision maker but unfortunately is goes much further than that and is the very thing that keeps you who you are because this is the TRUTH so listen to me! The good is the angel who lives with you that God gave to you to help you, he knows the right decisions and that angel will always tell you the right decisions, the angel is also your conscious, it's honestly WHO YOU WANT YOURSELF TO BE! 

And of course there is the other decision, the one you know is wrong, that is THE bad, the demon. The demon will always try his hardest to make the bad look so good, the sex, the alcohol, the drugs. for me it was all the way down to eating candy, I had a decision to face eating fast food because as an athlete I know it will not help me succeed in being who I want to be when I get ready for race time. Here's where you get to learn the lesson I learned, and hopefully you listen and never have to learn yourself. When you decide to eat the candy, drink the booze, you are giving the demon inside you more power and he takes that power and puts your angel in a jail cell, when you keep making bad decisions your angel will eventually not be strong enough to be the more powerful of the two and the demon will put your angel in a jail cell strong enough that the good you are will not be able to break out, that's when you become a weak person, and it's because your angel is sitting there yelling from deep in this jail cell deep inside you and his words are not strong enough to make you do right cause he's weak and the demon is becoming stronger every time you choose to do the thing that isn't better for you.

Now remember what I said, the angel is also your conscious and who you want to be, so now he's in a jail cell which really means you're in a jail cell, a jail cell you created for yourself, and it makes you unhappy! When your unhappy because you are being ran by your bad decisions it really means the person you are is just along for the ride because eventually those bad decisions are who the outer part of you becomes, the person everyone is seeing, and again that makes you unhappy, and when your unhappy the first thing you do is usually go and do whatever is causing these problems, again for me it was drinking.

Eventually I was so caught up in a twister, i was in the middle of this twister watching my bad decisions fly round and round, it was so thick I couldn't see outside of the twister, and because I couldn't see out of it I didn't know what was beyond that twister was everything I wanted, I couldn't see it anymore because the bad decisions were so thick so I assumed what I was looking at was what my life was. And it made me unhappy. At that point it was going to take a miracle to get out of this twister because it's all I could see and there was no way my angel was going to break this cycle, so my angel, who I am, made me cry out to the Lord and say, "Lord please help me get past the drinking, please Lord I'm begging you I can't do this alone like I want, I don't have the strength anymore." What came next was a war inside of me, a fight I started against it all and this time God intervened and sent his strongest warriors to kill the demons, he sent Christians who had been through this to support me and to be stronger then the demon I gave so much power to, like confusing signs of things I would never do I began making decisions to help myself, and there was a strength behind me I never had, it didn't come from others forcing me to do something I didn't want, it was me, the good to say enough is enough and you demon, "Inside me," you gotta go and you're not welcome back because you are not who I am, you are not what I want.

So I felt strong again, so finally I took this to a friend who I knew was having the same problems as I was having, he of course being as weak as he is like once was just said what I would of said. I got off the phone and felt alone, like I had put on God's armor and most of everyone I once was great friends with had no intentions of putting on and standing strong next to me, so I said Lord how am I going to keep this strength and stay away, at the same time I was asking this I was rubbing a wrist band one of my warriors got sent to me had given me, I never read what it said so I did, 'Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Christ strengthens me' immediately an overwhelming rush cane to my head, chills down my back and through to my soul I knew I had nothing to worry about cause I knew I was strong. I also noticed the other band I was given was sandals, the footprints in sand of the man, and one quote was on it, 'I carried you' I immediately remembered how I asked God, why in these hard times do I feel like your not here. I know now that he was carrying me through the hardest times I've been going through, this was my path and tho it was not easy on me I know now that I have always had the Lord by my side, and when I was strong he was carrying me so that I could once be strong again. The knowledge his warriors gave me, and my angel has made me stronger then I have ever been and it's now that I know what I want, I see it clearer than I have ever seen it.

I pray for all of you who are going threw tuff times, I love everyone of you and if any of you need strength because you are to weak, please ask me to come and help you, I would love to help you find yourself again because I was once the lonely sad person throwing my life away, and God helped me, even when my faith was at its weakest it could have been. I love everyone of you out there, I love every person I race against, I love you if your sober or drunk or high right now, if you need my help I will be there as one of the Lord's warriors. 

Best of luck to you Jeff. I hope that you can continue to lead a clean life that will bring you peace and happiness within yourself. Motocross is secondary to your well being.

proud of you! the demons are a waist of time n energy.use ur new found strength to the fullest buddy.
ur message may not be impressive to many here who reads it,but if u influence just 1 young reader.....

I think it's dumb to preach on the internet, but I think it's cool he interacts with the moto fans on here.

Depression and self medicating makes life a whole lot tougher, glad you found something to help you stay positive.

Congrats on the the new ride and a fresh outlook on life.

It's nice to see some good coming out in this sport. Reed has really opened up and done a lot for both the sport and the fans. The last few years the Alessi's have gotten a lot of crap. Maybe at times it was their fault, at others things were blown out of proportion. Good hard racing has really made me a fan. It will be great to see Jeff back on the track. Always a good style and always seemed to be very polite an accomodating to the fans.

Good luck with your new ride Jeff, it will be nice to see you and your brother back on the track together!