- It's more fun if
you're in the air, right?
- I think so.
Wait, what are we talking about?
Hey guys, Travis Pastrana, here.
- Lyn-Z Adams Hawkins Pastrana.
- And this is Stunt Support.
- Stunt Support.
[upbeat music]
- All right, first question
from Chase Barrett, @Almostgood0707.
Watching your old NASCAR Xfinity race
and it made me wonder if you
ever raced dirt late models.
I think you'd be good at it.
I found out I'm not very good at things
unless everyone is scared.
So like, video games, nope,
everybody kicks my butt.
NASCAR, safer barriers,
no ones really afraid
to hit the wall, even though
you're going 200 miles an hour
and everyone should be.
Rally, 100 foot vertical
cliff on the outside,
snow, at night, sideways,
making the best of the worst conditions,
that's kind of what I do.
- I did okay on Tarmac, I guess.
I won the Better Half Dash.
- Lyn-Z's the only one
that's won a NASCAR race.
And yeah, she's probably
better on pavement.
She likes kind of getting to that edge
and not going over it.
Where I do better going over the edge.
But yes, I have tried dirt late models.
Good, sure.
Good compared to Kyle Busch, no.
@landoncassill, has a check
mark, is a bad ass, by the way,
so professional NASCAR driver.
Travis Pastrana, why do
you make everything a ramp?
What do you think, do you like flying?
- Yeah, I like flying.
I like jumping stuff.
- Actually, fun fact, I met Lyn-Z
because she was the
only female skateboarder
that could actually hit to Giganto-Ramp.
It's just over six stories tall.
- Biggest thing is actually
to just run stairs.
Because you have to run
up and then drop in.
Sprint up, drop in.
- So many people, they hit
the bottom of the ramp,
and their legs completely
just turn to jello.
They just buckle.
It's like when you get
double-bounced on a trampoline,
you have to be able to withstand that.
So when you're in a show
and you're running up
six floors at a time,
20, 25 times in a show,
and your legs give out,
you look silly.
She doesn't do that.
- No, I train stairs.
- She likes to fly, that's
why we ended up together.
Landon, everything has to be a ramp
because everything is more
fun if it flies, right?
- Julia A, @julia_A__, peace sign.
she asked what is the
scariest trick to perform?
For myself, I guess probably
back flip the Giganto-Ramp.
Just kind of scary to go
upside down sometimes.
The first scariest trick I ever did,
I guess just dropping in a vert ramp.
I was little, I was maybe 11,
and I just stood up there all day
with my board on the edge of the ramp.
Oh, I'm gonna do it.
No, I'm not gonna do it.
Oh, I'm gonna do it.
All day, all day.
So finally, my brother and
his buddies, Shaun White,
they came behind me and they pushed me,
and I like jumped in and I knee slid
and I was totally fine,
but I got that gut feeling of dropping,
and I was like, oh, that's
the worst that can happen,
so I ran up, dropped in, insert career.
- For me, the scariest trick
is anything you're not prepared for.
Doesn't really matter what the trick is,
like when you first start
doing Superman seat grabs,
that's the scariest thing,
and now they're doing double back flips
with Superman seat grabs,
so the impossible is an
ever moving boundary.
What's the scariest trick today
is going to be something
you warm up with tomorrow.
- Yeah.
- This one's a serious question,
you should probably read that one.
Adam Tinal, @ATinal20,
serious question, how does one break
into the stunt driver business?
- Almost all of my
friends are stunt drivers.
It's a little different
skill set than racing.
But generally, if you're
top in your sport,
it's a lot easier to get into that world.
And you don't have to be, necessarily,
the best in the world at speed,
but you have to have really,
really good car control.
So most of your top drivers
will have a lot of experience
out of control and trying to figure out
how to make the best of all vehicles.
So the easiest way to get into stunts
is to do really well at
racing and driving cars,
and then they call you first
and then go down the list.
Keven, @KevenVillacis,
Nitro Circus, Travis Pastrana,
how do I join the team?
- We're in Nitro because
we're like a family,
your over all person and
being plays a big part in it.
When you're on your fifth
show in the fifth country
and you wake up and everyone's tired,
you need to be the person that
wakes up and rallies everyone
and is like, all right, yeah, let's do it.
- There's two ways to join Nitro Circus,
one, be better than
everyone else in the world,
two, be willing to do something
that no one else in the
world is willing to do.
I seriously suggest the first,
'cause the second one's more painful.
- Right.
Or somehow get me to see your
video and send it to Nitro.
We got a lot of people in that way.
- A_Rod, @DoucheBag1776,
Travis Pastrana, my buddy
thinks you can back-flip
off this tiny pile of dirt.
I say no.
Can you prove either of us right?
Well, if you say you're
gonna do something,
you have to do it.
So that's kind of the
foundation of Nitro Circus.
