| Date: July 30th - August 2nd, 2009. Place: . |
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| STREET | |
| QUALIFYING FatTony, www.ridebmx.com, july 30th, 2008: way. Street Qualifying Results (Top 6 Advance To Finals) 1. FINALS Bart de Jong, www.fatbmx.com, august 2008: They much. FatTony, www.ridebmx.com, july 31st, 2008: Stre to icepige. Results: 1. |
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| VERT | |
| Steve Emig, freestylebmxtales.blogspot.com, august 2010: I just watched the bike vert finals. I cannot freakin' believe that Dennis McCoy is still competing on vert. Actually, after all his falls, I can't believe Dennis even remembers his own name, let alone how to ride a bike. Way to go DMC! In addition to doing color commentary, Dennis pulled a 900 in one run, and Steve Swope commented that he was there when Dennis pulled his first 900. I, too, was there in Indianapolis in late July 1990 when Dennis pulled his first 900. I realized that Dennis McCoy has pulled 900 airs on a bike over a 20 year period. That's pretty freakin' amazing. Jamie Bestwick is just plain amazing on vert. Hard tricks, so high, so smooth. When I started working at Vision's video company in the 80's, I went through a ton of old skateboard footage to organize the tapes. In that footage I first discovered skater Chris Miller. In the mid '80's he was doing the amazing flowing lines in the skateparks, getting big air for the day. I thought, "That's how I want to be able to ride a bike, to with the style, flow, air, and smoothness of Chris Miller. I never came anywhere close to that image of perfection in riding, but Jamie Bestwick has. Chad Kagy did some crazy shit: Superman seat grab Indian airs, a flair whip in the big air ramp, and a double tailwhip flair? Nuts. FatTony, www.ridebmx.com, august 2nd, 2008: Whip. Press release, august 2008: Thze. Results: 1. |
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| PARK | |
| Bart de Jong, www.fatbmx.com, july 30th, 2008: Yest. QUALIFYING www.mirrabikeco.com, august 2008: Ryvely. X-Games 14 SuperPark qualification results: 1..C. FINALS Michael de Wit, www.fatbmx.com, july 2010: (...) I really don't think I need to get into how fast and original Gary Young rides, how high Chase Hawk goes or how technical Daniel Dhers was riding... Cory Bohan was riding as stylish as ever and Diogo opposite flairs were appropriately done at full speed, like everything else he does. It was exciting to see the 15 year old Brett Banasiewicz just wrecking that park, that kid has some serious threatening talent, keep an eye out for him. I think Scotty Cranmer's flair attempts over the Visor/Rainbow obstacle set him back a little and unfortunally Chase Hawk ended up crashing pretty hard, which forced him to stop riding. ,Gary Young who qualified 1st in the prelims ended up getting nice 3rd place in the finals, despite a crash really fucked with his knee. He took a breather and still rode faster then lightening, even attempted to over double peg grind the Visor. Then his apprentice from SD, Dennis Enarson. That kid is only 19, but looks and rides like a real man...always a pleasure to watch him ride. Big stuff all the way through ever corner of the park gave Dennis well deserved 2nd place. Daniel Dhers is a machine. Ever since he has come onto the scene, he has the drive and motivation to win whatever comes in his way. How a guy that skinny is able to do a trick on everything (And I mean everything) he hits, still amazes me. It's like Playstation on speed. He didn't make the podium last year, but was not going to let that happen this year. Numero Uno for the Venezualian. FatTony, www.ridebmx.com, august 2nd, 2008: Daos and high airs. Press release, august 2008: Thawesome." www.mirrabikeco.com, august 2008: Tls. Results: 1. |
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| BIG AIR | |
| FINALS Steve Emig, freestylebmxtales.blogspot.com, august 2010: I watched the Big Air last night. That event is just so nuts I don't even know what to say. I was stoked for Steve McCann, who I met back in about 2002 in Huntington Beach. Double front flip to double tailwhip about fifteen feet out. Insane. Kevin Robinson was off the hook even after popping his shoulder out twice this weekend. I think the next major sponsorship trend in alternative sports will be genetically engineered ligaments. There will be commercials like, "Kevin Robinson is sporting the new Mat Hoffman Condor Series ACL, it's made with real Gorilla DNA! Get yours today!" Actually, I hope I'm wrong about this idea. The one that really blew me away last night was Morgan Wade crashing three times trying a triple tailwhip on the monster quarterpipe. Like Swope and McCoy said last night, Wade is a true gladiator. I saw Joe Johnson try the first triple tailwhip at Woodward in 1989, and 21 years later that trick is still off the hook. Brian Tunney, espn.go.com, july 2010: Last year, at X Games 15, Kevin Robinson won the Gold Medal doing a run that had previously won him Gold in 2007: a huge no-handed backflip over the 70-footer to no-handed flair at height on the 27-foot quarter. Tonight, Chad Kagy took a similar route, landing a backflip tailwhip over the 70-footer to flair whip on the quarter, the same run that won him X Games Gold in 2008. Australian Steve McCann grabbed the Silver Medal, followed closely by fellow Australian and X Games Big Air rookie Andy Buckworth, who goes home with the Bronze medal. After completing a Bikes Over Baghdad mission to Iraq earlier this year, Kagy asked U.S. soldiers to autograph his helmet, ultimately dedicating his win to the troops overseas. "We couldn't do what we do if not for them," added Kagy. The unexpected story of the night was, without a doubt, Big Air's embrace of the double frontflip. Last year, Big Air competitor Anthony Napolitan debuted the trick, and tonight, fellow Big Air competitors Steve McCann and Andy Buckworth also landed the double frontflip. Napolitan finished in fourth place tonight, followed by Morgan Wade in fifth and last year's Gold Medalist Kevin Robinson in sixth. In non-flip related news, Morgan Wade, as always, rolled the dice with a dream run that never came to fruition: a no-handed backflip over the 70-footer to triple tailwhip at height on the quarter. During Wade's highest triple whip attempt, he reached 18"3' on the quarter, but either slipped his pedals or crashed upon landing during each of his runs. "I came so close, but it just didn't want to happen," said Wade, bruised and battered with two black eyes and over 20 stitches in his forehead from the park event earlier this week. This year's event was moved from inside the Staples Center to outside in the L.A. Coliseum. Amid dirt rally races, the Big Air ramp quickly became coated with a layer of dirt, prompting complaints from the athletes and shortened practice sessions. "This definitely should have been inside," said Anthony Napolitan. In the end, the ramp was dusted off, the wind died down, and everyone in Big Air went home alive. They might just be sore for the next few days. Really sore. FatTony, www.ridebmx.com, august 1st, 2008: Duress. Press release, august 2008: Thenight." www.mirrabikeco.com, august 2008: BMus madness. Results: 1. |
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