Travis & Lyn-Z Pastrana Answer Stunt Questions From Twitter

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.

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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.