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Travis Pastrana
What
has Travis Pastrana done for you? I
would guess; Nothing. What has he done
for me? Nothing…
So, what
has this man then done?
Everything started
the 8th of October - 1983, the day he was born.
Travis started
to drive
motocross when he was only a kid,
when he was around 6-7 years old.
He was a natural talent,
and the youngest rider ever to represent USA
in the "motocross de nations",
in France year 2000.
Team USA won the contest!
Travis has competed in different motocross competition
s.
The one he has become biggest in is Freestyle motocross.
He was the first man in the world
to do a backflip with a motocross.
A few years later he took every rider and the motocross world with storm!
He did a trick that many thought was even more impossible than a backflip!
Travis new trick was a 360 with
a motocross!
Now you maybe wonder how he can learn these tricks, I mean…when you are on a competition you wouldn’t think:
-“hey, I want to try a backflip or a 360 for the first time in my life!”
As you can understand these tricks
are very danger
ous to do if you fail when you
land.
Travis has a sort of “jump-hollow” on his backyard.
This “jump-hollow” is filled with a
sort of cushions; it is a
sort of pillows if you wonder.
One cushion costs around one dollar. And to fill this “jump-hollow” you will need around 40.000 cushions.
Now you may understand how he can train and learn all his tricks, it doesn’t matter how he
lands in the “jump-hollow” because he will always make a soft landing.
Freestyle motocross has become a very big
sport, but I don’t think it had become so big if not Travis had start riding and done all his crazy tricks on the bike.
When he showed everyone how “easy” it could be to do a backflip, many other riders started to do the same trick!
Today the judge in a competition will not be so impressed when you do a backflip. If you want to impress them today you will need to do a combo in the backflip,
by that I mean: When you are doing a backflip
you should do “no-foots” at the same time,
for example.
Travis Pastrana has done so much for this sport. If he hadn’t start riding, the sport had
probably not grown so much as it has. I don’t think that someone had done a 360 today if not Travis had shown that it
wasn't impossible.
To become a Champion in this sport it means that you must have at least
one screw loose and not be frighten to break one or
two bones at the same time. <--Låter lite konstigt
I can definitely say that Travis has more than one screw loose and that has done him to one of the biggest freestyle riders in the world!
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