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And also proud that I got to mow the grass down during first practice.
My claim to fame would be painting cars. I paint for a big national chain. High school in auto body at the career center I won student of the year. In 2016 I received my companies second highest award for work place excellence. They flew the wife and I out to Phoenix for a few days all expenses paid. Got to go on a utv tour of the area. Awesome place!!! Also got to attend their big kick off for the year. Was a cool experience and felt good to be recognized for putting in the hard work and long hours.
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(1) While I'm not internationally famous as a punk rock drummer, I did have the chance as a 16-17 year old for my band of high school buddies to open for the Dead Kennedys, FEAR, DOA, Black Flag, and other early (and now very famous) punk bands in the 80's.
(2) I had a huge vert ramp (for skateboarding) in my backyard for a while in my late teens, early 20's. Hosted a ton of rippers on it, locals and otherwise.
(3) After punk and skateboarding made me locally famous (lol), I got a degree in physics from Berkeley, then started what is now a 20+ year long career as a physicist in medicine with a couple of patents in the field along the way.
Moto: Uh, I paid/sponsored the RacerX Gas Card twice lol.
Moto wise, I accidentally took Matt Bisceglia out when we were on 85s after a moto long battle. Then his mom wanted to fight me the next moto
Simply put, mostly luck, plus dirt bikes and hard work.
Oh, well...
Pit Row
At a minimum you're from Michigan, so you must be cool.
Won AA North Carolina Harescramble Championship. Made a morning race GNCC podium. Cleaned the top of the Moose/Parts Unlimted Semi-trailer with Dick Burleson. Was featured in Dirt Bike Magazine in 2019. Got drunk with Brock Sellards and wife in Ohio. Dated Kyle Peters sister in high school.
I have my pilots license as well.
My dad once shared a caravan for the night with Simon Le Bon from Duran Duran in the paddock at Donington Park.
Wasn't planning on sharing this when I made the thread but I figure fuck it, might as well share since so many of you have...
I used to be a competitive skier and was in ski movies. Lucky timing had us on the forefront of the big mountain skiing revolution and fat ski evolution, and we got to open up a lot of previously unskied terrain in Alaska, Europe, South America and Canada. It was a time of heli-skiing exploration, huge advances in powder skis and attention from the ski industry. Helmet cams weighed about 5 lbs!
I got to work with some of the best photographers and filmers in the business and we had a blast figuring out what to do and pushing our limits. Unfortunately I have about 35 friends and cohorts who died doing the sport we loved. It was like F1 in the 60's, every year I knew several people who pushed too far or got unlucky.
I did some competitions, mostly big mountain stuff. Also did the first winter X-games in 1998(skiercross) and the NBC Gravity games in 2000(bronze medal in big mountain). In 2000 I was the U.S. freeskiing champion and in 1998 the Canadian freesking champ. Snowboarding stole a lot of skiing's thunder in the early part of my career but by the end of it skiing was becoming a big deal again.
In 1998 at the SIA ski industry show in Las Vegas I was walking the show and meeting with sponsors and I walked by the CTS booth. There was no one around but there was a guy sitting at a table and I noticed he had posters in front of him to sign... that guy was Jeff Emig. As I said no one at all was around and I struck up conversation with him. As a life-long fan of moto I was so stoked! Well we shot the shit for at least 30 minutes and he noticed I had my portfolio so he went through it and geeked on all the cliff shots. What a great guy and of course he was just coming off his SX championship the year before so I peppered him with questions about everything I could think of as a rabid MX fan. Great times!
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