1 year ago today we lost a warrior in our friend Jeremy Lusk to a tragic crash on a horrible night in Costa Rica. Some say it feels like it happened just yesterday, for others it feels like a lifetime ago. Either way the pain is fresh and everyone misses having Jeremy in their life. Whether it is Jeremy’s family, friends or fans, he touched and inspired each and every one in a unique way, and he will be deeply missed and never forgotten.
This tragedy brought light to how dangerous the sport of Freestyle Motocross is, and has inspired change in a good way. People rally to help riders and their families in tough times. The Lusk Legacy Foundation generated a lot of money to support the Lusk family. Safety is the #1 priority. Seeing riders without a neck brace is now a strange sight. The formation of the AFMXA and the effort and passion of many have put in place programs to make contests, demos and international travel safer for professional and amateur riders, alike. Safety and life saving courses, Medivac coverage, legal consulting, and much more. We know Jeremy would be proud that his passing, though tragic and untimely, brought about real change and is helping many people.
We asked some of his friends and Mulisha Family to write something about Jeremy on this 1 year anniversary. Here it is:
Lauren Lusk:
Jeremy…with all of my heart…thank you for being my best friend and love of my life. For all the laughs, for all the smiles and all the tears…you have truly made me the person I am today. The endless memories we’ve shared will forever be cherished. The number of lives you have not only touched but changed is truly amazing. I am so blessed to be your wife. You are and always will be my strength and inspiration for the rest of my life. You flew up to Heaven on the wings of angels and now I have my own guardian angel. Rest in Peace Baby…I love you…. -Lauren Lusk
Brian Deegan:
Lusk was my best friend. I feel like I lost my brother. It is still hard to come to grips that he died riding fmx and I won’t see him again ’til we meet in heaven. The team has felt his loss. There will forever be a void in the Mulisha. I miss the phone calls from him saying let’s roost. Life is so crazy u just don’t know what the day will bring. Enjoy your family and friends, don’t sweat the small stuff… BD
Derek Garland:
Jeremy Lusk was truly one of a kind. Some of my best memories of my life so far have been with Jeremy. I am so thankful I was able to have those good times with him. Jeremy knows how to make the most out of any situation, every time we hung out it was a good time, no one has ever made me laugh as hard as he could.
I really look up to Jeremy, as a rider, but more so as a person. His humble attitude, hard work ethic and simply being tougher than shit are the attributes I like the most about him. He’s not scared to take on anything, Jeremy is a true warrior. He never talks about what a great rider he is, he doesn’t have too. Anyone who has ever ridden with him or seen him ride knows that he is one of the most talented riders in the world. He is such a good friend too. He would always help me with my riding and push me to learn new tricks. He would also help me with everyday life problems and give me advice on what to do in different situations. I really respect Jeremy and I listen to everything he tells me.
Jeremy will always be a role model to me and I can’t wait to hang out and ride with him again one day. Rest In Peace Jeremy I miss you.
-Garland
Jeremy Stenberg:
Jeremy Lusk was the shit and he still is. He inspired all of us. Jeremy was a one of a kind and I think about him everyday just the way he was. He was so fuckin’ funny and could put a smile on anyone’s face. I miss hearing him talk shit all the time or hearing his dumb ass laugh. It was so classic, like I said he was one of a kind and I miss him. It’s not the same with out Jeremy. He may not be with us anymore but u would never think that hanging around the crew. We talk about him all the time like he’s still here with us. I will never forget Jeremy, he will always be in our hearts. R.I.P. Big Worm that’s my dogg for life ………..har har har.
-Stenberg
Chris Tedesco:
It is hard to believe that it has already been one year since you left us, Jeremy. Although you are gone, the memories from all the fun times we shared together inspires me to do great things. You were one of a kind and I am truly grateful I was able to know you as a friend. I know I will always have an angel watching over me. Rest in peace, brother.
