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!

X Games is still delivering huge moments in FMX history, and we go into who was invited, who wasn’t.  Who won.  Who lost.  Who crashed their brains out and who created history.

We also delve into some of the hot topics of it being back at Slayground, no crowds, 90% Monster Energy riders, where the hell is Pat Bowden’s invite, Bilko’s awesome commentary and cover all of the events from Freestyle Motocross, Best Trick, Best Whip, Quarter Pipe Highest Air and 110s

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Close to 40,000 fans experienced up close the emotions and tricks of the riders in the FMX and BMX modalities.

Six riders on motorcycles and five on bikes managed to win over the public by offering a world-class event.

The German Luc Ackermann managed to be crowned champion in the FMX modality , he does it for the second time after having also won in 2019.

The final was played by the young German together with the Australian Josh Sheehan and the Japanese Taka Higashino.

In BMX, the young Englishman Kieran Reilly stood out with his debut and victory , who obtained outstanding scores from the previous qualifying rounds. Second place went to Costa Rican Kenneth Tencio, who made a small mistake in the final round that took away important points.

For the first time, the event had “airbag landings”, which eliminated the use of land on the circuit , in addition, the risk decreases for the pilots and it does not depend so much on the weather.

1. Luc Ackermann GER 91 points
2. Josh Sheehan FROM 90 points
3. Taka Higashino JAP 88 points
4. Filip Podmol CZE 80 points
5. Maikel Melero ESP 70 points
6. David Rinaldo FRA 69 points

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Watch as all the action goes down in Cologne at NIGHT of the JUMPs with Team Germany up against Italy and Spain

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Firstly we cover Munich with the World Team vs Team Czech vs Team France.  Huge crashes, some controversial decisions I thought, but one hell of a return for the season.

And the second event held in Cologne just last weekend was between Team Germany vs Spain vs Italy.  And with some of the best riders having only 2 hours sleep, they still threw down like you would have never known!

Find out how Luc Ackermann managed to smash into the wall in Munich, Maxime Gregoire returning to try land the Nac-Flair which he crashed out on in Basel in 2021.  David Rinaldo on fire and filling in for Germany for some reason?!  Kai Haase returning to competition after his AMA SX training crash in the USA with a Front Flip with absolutely no training.  Marc Pinyol getting back on the bike after being heavily concussed only a few days before competition.

Plenty more went on, but you’ll have to listen to find out!

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On Sunday the second Freestyle of Nations competition for 2022 took hold in front of more than 8,000 spectators in Cologne’s LANXESS arena with the teams from Italy, Spain and Germany going head to head. Two of the world’s best riders, Luc Ackermann and David Rinaldo, both world champions and X Games gold medallists were in the German team which was complimented by the return of Kai Haase after his supercross training accident in the USA.

Team Italy rounded up an incredibly strong team with the Highest Air record holder, 5-time World Champion and X Games medalist Massimo Bianconcini with the stylish duo of Leonardo Fini and Davide Rossi. Team Spain, on the other hand, was led by the young gun Marc Pinyol who recently recovered from a huge crash only 10 days prior to competition and joined by the tandem duo of Rocky Florensa and Antonio Navas as well as the young Czech Matej Cesak who completed the “Selección”. Rinaldo was added as a wild card to Team Germany and Cesak to Team Spain.

Germany started the event as the event favourites going into the first round.  Berlin’s Kai Haase (GER) surprised everyone after 6 months off the bike from injury to return with his Lazyboy Flip and finishing with the unexpected Front Flip. In doing so, he relegated Marc Pinyol (ESP) and Massimo Bianconcini (ITA) to second and third places respectively. The Italian freestyle legend tried to counter this in the Best Whip Contest. ‘Bianco’ made it to the semifinals against Matej Cesak and Kai Haase but had to say goodbye as Matej and Kai went head to head in an epic Whip final with Kai Haase narrowly beating the young Cesak with crowd decision and scored 100 bonus points for Team Germany.

The Frenchman David Rinaldo, who filled in for his good friend Hannes Ackermann who was unable to ride for Germany, dominated the second Freestyle Round. With electricity inside the arena at a high, Rinaldo turned it on with extremely difficult tricks with the California roll and finished his Double-Up with a dead sailor, but returned with a Double Hart Flip just for the crowd.  It was still just enough to be at the top of the round, despite the mistake. The Italian, Davide Rossi moved into second place with a Cliffhanger Backflip and Ruler Flip, which relegated the Spanish Tandem duo of Navas & Rocky to third place after impressing the crowd with their unique tricks like the Superman and Ruler at the same time.

In the synchro contest, Team Germany and Team Spain fought a spectacular battle. With two perfectly synchronized Indy Flips, and a mistake from Team Germany, Marc Pinyol and Matej Cesak managed to secure the most important 100 points for the Iberians to keep them in the race.

In the third freestyle round, Matej performed spectacularly with a Tsunami Flip and a Seatgrab Flip. But Leonardo Fini countered with tricks like the Hart Attack Flip and technical Rowedova Flip. Then it was time for the German FMX Terminator Luc Ackermann. Having flown in from Prague with only two hours of sleep, the German World Champion was still unstoppable and ignited a veritable fireworks display of tricks. With the biggest Tsunami Flip of the evening, Flatspin 360, Holygrab and finishing with a clean Double Flip as the crowning finale, he received the highest score of the evening with 96 points as the crowd inside the LANXESS arena roared.

