Motocross

Motocross

Braaaaaap! Braaaaaaap! Ricky Charmichael takes the lead! He made the pass in the air over the 80 foot triple. Something that I love to do more than anything in the world is motocross. Motocross is racing over rough ground on specially strengthened motorcycles.

First, riding motocross is a difficult sport. It takes a lot of practice and endurance. You have to be in shape to do this. Motocross can be scary, but the feeling it gives you is the best. There is more than one type of motocross: Freestyle and Supercross are the two most common types.

In freestyle the objective is to jump as high as you can and stay in the air as long as you can. You need to be confident and willing to give it your all. You cannot be scared. While in the air you must perform a trick. More than one trick in a single jump is a combo. Some tricks are superman's, nac nac's. Some riders can do as many as three tricks in the air.

The other type, supercross is where riders are in an indoor track. The track is tight. There are triples about 60 Ð'- 75 feet long. A triple is three piles of dirt in a row packed smoothly. The first is a takeoff, which launches the rider in the air. The middle is there for safety or in case amateur riders cannot jump the whole distance. The last is the landing. This is where the riders land. Also, in supercross there are sections called whoops. A whoop section is piles of dirt about 3 Ð'Ð... feet tall, and some are about 4 feet deep. You are supposed to skim over them with your front tire up and only your back touching. These in my opinion are the hardest. Because your body is being thrown around and it is all that you can do to stay on the bike, you go back and fourth as fast as you can blink.

Motocross requires endurance, most riders train everyday or every other day to stay in shape for riding. Some people think motocross that it is an easy sport. If you haven't tried it then you wouldn't know. I have ridden motocross in 30-degree weather and come off the track sweating. The reason that it is so challenging and energy consuming is because you have to hold down the bike and keep it from getting away from you. The bike is about 270 pounds and full of power. It is all you can do to keep it under you.

Above I gave you my opinion and definition of motocross. Hopefully you learned something about the sport. If you haven't tried it I