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I was in a airplane emergency landing once. We’d been circling for ages and wondered what was going on. He spoke to the crew over the PA, simply mentioning a code, and we could tell by their faces that something was up.
He eventually told us what the score was. He said that he couldn’t be sure that the landing gear was down so it would be a precautionary emergency landing. Next thing we know (within seconds) we’re coming in to land and he gives the “BRACE! BRACE!” command.
I sneaked a peek through the window to see the runway lined with emergency vehicles.
It was all fine (we did have wheels). However I can tell you, it gets your attention. And afterwards too, when you think about later...
My frame broke at the foot peg mounts during qualifying. It broke because Justin Soule came up on me hot and so I launched a single to flat and snapped it. We drove home 2.5 hours, my dad welded the frame over night and came back to race the next day. The race started 25 at a time so the way I look at it, I won the last row 😂.
I teamed up with Maria Foresburg and another guy during the race and we all helped each other.
They took you out of the race when the leader put 2 hours lead on you. We went about 6.5 miles...
I also got smoked by Andrew Short in a local pro XC race recently...
The Shop
Much, much later I won the Intermediate class at a big race and got interviewed with Dennis Hawthorne, who won the pro class. He shook my hand (nearly breaking it..lol) and said Good Ride!
www.motoxxx.com
www.instagram.com/motoxxxofficial
Fact, we were the first team that Akrapovic ever sponsored in SX/MX. We were their gateway into the moto scene in which they've of course had a ton of success with...Straight from Slovenia... Thanks for posting!
www.motoxxx.com
www.instagram.com/motoxxxofficial
Also 1996-97 Stock Buggy Michigan State Champion. (RC Cars)
However, personally......I count the opportunity to fly an F-16 fighter jet and pull close to 9Gs while in control of the aircraft that came as a reward for winning the title (the 2nd such incentive flight I was fortunate enough to have had the opportunity to take part of) as the more noteworthy experience.
This clip only shows us pulling 8.1Gs (reading can be seen at the bottom of the left hand vertical scale shown on our heads up displays) but later while at the controls again we pulled 8.7Gs. Never experienced any tunnel vision, black & white vision or became light headed/passed out at all)
Pit Row
About a week later she walked in on me banging her mom.
Yep, she was a MILF.
Loved the “full throttle-you won’t hurt it.”
Gotta love fighters, lol
Back in 2017 I met Donn at San Diego SX and asked him for advice on getting into the industry. Somehow I convinced him to hire me as an editor at TransWorld despite having just graduated from college with no relevant job experience. I packed everything up, moved to California, and tried to learn and grow as much as possible during the two years I spent there. Needless to say, it was a life changing experience, and the whole crew there was great. I probably crammed more life experience into that short window than I'd gotten out of the previous 23 years. Obviously, things came to an abrupt end last year when we were bought out, and I don't think anyone was happy about how that played out, but arguably we've all ended up in much better places now because of it.
That's really my only claim to fame, and with the website gone there's not nearly as much to show for it. I've still got a collection of mags and a hard drive filled with photos that are fun to look back on... minus the entire 2018 MXoN file from that I forgot to offload from the computer before it got wiped (oops). The memories live on, though. Good times!
Lastly... a shameless plug for the rest of the dudes:
www.swapmotolive.com
www.instagram.com/align.with.us
www.instagram.com/creativevision_digitalmedia
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