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don't know what I've gotten my-
self into.' It was a little intimidat-
ing. I'm not a super-insecure guy
about my body or anything, but I
definitely don't run around naked
all that often. And it was just full
exposure. There was nothing
covering anything up and there
were a lot of people around. My
wife, Lindsay, was there, so that
made things a little more com-
fortable, but the first 20 minutes
was like, 'This is really weird.
It's really different.' But then the
first thing we were doing was
a start, and I had supercross
suspension on, so I do the start,
and then I get to the bumps and
things are shaking around—you
can imagine what—and Lindsay
is crying laughing, so then I was
laughing like crazy. We were just
being really immature about it,
but everybody else was really
professional. We shot for about
four hours, but after about 20
minutes, it was like, 'Look, we're
all grownups here.' Everybody
at ESPN made it really profes-
sional."
His reasoning for doing it is
sound. As most people reading
this know, mainstream sports
fans and press don't usually
seem to understand the kind of
fitness motocross takes. Dungey
wants the sports world to know
what a motocross athlete's body
looks like when properly tuned.
"I know there are probably a
lot of people who wonder why
I did that, or who maybe even
don't like that I did that, but my
motivation wasn't to be, 'Look at
me, check me out naked!' That
wasn't it," Dungey said. "It was
an opportunity for our sport, and
I think any athlete can appreciate
what other athletes have done to
build their bodies to work at their
specific sport. The years that it
takes to build that physique for
a runner, a basketball player, or
whatever. So, for our sport, I re-
ally feel like it's a sport that gets
overlooked when it comes to
athleticism, and how much time
we put in to build our bodies to
be able to be race-ready and fit
and strong enough for a season
"I WANT TO KEEP GROWING THE SPORT IN
ANY WAYS THAT I CAN. BUT, THEN, I WANT TO
HAVE SOME KIDS AND ENJOY A FAMILY LIFE."
