X Games IX

[Brian in Mesa]

Anyone watching?

Awesome tricks and wipeouts as usual.

Metzger got hurt a couple of weeks ago (concussion and wrist injury) doing one of the sickest tricks out there, the motocross backflip with a heel-click. Someone did it yesterday. Deegan did a sick 360, which Pastrana later tried and wiped out...but got back on and landed a perfect one, after time had expired - he did it for the fans.

Nyquist tore it up on the bike dirt freestyle.

Glad to see the X Games getting bigger and bigger.

Now the Olympics even want to add some of the X sports.

As Tony Hawk said "The Olympics need the X Games more than the X Games need the Olympics."

 

[thirty-two]

Originally posted by Brian in Mesa
Anyone watching?

Not I.

I am a wimp and can't stand watching them fall off their bikes and twist ankles and cracked skulls and... I don't know why I watch football either.. but anyway.

 

[green machine]

I decided not to watch them after the commercials I saw ended with "X games 9, it's off the hizzle fishizzle dizzle"

adam

 

[EndZone]

Originally posted by Brian in Mesa
Anyone watching?

Awesome tricks and wipeouts as usual.

Metzger got hurt a couple of weeks ago (concussion and wrist injury) doing one of the sickest tricks out there, the motocross backflip with a heel-click. Someone did it yesterday. Deegan did a sick 360, which Pastrana later tried and wiped out...but got back on and landed a perfect one, after time had expired - he did it for the fans.

Nyquist tore it up on the bike dirt freestyle.

Glad to see the X Games getting bigger and bigger.

Now the Olympics even want to add some of the X sports.

As Tony Hawk said "The Olympics need the X Games more than the X Games need the Olympics."

I watched the replay last night! Totally sick! Pastrana is fun to watch. I went to the FMX event here Aug 2nd. Nate Adams won, he was the only one to do a back flip...eveidentally they had made a pact not to do the backflip and he broke it....I told the guy next to me "if I bought this ticket came down here and didn't get to see a backflip I would have been PISSED!" It was a great time!

 

[Assface]

I used to ride my bmx all the time but I haven't in the last few years and now I'm fat. I really need to start riding again. I would wath the X Games but I don't have cable. Can someone let me know if Dave Voelker is riding this year and if he is how he's doing?

 

[Brian in Mesa]

Originally posted by Floridacard
I would wath the X Games but I don't have cable.

Check your local listings...much of it has been shown on ABC (Channel 15 here).

 

[AZCB34]

The only Summer X game I like is street luge. When that is shown, I am watching. Otherwise, give me Winter X

 

[AndyO]

I watch it every night, I love it, and I'm not exactly in the age-demo that it's targeted for, thats for sure. But, hey, it is entertaining, and thats the bottom line. I think those guys deserve a lot more respect as athletes than say golfers.

I look forward to watching every night.

 

[EndZone]

BIM do you ride?

 

[DRVNFAST]

Deegan pulled off a back flip varial. Not sure what he's going to name since he invented it.

The back flip heel clicker is called the McNasty, and was coined ny Metz.

 

[Brian in Mesa]

Originally posted by EndZone
BIM do you ride?

Nah, never anything in competition. Have ridden many dirtbikes and quadrunners for fun though.

 

[Brian in Mesa]

Tony Hawk, Best Trick Gold, landed a sweet 900. Just sick.

 

[Mike Olbinski]

Originally posted by Brian in Mesa
Tony Hawk, Best Trick Gold, landed a sweet 900. Just sick.

Saw that, was pretty sweet...I love the thowing of his board right after too, that makes being a skateboarder worth it

Mike

 

[arthurracoon]

Re: Re: X Games IX

Originally posted by thirty two
Not I.

I am a wimp and can't stand watching them fall off their bikes and twist ankles and cracked skulls and... I don't know why I watch football either.. but anyway.

I agree.

But in football you really don't see the guys get injured. Something happens, and then they are on the ground.