2019 FIM SUPERENDURO & AMA ENDUROCROSS CHAMPION COLTON HAAKER
P126
Interview
ask for that to happen. I raced as hard as I could. If
I could redo it, I would.
Over the years, I've been super open. I've
vlogged like 80-something vlogs and pretty much
let anybody see my faults or my weaknesses or give
them an option to judge me or be negative toward
me. So I've been able to handle criticism
well, and I feel like people appreciate
honesty. I was pretty honest my entire
career until I got to that point. After that, I
got so much backlash, I just kinda real-
ized that these people don't really know
me. They're angry, but if they knew me,
they would probably think twice about what they
said or what they wrote. And they would know that I
wouldn't want to win that way.
After that it made me realize that social media
is like the devil's advocate. It can be used re-
ally well for good things and it can really tear you
down for something you feel like you didn't
have control over. For me, social media
just became less interesting to me. I was
just like, 'Well, none of these people know
me, and they're faulting me for something I
had no control over.' I basically had to say,
'I don't care what these people that don't
AMA EnduroCross
was the
championship that
almost wasn't.
Haaker was
happy to see the
promoters pull it
off in 2019.
