4.8 • 679 Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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In this series, we shift our focus to get to know the riders under the helmets in the off-road moto scene.
In episode 5, our host Brent Bowser talks with Rockstar Energy Factory Husqvarna's Austin Walton about growing up racing moto, making it to the professional level in Supercross and Motocross, making the switch to off-road and more!
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0:00.0 | What's up, guys. Thanks for tuning into episode five of our off-road rhetoric series here on Whiskey Throttle Media. |
0:07.1 | Today we're here with Rockstar Energy Huscavara factory racing, Austin Walton. What's going on? Austin, how are you doing, man? |
0:14.5 | It's going good, man. Right now we're kind of in a little bit of a break, but my name is Awesome Walton. I race the off-road for factory |
0:21.4 | rock star, Oscar Escobarna, and I have been for a couple years now. I started with them in 2020, |
0:26.2 | and that was kind of the biggest goal that I had achieved in my whole career. Obviously, |
0:31.2 | everybody's goal is to be factory, and to knock that off in 2020, I was like, that was the top |
0:36.3 | of the list. The one thing that, you know, it was like the be all for just making my program, you know, |
0:42.4 | what it is today and just also capping what I've been able to put into it. |
0:46.7 | You know, over the years, I started riding when I was four years old and I've been going |
0:50.7 | ever since. |
0:51.3 | I've been doing this for around 20 years. |
0:56.1 | And, you know, just going serious at it. |
1:02.6 | I mean, when I was 13 is really when I made that change to being completely serious with the whole aspect of the program, not just having fun on the dirt bike and not really doing the work |
1:06.2 | off the dirt bike when I was doing some stuff on trying to. but that was really when I cracked down on just the |
1:11.8 | physical side of things off the dirt bike. And I could just remember days in the gym. You know, |
1:15.6 | I thought I was going to throw up. My dad's just like, well, then throw up. If you think you're |
1:21.5 | going to throw up, like, who cares? We'll clean this up, you know, and I was all worried about it |
1:24.9 | because I'm in a public gym and things like this. And once I pushed myself past a lot of these boundaries, you realize, like, what you're |
1:30.8 | capable of and realizing, like, you don't understand your capabilities. |
1:35.5 | It's unlimited. |
1:36.5 | It just depends on how much work you want to put in. |
1:38.3 | So, you know, pushing from then all the way through, I grew up racing in the off-road industry, and a lot of people |
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