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R.I.P Jeremy Lusk a few words by busty wolter
Posted: Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Today one year ago the tragedy has happened. We lost one of the greatest personalities and riders of our beloved sport. The unthinkable happened and Jeremy Lusk died because of a FMX-crash. Today I will remember Jeremy and think about all the aspects that we as riders and the promoters of this world can do to try to avoid the next big crash. Of course we all are willing to push our riding and challenge ourselfes in doing so and if we would not like it we would play soccer or so. And of course our sport is dangerous, we will not be able to change that. But what we can do is to work on tracks that don't put additional dangers in. I don't talk about jumping short distances. But for example: enough safetytable on the landing, enough space behind the landing to brake, airfences on the walls, no mobile landing shows without airbags in front of it... there is a lot of those little things and it is so easy to not pay attention to those.
Also riding gear and wearing protective gear is a point. Of course there is no 100% safety, but new protectors get developed every year and they are not as uncomfortable and heavy as they used to be in the 80's, so keep on testing them. New materials are getting developed which are soft as neoprene while you wear it and become hard during an impact...
And we should try to be a little bit smart. I don't see anything cool in jumping backflips without a helmet and wearing only sneakers. What do you want to prove by doing so? What kind of an idiot you are?
Jeremy, R.I.P., we miss you!
Cheers,
Busty
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