Chad Reed and Family come to VET day @ Lake Sugar Tree

[Music] [Music] hey guys thank you very much but i just think this is something that uh you know like i said as veterans you know there's a whole bunch out here that have been overseas same things that we always forget and having a memory like today means everything to every person here all these guys support one another what cody and dustin started was just a small school project that actually saved my life i was in a bad way until i found out about photomax of course my wife helped and um you know vetomex led me from iowa to indiana to kentucky to michigan now i live full-time here street it's all because of this group and uh everyone keeps saying thank you to me but this is you guys i'm saying thank you for for being a part and keeping me on the right path i love you all seriously i'll do anything for you whether it's 18 months emails or you know working for anybody here so just thank you guys so much for coming out supporting it we got chow over there um at this time you know if you guys got any questions for chad and ellie i'm sure they're open to questions and pictures if you brought stuff to get signed you know don't bother but do what you guys got to do and uh i know they brought a few things so everyone that's here every veteran that's here megan and i put your name on a raffle ticket so what we're going to do is we're going to have a raffle we can do it at the end of the day after riding that way we get more time on the track but we will do that they brought some things for us which is pretty rad and i don't have anything else i don't think it's hard to put into words i mean it's an honor to do things like a million things this a career and towards the the later end of it you start to actually gather and realize you know especially when you have kids how much all that really means you know at one point and then it becomes more than a job and things like that and for you guys you know motorcycles are a tool and for me it was a tool it was an outlet it was you know all the same things but in a little different way you know we grew up in a very very small town you know i left high school in the ninth grade um you know all my friends were in the all the crazy things that young kids get into teenagers get into and i was just always straight and narrow and you know motorcycles motorcycles and uh you know our story as far as my mind and aliases we went to high school together um i broke my leg in 1998 and then yeah i just kind of started hanging out with my school friends again i was out of school the whole that whole year and as i chose to go professional well also too let me know that he went to a school and he got told he'd never amount to anything and you know he struggled in school he had a hard time learning he was the kid that was rode motorcycles he didn't play football he wasn't on the soccer team he was shy and you know add that on there and i'm sure people here can you know assimilate with that and so to be told you're something so his road was more like he'd just go ride his dirt bike because no one could be in his head you put your the two of us had never lived alone we'd never played cell phone bills we'd never you know had to do adult stuff you know shouldn't take me and he should go this way to he couldn't get a ride in in the us and that was his dream because nobody would call australia and he wasn't good enough he wasn't this he wasn't that so you know we decided we decided to go to europe i don't come forth and we just did the best we could that's all we've ever been doing always show up and just keep going no matter who tells you you can't and that's what we try to instill in our kids that's what we've always tried to instill in each other is no matter how much you fail how many times you fall you get hurt you're going to get hurt you're going to do all these things at the end of the day to come back to the motorcycle track for him to be in gear and riding is the best time of our lives with our family for him whatever it doesn't matter what we've come across whether it be the hottest competition i think that you face as far as you know but to never give up you know no matter how beat up you got and just always kind of resort back to that you know the one thing you guys can relate to is you know the the cast on the wrist is the easiest i don't think you know it looks great you know i have this crap about how you got back on the bike that was the single easiest you know 30 minutes of my life it was the days and weeks and months after that getting that confidence back like that it's those little um that you know that i've learned to explain and so we've given this an experience of that with my kids has been so amazing and that's i have one more thing to add sorry for going to be home and you're all starving but when we're all sharing and having moments i feel like honestly it's the best way to go but as far as for the support crew or the person that's left at home that is the hardest thing and as things changed for us you know we had a race team we all went and then all of a sudden we lost our race team but we weren't able to afford to really go anymore and so i would be at home with the kids and he would call me call me after practice and call me after like every little thing because we were a team and it's hard being the one at home it's important because last year he got hurt you know at seattle and had really bad crashes and then it happened again in paris and then it happened again and he just kept getting hurt and he was so scared to be out there you know and it's like but he has to show up right you've got to go and you're freaking terrified because you don't feel good you feel like every time someone's around you they're gonna take you down and break your ribs and you've got all these young guys just like hey man hang on the phone saying i don't want to go out there okay this is this year on our retirement thing and people don't know that it's like you're trying to do this and you go out there and ride all the time and you can kill all these five dogs