“Today everything is more serious, more competitive, more dangerous”
Perhaps people outside the sport think that we are rich, but events are bigger now and there is more competition. Of course you need money to have a good life with your family, but we don’t get money for free. Yes, we love it when we do a holly grab at 37 M or we get a trick on lock down, but we work a long time to achieve this, and the question is ‘how are you getting there’? All the hours in the park, all the thousands of jumps, all the hours in the gym, all the logistics, all the injuries and all the other stuff around it that’s not necessarily much fun. A lot of people left this world for that reason. If you want to be at the top, you need a passion for riding mx bikes. If you don’t have the passion, you will not have fun riding, you will not progress and that will be a mess. Today everything is more serious, more competitive, more dangerous and more money is involved. Let me say today we take the whole package, with a lot of bad things inside, a lot of bad injuries in there. You can get killed, you can get paralysed, and then when your career is over you have no education because you didn’t go to school and you can’t do anything. But there are a lot of up sides as well like the freedom of riding your dirt bike, learning a big trick, having fun with your friends, the feeling of standing in front of 40,000 people, it’s like ‘I worked so hard to get here and this moment is the best in the world’. That’s the package we have to choose, if you want to stay or not.
events all over the world like in Madrid, Sidney, Dallas, Mexico City and every time it’s a successful event. I spent a lot of time at X-Fighters during the last few year