Hi all! My name is Kharchenko Dasha. I am 24 years old. I'm from St. Petersburg and do stunts on my pink 2004 Kawasaki ZX6R 636.
I love drifting. Now I'm learning to drift
Oh, my gas tank has screwed off. Tank fastening broke. But I do not have a bolt to fix it so that it wobbles.
Are you drift in one or both directions?
Both. Right and left.
I don’t know why hands are simply taken away after drifts.
I falling all the time.
Did you have any injuries?
Well, for some reason I constantly have problems with my legs.
Ligaments, ligament bruises, I think.
Of the most serious, I had a bruised shoulder ligaments. I fell off doing a drift. When I was learning to drift to the right. I was thrown out - caught the highside.
And after that, I couldn't train for about a month. This is the most serious thing that happened.
Thank god, I didn't have any fractures
I know, you have a super popular Instagram. Right?
Yes
How many followers?
At the moment, 150 thousand.
And I really love it, I learn some tricks in order to put it on Instagram so that people could check it out
Any way I teach not for myself but for someone else. Well. For someone to see that.
How many tricks did you learn this season?
Ooh. It's so hard to count. Well, I mastered the right drifts. I have mastered the right circles, which now I can’t do on new tires.
What else? I started climbing on the tank in circles.
Well, a lot of things, I just can't remember quickly.
Started drifting in a different position - legs on the steering wheel.
I've been riding since 2017. But, training hard since 2017.
It turns out - 4 years.
On the big one since 18.
And what can you say? Is it needs to switch so quickly to a big motorcycle?
Probably it would be better to ride a small one because there are tricks that are difficult for me to do on big one.
For example, sitdown wheelie on a foot brake
I ride badly in leg position, in general
And it probably made sense to ride the small bike for another year.
So after it would be easier to transfer everything to the big one.
Because after a small one I transferred the usual circles to a big motorcycle in one day.
And what was your small bike?
Yamaha Tricker two hundred and fifty cubes.
Well, it's not too small.
By the way, I bought a Honda Grom 125 cubes just in order to learn some tricks that are difficult for me to do on the big motorcycle.
By the way, yes, I have a problem with stoppies.
I really have a problem with stoppies, in the sense that for some reason I'm psychologically scared.
I mean, doing some acrobatics is not as scary as stoppies.
The last time, it was, maybe 15 meters. But this is only after numerous attempts. After half hour of training, I can show something. But, this not good.
Is it your tool? Do you always carry it?
Yes. And everyone uses it. And it gets lost, by the way, every time.
Someone takes it and does not return. Here the hexagons are already lost.
Well, this is typical. Don't give it to anyone.
Well, how? How not to give?
Well, I even have motorcycle shorts.
It looks like I have such a big butt because I wear tailbone protection there.
I fall on my tailbone quite often and it really protects me. Motorcycle shorts are a thing.
Knees, ankle protectors. Sneakers.
Here I have elbows, shoulders and back with chest
Hips and tailbone. Here I also have everything metal.
What kind of knees did you choose?
I use FUSE knees for now
So, By the way, I like them, I really like them. But I don't like them because I have irritation on my skin after long training.
I don't know how to deal with this situation.
Apparently, the skin sweats a lot under the knees and irritation appears if you wearing them all day every day.
What is your Instagram so everyone can subscribe?
In general, it is easier to find Dasha Kharchenko because no one knows how to spell the stunt word.
Correct name is stuntgirl.dasha
Tell them - subscribe guys.
Subscribe, of course. There are a lot of videos with my crashes.
How do you like Sochi in general? Is it high or it sucks?
It's great when there are people.
I cannot live without people. I could not live there alone and train there alone. Despite the nature, beautiful mountains, palm trees.
Anyway, I can't imagine my life without people.
It makes no difference to me in what city to live, what is in St. Petersburg or what is in Moscow. I'm in Moscow now because there are people here.
Two winters in a row I went to Sochi to train. It's cool when you train for a whole year.
