On November 14th, 2009 the newest member of the AFMXA, Jeff “OX” Kargola was in a serious accident while pre-running for the Baja 1000 in San Felipe, Mexico. Ox crashed, smashed his belly (probably with the bars digging in) and drove his head into the ground. He says he “saw a bush shadow that may have been hiding a rock”. His front tire missed it, but his back tire hit it sending him into his crash at probably 50mph. He isn’t too sure, but he knows he was riding down the highway after the crash through military check points without stopping. OX saved himself. Riding alone, he got up and rode to the highway and towards San Felipe, a 45 mile ride. Eventually he got dizzy and was going to crash on the pavement and stopped in the middle of the highway. Some locals stopped and put him in their car and one of them rode his bike to SF.
At 11:22am the AFMXA received word that Jeff was in a clinic with a laundry list of injuries and we went to work! Medjet assist was called immediately as Dr. Gus Gialamas stayed in constant contact with the Doctors at the clinic in Mexico. By 2:45pm Medjet was in the air and Jeff was on his way home to be admitted to Scripps Mercy in San Diego for proper treatment. He landed in San Diego at 5:03pm and was in surgery by 7:53pm to stop internal bleeding.
Because OX is a member of the AFMXA he knew he could contact us and we were able to assist him in a life-threatening situation. The AFMXA will continue to support him and look forward to his full recovery!
Although his medjet flight was covered by his membership (had he not had it this would have cost him between $40-60k) his hospital stay and surgeries are not. We are currently taking any donations on AFMXA.org to help support our friend and team member.
Brian Deegan will be racing the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series this weekend in Surprise, Arizona. Deegan is 3rd overall in the points standings with only 2 races to go, and he’s right there in the running to win the Championship or land on the podium in his first full season! If you’re in the AZ get out there and support The General on his quest for the Championship!
There will be Metal Mulisha FMX demos on both days, with Ox, Fitzpatrick, Danielson and Agee doing the riding. Truck racing and FMX demos…what more could you ask for!?
Twitch, Maddo, Cam Sinclair and Ox are out in Fort Worth, TX for the Red Bull X Fighters this Saturday. Looks like Ox might have broke his thumbs in practice, but he is still going to ride! Check out this audio interview with Ox.
The event will be webcast live in this player Saturday night, so tune in and watch the Metal Mulisha dominate!
Jeff “Ox” Kargola and Ryan Hagy will be on Fuel TV’s The Daily Habit, alongside Mulisha CEO Toby Bost, and some random surfer dorks. Tune in tonight, Monday, June 15 at 6PM PST/9PM EST (with plenty of re-runs as usual) and watch the stupidity!
Our friends at OC Motorsports are having a big Grand Opening party at their new off-road shop in Costa Mesa, CA. And you know it’s not a really party without the Metal Mulisha! So come hang out and watch Jeff “Ox” Kargola, Derek Garland and Ryan Hagy go big on the ramp-to-ramp! Here are directions.
We just put up a ton of photos of the guys getting in some practice for X Games out at Faisst’s house and The Compound. You can expect some wallpapers to come out of this gallery real soon. Let us know which shots you really want as wallpapers and we just might be able to make it happen.
Faisst making the hi-mark on the new MM Compound wallride…
Potter with one of the biggest no handed flips ever seen!
On November 14th, 2009 the newest member of the AFMXA, Jeff “OX” Kargola was in a serious accident while pre-running for the Baja 1000 in San Felipe, Mexico. Ox crashed, smashed his belly (probably with the bars digging in) and drove his head into the ground. He says he “saw a bush shadow that may have been hiding a rock”. His front tire missed it, but his back tire hit it sending him into his crash at probably 50mph. He isn’t too sure, but he knows he was riding down the highway after the crash through military check points without stopping. OX saved himself. Riding alone, he got up and rode to the highway and towards San Felipe, a 45 mile ride. Eventually he got dizzy and was going to crash on the pavement and stopped in the middle of the highway. Some locals stopped and put him in their car and one of them rode his bike to SF.
