Demir TONER
THE RIDE OF A LIFETIME
II was born on 28 of June, 1984. I was born in a city called Izmir. It’ s in Turkey. I grew up in Turkey and when I was 12 old we moved to Los Angeles, California. I lived with my parents and my sister when I was a child. Even though I was living in California. I had friends from Turkey who did not forgot me, who were emailing and talking to me on Facetime. I had many friends in Turkey and many friends from California.
My school life was good, I had so many friends, my teachers were good, I got good grades. Everyday after my classes in the, university I used to ride my motorcycle home. One the weekends I went to a school to learn more motorcycle stunts.
Once, I can’ t remember exactly when, I saw on television some people were riding motorcycles and were flying off the ramps and doing stunts. I was interested in doing that but I couldn’ t because I was too young. So I said to myself,“ Maybe I should first try riding a motorcycle and then train for it.”
I got my first motorcycle when I was 18 and I learned how to do stunts. I went to competitions called X-games and X- fighters. The X-fighters competition was in Madrid. I came in 3rd place. But besides competitions, my first job in a circus was a banner holder. I rode a motorcycle around the circus so everybody could see the banner but I only did that for 2 days. My first job did not help me at all.
I was having lots of fun and I was really good at motorcycle racing and doing tricks in the air so I became a professional motorcyclist. I had many other jobs, too. Once I worked as a motorcycle salesman and A mechanic. Lately I have been working on a Youtube channel. It is going to include my own top stunts and the world ' s top 10 stunts as well as footage from my competitions. We already have 3,053,111 subscribers.
Working as a motorcyclist in the circus is the best job I have ever had. it is fun. You can be friends with so many people. I have never changed to another circus because this circus allows me to go to any competition even if we have a show the same day. In a circus you don’ t have to practice much because you only relax 2 or 3 days a week. You have the chance to go to a another country for the circus. On my days off when I ' m home, I sometimes play with my PS4 and sometimes I go out with my friends from the circus. I wait my turn and then I perform. The best part of my day is when I ' m in the air.
Maybe in 5 years I can go to different competitions or races and maybe win them. The happiest moment of my life was when I went to 6 competitions and I had tried to do the same trick again and again and finally on the sixth try I finally did it.
At first I was not doing any really dangerous stunts and I was not active and fearless. I was not having fun with the simple stunts and I did not get high scores at the competitions. But then in a performance I fell down and my leg bone was broken, my motorcycle’ s hand brakes were broken, one of my foot pegs came off because the ramp was wet. When I slipped, I flipped two times and landed on one of my legs. After that I was in the hospital for a long time and I was scared. I thought I could never ride a motorcycle ever again but now I ' m active, `brave and adventurous and I’ m trying all the stunts and I’ m having lots of fun doing it. I had tried unsuccessfully to do that trick 6 times in competitions, as I said, and I did it successfully at the last one.
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