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biking to mountain biking, kind of like. It's different."
Then, there was learning how to train. Roczen
needed more intensity in his training regimen, which
was what DeCoster was insisting that he tackle in
the disagreements he had with Roczen's father.
"It's not this long-distance, low-heart-rate kind of
stuff," Roczen said. "You can't sleep the first lap.
That's when it's the most important, so you have to
be on it right away, which I got way better at."
"I TREAT
EVERYONE THE
SAME. I JUST
TRY AND BE
ME ALL THE
TIME INSTEAD
OF TRYING TO
PLEASE PEOPLE."
Roczen says the GPs aren't like that. They're not
fast out of the gate the same way that Supercross,
especially, is.
"It's not like that over there," Roczen said. "I kind
of changed it a little bit. Like when I went there in
2011, I hammered down from the beginning on and
had a huge gap always. But it's like more diesel-
style over there. Plus, the intensity of Supercross?
You can't even compare it with Europe just because
outdoors are all there is there."
So, prior to the 2014 season, Roczen signed the
