X-Games Day 2

Camera Phone Pics, Sorry Lo Quality.
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I headed to the Staples Center about 4:00 in the afternoon. Suprisingly enough the traffic was not that bad and I breezed right through, damn, maybe I will move downtown, ehh, nevermind. BMX Vert started at 5:30 followed by an evening of Best Trick Contests: Moto-X, BMX Vert and Skate Vert.

BMX Vert ws no let down. DMC is one of my favorite riders. He has been doing it for so long and he is still killing it. His first run went really well, huge 540 combos and even some old school flair thrown in for good measure. Dennis split is eye open on a 900 to hard landing in his 2nd run. That left him in 6th. The rest of the finishings looked something like this:

9 - Koji Kraft
8 - Jay Eggleston
7 - Tom Haugen
6 - Dennis McCoy
5 - Jimmy Walker
4 - Kevin Robinson

3rd - Simon Tabron - What can I say, Simon is another rider I always look foward to watching. He has great flow, dialed tricks and he can doo a 900 on command. He did do one of these in both of his runs and it left him in 3rd place.

2nd - Jamie Bestwick - I know what your saying, "Jamie got 2nd?" Jamie put together a good first run that left him 2nd behind Kagy. In his 2nd run Jamie was killing it he did his flairwhip, then another big airtrick right back into the falir double whip. He got a little squirlly on the last trick and that ended his run a little early. He hung it out and it was amazing, but not good enough for 1st.

1st - Chad Kagy - Can you say excitement? Kagy took first after his first run. It is hard to imagine what would have had to be pulled out of the bag in order to take the first place position away from this guy. Peep this combo, flat spin whip to big air trick to flat spin barspin. I must say that the falt spin bar spin is way crazier looking than the whip variation. Those tricks along with a huge superman barspin and huge superman indian air left Chad securely in first.

Moto-X Best Trick

The only thing that can be said is Travis Pastrana DOUBLE BACKFLIP!!!! IT was in-fucking-sane! I was right there underneath the jump and you could feel the energy in the air. Peep the pics, the place went nuts.

BMX Best Trick

1 - Kevin Robinson - Double flair
2 - Chad Kagy - Flatspin double tailwhip
3 - Simon Tabron - Alley-oop no-handed 540 to turndown

Go to BMX Online to view videos.

posted by pdxbmx @ 11:58 AM