Metal Mulisha's Brian Deegan

Welcome to Young Hollywood! What's up guys? It's Michelle Marie coming to you from X-Games 16. I am here with Young Hollywood and Vitamin Water. Of course, I'm here with Mr. Brian Deegan, the one and only legend right here. How you feeling?

Feeling good, you know, another year X-Games. We're back at the LA Coliseum. A lot of history here for me. It's where I won my first Supercross. Did the first 360, shut down Pastrana here. So, uh, some good memories. Hope we can make some more.

You are a legend and you pretty much helped formulate the whole freestyle motorcross phenomenon. How do you feel about the way it's grown?

I'm excited about freestyle motorcross. You know, it's, back in the day, I used to race Supercross and and we rebelled against the sport and we started freestyle built on character images and and it's just grown so big and and I'm excited to still be involved in it and we have 12 guys on the militia team that are in X-Games this year. So, uh, it it's on. I feel like that's where my heart is, it's freestyle. So, Yeah. I know. Yeah.

Well, speaking of um, pretty dope bikes. I have to say these two are pretty dope. Tell me more about them.

Yeah, I've moved to the four strokes, which means I, you know, I used to ride the Honda 250, two strokes. So, the 450's are the new thing. Started back-flipping these, which was easier because it's more power, but they are heavier. So, I ride Hondas. All all black's been my deal since day one with the spikes and heavy metal. It's just been militia. Right. So, that's the way the bikes are all clean, ready to go.

Tell me more about Metal Militia and how you came up with the whole concept.

Well, militia formed by just being rebels like the guys, uh, enduro bikes that were the rebels and and it was me and my buddies and we thought, "All right, let's put a name on our group." And militia sound cool. So, we're like, "All right, we built off that." And then X-Games hit and we came in 99. We were like, the guys in all black and heavy metal and spikes and and Pastrana was a good guy, we were the bad guys and it just blew up. Right.

What have you done to, you know, help recoup your body and get to the next level?

It's kind of odd, you know, that the the less I ride, you know, the worse I feel. I have to be on my bike and and one thing I learned, you know, from blowing up my kidney, my spleen, broken over 20 bones, almost dying three times, is to kind of taper it down a little bit. Not take as many chances and, but I still love riding. Still do back-flips and freestyle and, but I've kind of pushed my interest to car racing. So, stock cars, rally cars, short course race trucks. So,

Okay. And you're in a roll cage. So, yeah. That's a You're more protected. Ah, worst case you're gonna burn, you know. We gotta protect this legend. You can't go anywhere. What are the things that you do as far as essentials that you have to go out there and win a race? Are there three essentials that maybe you can think of?

I I get prepared. Months before the event, I practice, train, go to the gym and, you know, get my bike dialed, do testing. When I show up, this is the time to have fun. This isn't work time. You know, do all your work before the event and that's why I see success come from.

You have a huge crowd right over here and you have this huge booth right here. You have so much success that has come to your life. You know, it's got to be such a humbling experience.

Yeah, it is. You know, in in the end, I, you know, growing up in Nebraska, small town and I chased my dream of riding dirt bikes. You know, and I remember I came to California in an old pickup truck and and a couple dirt bikes and a credit card, that's all I had. I had nothing. And and I just had a dream and desire to to build to build this. And, you know, it got obviously a lot bigger than I ever thought. But, in the end, I love it and we keep moving forward. I think militia is so big because it's so real. And, you know, people think Metal Militia is a clothing company. No, it's a group of guys. It's my boys. It's the the dudes that are hanging out here. So, it's on. We came here to represent and dominate. And I always said, "World domination." So, What's up, Young Hollywood? Brian Deegan here from the Metal Militia. We're at X-Games, represent. Just saying, what's up?