Daniel Dhers appears to be unstoppable. He qualified first in Superpark today at the Home Depot center and it doesn’t look like anyone will be able to top his back to back tricks and combos.

Riders.

The format for the Superpark elimination round went as follows:
Five riders rode in a jam format for a total of 12 minutes. Each rider went in a set order for a maximum of thirty seconds at a time. If the rider crashed, that was the end of their turn. The judges scored each visit to the ramp and the top three scores from all of their visits to the ramp were added to come up with their final score. The riders with the top ten total scores at the end of the 20 riders’ runs move on to the finals.

Qualifying second behind Daniel Dhers was Gary Young who, as expected, rode really fast and had some good transfer lines. Chase Hawk, Alistair Whitton, Rob Darden, and Morgan Wade also qualified by using good transfer lines while flowing around the bowls. Mike Spinner missed qualifying by two spots even though he did 540 variations, a triple whip over the hip, and an 810 over the hip.

Josh Harrington did not ride due to his injury sustained during Street qualifying a few days ago and Dave Dillewaard went down hard in his first run, cutting his elbow open and taking him out of the rest of the competition. Since those two riders were in the same group with Gary Young, Daniel Dhers, and Jamie Bestwick, the three remaining all had more visits to the ramp and less time in between each run to catch their breath.

Mike Spinner double whipping the hip that he later triple whipped.

Superpark Qualifying Results (Top 10 Advance To Finals)
1. Daniel Dhers
2. Gary Young
3. Diogo Canina
4. Ryan Guettler
5. Alistair Whitton
6. Chase Hawk
7. Rob Darden
8. Corey Bohan
9. Dennis Enarson
10. Morgan Wade
11. Ryan Nyquist
12. Mike Spinner
13. Brian Foster
14. Chris Doyle
15. Jamie Bestwick
16. Dave Mirra
17. Chad Kagy
18. Steve McCann
19. Dave Dillewaard
20. Josh Harrington

Tags: 2008 X Games 14

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