VOL. 53 ISSUE 50 DECEMBER 20, 2016 P133
Attitude
Ken Roczen
knows what it
takes to win.
He did it all
summer, and his
plan is to make
2017 a long one
for everybody
but him.
STORY BY STEVE COX
PHOTOGRAPHY BY KIT PALMER
AND STEVE COX
N
ormal everyday
people often confuse
confidence for
arrogance or cockiness. They're
not nearly the same things.
Cockiness and arrogance are
invalid beliefs. If you're either of
those two things, you believe
something about yourself that
hasn't been validated. At least
not yet. But confidence is based
on real events. True confidence
comes after you succeed, not
before. Confidence is based on
knowledge, not belief.
It's important to make the
distinction when speaking to a
guy like Ken Roczen. Roczen is
only 22 years old, and already
he's won an FIM MX2 World
Championship, an AMA West
250SX title, and two AMA
450MX National titles.
His latest championship
run came this past summer,
when he took his RCH Suzuki
RM-Z450 to 20 moto wins
in 24 motos on his way to
the championship. Fresh off
of his second AMA National
Championship, he made the
switch to Honda. We caught up
with Roczen after a day of hitting
ramps for fun out at Castillo
Ranch in California.
inning
