X Games 2006 Photos!
It was a long, long weekend. Tons of crazy shit went down and most of it was done by Travis Pastrana. Single flip KOD’s (we pretty much have to call them single flips now because of that double flip business, hahah), single flip lazy boy’s and of course, the Double Backflipper!
All that was well and good, but you can’t forget those guys fighting for second and third place. Jim McNeil and Adam Jones were riding insane with stuff like single flip Cordova’s and seat grab Indian airs, plus, these guys have their non-inverted tricks dialed. It seems the rest of ‘em were dropping like flys trying to ride at the level of TP, that or just going for crazy ass tricks. It was not even fun to watch during the Freestyle prelims — just scary. The finals were good, though. McNeil got shafted on his score, but it happens to everyone sometimes. It happens to Mason and Jones all the time, but things come full circle and look at them now… bronze and silver respectively.
Step Up was really weird this year.
Actually, it was more lame than weird.
Did I mention I hate the ticket checker guys (the chicks aren’t as bad) at all venues? Well, I do! They cost me at least a few sweet shots in between changing angles between runs by not letting me sit in completely empty sections of stands. WTF!? Sorry, had to vent.
Anyways, hope you enjoy the photos! (leave some blog comments if you do)
I had a good time shooting them.
August 9th, 2006 at 9:16 am
Sweet photos.. man they are getting pretty crazy with their flipperoos these days. What will they be doing 5 years from now?
August 9th, 2006 at 10:01 pm
in 5 years I see David Blaine (the magician) enter fmx and doing quadruple front flip 540’s (yes, to fakie) to hovering in mid air while the bike lands and does the rest of the run without him and then comes back and picks him up in mid-air…. all the while he has a helmet bag over his head while doing a stupid beer bottle trick for chicks like Mad Mike Jones does. But pastrana will still win because he got one extra jump in his run because he went fast around the course and shook his hands on his lazy boys and espn did a 5 minute special about him before his run therefore not having any time for the third, fourth and fifth place runs to be seen on TV. David Blaine will probably ride for Husquvarna, DC shoes and Red Bull.
after Ricky Carmichael retires from motocross for the third time in 2009 he will start doing step up with McGrath, Chad Reed, Ryan Vilopoto (he became a washed up lites class rider after the 2007 plutonium in his gas controversay) and Tommy Clowers (the only remaining fmx step up rider) because the ama still cant get a good tv package for SX or outdoors and x games is the only way for these guys to get on TV. the factories dropped all support for racing and put all their resources into x games step up. tommy clowers holds the record at 131 feet 4 inches.
pit stops will be banned from supermoto and backflip KOD’s are mandatory on every lap or you will be DQ’d.
the future looks bright… I cant wait!!!
August 6th, 2007 at 11:44 pm
how do u enter?