Practice Facilities, do they produce Studs or duds?

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kkawboy14 6/18/2019 9:28am
6/18/2019 9:28am Edited Date/Time 6/18/2019 11:19am
Seems like a better investment than paying to go to college or playing video games all day.......if your desire is to be a Professional Motocrosser!

Lots of people pay to go to college, end up with a lot debt, just to wake up after graduating with a lot of debt and digging ditches for a living!

Those facilities are College for mxers. If you think you can be a Doctor of Moto, without going to college, knock yourself out. You just might pull it off.
But just like business if you find out your competition is waking up 30 minutes before you and going to bed 30 minutes after you, you probably will have to adjust your work day!
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brycepdh 6/18/2019 9:30am
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Langhammx wrote:
You nailed it !!

Savatgy was also a MTF graduate.
Jordan Smith, Dakota Alix and Kyle Peters attended MTF i believe. They came to Australia with Savatgy to compete in the Australian Junior nationals. I know this because I competed in it and was awesome to see American talent against us aussies. Colleen Millsaps made the trek down, my dad had a chat with her and said she was awesome.
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AZRider 6/18/2019 10:09am
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I liken this to soccer. In the US, parents spend thousands of dollars to make their kid great. Yes, training helps, but desire is the biggest piece of the puzzle. Somewhere in central america is a kid with a ball made out of trash who isn't in school and barely has enough to eat. He is practicing 8 hours a day because he wants to have a better life. If you are the kid in America, you gotta want it pretty bad to top that. MX isn't the same, but desire is still the #1 piece in my opinion. I know several parents paying for their kids to be a couple of the facilities here in Georgia. All of them I know of have been there for at least 3 years, and none of them will be the next ET or RC.
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77Moto 6/18/2019 4:48pm
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VetMX.com wrote:
Aldon Baker's seems to produce Champions.
I read on here that all of them were champions before Baker.

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scrubbin 6/18/2019 5:59pm
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There have been "0" 450 champions from any of the kids that grew up riding at any training facility.
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Chris_Cooksey 6/18/2019 5:59pm
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Wish there was a “Broken Family” option. I bet they produce more of those than anything.
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motomike894 6/18/2019 6:09pm
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VetMX.com wrote:
Aldon Baker's seems to produce Champions.
49weasel wrote:
Aldon is working with men, not boys.

Few would argue he's never turned a complete dud into a stud. He only works with studs.
Exactly he just hones guys that are already that good
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stash124 6/18/2019 6:11pm
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scrubbin wrote:
There have been "0" 450 champions from any of the kids that grew up riding at any training facility.
Pretty sure Cooper Webb spent time training with Gary Bailey, MTF, and South of the Border throughout his entire amateur career
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lumpy790 6/18/2019 6:34pm
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scrubbin wrote:
There have been "0" 450 champions from any of the kids that grew up riding at any training facility.
RD1 trained at Carmichaels facility
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scrubbin wrote:
There have been "0" 450 champions from any of the kids that grew up riding at any training facility.
lumpy790 wrote:
RD1 trained at Carmichaels facility
Did Dungey train there as an amateur? I think he did once he turned pro but not before.
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Shawn142 6/18/2019 7:04pm
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scrubbin wrote:
There have been "0" 450 champions from any of the kids that grew up riding at any training facility.
Really?



Even with that example aside, that claim is kinda silly to make considering in the last decade (which is roughly when this trend began to take shape) a title in either 450 class has been hard to come by if your last name wasn't Dungey, Tomac, or Roczen. Lots of kids who grew up on these facilities have factory rides.

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