Persuasive Essay On Motocross

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Motocross is my favorite sport; everyone that I am close with currently in my life for the most part is somewhat apart of that sport. Most of my friends, my brother, my dad, they all ride. My current job is 100 percent about motocross and hopefully my future career is based on the sport. Motocross is the type of sport where everyone knows each other and is one big community. Motocross is also one of the most dangerous sports. On any given day a rider can crash and that crash may be a career ender or one where they can just pick themselves right up and continue to ride. With so many injuries occurring daily in the sport you would only assume that these riders would want to keep themselves safe and injury free but that is not always the case. Some riders will decide to ride without proper gear or ride if they are injured which is extremely dangerous. The AMA should replace their current safety rules with stricter ones and include physicals for the riders to ensure they are healthy. The American Motorcycle Associate (AMA) is an association that dictates all the rules for the sport of motocross, all races whether they are professional or amateur races are conducted through the AMA. According to the AMA official rulebook all riders must wear appropriate gear while participating in a race, that gear includes: Helmet, shatter-proof goggles, long sleeve jersey, pants, and boots that are at least 8 inches tall (AMA 10). Although these rules are very much enforced there are still many injuries that a rider can face while riding. Two very important pieces of equipment; a chest protector and a neck brace are still not required by the
AMA to wear during a race and while many racers do wear them there are many racers wh...

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...conducting physicals before the race to make sure that injured riders do not further injure themselves. There will be lots of people against this potential new rule will, it will cost the American Motorcycle Association lots of money to have a doctor on site during all of the races and the riders that are injured and want to race will be against it because they need to race for various reasons.
With the sport of motocross becoming more and more popular we want to make sure that the youth of the sport realize that it is a dangerous sport and that they need to protect themselves against injury and also for the veterans and current riders of the sport. That’s why I believe that in order to keep this sport around we need to make it safer and in order to do so the American Motorcycle Association need to add more safety rules and regulations to the sport.

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