“I think you ride differently when you’re the defending champion than when you’re chasing him,” Jamie Bestwick says. “It’s lit a fire under me, because I have nothing to lose anymore. Defending the title is about being consistent. Now, instead of ‘Can he make it 10 in a row?’ it’s going to be, ‘Who throws caution to the wind and tries the trick that makes or breaks this thing?'”

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