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1/25/2012 4:33am
So this weekend my wife and I were at Ontario Airport heading off to Vegas to get away for the weekend and who's going there as well is none other that Jeff Emig and his wife. I spotted him right away, often times when I travel out of Ontario on Thursday/Fridays it's easy to spot racer during morning flight's while supercross/motocross is happening. I have to say that he was nothing less than an awesome guy. He took the time to chat with me several times even after we landed in Vegas and even called over his wife to introduce me to her. Me...I was like a kid in the candy store, it was only a couple months ago I was listening to his Steve Matthes podcast of him and watching him on TV every supercross on Speed and to see him in person was unreal. I have met other riders before, but nothing like him. I pretty much yapped my wifes ear off the whole flight about how cool he was and how nice. He even offered to meet up for drinks later when we got to Vegas. Me...just some average joe fan...Him nothing less than a professional athlete and I mean that. See he's what our sport can always use more of..a true professional athlete. I am sure he get plenty of "excuse me are you Jeff Emig", and if I wasn't so amazed I could of said more about our sport to him, but him nothing less than awesome and I mean that. Jeff Emig bud you are one cool guy and you really made my day...make that my year! Thanks.
Back in 2003 i was putting together my first Big Air Kid's Fair (although it wasn't called that yet) at Loma Linda Children's Hospital. My idea was to get some friends that were racing the Supercross series to come visit the kids at the hospital and give out some swag, since the riders were all in town for the first few rounds of the series. Still, it';s not easy to get guys to commit to taking an entire Thurs or Fri to spend at the hospital...they are usually pretty busy. So for the first one I ended up with Nate Ramsey, Danny Smith, Josh Hansen (subbing for his roommate, Brock Sellards), FMX rider Trevor Vines and Jeff Emig.
I had dropped off a couple of dozen "Bar to Bar" VHS tapes at the hospital a couple of weeks earlier so that the kids could watch and maybe have some idea of who these guys were that were coming to visit. When we arrived there to visit, almost none of the tapes had even been opened...I was bummed. So we tool in there and go into this Day Room where some really young patients were playing with their toys and stuff. It was pretty awkward at first, with the kids having no idea who these guys were, and a few parents wondering the same thing. None of us were too sure of how to act and Fro just sat down on the floor with the kids and started playing with them like he was their favorite uncle! It totally broke the ice and it ended up being a wonderful and rewarding experience that has grown into the Freestyle Exhibition and all day event that they tell me is the most anticipated of the year at the hospital. I feel a debt of gratitude to Emig for helping make it a success...we are doing our 10th Annual Big Air Kid's Fair in a couple of months. Thanks, Jeff!
The Shop
That being said ... they were both really cool and we had a beer together!
I bumped into Jeffro in the pits at the 2006 MX des nations, Jeff was a total hero to me as a kid and all I could do was blurt out JEFF! Lol
My wife never let's me live it down, but not afraid to admit this Scotsman was seriously starstruck that day lol
So, it's the middle of the night at GH and me and a buddy are looking at the schedule board trying to figure out what bike and what time we ride next... Up comes another Bro all geared up with helmet on, just as confused as we were. Between the three of us we manage to figure it out, it wasn't until Bro #3 said "oh there I am" and it said "EMIG" did I even realize, lol!
Just another cool Bro, Bros
Pit Row
Big props to Emig Racing!
I''ll never forget you introduced me to Emig at the Mini SX in Las Vegas back in 04.
That was cool.
I always was a big fan of Emig and when we were at the MiniSX Emig raced too and was hanging out at his fan with Antunez and those guys.
Bauer spotted Emig and said to me: You wanna meet Emig?
I was like: No, not really, let's just leave the guy alone.
But Bauer dragged me over to Emig, I was totally star struck and acted like a 5 year old kid.
I have some pictures of it and it shows.
I ended up running into him at LL's and he brought me onto Fox radio(base of finish line) live. So I stayed and talked to him a little bit. I ended up going and finding one of my buddies(Heath Wadhams Lyons,N.Y.). We went up to there a couple hours later and Fro was hanging out. Started going into cornering technique. It was an experience of a life time. One of my MX heroes.
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