On The Pegs November 2019 - Volume 4 - Issue 11 | Page 108

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No, I don’t care. That’s part of the deal. I think he’s been fair. The year started out
doing all the Daytona stuff and I didn’t crush it. I think I did well at supercross, but
the other two I didn’t. So I think that’s all part of it. It’s fun to kind of hear what he
comes up with to say about what I’m doing.
Are you involved at all in the narration of it?
Nope. I film all the stuff. Basically they follow me around and I film all the stuff
and then I get to see the final draft right before it comes out. So I don’t have any-
thing to do with it, really.
This year is almost like a social experiment. Has doing all this made any
changes to your life outside of dirt bikes? Just doing all these different
things and trying to adapt so rapidly to everything?
Not outside of dirt bikes. There’s no previous people to follow and to emulate
when I practice and go through all the stuff because nobody has really done this.
I guess they did way back in the day, but nobody does as many kinds of things as
I’m doing, so for me it’s trial and error. Let’s try this and see how this works. It is a
delicate balance of trying to figure out how much do you practice each one. How
do you train? Because they’re all different physically, too. Just that. It’s a challenge
sometimes being gone so much from the family and stuff. We’ve got three kids. I
don’t enjoy being gone, but at the same time they’re supportive and they under-
stand that daddy’s got to work.
You have to have an incredible amount of confidence that you can do any-
thing that you set your mind to now. Has it translated over into something
outside of racing? Your kid wants to learn something and you’re like, ‘I can
teach him that.’
I’ve always kind of felt that way. If Pete Peterson can do it, then I can probably
do it. I just got to figure out how. If Johnny Walker can do it, I can probably do it.
I just got to figure out how. I’ve never had a lack of self-confidence, just knowing
that I’m pretty good at figuring stuff out and I’ve got some talent on a dirt bike,
so let’s go for it. Obvi-ously, there’s things that I’m not awesome at, but I think I’ve
been pretty good at most of it. As far as that compared to other things in my life,
I’m not really scared to do a whole lot. I think I have great relationships with all my
sponsors and everything, so as far as business stuff goes, I think I’ve done pretty
well with that. We’ll see when I get done doing all this racing stuff. I’m not scared.
Whatever the new challenge is, I’ll fig-ure it out.