-Chris
Ronnie Faisst:
I have this photo of me and Lusk up in house. It was taken in Spain. Me, him and my brother Matt spent two weeks there. We got so bored during the week so we went out and took photos all over the city. I think of him a lot and always pray for his wife and family. I really miss riding with him, going to the gym together, but most of all just hanging out and crackin’ jokes. He was a really funny dude, he always made me laugh. I’m thankful that God brought him into my life and all the memories he left with me. Most of all I thank God for Lusk’s faith in God. I can rest my head at night knowing that Lusk is in heaven and with the Lord and one day I will see him again. He just beat me home that’s all!
If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the Scripture says “Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame.” ROMANS 10:9-11
TRUTH
Your Brotha,
Faisst
Ryan Hagy:
It has already been one year, but feels like it was yesterday. Jeremy was such a huge part of my life and there is not a day that goes by that I don’t think of Jeremy and what he did for myself and our team. In the past year our team has became closer since Jeremy’s passing as we realized how much of a family we really are to each other. Jeremy will always be apart of our family and will never be forgotten. RIP lusk.
-Hagy
Beau Manley:
Lusk was a badass. He could take a hit and keep on ticking. Never seen someone be able to crash that hard and get back up and go for it again. He always pushed his friends to be their best and I can’t ever remember him making any excuses. He simply just Got it Done. He is truly missed by all. R.I.P. Lusk
-Manley
Leah Steiger:
The first time I met Jeremy I was the Wedding Director at South Coast Winery, working 60-70 hours a week. The wives were doing a shoot on the property and I was their contact. The boys had come out towards the end of the shoot and I took them all to the bar for a drink. Jeremy looked at me and said, “you look like you need a shot?”. I said “No I’m on the clock”…he looked at me with a cocky smile and said “fuck the clock!”. What he said to me hit me like a ton of bricks; why was I wasting my time on someone else’s clock, doing something I wasn’t completely stoked on doing, hiding under a suite with a fake ass smile? So I resigned the next day. After the shoot he handed me a poster for my son, it hangs on his door to this day. It reads “To Phoenix – Follow your Dreams – Jeremy Lusk”
I feel connected to Jeremy everyday through the AFMXA and the Lusk Legacy Foundation that his beautiful wife Lauren helped create in his honor, and I witness everyday what an impact he has had on so many all over the world.
l will always remember what he said to me and what he wrote to my son. With just a few words he moved me to change my career path and has inspired me to live in the moment and never settle. I am grateful to have met him, to work with his wife and his family at Mulisha. I believe that he was grateful too, for life, for Lauren, for Brian, the Mulisha and his parents…you could see it in his smile…and I’m sure he still is!
Much love… Leah Steiger
Jeff Kargola:
Jeremy Lusk, in my eyes, is still very much alive. He is alive in the respect that his never give up, I can conquer anything attitude is an attribute I look to for strength and inspiration when the odds seem stacked against me. I saw a lot of myself and who I want to be in the man that Jeremy was, which makes it hard to accept even a whole year later. Although he is no longer with us in the physical sense, his memory will live on forever. We’ve shared so many great times and somewhere down the road we will meet again.
-Ox
Check out the hundreds of photos of Lusk posted by people from all over the world, and the tribute video played at his funeral.
There is too much to be said for one of the best riders in the Metal Mulisha. I can’t believe it’s already been a year since his passing and even then, it seems just like yesterday. The wounds are still fresh for his family and friends and the thousands of loyal fans. I never had the privilege of meeting you Jeremy but you definitely seemed like an amazing person and Heaven is lucky to have you even though we’d much rather have you down here. To the Lusk family and the Mulisha family, here is to an amazing guy. Lusk, farewell and following seas my friend. We will see you on the other side. Ride on.
-Your loyal MM Fan
Tara
He is truely missed by hundereds of thousands of people and he touched so many of our lives i know he touched mine and every time i think of getting on my bike i pray and look to him above. He really is a guardian angel watching over all the riders because he passed there has been so many more things going on in the world with FMX. People are taking smaller steps and are actually doing bigger and better things with there lives he died for a cause and a reason and he is the guardian angel above. We love and miss you jeremy you were my number one motivation believe that and you still are my heart is poured out to lauren and all his family and the mulisha family i love you all.