So I'm looking at this pile of dirt
and I think, in general, I
can back flip about anything,
but I think I would probably
get the flip around,
land on the front tire, and belly flop.
So successfully, no.
Die?
- Will you go upside down, probably.
- Oh, definitely, upside down.
Yeah, no, I wouldn't want
to, but it could be done.
- Kayyy, tonguey face, @kaylamorris_17,
imagine being quarantined in
Travis Pastrana's backyard.
Well, I'm here to tell you, I've done it.
Being able to spend time as a family
and not have so many people
around, like we're used to,
it was awesome.
We were able to swim, and
skate, and drive, and moto,
our kids got into moto,
which was huge for us.
It was so cute on their
little 50, it's all pink.
- Moto and cute have never gone together
in a sentence so seamlessly.
- Whatever.
- Sep, @RetroSep,
how can I drive, ride
passenger in a WRC car,
asking for me.
Which is funny, 'cause
usually they're like, yeah.
- [Both] Asking for a friend.
- The only time I ever
get to drive a WRC car
or go passenger, I was
actually 17 years old.
I won the US Championship
and my sponsor, Alpinestars said,
you know what, if you
win the championship,
I know you love cars, we're
gonna get you a drive,
I thought it was a
passenger, in a WRC car.
So I went out in a Richard Burns,
factory, three quarter
of a million dollar car,
at 17 years old, and
I just went ham on it,
and destroyed, actually not the car,
but I went by the semi rig
and just pelted it with rocks,
and evidently, somehow,
that made a good impression,
'cause they decided to kind of
keep me under the Subaru wing
and for me, I guess to
answer your question,
having sponsors in motocross
allowed me to transfer
over to that.
And that's the last time I
ever got to drive a WRC car,
so maybe I didn't do a good job.
Gretta Smith, @GTtheRetta
serious question, how do motocrossers
not hurt their balls during all the jumps?
- Stand up.
- We do.
As it turns out, most of us
tend to have one or the other
that we hurt more often
for whatever reason.
I think 'cause when you double back flip,
you tend to land on the front
of the motorcycle and smash.
We have one enlarged testicle.
It's actually from landed
on the gas tank so hard
and you usually tuck to
either right or left,
so one stays nice and we
two beautiful little girls.
- So clearly they still work.
- Well, at least one.
- Paul Mc Caffrey, @CaffmanYolo,
why hasn't anybody ever done a base jump
dressed as Wile E. Coyote?
This would be epic.
We agree.
- He's not gonna do.
I kind of banned him from base jumping,
because now we have kids and
he needs to like, stick around.
- Base jumping is probably
the most dangerous sport,
if you will.
Because the first time
you step off a cliff,
if anything goes wrong,
you don't have enough time to correct it,
and that's why there's so many deaths.
The reason that no one has
dressed as Wile E. Coyote
is because whenever you strap
some stuff to an ACME rocket
or whatever he's doing,
it never works out well for the coyote.
But it would still be fun.
- Yeah.
- Jerms, @staygolden91,
what if Buster Keaton, Evel
Knievel, Johnny Knoxville,
and myself all hung out?
I've hung out with Evel Kneivel,
I've hung out with Johnny Knoxville,
I've never hung out with Buster Keaton.
At this point, like later in our lives,
I think we'd all just sit around
telling really amazing stories.
If we did it younger in our lives,
I think that would've been the last day
that we got to hung out.
Hung out.
- Would have done
something really sketchy.
@everts71 asked, can you
back flip a YZ 490, Travis?
I would say yes.
- And I have proved it.
So I had the opportunity to actually--
- At Fight Club.
- Yes.
- Oh, I got it.
All right.
I back flipped a YZ 490 at Fight Club.
So P1K: Brand New Anime, @Dylan1Kenobi,
hey, Travis Pastrana, want to
give stock cars another try?
A lot of cool stuff is happening
in iRacing during the
quarantine, winky face.
What did you think of stock car racing?
- I actually kind of
enjoyed going to NASCAR.
Everybody except for you
thought that you did great.
But if you're not winning,
then you're not winning.
- It was an awesome time.
It was a great experience.
During the quarantine
we got to really meet up
with a lot of the Indy car drivers,
and the WRC drivers, and
NASCAR guys, and Rally guys,
and everybody came together and raced
and it was awesome.
I miss the racing aspect,
but pavement's just not my thing.
I mean, I wish it was, it's fun,
but I'm not very good.
Falkirk Belles, @FalkirkBelles--
- Question is, my daughter
would like a BMX style bike
for Christmas, she wants
to learn how to do stunts.
I don't know where to start.
Any advice or recommended
shops to try, thanks.
It depends on how old your
daughter is and her size,
because there are a lot of
different bikes out there.
There's 12 inch, 14 inch, 16, 18.
And then a 20 inch bike
is what a normal adult would ride.
