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1. Yes, to be a winner you need no have the right mindset.
2. Ofc he will say this, he is a trainer, just like a suspension guy will tell you that you need better suspension. He is selling his product here.
3. Pure BS on the bike part. More or less every bike on the line is capable of winning in the hands of the right rider now days.
4. In each sport you will need some form of talet to win it. Look at cross country skiing for example. The top athletes from each country train togeather on the same program and have the same material on the competition day but yet someone will outperform the rest. And it’s there the talent/gift comes in. You can be gifted with a good heart and lungs from birth so you can push harder than the others, or you can be a natural talent at skiing.
RC’s talent were training and pushing his body, JS talent were being able to do things on a bike the other riders could only dream about.
Jett and Hunter have the same bike and trainer, how come that little bro is heaps better than Hunter and Hunter have trained for a longer time?.
Enjoying some of the comments on this
I can’t believe it took Ryno this long to say something. GL gives 0 fucks.
I feel like if I were to ask Hunter Lawrence if I could be a champion with 5 years of training, he would tell me yes. He would also then walk over to Jett and Mirtl and say you're never going to believe what that idiot just asked me.
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if this was posted in the comments of the moto academy account. he scrubbed them all. they’re all gone.
Pretty stupid
He was getting roasted on IG for it. MotoMemes posted a video of it with Grant Langston, Ryno & Ping all commenting on it. I got a laugh out of the comments
Such a weird take, in my opinion. He was a pro and he had the opportunity right there. Why didn't he train as hard and set his goals higher then? Seems weird after the fact to say this. I'm all for someone trying to achieve their goals but given this situation, I just feel like this one is a bit odd. In 5 years he will be like 37. So when he doubled down a day later and instead of maybe offering some more clarity, he told everyone to put their ego aside for criticizing etc lol. To me that was hilarious and at that point I'm not sure he deserves benefit of the doubt. He's just blowing smoke at this point. That being said, the guy has beautiful riding style and maybe the training is his calling. There is nothing wrong with that, if that's the case. I just don't think this take is doing anything positive for him and maybe he doesn't realize why. Regardless, I wish him well. No hate.
Attention is the currency of any aspiring Influencer, especially when they have a product to sell. Deliberate or not, he's currently trending in the niche moto internet forums/social media pages because of comments and clips just like this.
It's amazing this clown sleeps at night. All he does is take advantage of kids and their clueless parents who pay good money to go listen to his regurgitated nonsense at his "classes"
I can't imagine what really goes on during his lessons, considering the "highlights" he posts on Instagram. Kid can't clear a "100 foot" tabletop on his 125, so he just goes and gets his 250F to clear it. Incredible way to teach technique.
Also apparently that kid is in 4th gear on a 125 around a very slow corner? Many WTF moments in that post alone...
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C-TGO-KKYln/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
I was a fan and watched his training stuff on Youtube and root for him in SX. Once he started the podcasts he became a little too much about himself.
It started long before the podcasts. When he couldn't even make the night show and was comparing himself to champions is a good starting point
5 years you say?
i found mirtls comment interesting. makes me wonder about the whole aj/lawrence relationship
I mean that's a bit of a stretch, AJ railed the corner and still had to yank for it. He told the kid to try to come out with more corner speed or just decide to come up short and scrub to get back on the ground. 250f he doesnt have to nail the corner quite as good so he cleared it.
He says some click baity silly stuff but hes not forcing anyone to sign up for these classes it looks like its $300 for 6 hours of training, not what id really call a ripoff.
I’d still be slow as sh&t 😂😂😂
There are a few guys here who have taken his classes and said it's absolutely a ripoff. No water breaks, a bunch of useless time just sitting around.
My point about the post I sent is his "just stay in 4th the whole time" thing. Anyone who knows anything about riding a 125 knows you are not hitting that corner in 4th. AJ LOVES to hear himself talk, and in my opinion he is just exploiting and taking advantage of people who don't know any better.
Yeah I heard the 4th gear through the “slow turn” part and was like wait what?
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Kristen Faulkner just started cycling 7 years ago and now just won the Olympic gold medal for USA. Pretty crazy from no cycling to gold medal in that amount of time.....
