By Steve Sommerfeld
The first ever Triple Backflip has ben landed in FMX Competition in 2022 by Jayo Archer and Harry Bink at Nitro World Games.
The event created by Travis Pastrana and the Nitro Circus crew, managed to build the right set up to take Josh Sheehan’s infamous first ever Triple Flip, into a live event in front of a crowd for the first time.
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Find out how the first ever WSX went, all the background info, behind the scenes footage and everything else.
It looks like they’re coming out of the box hard with this new series and can’t wait to see it go bigger!
All I could see in my mind, was a newspaper headline saying “Idiot Australian lost in Indonesia Jungle”
What started as a disaster on my first ever FMX Tour of Indonesia, turned into a really cool opportunity to go riding in the jungle to the top of a volcano with Sheeny and Clinton Moore. And then almost back to disaster again!
History has been made in X Games Moto this year with Jacko Strong landing the first ever 110ft Front Flip, before Rob Adelberg bested it with the first ever Front Flip to Front Flip in a line (Next Gen ramp into 110ft ramp) to blow everyone’s mind.
Guillem Navas broke the Quarter Pipe Highest Air record on his first jump of the competition but by the end of the comp, Colby Raha set a new record of 49 feet 0 inches!
And Julien Vanstippen just unleashed one of the biggest whips we’ve ever seen on a 110ft ramp by going completely upside down, inside out and back to front!
The German, Luc Ackermann managed to be crowned champion in the FMX comp for the second time after having also won in 2019.
The final was won by the young German together against the Australian Josh Sheehan and the Japanese Taka Higashino.
It’s time for the big one! Best Trick is the event we wait for every year to see what everyone has been working on, and after last years hiatus, I think it’s fair to assume everyone was really looking forward to this event since the guys had effectively 2 years to hone their tricks!
And it looked like only David Rinaldo was willing to bring something completely new to the game with his new body varial, called the Bobby Spin
Adam Jones gives his wrap-up of the Freestyle Motocross competition in the latest Riders Lounge Podcast episode and gave one of the biggest compliments I think any rider would want to hear from a fellow rider!
Luc Ackermann took the gold medal at X Games, but I think this badge of honour has been coming for a while, so it was cool to hear Adam saying what he thinks.
The motocross discipline which measures style over anything else, returned to X Games 2021 with Best Whip and there was a huge shake-up in the results with surprise eliminations and a very deserving winner!
Tom Parsons brought the heat with some of the biggest whips ever done on a dirt bike, and he took the win over Wanky (Genki Watanabe) who has some of the best Turn Down whips as well
From Luc’s incredible win, to Sheeny’s impressive run, Adelberg’s mistake that cost him potentially a win and David Rinaldo landing an all new trick! Bink and Benny Richards took dirt samples and couldn’t finish and Taka was perfect like always and Jacko made some big mistakes which we didn’t expect! X Games had it all!!!
Luc Ackermann Rob Adelberg Harry Bink Taka Higashino Ben Richards David Rinaldo Josh Sheehan Jackson Strong
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