literally but it is sorry metaphorically right and that doesn't just translate you can't just go switch a thing and you're like oh okay cool because the mind is the mind and there's things in there and if you're scared you're scared and he will call me and he's gonna go out and race and i'm fine with the kids going there's nothing i can do here except hold your hand and walk through it and say you're gonna be okay just one foot after the other starts by doing what you can and just keep going and anybody that's been the person left at home or the person that's helping somebody through a time whatever it is it is the freaking hardest thing but it's worth it you know when you just keep working together and it is hard it's strenuous on relationships it is hard on the person it's hard on the person trying to help but at the end of the day if you hold on tight and just keep going do not give up you get there and you know he was able to finally racing and it was like that's what we were working for this year you know everyone's like oh he wants to have the most races he wants to have this everyone's got an opinion of what he's out there [Music] yes but he was out there for himself to go i want to enjoy my third life again i don't want to be afraid of it i don't want to be i don't want to go out and be that person that's like i i left because i was afraid i wanna i wanna hit it straight on you know like and attack what's you and that's where i come in where it's like okay just keep the train on the tracks so in your family if you're alive keep the train on the track it's going to want to go over here it's going to want to go over there and for you to just center yourself find something like this that gets your train back on the tracks and just keep going so um he did and he finally was like i had so much fun writing if it was like that at daytona he's like felt so good and then basically covet happened and then everything stopped right but at the same time to have that feeling have that joy to have that that's what we work for this year and so it it's this seemingly non-trophy related but yet that's what it is for you and so everyone's gonna have their wings in their lives don't forget to celebrate them not everybody has to understand it but you do and keep your team tight and strong i guess if we'll send you a 2021 v13 schedule and you come race right if that feeling comes back i'll line up like that that's the promise that i always make for myself like if there's a burning desire to get back in the gym and grind away and and go okay i want to go race on the weekend and try to be at some point the younger crew takes over and you know the goal is to go be in the main event i've never not qualified so watch right now um so yeah that's that's the thing like it's the enjoyment today 265 main events where's kurtz two laps ahead of everybody else where's curse guys are we gonna start drop a gate we could do like two laps and have like five bets [Applause] [Applause] i never really deal with blisters or anything like that but i will say that i was getting roar on my knee earlier in a while as any other aspects like motorcycles that uh interests you like gnc i don't the gmcc does like uh you try and crash that next year i wouldn't rule that out but the hot thing is always like i don't get the i don't get the luxury of showing up and doing the fun yeah you know like that's probably the one thing but that's been my life so i embrace that also um but there's a part of you that you wish to turn that up sometimes and just be normal and have fun and do the industry class i already asked when they're like no you can't really squash you're just procrastinating then it doesn't matter if you win or whatever like there's pressure um but i do have uh yeah i do have like caleb and i mean we've done some rides together and um i don't know that he's announcing what he's doing next year but he has like quite a bit of scheduling it's not necessarily retirement but i would like to ride with him and like if you're going to do it why not show up and be competitive so i wouldn't mind you know seeing where i'm at get the tips yeah i've seen zach osborne yeah good one yeah yeah exactly quite a few actually yeah and that's awesome i i feel like that's more like that's what i grew up with like i do feel when i say about the weekend not being as fun it's not i don't want to sound like a dude it's like it's not fun like whatever you want to take your ball and go home and it's the evolution of life but like we used to do that as a kid you know he used to be able to race you know on the weekends and then you used to be able to go do like literally i would i grew up going as a pro going and doing events like this which i don't know what you guys call them here but like it's like club days you know where it's just like a local day ride it's not [Music] [Music] you know it's like you unload with your mechanics you know like coming here and unloading my own bike and feeling up my kids bikes actually is enjoyable for me you know like for years and years and years i couldn't tell you even just feeling my bike up today and putting chain live i couldn't even tell you last time i put gas on my own bike or foiled my own shape and you know and that's not because i was spoiled it's just that's how what you create and being on teams and it's like you show up in a van you throw your gear on and and then you're on the clock and it's like okay you're gonna do this photo this photos this grant this turn test this test that then you go home and it's like now it's now it's enjoyable like this is actually fun so that's to go into expensive [Music] um take anything away from them or not let them do things but for me i grew up right over you know to take that away just by pushing anything so we just want to enjoy motorcycles and family fun okay one more thing uh a lot of brought our kids out here yeah you know everyone's parents and dads out here trying to keep their trash in i just think that always has to remain fun you know i think that if it's fun and enjoyable and then they you know whether it's going