The physical fitness I have to go through to prepare for a dirt bike race is extremely challenging.  First, I have to constantly workout and stretch my legs. So I don’t get sore legs and tensed muscles after practicing the track.  I also workout and stretch my forearms to avoid feeling “arm pump,” which is when a rider rides the motorcycle gripping the handle bars so hard that the arm muscles start to get tense, tight, and hurt with intense pain. Another important part of training is realizing what I eat affects the way I feel after practice. So I have to eat healthy food or I’ll get sick to my stomach and puke after a hard practice.  Doing laps around a track with junk food in my stomach and bouncing around; those both don’t mix. My stomach will get upset quickly and there’s no way to know if I can keep the food down.  

Training my legs with workouts and stretching is just hard work. To train my legs, I do several exercises alongside the hard track practices with my dirt bike. I do about 10 repetitions and 5 sets of squats–sometimes with free weights too, run 2-3 miles on a treadmill or around a track, and ride a stationary bike for 5-10 miles or until I can’t pedal anymore. It takes anywhere from 2 to 4 hours a day of just working out. Each day I train, I switch up my workouts between my upper body and lower body to give the muscles proper time to heal and strengthen.

 Training my arms is also a process that takes a really long time.  I start out with about 4 or 5 practice laps to warm-up my body’s muscles and get used to a track. When I have a heat race, I do 8 laps to prepare my body for the main event. It’s a must to train my arms for 20 hard laps several weeks before an event; then I’m ready for any kind of terrain a 20 lap main event race will hold. To train my arms I not only ride hard tracks, but I also lift weights at a gym. I work my biceps, triceps, and forearms using free weights and specific machines. I have gradually built up to 10 repetitions and 3 sets applying weight anywhere from 100 to 175 lbs. depending on the machine and exercise.

Since what I eat affects my body in different ways during racing, I have to make sure I eat healthy. I eat healthy with lots of proteins and good nutrition—balance of carbohydrates, proteins, fats, calories, and stay hydrated. When I’m racing and working out my body, junk food like big macs, sodas, chips, candy, and too many energy drinks can cause me stomach problems, which affects how I race. So to avoid being sick to my stomach, I eat food like protein bars, Gatorade, water, crackers and tuna, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and fruit like apples, grapes, and bananas too.

Keeping physically fit is a major part of racing dirt bikes, especially if you want to succeed and win some races. Lots of practice on the dirt bike around difficult tracks prepares your body for the worst terrain a rider might face. Practice, warm-ups, and cool down periods are critical during races and during training at the gym also. Exercising upper body and lower body muscles are what increases a riders strength and stamina, which keeps the body prepared at all times for what any track may hold. Maintaining healthy eating habits is critical for a rider’s body to perform properly. Good nutrition and hydration creates ideal health for a rider to really enjoy a challenging sport like dirt bike racing. Pulled muscles and broken bones will heal faster too, especially when a body is kept in shape.  

He was like ok this is dumb so he waited a little bit and my parents had to convince him into scratching the actual winner. So they told him if you win the next one you could buy us dinner. So he scratched the fake and he won $10,000 dollars so he was in shock and didn’t say anything for a minute then they asked so did you win? He said, “Yeah I won $10,000 dollars” everyone was freaking out but my parents, my parents were laughing there head off.

My grandfather was so bummed.

Homosexuality is not right, but I forgive the sin and pray for them to change. I would never want to be hanging around  them. If I’m around them it makes me look like I’m a homosexual when I’m not.

The biggest part of forgiving someone, is that you will forgive them; but you don’t have to be around the person.

For example, If you saw a 30 year old man kiss a 16 year old kid what would you do? I would call the cops because he has molested a kid. Would you forgive him? I would forgive him, but I wouldn’t want to be around him, when you know what his actions are. What would you do?

We ended up getting The ultimate music game “Rock Band.” We stayed up until 3:00 a.m. in the morning. April 12, my parents anniversary, we stayed home all-day playing Rock band. From 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. 

My pastor Brian is probably the best pastor I’ve had, because I know that I could sit down and talk to him about anything even; some of the problems I have.

Us kids shouldn’t have to be forced to go through 12 grades of school. Going through school that long, is ridiculously long and it gets tiring after a while. I think school is boring, but there are kids out there that want their education. I’m not one of them.

School is something that is a pain for a kid like me to do. Mostly, all kids want to go do something like: ride a bike, skateboard, play video games, skate, skateboard, or do something that’s physically active. Then you got the kids that think they’re popular, when everyone is talking crap behind their back. School is a place where there is nothing but drama.

Fighting is one of the best parts about school. But if you fight in the real world, you go to jail. School is a place where kids need to learn how not to fight and not to do stupid things. School is a place that prepares you for life. It’s all how you  look at it.

I look at Emancipation as getting a kid’s life started early. It’s a hard way to get your life started but to me its worth trying. I want to get a job, save my money for about 2 months and move out into a apartment. Sounds like a good Idea to me so I guess I’ll start saving.

I love riding at the desert mostly jumping the dunes and doing some crazy tricks for the people watching.

The first trick I did was a no-footer and I liked that so I ended up extending it to a heel-clicker, after I did that I came back and my Dad said, “why don’t you try a no-hander”, so I went to the bottom of the dune and I jumped it but I though when you jumped you could take your hands off right as you jump but you can’t so I was doing a no-hander but my bike wasn’t even in the air my front end was going straight at the ground.

I was flying threw the air with my front wheel looking at the ground and my hands were off the bike. I landed with my hands off the bike and managed to get them back on and not crash.

When you’re like 50FT in the air and feel like your going to crash the words that you say is “OWWWW Crap!” That’s exactly what I was saying when I was flying threw the air when my hands were off the bike. I ended up finding out that you take your hands off when you’re at the highest point and you won’t fly forward in the air. I ended up getting the no-handed down and I Tried to think of some new tricks to do. First, I thought what’s the next easiest trick then I thought the saran wrap.

The saran wrap is were you throw your left foot and left hand over the left side of your handlebar then you throw your right hand and right foot over your right side of the handle-bar. So I ended up doing that trick my first try. That trick was one of the easiest.

Then I ended up doing heel-clicker one-hander which is called a rodeo. Because with the hand your have on your handlebar you grab the middle of your handlebar. I’ve missed the middle handlebar a couple of times but saved myself by making it a bar hop and grabbing my handlebars with both hands then landing it. Then I was thinking of some new tricks again so I went up the dune and sat were everyone was sitting.