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10/26/2012 1:43pm
10/26/2012 1:43pm
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7/21/2017 4:40pm
I need as many pictures as possible of things from Motocrossed (The Disney Movie). Specifically Andy Carson stuff. I really want to find some good pictures of the fox gear he/she was wearing. Obviously the pictures don't have to be from the movie, just needs to be the same red and yellow fox gear. Other things like the AXO boots, custom painted helmet, and spy goggles would be great too! Even 2001 RM125 pictures would help. Thanks to anyone willing to help.
May I ask why?
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https://youtu.be/j8OL7I3hpYA
that's me on the far left on the yamaha. I did the riding for the sister except when the sister and brother were riding at the house. I was the brother who goes flying through the fence.
This was a non riding scene where she looks over at my finger nails that are now polished for "arm pump"
A few things happened on this show that was odd. A couple background riders riffled through the FMF semi taking what they said they were told was OK to take. They were escorted off the set.
We had a lot of fun. Mike Craig, Steve Lamson, Rich Taylor, Dave Castillo, Chris Wheeler, Michael Sleeter, Dogger, Oakley Lehman, Clay Cullen, Stanton Barrett, Dave Demangos, Shane trittler.... man there were a lot of rides on this movie. It got heated sometimes!
Just kidding man what you do is awesome. RT is the man too. I worked with him for a short period of time at AXO. Good dude.
Hey how did you end up in your line of work anyways? Just made the right connections?
I just lost my KTM ride because, well...... I was slow and had two shoulder surgeries in 2000.
I went got a ride with Colorado Powersports and went into Motoworld of El Cajon to get some stuff before going riding and see my friends (as the first team I rode for) and saw a sign in the window that said "Be in a movie! $80 a day, send a picture of your bike, truck and gear (phone number)" I did and got a call from a production company. Told me to go to Barona Oaks, my local track I grew up on the following Monday.
I showed up and during the morning, I was an extra just pushing my bike around in the background and sitting on the tailgate of my truck. At lunch the stunt guys got to ride. I suited up and was told I wasn't allowed. The stunt coordinator, who knew my name from racing intervened and allowed me to ride. I was small and fast and right then the coordinator, producer and director came over and asked if I wanted my SAG card and to be a rider in the film.
That was the start.
I raced the following year. I got hurt at the Salt Lake SX. Broke my Tibia and Fibia. It was my 7th surgery in 5 years. The insurance from the SAG union (screen actors guild) payed for everything. Even the ambulance ride when the AMA told me that they only had a certain amount of money in the ambulance "kitty", and because so many got hurt that weekend I had to pay for my ride. This was after I was sent to collections and didn't even know I had a bill.
I was up to my ears in debt from racing and medical bills. I was riding with an organization that I felt turned there back when I got hurt ( a whole other story involving insurance from '99 when I was fully covered that is an amazing story) time and time again and I made more in a week working in stunts that I would have if I won a SX main event purse. Plus I had full benefits and retirement fund.
It was the hardest thing in my life, but from the frustration of it all, I quite racing professionally after seeing how a performer should be treated somewhere else.
It has taken a lot of hard work, connections and about 10 years to actually call it a career. However it was the best decision I ever made. I still get wrecked and the potential to get hurt is there everyday. But knowing I am rewarded well, have great insurance provided for my family for next to nothing makes it all worth it.
"the only rider to ever have his bike burst into flames at an AMA Supercross race"
My son and I must have watched you crash through that fence about 1,000 times when he was a little one.....lol.
He LOVED this movie it came out when he was 6 and had just got his first PW.
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