to be cautious [in the whoops]
and that's really the worst thing
you can do.
"They were pretty big and they
built them super steep and you
couldn't really roll through them,"
Roczen said of the whoops. "So
if you get out of shape and you
miss one or something and drop
your front end, it doesn't look
too good. The gnarliest part is
when you come up on lappers
and you can't control them, and
you have to commit and just pray
that the guy in front of you keeps
it straight."
But the key for Roczen on this
night was his start—he finally got
a good one, which he said was
the reward of a lot of midweek
work practicing them.
"Finally, starts are getting
better and we're going to keep
practicing them, [good starts]
makes life a lot easier," Roczen
said. "I'm usually pretty good
with starts but a couple of things
just haven't been coming to-
gether, that's what we've been
working on."
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
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