But I remember perfectly the year before last when I trained for the summer, then I trained all winter and then the whole next summer I didn't want to.
You are burned out somehow.
No Sochi this year?
No, I do not want to. I don't want to burn out. I would like to take such a break so that later I want just burst in the new season.
My stock frame was cracked, I sold it, bought a steel one. There are no problems with steel yet.
But it becomes heavier, or you do not care?
Well, I just didn't ride too much on my own frame. But recently here the other day I took a motorcycle on the stock frame from a friend and was surprised, how lightweight it was
It turns out my kawasaki is really heavy.
I loved Pilot Road 1 tire. I thought I could never ride another tire.
And just recently I changed the tire. What was it? BT-21 it seems to be called?
Yes BT-21, and I am falling in love with this tire! It's just gorgeous. And after that, I put the Pilot Road 1 back and I didn't like it anymore.
Do you buy new or used tires?
Used of course. In the trash stores. I drive to the trash stores to buy tires.
And how much does it cost
A used tire is probably worth 40 bucks. And this is a good price. Sometimes it priced higher. I don't take it for a higher price.
During winter, I want to completely disassemble and repaint my Kawa. I just really don't like the color.
Why?
Well, it's pale, pink. Ew.
I want hot pink and add more black.
By the way, during winter I want to learn to stand on my hands.
I have this checkmark. To make a headstand on a bike.
I really want to master this trick.
This is more likely not pole dancing, but rather pole acrobatics. I did various tricks.
And of course, I already had strong arms. When I came to stunt riding, it was not hard for me to lift up the motorcycle.
Today my only activity is stunt riding. And my arms getting stronger due to this. I'm constantly feeling muscle pain on my spine and shoulders.
And people noticing my biceps quite often. Here. I can show.
This is what stunt riding looks like behind the scenes.
She jumped on the tank, on the Moscow style tank, and hit her tailbone
I jumped onto the tank. To make a highchair drift. And hit my tailbone by the corner of this tank, so hard that something cracked there.
My tailbone protection slipped down. It was such a crunch, and right now it hurts so very bad.
Too hurts to walk. Better to lie down a while. Maybe it will pass after half an hour.
Did you lie down like this before?
Yes, many times.
Mostly because of the legs.
Usually, it's a foot sprain
With the tailbone, this happened probably the second time.
And what was the first time?
The first time, there was such a hard kick, but nothing crunched.
It scary because something crunched and I don't know what it was.
Guys ask me to look at this. But I don't want them to look.
How did it happen, I did not understand.
I jumped onto the tank. I drifted drifted drifted. I jumped onto the tank, legs over the handlebar.
And because of the great inertia, apparently. I hit it hard with my but.
The corner of the tank. The lip of the backrest.
The most important is not to break anything.
Because I don't want to lie like this for two weeks. Or how long they usually lie like that. I don't know. I've never broken anything, so I don't know how long it takes usually. But I think for a long time.
The worst is to lie around and do nothing.
And so in general I never wanted to quit the stunt if that's what you mean.
I can try to sit down.
No, it hurts.
I cannot sit upright. Training is over for today. For sure.
I think it's just a bruise. I can walk.
So, by the way, it does not hurt while standing.
But it hurts when bending forward. So hard.
Yes, bending down is not possible.
In fact, anything can happen. The finger can be chopped easily.
For example, my friend Anton
Have you heard this story?
Well, this is one story in a million. I would not say that it's a real possibility.
If we consider such probabilities, then everything can happen with people even in daily life.
I know people who broke hands. It can be said that This can happen. But chopped finger...
Compared with motocross, stunt riding is not dangerous.
Well maybe. But it's still very traumatic.
It's good that I am lightweight. When I fall, my weight does not put much pressure on my bones.
If I weighed 30 kg more and would fall with all my weight on my hand, for example, then there is a greater chance that I would break it.
Goodbye, everyone. Subscribe to Stuntex channel. To my instagram. And see you soon.