God Bless
Rashel
R I P Lusk I never got to meet you but i knew you were the shit
R I P Lusk we miss you! <3
I miss you so much Jeremy and it is so treating knowing you. You inspired me so much that I went on the ABC’s TV show for Shark Tank to fight to make this sport as safe as possible. Without you I would have never made it. Thank you for the memories, and inspiration. I miss you and love you but do to the tragedy people like us are making this sport safer everyone and generations to come. Will all my love. Love Never Fails 1 Corinthians 13.1.
Love, Rachael
Never forgotten RIP Lusk, truly amazing rider! Peace and Love to you, your family and friends.
xoxo
RIP Lusk you are truly missed. God Bless The Mulisha, Lauren and Jermeys family you are all in my prayers besafe.
R.I.P Pitbull :S , the time has passed so quickly since the accident .. You were the one who inspierd me to ride motocross, although i ride a pitbike that doesent mean that i aint watching up to all of mx and fmx riders. i would enjoy to meet with you one day in heaven.. but thats then , now my life is tragic , you got to my number one fmx star just few weeks before you died, I just cant accept that you are no longer with us, this is just like not real.
i cant accept it but….
Gods Speed!
R.I.P. LUSK
u will never be forgotten
we all miss u
One of my favorite memories ever will be taking my little boy to XGames 14 and seeing Lusk win Gold and Silver. Its something that we will never forget and it truly touched our lives to spend that time together, watching our favorites ride like there’s no tomorrow. Its a hard day when your 8 year old son asks you to take him to his hero’s funeral….
RIP JEREMY LUSK.
i remember i went to x games 13 and i had gotten the chance to me him it was like one of the best moments of my life the day i will never forget, got my poster and hat signed a lucky enough to get a pic of him wit two of his teammates, he was one of the friends i had in the metal mulisha that ill never forget. once a legend always a legend.
metal mulisha fan 4 life
—— alex ( metal mulisha girl)
jeremy we will miss you for ever god bless you and your family
R.I.P J. LUSK!!!!!!
AND ALSO I REMEMBER WHEN I WENT TO THE X-GAMES AND YOU WON A COUPLE OF METALS!!!! <3
LUSK you were one of kind and not many people can say that..you will never be forgotten..RIP..
JEREMY LUSK!!! Always in our prayers!!!! Thank you Mulisha!! Lusk was a great rider and leader!!
Thanks for sharing this, many people have been touched by the life of Jeremy Lusk. It is hard to believe that it has already been a year. I am continually praying for Lauren, the rest of the Lusk family and the Metal Mulisha.
Man its hard to beleave its been a year already,it feels like it was just yesterday that i heard the bad news.I went and put his tat on my chest but with the dates across the top.Jeremy i know your listen bro,So i just wont you too know that your truley miss by all.I put your tat on me just like you too show my how much you inspire me to be the better person everday. R.I.P PITTBULL MM4LF
R.I.P Lusk
Lusk you are the best rider i have ever seen in my life. ill be riding with my daughter. with your stickers god bless will miss and see you when i get to heaven roger.
It is so sad to see one of the great moto x guys die. Lusk was a gret rider and alot of people will miss him. Im sure hes happy in haven and flying with all the fallen riders. i do my best to support the lusk foundation. I feel bad for his wife lauren. god bless
R.I.P good buddy keep on riddin bro
RIP lusk your one of my favorite riders i wish i had half the talent you have but even if i had all the talent that you did ill still suck comperd to the grate and still getting better lusk it still fells like just yesterday you one x games gold and riding with a smill. ride on your loyal mulisha fan Cody aka Sheepy
R.I.P JEREMY LUSK !!! its hard to think its been a year already !!!! you have touched so many ppl’s lives and changed ppl for the better !!! you will remain in so many ppl’s hearts forever !! i know ur up there smiling down on ur wife and ur family and looking over them ,its how u were when u were still here !!! that day the worl dlost an awsome rider and a great man ! my daughter at the time was only one but will grow up knowing about one of the best fmx riders of the metal mullisha !!! i know ur riding hard up there like ur friends have said u just beat them home !!! R.I.P BRRRAAAAPPP !!!!!!!!!!!!
woops typo Tracy & Brooklynn
..miss ya…and my heart goes to lauren..hang on girl..:*
Jeremy Lusk for ever, te llevo en mi corazón y en mi alma todos los dias de mi vida te recuerdo y nunca te voy a olvidar,por que en mi corazón viviras por siempre.