- If you start with the Spawn bikes,
they're build really well.
There's all different sizes.
If you get really into BMX,
Hyper makes the absolute best
kid's lightweight BMX bike.
It's really expensive.
I wouldn't recommend starting there.
- If your daughter's really young,
the Cult Juvenile, they
make a 12 inch one,
is really tiny.
You know, you wanna start
with a balanced bicycle,
so you can get them riding some hills
or some pump tracks, something like that.
Start there.
At that point, you have some
control and understanding
of what the bike's gonna do.
I guess you gotta start
with the size of your kid
and then go from there.
- Christopher Monaghan, @Christo86694284,
Travis Pastrana, what about a hover board?
Can it be done?
So yes, actually working with Red Bull,
I was a little heavy for the first one
that they came out with.
It really wouldn't lift off
the ground much with me,
but yeah, it could be done.
Unfortunately, I don't do boards.
So you'd have to--
Yeah.
What do you think, hover board?
- To flip it or jump
it, or all the things?
- It just says what about a hover board.
Yeah, all the things.
On Nitro Circus, if you ride it--
- You jump it.
Sensiblepow3r, @sensiblepow3r,
I wanna learn how to drive on two wheels.
Simple, ride a bicycle.
Ta da, two wheels.
- Okay.
Also, if you're trying
to drive on two wheels
in a four wheel vehicle,
I'd say start with a
Can-Am or a side by side,
and you get a set Yokohama Super Diggers.
They are bias ply tire,
which means they kind of roll over,
so it gives you a little bit more grip.
Inflate them way more than
you think you'll need to,
'cause that whole weight of the vehicle
will be on the side of the tire,
and you just kind of go in a corner
and you start turning.
You gotta have a big, open area.
And stay the same speed, turn
sharper, sharper, sharper
and the second it starts to come off,
turn back the other way.
So you start doing that,
and if you spend a day
going around in circles,
you will eventually figure out
how to get up on two wheels.
And how's that feel?
- Well, you know, it
feels really sideways.
- Daryl DROFDER Redford, @DROFDER_,
So I've found myself doing
a lot of right foot braking,
but when I watch Sim racers,
I see a majority of left foot braking.
Is it something I need to work on
or does it not really matter?
Daryl, when you're driving a rally car
it is absolute mandatory.
Anything off road,
anything where you're
starting to slide around,
you need weight on the front wheels
to be able to make the vehicle turn.
If you're going for the
absolute maximum, quickest time,
left foot braking is the way to go,
because you can keep the car balanced
in the corner, especially
if you're sliding
and you're going off road, you
have to learn how to do that.
Derek B, @Oh_Deion,
I just wanna learn how to do
a proper J-turn before I die.
What I would recommend for learning
is you go into a parking lot,
you go as fast as the
vehicle will go in reverse,
and you crank the wheel
as hard as you can.
Now here's the key,
when you crank the wheel,
it's gonna start sliding,
you have to go into drive.
Make sure you're in a
gear that's fast enough
to continue accelerating you out of that,
it's a done deal.
You'll looK like a hero.
Miguel, @themiguelcastro,
how do I get to be a
Red Bull stunt driver?
Like, when they have a demonstration
or filming or video,
how do I get into that?
Not even just trying to be sponsored,
I just wanna do some
awesome stunts for Red Bull
in an F-1 car.
The chances of anyone driving an F-1 car
that isn't one of the
best drivers in the world
is very, very slim.
Having said that, the biggest thing
about trying to be a stunt driver
is don't do it on the streets.
It has to be a closed course.
Everyone says, I was 18 once.
You know, when you went out there
and you thought you were
better than you were,
and I know I did,
and unfortunately, you learn the hard way
through some big consequences.
So the bigger the area that you have.
You know, parking lot, make
sure that you have permission
from the parking lot that you're in,
make sure that it's shut down,
make sure that no one can come walking in.
- Kees Tol, @Tolkees,
Christ air is a great
name for a great trick.
So basically, how do tricks get named?
Christ air's named after
Christian Hosoi did it first.
It's a big cross and obviously,
cross, Christ, Christian.
Basically, do a trick
first, you get to name it.
You named lots of tricks.
You're mom named, right, cliffhanger?
- Yeah, the cliffhanger.
So to name a trick, you're
supposed to actually do it
in competition first.
So when you invent a trick
and then someone else is able
to do it in competition first,
they might take an awesome
trick name that you have
and turn it into the Mulisha Twist.
Speaking for a friend.
- All right, Dev, @DRichards_Photo,
how do motocross pros get their numbers?
I'm guessing they just choose
them like any other sport.
That is partly true.
If you get a one or two digit number,
that's your placing.
- Yeah, before locals and
wherever you're going.
Most of the time you
run a two digit number
and then hopefully a one digit number
when you're getting better
in your local series.
