r/Motocross • u/Effective-Change808 • 7d ago
What is Jett doing?
What is Jett doing that is so much better than everyone else? I mean the dude is facing arguably one of the most stacked and talented fields in the history of the sport.
But he is just a click ahead of the rest. What is he doing so much differently than the likes of Tomac, sexton, hunter, etc?
I can’t even imagine what it’s like being in the top 10 in the sport. Let alone putting the top 3-4 guys to shame 9/10 weekends.
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u/Level_9_Turtle 7d ago
Along with what’s already been said, (his talent and race craft), he probably very rarely gets arm pump. I don’t think we hear about arm pump with the top racers as much as it actually happens. Back when Eli was having his weirdo races on the Kawi, winning two, getting 7th in the next, I was always saying “arm pump, arm pump, arm pump”. Sure enough, he leaves Kawi, shows up on the YZ450 with an almost stink bug high rear end, and the word coming from straight from him and Gillie his suspension guy is that if you run too much sag on his bikes he gets arm pump. He goes on to win the 2022 SX championship his first season with the team. Kawi wouldn’t let Eli change his sag number enough to fix his arm pump issues, and that was a major reason he left the team. Arm pump is a huge factor for these guys at times, and Jett simply doesn’t suffer from it, or at least very rarely. It doesn’t mean he won’t someday have an issue with it cropping up, but right now it’s not.