It does seem as though it was just yesterday when I read the news of your death. I never got to see you ride in person, but still hold you as an inspiration, as do many. There will be a day when we will be certain to cross paths, once my time is gone an I cross through Heaven’s Gates as you have. With the injury I sustained to my back while serving in the Navy keeps me from riding today, maybe you can teach me a thing or two after I pass on to meet our Maker. Your memory will forever live on. May you rest in peace.
Navy
LUSK!
Rest In Paradise My Friend! Make sure you look after all your family and friends. When you get the chance take some time and stop by im some of their dreams it can help alot! Hope to meet you soon up in the best place we can ever go HEAVEN!
R.I.P.
LUSK
you shall forever live on
For me it’s feel like it’s been years since Jeremy left us. He was one of the best and I miss him. But I try not to think of the accident and the bad things, I think of all the good that he accomplished and how proud many people is over him.
And we all know that he is In God’s hands <3
R I P Lusk.. W e really miss u a lot…
GOD SPEED Jeremy. We all miss and love you so much. Thanx for the memories. You are in our hearts forever. RIP LUSK
R.I.P. brotha!!! youll never be forgotten
He is real hero for me..R.I.P. Jeremy…
Jeremy you will always take a place in my heart i love you/ from a fan
Jeremy is my hero and inspiration, not only in riding, but in life. You will never be forgotten RIP
Damn it doesn’t feel like a year. RIP man, we will all see ya soon enough!
miss you pitbull
R.I.P. Jeremy Lusk!! We miss you bro and are depressed you arent here!
Everyone misses you you bro and i hope you still Ride in Peace!! Forever a Soldier!
R.I.P Jeremy Lusk!! We miss you bro! And we will never forget you!
I NEVER met Jeremy.. but I became a big and I mean BIG fan of him after I saw a show on Twitch.. I started researching Metal Mulisha and I found Jeremy.I fell in love with his little smile and the way he ALWAYS looked happy.. Probably about 3 or 4 days after I found out who he was and everything else….. I found about the crash.. I watched umpteen videos of it and the one I found really touched my heart.. It was like I was watching his run on Fuel,but instead they had ‘So Far Away’ by Staind playing in the background.At the end it had a picture of him and Lauren walking down the aisle together at their wedding and it read ‘R.I.P. Lusk.The Greatest Man Alive’.I love you Jeremy and one day when I get to heaven I hope to meet you.
Rest in Pieces and I truly do love you.
Jeremy was the best and will always be the best FMX rider in history.
I personally got the chance to meet you in person and you became my idol
JeremyLusk RIP
When i first got into FMX it was back in 08′ X games when Jeremy won gold and silver, thought it was the coolest sport in the world and still do. Got my self a YZ 250 – like Lusk, and rode every chance i could!. I was a huge fan of Jeremy i like his style his persona that was reped on TV and interview of him, he seemed like a chilled dude that if i met would of gotten along really well.
Day i heard he passed away was sad for me but the day i found out he was a christian made me feel alot better. when i watched his funeral online and when the pastor asked ppl to come to christ i was one of those many ppl who said the prayer, even in death you influenced so many people!
Til we met in heaven mate!
RIP Jeremy
thats Very good. now we just need to spread the word so that more people may come to christ. maybe someday ill meet you in heaven
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I truly cried when i saw this, he was amazing pearson who i looked up to.
RIP lusk we all love you.
it is very sad that jeremy lusk is no longer with the mulisha brother hood, they were all brothers, best friends, family. Now that they have lost one of the brothers, it seems different, like a missing piece of their hearts. Jeremy lusk was my favorite, besides ronnie, and brian, and twitch, he was just this spontaneous little fire ball full of fun. I remember the first time i met him at a show, he always had a smile on his face, and thats something i will never forget, when i had heard that he died, his wife was the first person i thought about, i still pray for them, and jeremy. His death will not keep anyone in vain. He will forever move people in the direction that they are leading. He will forever be in all metal mulisha team and fans hearts!