And when you go to other series,
they already number one
through you know, 50,
is already taken.
So generally, you pick
a three digit number
you don't have to run an X on it.
- And then you're lifetime
three digit number
generally, you have
some meaning behind it,
and you've chosen it.
- My hero growing up was Robbie Reynard
and he turned pro the fifth month of 1993,
so he ran 593.
I chose my number because I turned pro--
And you're allowed to
turn pro when you turn 16.
So my sixteenth birthday
was October of '99,
hence, 199, drop the zero.
- And then I picked my number, 129,
based off of, we got married, 10-29,
so I thought that would be nice.
- Thanks.
- It's also my birthdate backwards, but--
- Tweek96, @clbktm18,
anyone know any way of stopping
arm pump with motocross?
Or just a way so it's not so bad?
I get it badly.
Motocross, #question, #help, #arms.
The more you ride, the
less arm pump you'll get.
Some people just have genetic
where they pump up more.
Or you're nerves.
When you're scared and you get to a race,
everyone just pumps up,
to where you can't even
hold onto the grips.
If you have any kind of supplements
that are helping you
pump up to look better,
that's all bad for motocross.
At the end of the day, if
you just can't get rid of it,
there is an arm pump surgery.
They cut the sheath completely away
so that more blood can get in and out,
so it doesn't just get
held up in your forearms.
I did not, because I did not panic much
and I love to ride my dirt bike.
My hero Robbie Reynard
did, so did Kurt Nicoll,
so did a lot of there other top guys,
and in three years, it scar tissues over
and your arm pump will
come back 10 times worse.
However, those three
years, you'll feel awesome.
So that's your call, if you
wanna get it every three years.
I wouldn't suggest it,
but you won't have arm
pump for a little bit,
and that's the best option,
temporary fix that we've found.
Samwell, @Samwellburt,
so if you do a rock solid--
Which is a motorcycle trick
where you grab the fender
and you let completely go,
so you're flying behind the motorcycle.
Through the timing beam at a
motocross world championship
would you get deducted a lap?
#MXGP.
You will probably get fined as I've found
that you're not really supposed
to do tricks during races.
There's a time and a place for that
and they feel like it's
endangering the other riders
and you will get a talking to.
I've been threatened to be
thrown out of AMA many times.
But then I won the AMA rider of the year.
So I mean, there's that.
- Kolyn Blaskie, @crimeinthecity asked me,
what's your favorite skate trick?
Well, my favorite trick is
pretty much any hand plant.
My most favorite of all time though
would have to be Andrecht invert.
- Explain, I have no idea what that is.
- If you saw me do it, you would know.
Grab with your front
hand, behind your back
and below your front foot,
and then you plant your back hand
on the coping of the ramp,
and you go upside down
and then you come back in.
- Sounds fun.
- It's very fun.
- I'll never know.
- I always really wanted
to do a front side 540,
but like a real, good legit one,
kind of like Shaun White
and Bucky Lasek do them,
way over the coping.
I should really do that one day.
- You could probably do
it higher than Bucky.
- I don't know.
- Sorry, Bucky.
He's from Baltimore, so local.
- Sean, @sdmp0,
does heel-and-toe shifting
get you better gas mileage?
- When you're down shifting on pavement,
you generally put your heel on the brake,
and you blip the throttle,
to make sure that your wheels
don't lose traction coming in
and then you can be full
brake without locking up
the wheels when you shift down,
but you can still use the engine braking.
So no, heel-toe shifting
actually gets you horrible gas mileage.
But it does improve your lap times.
So there's that.
That's you, I got nothing,
You want a dog.
- XOXONinaRoss,
how do you teach does how to skateboard?
Actually, how do you teach
kids how to skateboard?
Lol, I need help with both.
I think it's probably a
pretty similar process.
I have not yet taught a
dog how to skateboard,
but you basically just start small,
get them on the board, hold their hands,
get them comfortable moving.
- Dogs have hands?
- The kids!
You know what, you should ask Smagical,
because Phil has goats
and cats who skateboard.
- His cat is amazing.
Jumps, grinds rail.
- So ask him about that part.
The hardest part about teaching a kid
how to skateboard is
teaching them the patience.
Because they wanna just
get on the board and go.
But it doesn't really work that way.
It takes a lot of time and coordination
for them to even get to
the point of pushing.
Once they do start pushing a little,
and they need to start turning,
we call them tick tacks,
where you put pressure on the back
and you just kind of tick
tack the front back and forth.
You can do that on
carpet, that works good,
so they don't zing out,
but they can start learning board control.
You can also learn how to Ollie
or do kick flips and things
like that on the carpet as well,
so you're not rolling away.
- Thank you guys for the questions.
Landon Cassill, it's an
honor, thank you, sir.
Appreciate you writing in
and giving me a hard
time, but I'll take it.
