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The Whiskey Throttle Show

Jett Reynolds Pro Debut Interview

The Whiskey Throttle Show

The Whiskey Throttle Show, LLC

Sports

4.8679 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

One of the winningest amateur riders of all time, Jett Reynolds has been plagued with a slew of injuries including a hip and wrist injury that has left him sidelined for the better part of two years. With 48 hours to go, we sit down to discuss his pro debut at the Pala National. We discuss overcoming the injuries, his support system, expectations for the opener and many other things. Keep an eye out for this guy as he has something to prove.

Transcript

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0:00.0

What's up? I'm Jay Reynolds. We're here at my house in Temecula, California, doing an interview with whiskey throttle today.

0:07.6

So, it's been a long time since we've seen you on the track. When was the last time you raced?

0:16.5

Well, I've definitely had a lot of injuries over the last, I'd say, three to four years.

0:23.7

I almost went two years without racing and I actually did some amateur nationals just to kind of get the end of flow of things again before I come out here and make my pro debut this weekend.

0:34.6

So I've had a handful of races to kind of prepare myself and just kind of

0:39.3

you know knock a bit of the rest off but you know 30 plus twos and you know race one of those

0:45.9

I've never done a professional race my life so it's definitely going to be a warning experience

0:51.0

and it's been a long road to get here yeah so the take us back to what put us

0:56.5

on the sideline the last time that was it uh indianapolis 21 uh yeah so my my pro debut originally

1:05.0

was minneapolis uh 22 for the first round of East Coast Supercross.

1:12.4

And, uh, I made it around a few lapsed press day.

1:14.9

And unfortunately,

1:15.8

I broke my navicular on my hand.

1:18.2

And, uh,

1:18.8

there was just a lot of issues going on.

1:21.4

And it just took a lot of time and a lot of healing and then quite a few

1:27.1

surgeries just to get it back right. And then I got back on a bike in December.

1:31.0

So it's all dialed. You got good range, good feeling, everything.

1:34.0

Yeah, so range of motion is kind of pretty limited. It doesn't move a whole whole lot. But, you know, the main thing is is I'm pain free.

1:43.4

So as long as I'm pain free I'm pretty

1:45.9

solid to go do you have to change your riding style a little bit with the range of motion yeah

1:50.6

like it's really tough with the range of motion um like really the one thing that kind of holds me

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