for extra for a double or just literally a small table top or hitting a bird i think that the enjoyment and passion has to be there first you know and everybody here knows and felt that um i i'm a terrible i don't know that's a terrible teacher but sometimes i'm terrible for advice because i went through life literally just that burning desire to write about like i had zero approach never had a you know a coach never went to a school never went anywhere um 100 i was under the belief that if you have the passion and you watch i think watching is the the number one thing you can i think that if you watch it you observe it you pick it up so much more than somebody telling you what to do um but i always i believe that like when when you know when the good guys come and they come and ride your tracks it's it's them watching and then seeing it and then it's like then you replicate it and things like that my advice was it's just repetitive because there's always key you know if you want to be better at something you've got to do so it comes and it feels natural it feels normal and that that would be my biggest advice know like my whole life everything has just been you know over and over as a kid i would burn just gallons and gallons of fuel just riding you know i wasn't i didn't grow up in a family where my dad would have a stopwatch i don't know that my dad would know how to use a stopwatch um i come from that family you know like we were my dad the concrete hero about motorcycle racing obviously [Music] and i personally think that too few kids and actually a lot of kids these days they've got this road map that they're trying to stick to and i don't believe that every road map is for every kid or every individual so i would love to see the sport go back to just that repetitive go ride go have fun you know you know if you're back it doesn't matter what the clock says you know like i've i'm never good on the clock even today i'd like months ago when i retired like my worst and weakest dream is a one lap all out you know put it in the top whenever once upon a time in my career i could do it but it just was something that didn't really come naturally to me you know but when the gates dropped everything started to flow and that was what i was able to be successful at so i would say just riding and you know when you see your kid you know and you obviously you guys the parents watch adult professionals and you kind of see body language and things like that i think that little point is like that you know trying to get riding safely and if they're doing something incorrectly now you know telling them giving them advice like that but i i'm always just a big believer just going you know having fun yeah i'm glad he asked that question because the one i was going to ask kind of was i don't like that that was a good that was a great lead i mean i mean i love the question and chad knows i've been a chad fan since as long as i can remember probably probably chad knows that too gary is mean number one uh but i i noticed one thing i noticed today may i'll comment on something else that you said uh i watched all three of your kids out there riding and i'm curious they do bmx i'm understanding is that correct and i noticed that all three of them were on the balls of their feet which is very tough to get people you can't even get pro some pros to do that because and is that because of the bmx is it because something you've told them how is it that they just naturally all three of those are on the balls of their feet that's my first question um the other thing i want to comment on is what you said about watching the pro riders because this really struck me today all these guys are here and to see chad reed meet chad reed but yet when you went out and get lot did laps i counted maybe eight nine eight seven eight guys out there watching and the rest were nowhere to be found and because i think what you said is so important about watching somebody and trying to emulate what they do uh whether it's the balls of the feed or clutch or whatever it is that you're doing but to try and pick those things out and that's something that i've always done my whole life to try and help myself or anybody else and and i think that that's really important and i think that there's a lot of people that miss that piece of it yeah so what gary's talking about on the positive feed is more you know like on the you know being more on your toes it's something that it's hard to say because most pros don't ride like that i know and i think that we have we have a wave of generation coming through that have had that road hook that training facility where it just is like this flat fine lap time lapse on it and it hasn't been working on the bases simply to answer your question yeah simply to answer your question my kids as you can tell like they're so they haven't ride their bikes in in nine months um a big thing that i am on i wouldn't say i'm big but like i pointed out just trying to get them on the ball to their feet on the pedals um i think that you always have a better feel um your balls your feet are you're essentially getting a preset suspension everything naturally happens in that position um your butt goes back everything kind of your chest comes over everything can happen more naturally the little guy pace uh you know obviously he's the youngest has the smallest feet and the small feet on a big pedal you can be like okay well you know it doesn't matter where i put my foot it i have coverage right um it wasn't until we had a uh a wet race and he was noticing that his feet would slide around on the pedals and these days you know they're a really nice aluminum pedal with these gnarly spikes on them that is literally going to take out your shins every time and so and then the shoes have a little hole in them so so essentially they're perfectly to get the shoe on those uh metal studs basically and really that was the one thing it was that one moment where i could go like correct him and try to get him on his on his feet on the balls of his feet um and ever since then he just knows now you