Supercross 2010: First you gotta put in the work...

James Stewart has been documenting his supercross "Boot Camp" and putting some photos up on his website, JS7.com. It's nice to see the young man healthy and ready for the season. Good luck, James!

Do you know this man? Jason Lawrence speaks

Catching Up With Jason Lawrence, Part 1

Thanks to Swap at Transworld Motocross, Jason Lawrence gets to speak his mind. And freshly out of prison, he says he's racing Supercross!

Nuclear Cowboyz: On Board with Mike Mason

Tell me this doesn't look like fun. Check out the other videos on their site. I guess now I know what Feld Motorsports has been up to during the break between SX seasons: working hard on taking freestyle to a new level of performance.

Obviously, I am the one that doesn't get it

Hear about Nuclear Cowboyz? Transworld Motocross has this gallery by Dan Guetter from the preview of Feld Motorsports' new, scripted freestyle show with the curious name. Now this is right in Feld's wheelhouse: tightly-controlled, artistically-rendered spectacle. I admit have been entertained by the stills alone.

Twelve months later, it appears Feld still doesn't get it

So, what have the folks at Feld Motorsports been up to during the supercross off-season? Negotiating a big-buck, high-visibility network TV deal to improve the reach of their premiere motorsports "property", the "Monster Energy AMA Supercross, an FIM World Championship?" Apparently not.

Yesterday this press release hit the motocross websites I like to frequent (this one's on Vital MX), announcing that the opening round of the "Monster Energy...," well, I like to call it the Monster Energy Supercross Series, or "MESS" for short... the opening round will air live on the SPEED cable channel. Well that news doesn't suck. But that's not all, or even first. The press release includes the news that the Feld Motorsports monster truck circus will have it's opening round on the same night, but in Atlanta, Georgia, and SPEED will carry that event live as well. BEFORE the supercross.

FMS is touting this as some sort of big deal, as if all of motocross had been waiting years for someone to finally add monster truck "racing" to the program. Charlie Mancuso, president of FMS, went so far to call it the "ultimate six hours of pure motorsports coverage." Well done, Mr. Mancuso, spoken like a true huckster.

Look, I really don't have anything against the monster truck thing. But I'm a motocross purist, and I get pissed off when people disrespect my sport... and people dis it all the time. Some of those people actually make money off of the sport, yet still they show it no respect at all. No respect for the seriousness of the endeavor, no respect for the commitment of the athletes, no respect for the history of the competition.

To lump our sport in with an exhibition event consisting of characters that call themselves "Grave Digger" and "Mass Destruction" and pretend that this represents some type of positive achievment? No respect.

Someone needs to rescue supercross from its current owners.

Have I Stopped Feeling It?

No. Just stopped writing about MX for a while, that's all. Be back shortly.

Happy Holidays to all!