By Motorcycle Advice USA, on August 4th, 2010
FMX Rider Ronnie Faisst
Mays Landing native Ronnie Faisst will never forget this year’s X Games competition.
Faisst left the Stapes Center in Los Angeles on Sunday thinking he had narrowly missed out on the chance to finish in the top three in the Moto X Speed & Style event, which combines motorcycle racing with tricks. He was wrong.
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By Motorcycle Advice USA, on July 30th, 2010
X-Games 16, Pastrana doing a double backflip
Travis Pastrana earned his seventh Moto X Freestyle gold medal at the Los Angeles Coliseum Thursday night — the same place he won his fourth in 2003. Despite persistent rumors that Pastrana would bring his double backflip, which he’s only thrown in a Best Trick competition once (at X Games in 2006), to Thursday’s Final, the trick wasn’t necessary.
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By Motorcycle Advice USA, on June 30th, 2010
VICTORY!!!!!!
Moscow’s historical Red Square brought 40,000 fans on Saturday night to watch the twelve best freestyle motocross riders compete in this third stop of the Red Bull Moto X-Fighters World Tour. Nate Adams and Levi Sherwood battled it out in the final match up, and Victory went to 18-year-old New Zealand native Levi Sherwood.
The Red Square is a world-famous location. located in Russia’s capital city, they turned it into an FMX course like no other for the event. 250 loads of dirt buried the historic streets to set the scene for a legendary event that will not soon be forgotten.
Sherwood weighed in on the competition: “The tricky course here was just right for me. This day will go down in history.” To take the persuading win, Sherwood threw down his deep collection of super extended tricks without flaw, like his crazy ruler flip and seat grab Indy flip.
With skyrocketing temperatures and a sold-out crowd, the conditions were not favorable for most. Adams, who came in second to the young gun Sherwood explained, “The pressure was huge, the course was tough and the heat was a problem for everyone.
” He went on to talk about how honorable it was to compete in such an iconic landmark: “It is an incredible feeling to jump here. The equivalent back home in the USA would be to perform in the garden of the White House!” Adams threw down his classic, yet dense bag of tricks including a 360 nac and an array of flip combos. However, it just wasn’t enough to stop the New Zealander teenager.
Norway’s Andre Villa finished third in Moscow remains in the overall lead in the Red Bull X-Fighters World Tour 2010, 20-points ahead of Adams. Despite FMX Rider Robbie Maddison‘s famous long-distance jumps over London’s Tower Bridge and the Corinth Canal in Greece, he failed to qualify for the semi-finals after missing a landing on a flip combo-gone-wrong — nearly taking a massive soil sample. Maddo eventually finished fifth behind Japan’s Eigo Sato.
Following stops in Mexico City, Cairo and Moscow, the X-Fighters tour now moves on to the Plaza de Toros de las Ventas bullfighting ring in Madrid for the next event of the season on July 22-23 before the final two events of the season in London on August 14 and Rome on October 1.
FMX Rider Levi Sherwood
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