The Wreak that changed my life
For the past 14 years of my life, since I was 6 years old, I have been racing four-wheelers. Dad bought me a Honda 50 when I was 3 years old for my birthday. I had fun and never got hurt until I had my first big wreck on June 17, 1999. I had been doing a little professional racing, and it was one of the biggest races of the season--the Kansas City Pro Nationals--with racers and spectators from all over the world. I never saw so many racers in my life. With all the excitement around, I was hardly aware of the lessons I would learn on this day.I learned everything from my friend Zack, I grew up riding four-wheelers with him. Then we both started to race. We both got sponsor's the first year we raced when he was 7 and I was 6, Lonnie from SandTrax was our first sponsor. We kept winning every season while we were young. By age 12, I had a total of $17 thousand that I have spent on my four-wheeler. Every bit of my money that I won, I saved it for my four-wheeler. But my true passion was freestyle on a quad, something no one has ever done before I wanted to be the first on to do it on a four wheeler that I knew. So we built a freestyle jump that was 17 feet tall at the peak of the jump, we
It was one of the greatest experiences of my life. I know now I only get one body, so I take really good care of it. It was the longest 15-second's of my life. I had to had a total six surgeries to get everything back to working right again. I don't remember anything until the next day when I woke up in the Saint Francis hospital. When I went around the sharpest turn I took over first place and he still had third, we were supposed to stay together because we were a team, but he got caught up. When I woke up that night I had to move it and all my fingers, it felt different it was a lot stiffer. As soon as I hit the ground, it knocked me out. Until June 17, 1999 when I raced at the Kansas City Nationals, Zack and I both raced in it for qualifying we came in 2nd and 3rd we had seven heats before us with fifteen racers in each. Racing four-wheelers has taught me to take care of my body and stay healthy. I'm not much for motor-cross anymore I mainly do freestyle now. When I jumped the 95 foot table top for the final lap, it felt funny. There was nothing I could do about it, I tried to fix it, but I couldn't. In the first heat, we both advanced; the second and third heats, we both advanced all the way up until the final.
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