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He only won when the faster,better guys were out with injuries. Yeah I know " be in it to win it “ but facts don't lie . His 250 titles were the same
Kinda like how Jett only wins championships Sexton isn't healthy for? Yep, lame comment.
Top 500 in his best event. Top 700-800 in his next 3 best events. The last 2 priority events were well below top 1000. For reference, there are about 5,000-8,000 swimmers in this age group per event. He was pretty good, but not great.
After working with Alan, he was 42nd in his best event, 82nd in his second best event. This came with no change in training in the pool.
In his 3rd-6th next priority events, he was top 250. Not only did his best event get way better, the depth aspect of his performance was also expanded in a big way.
-Edited for spelling.
No one lucks into 4 professional championship... come on...
Outside of that, I think Chase and Eli are both basically checked out this season on the needed level to be at tip of the spear. They both are going to new places and platforms and want to join those teams healthy.
Side note - I am not one who thinks the mental coach is needed, but the fastest I have ever seen Chase go is when he worked with James. His ego couldn't take what James was telling him, but damn if the two of them didn't make magic. Maybe it's time to get the band back together?
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I felt that way about his titles too, especially in the 250 class. He really is a beast on the 450 though, but there was luck involved
Social Video can be extremely awful a lot of the time.
I will volunteer to help out any rider. “Do your best to stay off sm”. Pretty simple.
There will always be the haters, the doubters, the blow hards and the toilet racers. Thats just life.
Its always fun to bench race and thats why most of us are active on vital. But damn, if you get 3rd or 5th or 10th in a moto, you will be crucified by somebody. Brutal!
Most of the best riders in the world are racing our series.
Sexton is pretty honest in his interviews lately. I respect that.
Jett is just on another level right now. Its like watching a road racer and the obstacles are not even there. He’s like the Phantom racer.
All good and a great race weekend.
Chase made the same boneheaded mistakes racing Coop in SX. I know the Jett lovers like to say that Jett’s otherworldly speed is causing Chase’s mistakes because the pace is too fast, but the proof is in the pudding. Chase doesn’t handle pressure well period.
I really like Chase as a person but him winning all his championships by the top dogs getting hurt has to mess with his head a little. These guys want to be the best and to be the best you have to beat your competition straight up. You might get a gift but deep down where it counts you know you only won because of someone else’s misfortune. I think this is what is causing a lot of his mental issues. I could be wrong and probably am but if it was me I know it would be on my mind every time I lined up.
I have to chuckle, most of us are self proclaimed psychiatrists by hobby, professional riders in our own heads and then we bust our butts all week at work to afford all of our things and to feed our family, maybe in the other order. 🤣😜😬
Im guilty as well, trying to figure out what the racers are thinking etc.
At least in stick and ball sports you can always deflect some of the problems on the other guys.
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Chase should hire Tanya Harding
The old leg beating. 😬
Chase is classy and was brought up right. He’ll get there. That last 1/2 percent is the hardest.
What Jett has that no other rider in the field has is a brother that is super fast on the same bike and team. Two great riders on the same bike doing suspension and chassis adjustments while sharing the information is such an advantage. If you don’t believe it look how much Hunter has improved since he has moved up too the 450. It takes a team to win. Jet, Hunter and Honda have the best team on the planet!
I concur. Reminds me of Team Honda of the mid to late 80’s.
Kawi had Jeff Ward to keep them honest but think of it, they had RJ, Omara, Lechein, Bailey, Hannah, Magoo ….
Off topic, I was watching a rerun of the des nations in Jacksonville tonight. Herlings went from 41st to first. They mentioned that himself and Stew were the only riders to come feom that far back in a pro race after crashing and winning. Didnt Sexton come from 40th last year to win?
Somebody on here before mentioned that chase has the weirdest luck ever. He has bad luck that ends up with him throwing away championships like when he hit coopers rear wheel and then he has good luck like eli blowing his achilles with 1 race to go or forkner wadding it up on the 250 and cruising to both titles. Even when he had the good luck of eli blowing his achilles to win, he had so much bad luck already where he washed out the front end 27 times that he should have been waaay up on tomac anyways. So I guess in the end of all kind of cancels eachother out and hes basically where he should be, because he should have won that sx championship and not even needed the eli thing if he hadnt crashed in the lead so many times.
Rider errors is not bad luck. Bad luck is a mechanical or something else you could not avoid as a rider.
Tucking the front end 27 times is not one of those.
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