I made a little video of James Stewart hitting whoops.

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Edited Date/Time 10/30/2021 9:20pm
From first race to last win, this took way longer to make than it should have and re-living these races was far more enjoyable than the end product. So many memories watching all these races again, even when you know the outcome, good or bad, it was just as exciting as it was 15 years ago. So with that, enjoy! Or don't I guess if you don't want to.

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Glen 10/28/2021 1:30pm
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Thanks for putting it together!
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Dirty Points 10/28/2021 1:35pm
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Stew is, of course, incredible.... but, man, my main takeaway was how the whoops seemed to trend less and less gnarly over the years.
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ProKawi24 10/28/2021 1:38pm
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Pretty awesome!

Not that whoops aren't difficult now but back in his early days on 2 strokes it took some knarly balls to hit those whoops at full speed. Even just trying to jump through was a hell of a risk. I miss the days when the biggest difference between the top guys and the rest was who could jump the triple every lap and who could blitz the whoops.
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DF313 10/28/2021 1:47pm
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A few things I noticed when making the video was that his corner speed and his speed through the rhythm sections was also unbelievable. That and Ralph LOVED James!
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Dirty Points 10/28/2021 1:56pm
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DF313 wrote:
A few things I noticed when making the video was that his corner speed and his speed through the rhythm sections was also unbelievable. That and...
A few things I noticed when making the video was that his corner speed and his speed through the rhythm sections was also unbelievable. That and Ralph LOVED James!
Analysis: James Stewart was fast in bumpy parts, turny parts, jumpy parts, and straight parts of the track.
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DF313 10/28/2021 2:02pm
10/28/2021 2:02pm Edited Date/Time 10/28/2021 2:04pm
DF313 wrote:
A few things I noticed when making the video was that his corner speed and his speed through the rhythm sections was also unbelievable. That and...
A few things I noticed when making the video was that his corner speed and his speed through the rhythm sections was also unbelievable. That and Ralph LOVED James!
Dirty Points wrote:
Analysis: James Stewart was fast in bumpy parts, turny parts, jumpy parts, and straight parts of the track.
Its true!! Think of the highlights not included in the video! There was so much I wanted to add that was non-whoop related.
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visser62 10/28/2021 2:17pm
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Amazing how he just pulls right up on RC in the whoops. We all know the whoops weren't RC's best part of the track, but still, that's a five-time champ we're talking about.
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Johnny Ringo 10/28/2021 5:56pm
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Last real set of whoops we had was Seattle 2019.

Stew was the man
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DF313 10/28/2021 7:47pm
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Bummer, looks like copyright took out about 10 minutes of material. Luckily it's long enough the only clip I can notice so far is A1 2009 when James missed the shift and Chad plowed into him.
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Phillip_Lamb 10/28/2021 11:03pm
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jeez his fork look insansly stiff. never look like they absorb anything
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CPR 10/29/2021 2:54am
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Phillip_Lamb wrote:
jeez his fork look insansly stiff. never look like they absorb anything
Was well known that Stew and Reedy both ran super stiff forks just for the whoops. Didn’t seem to hurt Stew in the corners though!
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vansnxtweek489 10/29/2021 3:20am
10/29/2021 3:20am
Man this is awesome. I know all too well how long it takes to make these videos. You did an awesome job and that is super enjoyable. Stewart was the man.
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snillum 10/29/2021 6:30am
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The whoops from the 125 era appear to be a "just send it and see what happens". All of these guys are gnarly.
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davistld01 10/29/2021 8:04am
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DF313 wrote:
A few things I noticed when making the video was that his corner speed and his speed through the rhythm sections was also unbelievable. That and...
A few things I noticed when making the video was that his corner speed and his speed through the rhythm sections was also unbelievable. That and Ralph LOVED James!
Dirty Points wrote:
Analysis: James Stewart was fast in bumpy parts, turny parts, jumpy parts, and straight parts of the track.
I think one of the things that made James Stewart such a blast to watch, and why he was so far ahead of a lot of other riders in his era was that he was 100% full-on committed to every obstacle on a track, and had such a high confidence level in his own ability that he just "went for it" when some others may have backed off a hair.

Of course...he also crashed his brains out more than a few times by riding like that too.

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yak651 10/30/2021 4:48pm
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Cade Clauson (so?) said Stew wouldn’t be able to do the whoops of today on his 125. Guy is delusional
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crowe660 10/30/2021 8:40pm
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yak651 wrote:
Cade Clauson (so?) said Stew wouldn’t be able to do the whoops of today on his 125. Guy is delusional

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KirkChandler 10/30/2021 9:20pm
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crowe660 wrote:
[img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2021/10/30/516667/s1200_670E1E1D_33C7_4FCD_B9AE_A7BEE67005AF.jpg[/img]

Over triple the amount of wins (50) to starts (14).
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