By Steve Sommerfeld
With a bunch of rad individuals joining the full podcast, it was cool to get everyone’s opinion of this years competition, what was good, what didn’t work, but it was Guillem’s eye for detail in how the riders were approaching the jump which was really cool to listen too, from someone who has actually jumped this ramp.
And you should probably remember… there are not many people in the world who have even attempted to jump this vertical wall of death!
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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.
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Beating Axell Hodges on his home turf, Colby Raha broke the X Games record for Quarter Pipe Highest Air by sending his Husky 40 feet 9 inches to claim the Gold Medal in the 2021 competition, relegating Axell to a Silver medal.
out this sequence of photos by Travis Truitt Photography!
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Edgar Torronteras joined the latest podcast to talk about the Best Trick competition and more specifically, David Rinaldo not taking home the Gold Medal, which went to Australia’s Rob Adelberg.
It was an incredibly tough decision, but Rob took the win with the Front Flip no hander which was absolutely perfect.
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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
X Games 110 is a new discipline and I’m not going to lie, I didn’t really know what to expect and… I thought it was going to get some pretty harsh reviews.
This is a small snippet of his review of the Best Whip competition this year which saw Tom Parsons take the win a couple of years after returning with the thumb-throttle assembly after breaking his wrist badly.
Now he has a Gold Medal from Best Whip after throwing his bike in every direction and snagging the win over Genki Watanabe (Wanky) who had one of the biggest Turn-Downs ever. Who did you think should have won?
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