Team Germany put the icing on the cake after winning the Best Trick with a Rock Solid Backflip by David Rinaldo and another Double Backflip by Luc Ackermann and secured overall victory with 547 points. Spain came in second with 449 points ahead of Italy in third with 408 points.

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Who is flying upside down in the sky there against the picturesque backdrop of the Cologne Cathedral? It’s German freestyle motocross world champion and X Games winner Luc Ackermann, who is launching off on a spectacular ride on land, water and air with never seen before tricks. For this, he creatively uses the urban obstacles of Duisburg’s shipping port as a freestyle course and ends with a huge backflip finale over a 25-meter gap between two moving cargo ships on the Rhine.

Reigning freestyle motocross world champion Luc Ackermann pulls out all the stops in FMX art for his new video project. His breathtaking journey starts on the containers of the Rhenus Port Logistics Rhine-Ruhr port in Duisburg. From there, the 23-year-old from Germany steers his 63-horsepower motocross bike over, under and between moving shipping containers and past container canyons, all the way down to a jump from a height of 10 meters into the hold of a cargo ship. Up the Rhine at full speed, Luc catapults himself from ship to ship with a tsunami backflip for his last big stunt in front of the towers of Cologne Cathedral and rightly goes into a frenzy of joy.

Three world´s first tricks and a supersize freestyle parkour

Nine world records, a world championship title and an X Games gold medal: Luc Ackermann loves special challenges and masters them with flying colors. Plagued by competition cancellations, he set his own new goals. True to his motto “Go Big or Go Home,” it quickly became clear over the course of the past one and a half years of planning that they were big as usual. Three “World’s Firsts” – tricks that no one before him had ever jumped before – were to be his goals. For the “Backflip Bonk” he jumps halfway backwards onto a container suspended twelve meters above the ground, touches the underside upside down with his rear tire and completes the rotation. The “360° Sand Curtain“, a lateral 360°-degree rotation around its own axis, is garnished by falling sand from an excavator shovel and the 25-meter wide “Tsunami Backflip“, in which Luc flies above the Rhine while only hanging on his handlebars, complete the trick trio.

FMX vs. FPV: Two pioneers of the art of flight take off together

To capture Luc’s lines on film, he sent in Paul Kuhn, one of the most talented FPV drone pilots, who could also keep up with his airtime and speed. Instead of a lively and light drone with a small action camera, Paul piloted a 4-kilogram drone partly just a few centimeters away from Luc and his FMX bike. The controlled and fast flying of such a drone can be compared to Luc’s sporty world class level. The result is impressive dynamic tracking shots and new perspectives on one of the best in his sport.

Biography

Luc Ackermann (born 06.01.1998) is a German freestyle motocross professional from Niederdorla, Thuringia. He became famous in the FMX scene at the age of twelve when he jumped the youngest backflip ever on a motorcycle. To date, he has collected a full nine world records, including securing the 2019 World Championship title and an X Games gold medal in California in 2021.

You can find more information and an exciting look behind the scenes of the project at win.gs/FMXUnloaded

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It was an emotional event, with some riders doing their first event back since Covid-19 cut short the 2020 season after only one event.

With 3 teams going head to head, Germany vs France vs Spain at the Swiss border city of Basel, it was unreal to see the big names of FMX competing together in a team and taking on their arch-rivals.

But really, this one event signalled something else.  This was the return of events coming back.  While we’re not full gas and doing events everywhere around the world yet, it sets a precedent of how events can be handled in a Covid-19 safe way and hope to see more in the very near future!

We wrap up the event, the scores and answer the question of why a Czech rider ended up on the German team.

Also joining on this podcast is Marc Pinyol from Team Spain and the Swiss local, Lucas Huppert who was also drafted to join Team Spain as their MTB Best Trick pick in this new format.

Freestyle Motocross Run 1

1. Team Spain – Marc Pinyol 51 Points
2. Team Germany – Matej Cesak 46 Points
3. Team France – Maxime Gregoire 32 Points

Whip Contest

1. Team Germany – Matej Cesak 100 Points
2. Team Spain – Edgar Torronteras 80 Points
3. Team France – David Rinaldo 60 Points

Freestyle Motocross Run 2

1. Team France – Remi Bizouard  48 Points
2. Team Germany – Kai Haase 45 Points
3. Team Spain – Edgar Torronteras 41 Points

Synchro Contest

1. Team Germany – Haase/Cesak 100 Points
2. Team France – Rinaldo/Bizouard  80 Points
3. Team Spain – Melero/Pinyol  60 Points

Freestyle Motocross Run 3

1. Team Germany – Luc Ackermann 70 Points
2. Team Spain – Maikel Melero 61 Points
3. Team France – David Rinaldo  52 Points

Best Trick

1. Team Germany – Luc Ackermann = 96 Points
1. Team Germany – Nico Scholze  70 Points

2. Team France – David Rinaldo  85 Points
2. Team France – David Godziek  80 Points

3. Team Spain – Maikel Melero  78 Points
3. Team Spain – Lucas Huppert  85 Points

Overall

1. Team Germany  527 Points

2. Team Spain  456 Points

3. Team France  437 Points

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Who would have thought the youngest ever World Champion would move so fast and take the X Games Gold in Freestyle Motocross in 2021, but the new FMX Champ of pretty much everything, Luc Ackermann has done it all, even while suffering an injury before the event.

Check out his behind the scenes trip from Niederdorla, Germany to Ramona, USA and how he became the latest X Games Gold Medallist!

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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.

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