Well, this is a first... X Games are using concrete bowls in its park course design this year. The park will be used for both Skate and BMX competitions, and to my knowledge this is the first time this has ever been done for a temporary contest setting. Sure there have been concrete contests... in fact the first contests held were on concrete parks many years ago, but it's never been done in a situation where the course comes down right after the event! Interesting. You can see a sketch of the…
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Added by BFD on June 30, 2009 at 8:43pm —
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The Red Bull X-Fighters event went down yesterday in Fort Worth Texas in front of a jam packed crowd. FuelTV had a live webcast of the event last night, and you can still find clips from the event over on its site.
Going into the event their were plenty of rumors we'd see a double backflip out of Cam Sinclair. Well, we saw not one, but two from Cam. Unfortunately his second heat against Mat Rebaud had some bobbles, so the double flip wasn't…
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Added by BFD on June 28, 2009 at 4:29pm —
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Here are the final results from the Chicago Dew Tour (BMX Open) as they come in:
BMX VERT FINALS
1 Jamie Bestwick 92.88
2 Simon Tabron 91.50
3 Steven McCann 91.25
4 Kevin Robinson 90.38
5 Jimmy Walker 89.75
6 Dennis McCoy 89.38
7 Jay Eggleston 87.13
8 Francisco Zurita 86.63
9 Chad Kagy 84.00
10 Koji Kraft 83.00
BMX PARK FINALS
1 Dave Mirra 93.38
2 Garrett Reynolds 92.63
3 Marcus Tooker…
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Added by BFD on June 27, 2009 at 12:00pm —
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Prelim results from the Chicago Dew Tour stop are being posted here as we get them. Please note, the Chicago stop has BMX events only:
BMX PARK PRELIM RESULTS
1 Dave Mirra 90.00
2 Garrett Reynolds 89.50
3 Marcus Tooker 88.25
4 Dennis Enarson 87.88
5 Craig Mast 87.63
6 Mark Webb 87.50
7 Brandon Dosch 87.50
8 Morgan Wade 87.25
9 Steven McCann 86.88
10 Jeremiah Smith 86.38
11 Rob Darden 86.25
12 Ryan Guettler…
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Added by BFD on June 26, 2009 at 5:30pm —
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BMX VERT OPEN QUALIFIER
1 Tim Wood 86.25
2 Vince Byron 85.88
3 Koji Kraft 85.50
4 Austin Coleman 84.38
5 Mike Mancuso 83.75
6 Jorge Jovel 83.38
7 Rob Nolli 82.13
8 Danny Williams 81.50
9 Jason Branham 81.25
10 Jan Valenta 79.75
11 Brian Hunt 79.25
12 William Thompson 78.75
13 Ben Snowden 78.00
14 Jonathan Chin 75.63
15 Bob Kohl 75.50
16 Zachary Newman 73.88
17 William Richard 73.63
18 Brian Gavagan…
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Added by BFD on June 25, 2009 at 4:30pm —
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Travis Pastrana announced recently that he will not compete in most of the Moto events this year at X (Freestyle, Super X and SuperMoto) in order to focus on Rally Car Racing and Moto X Best Trick. That's right, he IS in for Best Trick, which means you better hold onto your seat because something big is going down. Travis doesn't need to ride by any means. He's proven himself time and time again, and is currently looking to dominate Rally. So if he's riding Best Trick, I suspect he's got…
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Added by BFD on June 24, 2009 at 10:09pm —
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BMX products have been getting some play on the tech blogs lately thanks to the boys over at Odyssey. The Aaron Ross signature grips they've recently released with a keyboard style pattern have the tech geeks in a tizzy. At about $10 retail, the pixel pushers can have these suckers on their fixies in no time, and Aaron's pockets will be getting padded!
Really, though, the grips are awesome. simple, different, and slick. Nice work guys. Check out more on the likes of…
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Added by BFD on June 24, 2009 at 9:58pm —
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Today Nike SB released its new skate film, Debacle, on its web site for FREE Download over the next 30 days. There are three sizes available including a 720p HD version and and IPod version.
This is a must see for sure. Justin Brock, Grant Taylor, David Clark and more are featured in this one.
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Added by BFD on June 24, 2009 at 12:24pm —
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A drawing for the Maloof Money Cup course was release today and it looks darn good on paper (well, on computer that is). Check it out below, and find more info
here.
Added by BFD on June 23, 2009 at 7:00pm —
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As part of a Father's Day celebration this past weekend, skateboard legend Tony Hawk was invited to the White House along with other athletes and celebrities including NBA players Dwayne Wade and Etan Thomas.
But despite slew of famous faces and a BBQ by Bobby Flay, most of the…
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Added by BFD on June 22, 2009 at 6:00pm —
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Need your Action Sports TV fix? The Action Sports World Tour stops from Cincinnati and Chicago will be airing on Versus later this week. Don't miss these shows. Some wild action went down at both events, so tune in or set your DVR.
