Proud father moments

Second race was Saturday at snowbasin. He was doing well and had made his way from starting at 33rd to roughly 25th. Then this happened



I was up the hill a ways and ran down. He was hurting pretty good but I helped get him composed. Lots of rash and a sore hip.
Race official was calling for the medic to come get him. I said no. He is going to finish. He says yep, I’m finishing. He hopped back on and made it.

Finished 35th. Guessing he was down for 4 minutes.

He is pretty bummed but I told him I was more proud of his 35th than his 33rd. He is learning some grit and toughness. Last year there is zero chance he would have got back on.
We watched a bunch of kids crash in the same spot.

But
Proud dad again
 
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I'm glad he continued. That's a hard thing to do.

My crash 2 years ago was probably pretty similar. Lame front tire slide, minimal theatrics, and a little rash.. but I can't get it out of my head. I have no desire to 'push' at all when riding.
 
ChestonScout said:
Second race was Saturday at snowbasin. He was doing well and had made his way from starting at 33rd to roughly 25th. Then this happened



I was up the hill a ways and ran down. He was hurting pretty good but I helped get him composed. Lots of rash and a sore hip.
Race official was calling for the medic to come get him. I said no. He is going to finish. He says yep, I’m finishing. He hopped back on and made it.

Finished 35th. Guessing he was down for 4 minutes.

He is pretty bummed but I told him I was more proud of his 35th than his 33rd. He is learning some grit and toughness. Last year there is zero chance he would have got back on.
We watched a bunch of kids crash in the same spot.

But
Proud dad again
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Crashing is easy, anyone can do it. Getting up and finishing takes grit. That's awesome. I like nothing in life more than watching kids overcome stuff like this. I doesn't get any better in my book.
 
ChestonScout said:
Second race was Saturday at snowbasin. He was doing well and had made his way from starting at 33rd to roughly 25th. Then this happened



I was up the hill a ways and ran down. He was hurting pretty good but I helped get him composed. Lots of rash and a sore hip.
Race official was calling for the medic to come get him. I said no. He is going to finish. He says yep, I’m finishing. He hopped back on and made it.

Finished 35th. Guessing he was down for 4 minutes.

He is pretty bummed but I told him I was more proud of his 35th than his 33rd. He is learning some grit and toughness. Last year there is zero chance he would have got back on.
We watched a bunch of kids crash in the same spot.

But
Proud dad again
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This is the way. I’m with you, I’m way more proud when they dig down deep and persevere.
 
My kids have done BJJ for all of 3 nights now but they went from saying it’s too hard to being all smiles. Tonight my 10 year old boy got lapel choked by an 8 year old girl that’s a gray belt (so she’s been doing it for at least 16 months). It gave me an opportunity to explain that BJJ was founded on that principle: a smaller opponent being able to prevail against a larger opponent- so that was cool. They totally understand that now and it makes me proudIMG_1569.png
 
xj_nate said:
My kids have done BJJ for all of 3 nights now but they went from saying it’s too hard to being all smiles. Tonight my 10 year old boy got lapel choked by an 8 year old girl that’s a gray belt (so she’s been doing it for at least 16 months). It gave me an opportunity to explain that BJJ was founded on that principle: a smaller opponent being able to prevail against a larger opponent- so that was cool. They totally understand that now and it makes me proudView attachment 164747
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He should have kissed her. Looks like he could have. Lol.
 
Passing on knowledge to the younger
generation. My buddy learned to do a top
end on his KTM 50SX!
It was fun to watch him listen, follow
directions and struggle. He was so
independent; I only had to help a few times
breaking bolts loose, checking torque
specs and wrist pin clips (l don't even get
those right 1st try 😉.)
He didn't like scraping base gaskets at all. 😂
Started and ran great so I guess he did it
right!
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My 10 y/o hit an armbar on his sparring partner 2x in a row this week. He was stoked cause we worked on it after his class a couple days before. The kid was smaller than him but a higher belt so it was awesome.
Both boys are loving it and I’m still really enjoying watching their classes.
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