know you know it's kind of like it becomes a natural thing when he goes off the gate get your feet in those positions and it wasn't like i tried to drill it into him and probably didn't even know that that was what dad was trying to achieve out of it um but it was like get you know set your feet there because naturally if you start there it's not going to move right so that's it i would say gary you thought i was going to disagree with a couple of things you say but but the reason i'm not it's always a touchy subject the reason i'm not is because there is a small group of people a small number um that are capable of seeing and learning and and that's how they they learn they visually see things what works what doesn't works and they change it but i think that's only maybe a five or ten percent of writers that can do that um i think that some need training and they need to be encouraged for the things they need to do so i think what you're saying is is right in your case and somehow make it clear i'm not necessarily against training and you know from you know there's a lot of coaches out there that are literally just trying to get paychecks and that's okay but if you're trying to you know advance and learn to uh you know to the correct levels and i think that this you know there's a small group of people that i would trust um yeah but like the i think going back to the basics of like the simple things like literally we're talking about balls your feet and that is something that is amongst all of us uh you can learn that you know and you can work on that and practice that um it's literally like when you're you know when you're standing up when you're you know when you basically like when you stand and you go out your foot out to bringing it back on and it's just always kind of making that mental note um and then the more you do it the more it then becomes uh you know it feels more normal more natural and then suddenly you're you're you're writing it goes back to that so yeah and it's you know gary's been around since i was here in 2002 i've seen him at the yamaha test track many many many times you know whether it be with david and my teammates you know so when you see and watch earlier generation people these things i think were a higher priority what they are today today the sports change and it doesn't need to be necessarily negative it's just changed and we have to accept that and it is 100 about scrub that bike you know most people can scrub before they can go through a turn i love it if you look at professional 450 and 250 racing right now there's more crashes in whoops than ever in the history of our sport i swear because they just generally do not know how to go through groups they don't ride on the ball of their feet they never ride with a finger on the clutch and you're just a passenger unless your net last name is james stewart you know stewart which supposed to let's do it really really well um i have i've yet to see any individual pull it off you know at a at a high high level so did james stewart pull it off all the time but i mean 50 times to get it done which is better than my plate but you know it's just they are he's unique you know he he was the he was the first of the people um in the current you know like that wave of people where where he didn't ride with a finger on the clutch um didn't necessarily care where his feet were but he was unbelievably talented and unbelievably like just that repetition we talked about i mean he was he was one of the first individuals you know with carmichael to have their own facilities so it's a big story but when you backtrack he was the first one from a little little kid where you know he came in massive amounts of support had had the facility um and his dad just broke burnt gas you know and before him was carmichael what did we all know about ricky just a lot of you know ricky always made i always drove me nuts but ricky always made comments about you know like i'm not the most talented guy out here but i just get it done and in my opinion it couldn't be any more further from the truth um as far as like you know technique and and huge size he was a smaller guy he was compact it was his biggest advantage you know like getting in and out of ruts i think i've raised a lot of people there ain't a human on earth that has been in and out of work better and cleaner and easier than ricky carmichael and i truly believe that that's why he's the greatest of all time he just everything when you talk about greats everything has to fall into place and and he had the package you know um and so that's that's where i think today it's lost on just little things so if you want to take any out of this your balance you know is it just there's so much balance from the bowl of your feet um kate's my oldest and he just recently started riding with a finger on the brake it makes me so proud because like he does little things i noticed that naturally he wants to change the altitude of the bike by now you know touching the brake and every day he's very vocal you know like i don't know that i ever was a kid that like would talk about anything that i learned it was just like everything he's all in you know he's a very like want to tell and it's actually really cool because it teaches me because i wasn't that kid and you know in a lot of ways it's like looking in a mirror and he's like oh dad i did this as if i knew nothing about it it it actually is really cool because everything he's learning are the things that are really challenging to teach um and so it makes me kind of happy that that trend is going in a direction that i would like to see [Music] hey can i thank chad as well as everybody else's thank you for coming out here and being a part of this and uh i think i think that what chat's doing is way far and above what so many of the pro writers do i think what you do is great and [Applause] congratulations [Applause] [Laughter] um [Music] [Music] [Music] now [Music] you

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Length: 37min 55sec (2275 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 09 2020