There are examples everywhere. So, when starting out, or if you are a racer hoping to get really good, practice a lot. They would just keep going around and around, pacing each other or just riding. Being involved in a competitive program is extremely beneficial. At MX we have the Talent Factory program. This program is integrated into our education programs which we find offers maximum benefit. However, you just need to try to find a like minded group of racers so you can work together, share knowledge, and sometimes travel to races together.
This encourages and supports everyone in the group and is extremely valuable. If you really want to improve your riding, it is all about the experiences, not the sponsorship. Motocross is expensive, and that is just a fact. Until you are winning some pretty impressive championships, just be happy to be part of a team or a pseudo team.
When you do get support, remember you are now a representative for your team and their products. So once again, gravity comes back into play!
CS: There's such a variation in crash energies, and the certification for motorcycle helmetsand when I say certification for helmets, it's the same certification for all motorcycle helmets, whether it's a street helmet, or a scooter helmet, or a motocross helmet.
They go after the worst accident you could possibly have, the energies you're going to see and actually possibly survive. And they kind of set the standard around that. So helmets historically have been manufactured to pass this standard that's pretty high-energy. There's now a lot of focus on low-speed energy, protecting the wearer against low-speed crashes, mid-speed crashes.
A new system of injuries is rotational, where your brain is actually rotating inside your head. And that can cause connective-tissue tears, which can lead to concussion, brain injury, that sort of thing. So we're doing more comprehensive testing in a development process. In the end what you get is a product that's gonna help protect you in a lot more variety of types of crashes.
Jeremy Appleton, Alpinestars: Safety's kept pace with the development in technology with bikes and tracks, every bit of the way. With body armorbecause motocross is such a physical activity, either taking place inside a stadium, which is hot, or outdoors, in the summer monthsriders have been reluctant to wear a lot of close-body protection.
Simply because it increases the physical stress. It's hot and heavy. So with the advent of improved materials and better design and production techniques, we have much lighter, but improved, body protection.
So riders are now able to wear protective impact shields under their jerseys. In the past, you might have seen riders just wearing a basic plastic protector on top of their jersey. It just prevented them from being bruised heavily, from all the stones and dirt fired out from the bike they were following. That seems like a remarkable amount of nothing, in terms of protection. JA: Things have changed, particularly in the United States. With the advent of these huge aerial Supercross tracks, we've also introduced neck protection, because we're seeing increasinglyand unfortunatelycatastrophic neck injuries.
Is the increase in paralyzing crashes attributable to anything specific? JA: The [faster] bikes and the jumps have undoubtedly contributed, simply because riders are traveling quicker, flying higher, and the margin of error is coming down. Because speed and height are more difficult to control. But the biggest single issue has been in either landing badly or losing control, and then being pitched off the bike as the result of getting a jump wrong. Seeing riders being launched into the ground head-first with their bodies following their headsit's like a falling spear.
And the human neck is just not designed to take massive compressive forces. For a long time, helmet manufacturers didn't publicize safety claims, either because the public didn't care, or fear of litigation. So helmets didn't evolve, or at least didn't seem to. CS: All the way back to , when Bell invented the first motorcycle helmetit was a composite shell with an EPS liner.
Until the last few years, everyone's been using that. Motocross championships in Delmont Labor Day weekend in A battery of tests was performed on about a dozen riders, including Broc Glover and Hannah. The evaluations included some standard medical checks such as EKGs, blood samples, blood pressure, and more sport specific treadmill maximal oxygen consumption test, body fat levels using underwater weighing and skinfold measures, blood lactate acid buildup, upper body strength via a series of shoulder presses, bench presses and curls, lower body strength strength of quadriceps and hamstring muscles, grip strength, sit-ups, flexibility, and vertical jump power.
These results were then compared to published results for other sports. No details of the conclusions of this testing have been found. Without the specific details of the results of these studies, no conclusions about the claim of motocross riders being the fittest can be made.
The lack of published physiological data of riders highlights the need for further study. The data so far indicates that the sport of motocross should be considered in all the discussions about the fittest sports, though there are several other sports worthy of the claim to be the world's fittest sport!
Here are a few more mentions of other studies that I have found online, but were unable to find any more evidence. Let me know if you have details to add or can verify the details below. Share: Facebook Twitter.
It's a motorsport, but it's much more about the rider than the motor. It requires incredible skill. It's almost always necessary to start the sport just after you begin walking, and you have to ride several times a week for about 15 years to get good enough to ride at a professional level.
Motocross is also a mental game. You need to be smart and have your emotions well in check to be successful in motocross. In motocross, yahoos tend to end up on the ground—or worse, in wheelchairs. Every time a motocross racer takes to the track there are butterflies in his or her stomach. Every motocrosser knows it can all go wrong in a heartbeat. This adds to the intensity of the racing battles—and there's not only competition between riders, but also battles between each rider and the track itself.
Studies consistently rank motocross among the most physically demanding sports in the world. During a typical race day, a pro motocrosser wrestles with a plus-pound bike for 30 or more minutes in each of two motos. Take my word for it, you cannot let up for even an instant. It requires both phenomenal aerobic and anaerobic fitness as well as incredible mental focus.
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