Love,
your tru mm fan rebecca
we miss you PitBull …you will always be a Metal Mulisha rider!
R.I.P!
R.I.P jeremy lusk u will always be in our hearts and known as the best rider that ever walked on this earth and to all the mulisha use are the best aswell so Rest in peace champ
Jeremy, may you rest in peace. May Lauren, your son and family have the strength to get through this! You’ll forever live in so many people hearts! You were an amazing rider, in my opinion the best to have ever walked this earth! I know your smiling down from heaven, watching over all the people that love you! I hope I’ll see you, when I get up there! RIP Jeremy Daniel Lusk 11/26/1984 – 02/10/2009 <3
R.I.P Jeremy we all miss you….
I WILL NEVER FORGET YOU…
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Quando eu soube que JEREMY LUSK havia morrido fiquei sem palavras.Ai veio em minha mente: um dos meus ídolos foi embora! Espero que ele esteja bem agora, e fique com DEUS……Um abraço para meus ídolos a todos do METAL MULISHA. Espero que venham para o BRASIL novamente…..
from meeting him, and being inspired to step up on a motobike, I’m glad to be living the lifestyle of a rider, and it’s because of Jeremy that I am the person I am today, if I hadn’t met him, idk where I’d be in life, I soon hope to pass it on to another young rider, and hope to keep it going for life. You will be missed dearly Jeremy…
I just wan’t to say to the Lusk family that my thoughts and prays are with you all! Jeremy R.I.P. bro, You are missed so much here! A true hero!!! See you soon bro!!!
R.I.P Lusk my buddy we miss you!! Peace
A year feels like a lifetime, and at the same time it feels like time is standing still. I never met Jeremy Lusk, but I understand the pain his family and friends are going through all too well. My best friend lost her fiance in a tradgic accident last May, and it’s just rough. All I can say is that Jeremy has a friend up in Heaven, and that he is up there having a blast with him. To Lauren and the Mulisha family…I feel your pain.
R.I.P. Jeremy
R.I.P. I just heard really sad news yall.
stay up and make sure you keep the safety first…
R.I.P Lusk
Jeremy, My Son and I are so proud to have met You! You where so cool with us. Ride In Peace. We Love You Man!
Vic and Sebastian
Me uno al sentimiento de tristeza que embarga a la familia Mulisha y externarle mi mas sentido pesame a la familia Lusk, que encuentren paz y comfort,saludos a toda la comunidad Mulisha.
I remember i shaked hands with u once at a FMX show in Sweden “Globen” 17May 2008.
I even got ur signature on a tshirt.
R.I.P from Sweden !
Hey lusk i will be praying for your family and friends. See you in Heaven.
2 Colossions 1:9 Indeed, in our hearts we felt the sentence of death. But this
happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the
dead.
Rest in Paradise Lusk
Im praying for your family and friends
I hope to see you past those gates
All prays on you !!! RIP lusk
Jeremy
you truly are an inspiration, we all love and miss you daily.
(Jesus said:) “I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.” (John 11.25-26)
R.I.P Brother
I’ll see you soon
I still cant believe that one of the greatest FMX riders has been gone for 1 yr already…. we all know that ur watching over ur beautiful wife Lauren and ur brother’s in the mulisha… u will be greatly missed but know that ur always in our hearts and never forgotten GOD SPEED JEREMY…
You have inspired so many young guys just like myself to do better at everything and to just be the best person you can be. i have always looked up to you and you motivate me to always try harder.
Happy Birthday Jeremy see you on the other side buddy
With the bases loaded you struck us out with that aswenr!
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Jermey Lusk i was there when that horrible crash happend i stayed up all night cry cause i race moto cross and ever since you past on i never rode the same….. R.I.P IN LOVING MEMORY OF THE MOST AMAZING RIDER WHO EVER LIVED.
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