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the breeze with you casually, but actually they are interviewing you. Then they also look at your size and determine what size bike would better suit you, and then they decide who they want months in advance before approaching you with an offer. Essentially your entire racing career is one long interview in the hope of getting a championship or two under your belt. Tell us a little bit about the life of a young SA racer trying to make it on the international scene, is it all glamour, rock stars, super models and the party life? No! No not at all, I generally have to drive myself to the races. Sometimes it 10 hours like from Valencia to Jerez and sometimes it is 3,000km’s and 3 days on the road, sleeping in petrol stations in the back of my van and etc. I am usually over there for around five months at a time, this year I have only been home for less than a month the whole year. A lot of the time it is very lonely, I have basic Spanish, but the language barrier is a big problem. I can’t just go next door and chill with the neighbour or go down to a local coffee shop and find somebody to chat. And living alone in a remote little town up in the mountains in a foreign country with lousy network single does become quite stressful, especially when you have had a bad day or race and need to talk to somebody about it. The hardest thing to adjust to over there was the Siesta, for five hours every day, Monday to Sunday the shops are closed from 12pm to 5pm, no exceptions, Sundays nothing is opened the whole day and some days I wouldn’t have anything to eat and all the shops would be closed. Five months I was alone, really alone except for race meetings, which was really hard for me but also an amazing experience because I got to learn so much about myself and learn how to take care of myself. But it was worth it for the training time I got. I got to train at all the best tracks and even spent time with a lot of the Moto GP riders and follow them around the track and learn lines from them, braking points and so on. Besides your training on the track, what fitness regimes did you try follow off track? So, in the 300 class I would try anything to lose weight. When I was racing 300’s I would eat one egg a day and just run or skip as much as possible. I would try do an hour of skipping and a 5 kay or an hour of skipping and a 3 hour cycle… on one egg for the day. It really is not healthy but I was desperate to lose as much of my 20kg weight disadvantage by trying to get my body to start eating at my muscles because I only have 7% body fat so I needed to drop muscle mass and I managed to drop down from 70kg’s to 65kg’s, but it was absolute torture. Now that I am on 600’s I eat a bit healthier and just spend as much time as I can in the saddle, riding fitness is 80% of your stamina. Like Rossi, he doesn’t do any fitness training with his riders, they just ride, ride, ride every day because once you build up that riding stamina you don’t need to be able to run across town. We actually practice controlling or slowing our heart rate down, because we spend 30 to 40 minutes per race at between 150 and 180bpm, we need to be able to control our heart rate so that we don’t pass out or have a heart attack, being calm and staying calm also helps with your race focus and concentration. What do you do to deal with the pressure of racing and seeing other competitors crash? 32 RIDEFAST MAGAZINE DECEMBER 2021 I think it is just a mind-set, you have to basically not care and just see their crash as another obstacle between you and your goal out of the way. I know it sounds pretty callous, but if it isn’t one of my friends or the rider wasn’t badly injured or passed away I don’t really think about it. Like when Dean Vinales crashed and died, that happened right in front of me and I really did struggle to race the next, that really was not lekker. I went to see a sport psychologist in 2018, because I was still so young and had a hard time dealing with the pressure, especially from SA, you feel a lot of pressure from South Africa. Because there are so few of us and we know that the whole of SA is pinning their hopes on you to make them proud and throwing their cup of tea at the TV when you don’t, it does take its toll on you. But generally I don’t think therapists help, talking to my Dad and Mom keeps mee grounded and my head in the right place, my Dad gets me sorted, if I am stressing and I phone him he gets my head straight. Like I mentioned earlier, without my family I wouldn’t have been able to do any of this and I am eternally grateful to them for everything that they have done for me in my life. So, as I understand it your ride for iDENT in the last two rounds of Spains CEV championship is really a feeder system to the world championships and if you do well in these two races you will get a permanent full ride with iDENT for next year which will also include 3 wild card rides in premier class events which could nett you a solid career in one of the premier classes… Well Dozzy, this has been a very interesting chat and it has been really great meeting you and we really do wish you well with your new team and we do hope to see you back in one of the premier classes in the very near future. B F R 4, R R K1 10 33 R R2 Ve 13 R R1 64 R8 B R1 7 R3 R 4, R TR 39 R8 R 10 R F8 36 R9 Ve 13 R B
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