Moto is way different, but 5 years of straight dedication and no life, you could probably get pretty decent.
Irrelevant comparison. AJ "tried" and never came close to a win, let alone a title. But during his last attempt, would often say if he had time to train and had an HRC bike, he'd be winning. He's as arrogant as they come. Then there was the GPF debacle.
When people continue to show you who they really are, just believe them instead of making excuses for them.
I’ve never been a big fan of AJ’s but the GPF deal completely erased any shred of respect I had on him. What’s going on with all that now?
https://www.instagram.com/p/C-TognugRS7/?hl=en
His arrogance and lack of self-awareness is incredible lol.
Joel Smets started racing moto until he was 17 years old. He was world champ 8-9 years later. As Ryno said, some people have it, some don't.
Wasn’t Bob Hannah around 15 or 16 before he entered his first MX race?
Agreed. Just mentioning it’s possible. He can talk the talk but not the walk. Like GL said, he didn’t have the drive or work ethic. Seems like a shady attention seeking person anyways.
I think a lot of people underestimate the mental aspect of racing. They think a factory bike and certain level of fitness is all it takes. I think a lot of people misinterpreted what he said and thought he meant anyone can win a championship with 5 years of the best training on the best bike in the best situation possible, but Catanzaro was referring to himself as a rider who won amateur titles and qualified for main events already. I think it's a bit foolish to assume that 5 years of training your ass off can turn you into a champion. There's a lot of great rider who will never win a title, or even a race, heck there's incredible riders who will never make a main event. I don't watch a lot of Catanzaro's videos, but he's an incredibly technical and knowledgeable rider. I think he helped both Lawrence brothers with their technique and adjusting to the pro class, but I don't think Catanzaro has "it" that the Lawrence brothers have. Perhaps he thinks he does because he rides with them all the time and can match their pace for a lap or two at the local track, but something I thought about recently that I haven't really talked about is the fact you can put ANY obstacle in front of these top riders at the top level and they'll find a way to be the fastest through it. There's plenty of jumps or rhythm sections that any local pro would see and think "damn, this is pretty gnarly" but these top guys will figure it out with less than 10 minutes of track time and hit it perfect every lap in the race. That's whats underrated about the top riders, their ability to learn and figure out a track with the minimal time they're given on that track in less than 12 hours time. Local pro's can go to a supercross track and figure it out after a couple weeks of riding, ok now go do that with conditions that have changed every time you ride it and you have a total of about an hours track time to be the best in the world on it, GO! As a teenager you're almost naive enough to believe that you're capable, but hit your 30s and you'll understand how crazy the top riders are.
Nobody misinterpreted what he said, they are calling him out specifically for what he said about himself. Just my opinion, but your long response about what he said is the problem he's created with his nonsense. You actually think AJ helped the Lawrences?? He can spout some technical stuff, sure, but go watch all his videos. Nothing technical about it. Everything I've seen is him jumping some 65 foot table, saying it's 100 feet, and then some random "coaching" of a kid who has no business jumping anything that's actually 100 feet.
What he does in those videos, on the track, is something any random legit C rider can do. He's a salesman. Period.
If you could go back in time and give Catanzaro the "perfect" situation with training, finances and a factory bike when he was 18 with the mindset he has now, then it's possible he has the talent to win a main event. If Langston is right about him not having the work ethic when he was on his team in 2012, and Catanzaro finished 4th in a main event in 2013, then perhaps he could have reached the level to win a main event with a better team and/or training schedule. However, that would require going to a race and feeling absolutely perfect on the bike, track, lines are good, head is in a good place etc etc.. but what happens when you go to the track and you aren't feeling 100%? maybe you had a practice crash during the week? maybe there's a section that is giving you problems? maybe you get a bad start? All of those factors would greatly affect someone like Catanzaro even with the best bike, fitness, team, etc.. but it's not going to affect someone like Deegan. That's the difference between someone who is good enough to win a race, and someone who is good enough to win a championship and there's just levels to it. Could he have won a race? Probably, he's always been a great rider. Win a title? I don't think so.
AJ. Got a 17th once at spring creek so suck on that.
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