Sat, June 20 3:00pm EST
Chicago Action Sports World Tour
Wed, June 24 5:00pm EST (re-air)
Chicago Action Sports World Tour
Sat, June 27 3:00pm EST
Cincinnati Action Sports World Tour
Wed, July 1 5:00pm EST…
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Added by BMX Big Air Triples: Costa Mesa on June 22, 2009 at 1:13pm —
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First it was
the rap album, then an
incident involving some mushrooms a couple weeks ago, but today on
Twitter Jereme Rogers officially announced his retirement from skateboarding. If you're in LA, the retirement party is tonight at Area. If not, it was a good run for Mr. Rogers. Curious to see…
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Added by BFD Skate on June 17, 2009 at 3:30pm —
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The 11th Annual Transworld Skateboarding Awards took place Friday night in LA. Below is a list of the winners, as well as the Red Carpet Video and photo galleries from Transworld.
BEST ROOKIE
Sean Malto
BEST STREET
Heath Kirchart
BEST TEAM
Alien Workshop
BEST VIDEO
Mind Field, Alien Workshop
BEST TRANSITION
Peter Hewitt
BEST VIDEO PART
Anthony Van Engelen,…
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Added by BFD Skate on June 15, 2009 at 11:30am —
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I got another update from Debbie's brother today. Things seem to be going well, but there is still room for much more improvement in Mike's condition. If you look at the bottom of this post, Debbie lists a website for the hospital Mike is at. You can go to that site and actually write Mike and Debbie comments. Debbie reads them all to Mike, and she says it helps keep his spirits up. As you will read in this update, they have the option to pay for an additional treatment to help Mike see again.…
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Added by Mike Vincent Fight for Sight on June 15, 2009 at 9:30am —
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I received two updates, one was really short, so I have combined them both into this post, here is the 1st one:
Here's a blog the hospital provided. I will try to update it. Please feel free to send your comments and I'll read them to Mike:
http://stemcellschina.com/blog/MikeV/
Today is a big day! First spinal infusion is at 4:30 p.m. (Wednesday - we are 12 hrs. ahead of the east coast of U.S.).
And here is the 2nd…
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Added by Mike Vincent Fight for Sight on June 12, 2009 at 12:46pm —
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This is the first update email I received from Debbie's brother:
Hi,
Michael had his first IV treatment Friday, at 4:30 p.m. They put a port in his hand around 10 a.m. in preparation, which will be removed this morning. He did great. No itching, burning or headaches which can be common side effects. The process lasted 1 hr. 15 min. and we were in the treatment room with 2 other patients and their families. One from the U.S. and the other from Australia. One down and six to…
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Added by Mike Vincent Fight for Sight on June 12, 2009 at 12:39pm —
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This was an email sent out by Debbie on May 28th, 4 days before their trip.
It has been over 16 months since Michael's (Vinny's) accident, yet the journey is just about to begin! On Monday, June 1st, we head to one of several airports on our journey to Qingdao, China. Over the course of the 5 weeks we'll be there, Michael will receive 7 treatments in a quest to restore his vision: "Michael Vincent's Fight for Sight." We go on this journey with positive attitudes, having faith…
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Added by Mike Vincent Fight for Sight on June 12, 2009 at 12:37pm —
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Memorial Day weekend we had a major event in southwestern Ohio. The ASA Action Sports World Tour for 2009 continued, with a huge event at Kings Island amusement park, just outside of Cincinnati. It was an action packed weekend filled with rides, fireworks, BMX vert, and skate vert contests, as well as live music and freestyle motocross demos.
Mike and Debbie made the trip out from Virginia to come join the festivities. It was the first time I had seen either one of them since last…
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Added by Mike Vincent Fight for Sight on June 12, 2009 at 12:00pm —
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MIKE VINCENT NEEDS YOUR HELP!!!!!!!!!!!
For those of you who don't know, Mike has been involved in the world of BMX for many years, both as a rider, as well as a judge for many pro events such as the X Games, AST Dew Tour, and the former Gravity Games. Mike has been a part of some of the most core BMX events like Rebel Jam and the CFB comps. Mike also has served as head judge for pretty much all our ASA BMX contests since 2003. When not working at events, Mike was a regular at any…
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Added by Mike Vincent Fight for Sight on June 12, 2009 at 11:40am —
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Nike SB.
The Berrics dropped an edit earlier today that fully lets the cat out of the bag. It also features actress Juliette Lewis. Without a doubt you won't find much more significant sponsor change news coming at you for quite some…
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Added by BFD Skate on June 10, 2009 at 2:30pm —
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X Games Park Course Sneak Peak
Chicago and Cincinnati ASA Action Sports World Tour Air This Week on Versus
Jereme Rogers Retires from Skateboarding?
June 15th update from China
Robyn Sorenson's blog post was featured
