James’ scrub has to be the most exciting thing to come to motocross ever. If you never saw it in person, you have no idea what it’s all about. At a National, I got to see the scrub for the first time and it scared me half to death. I thought he was going to line drive right into us. He went into a gravity cavity and emerged at the top of the hill with his bike completely flat and flying straight across the ground. We jump away from the track a little until we understood that he wasn’t going to crash. It just scared and amazed us. I never saw anything like it before. Now I see a picture from the 80’s of a guy named JoJo Keller I think. It shows him doing what looks like a scrub or could be called a scrub, but it’s not the same. I don’t know if it was intentional or if it was a swapped out jump attempt. One things for sure, he wasn’t screaming his bike as fast or as far a James. James Stewart is “hands down” the most exciting thing in Motocross and Supercross today and you have to love him for the excitement and thrills he brings to the sport.
Jan 03