During the Big Air finals just now here inside the Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles, Catfish told the stadium that he felt like a 13 year old kid at a BMX demo seeing BMX for the first time. Well kids, he hit the nail on the head with that statement. History was made and goosebumps were raised as Dave Mirra did not one, but two 360 no-handed backflips, Chad Kagy and Dave Mirra both did flair whips, Kevin Robinson did a no-handed 360 and no-handed 540, and Anthony Napolitan attempted the world’s first backflip triple tailwhip.

Things started off a little slow while the riders worked out the cobwebs and built up the tension. But then in the third of four rounds Dave Mirra did a 360 no-handed backflip over the 50 foot jump followed by a high flair on the quarter and shook things up. Chad Kagy Followed that with a flip whip over the 70-footer then nailed the flatspin 540 tailwhip on the quarter. From there it was complete madness. Read on for the final results and watch for the video soon.

Big Air Final Results
1. Chad Kagy - 96.00
2. Dave Mirra - 94.66
3. Kevin Robinson - 91.00
4. Steven McCann - 90.00
5. Allan Cooke - 89.00
6. Morgan Wade - 86.66
7. Anthony Napolitan - 85.00

Dave Mirra doing a straight flip in practice which prepared him for the world’s first 360 no-handed backflip over a 50 foot jump.

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