The X Games thread

disappointed that i didn't see anyone use the bowl part of the ramp but i'm guessing Burnquist did at the very least. i guess i have to wait for the full thing.

(they also showed, two nights before, a repeat of the best-of the xgames from 2001(?) specifically the skateboard vert where Bucky was sitting pretty with 95% and only Bob to skate...)

olympics? pah! 8)

second half of moto-x big air (travis was robbed of second)
all the step up (yawn)
ryan's very final (and atrocious) run on bike park
most of first run in bike vert
that new moto-x indoor / outdoor thing (yawn)
the skateboard best trick (although without sandro's 900. was that after time? no mention of it in the commentary but then they showed the winners podium and there he was)

disappointed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5iK2lpKHUA
(you only need to watch the first 7 seconds)

(ch5 coverage lacking again this year but think it may be a fault of the coverage they were given. didn't show either of the gold or silver runs for bmx vert. vert ramp is over-complicated this year. bmx dirt had only 3 jumps on it = dud. rally cars = dud. surfing = dud)

this year's footage is currently being shown on ch5 about an hour a week on 5. but x-games themselves seem to be bent on destroying the aspects of it i like by constant fiddling with the format. out has gone the 8 people in the skateboard and bmx vert finals getting 3 decent runs of a minute each, top score wins and in comes a final 5 in a jam format of 30 seconds each, 15 minutes total, sum of two highest scores wins*. bob b didn't make the skate vert final, no sign of shaun. no inline vert that i can see. no flatlands. even the vert ramp looked like it had seen better days - the flat looked like little more than planks. (the park was nice though)

the skate and bmx big air is fun but very much a 1 trick pony. and then they added big grind, or whatever, which was just dull with nobody making anything. ditto skate street which is 10 people having 10 attempts each at 1 obstacle, no flow. way too much moto.

at least, unlike some other channels, they didn't edit it to oblivion. saw one thing on ch4 where a bloke ws doing a run and they put in fast cuts and camera angles and slowmo to make it look more exciting i guess. bloke was doing flairs and 540s and tailwhips but that wasn't exciting enough, somehow.

(jamie bestwick in the bmx vert, first two runs 49/50 (nobody else got close), hung up & banged head on third run. interviewed as the winner with no memory of what had happened or what he'd done)

http://superstoker.com/2009/08/x-games-15-double-frontflip-on-bmx/

http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=OahP1ehXzWg

(very little footage available online, even expn has only clips and interviews)

duuuude shaun white's halfpipe run, oh shit

http://espn.go.com/action/xgames/winter/2012/story/_/id/7499290/shaun-white-earns-perfect-score-five-peats-winter-x-snowboard-superpipe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hobziq6Xn_4

this is so sick, watch it all

i actually love x (ilx!) games and watch it often, let's form a club