JACOB ARGUBRIGHT: 2019 KENDA/SRT AMA HARE & HOUND NATIONAL CHAMPION
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Interview
was because of my size 13 boots and because
I'm clumsy, it's better for me to stand up in more
turns and keep my feet on the pegs instead of
using that one second to get my foot back up be-
cause my form is better and I don't have to worry
about catching my leg. It's not everywhere, but
it's one of those things. Desert racing now, like
hare and hounds, isn't just going straight.
When we go to Ricky's, sometimes we do
moto. I ride moto maybe once or twice a month.
I know how to desert race and I've done a lot of
hours doing it. Training is more about fitness for
me so that's why we ride out in the desert—it's
rough tracks [out there]. If we're feeling good, I'll
go do that, and if we're kind of lagging from the
weekend, we'll go somewhere a little less whooped out.
When all that hard work pays off.
Argubright knows that he's going to have to
work even harder to keep this thing.
Does Ricky actually watch
you and offer pointers? How
does that relationship work?
Yeah! When we're working on
corners, sometimes we have a
group of guys and we each hit a
section and we would hit it normal
then he would show us what he
thinks is right. Every time Ricky sits
on a dirt bike, he's super-talented;
he makes me scratch my head. I'm
like, "How do you do that?" So he'll
show us and we'll do it a bunch
of times and try to see if we can
learn a new way to do it or bet-
ter or a more efficient way. I think
a lot of racers do that. They'll hit
sections, but I like the way Ricky
teaches it. He gets a lot of it from
Ryan Hughes. I don't know "Ryno,"
but I follow a lot what he does. For
me, that form and riding style has
worked really well.
Let's look back at 2019. I
think it could be broken down
