Anthony Napolitan Pulls World’s First Double Frontflip On A BMX Bike At X Games 15
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- July 31 2009
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We have our own footage of this, but haven’t been able to get it posted just yet. However, someone sneaky in the crowd at Staples Center during Big Air filmed the Jumbotron of Anthony Napolitan’s double front flip. History was made tonight at X Games 15!
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July 31st, 2009 at 10:34 pm
Nuts.. f kin awsome 1st
July 31st, 2009 at 10:54 pm
It was awesome! I couldn’t believe it! Anthony Napolitan is the MAN!!!!
July 31st, 2009 at 10:57 pm
So did he not get 1st b/c he didn’t do a trick after that on the quarter? This was so amazing, he should have at least got a medal. Either way, sweet trick man, congrats on pulling it
July 31st, 2009 at 11:51 pm
thats gold deffo! judges are wankers, x games is all fixed. corparate wankers.
August 1st, 2009 at 12:08 am
yea some kid did it in austrailia on a dirt jump and got broke but yea the judges at x games suck
August 1st, 2009 at 12:54 am
making history with a trick like that is way better than a medal.
so when are we going to see napolitan’s how-to vid on double front flips?
August 1st, 2009 at 2:52 am
chris jones almost pulled it on dirt but looped it
August 1st, 2009 at 6:46 am
this was the ONLY great thing that happened in BMX BIG AIR.
everyone else performed inferior to last year and the year before.
How KR got a gold for doing the same stuff he did the last 2 years is just a dissapointment.
Mirra failed big time…with his ONE HANDED 360 FLIP…not NO HANDED…if it was no handed then the xtension was so small you couldnt see it… his riding has become irratic these past years anyway. always lands at an angle…
yes KR is a great rider but seeing regular no handed flips to flairs is nothing new.
ANTHONY NAPOLITAN was great… a true inovator.
giving medals to people who crash on 3/5 runs is rediculous.
why not give tonights VERY medal to SIMON TABRON right away for doing a 900 (20 years after hoffman did it)
all great riders but if your coming to the table with nothing new please dont.
give up your place to someone who wants to make history,not repeat it.
August 1st, 2009 at 8:17 am
i think the problem was they all crashed on there banker runs and the contest just went from there because everyone of kagys and mirras runs were supposebly their safety runs and if they couldnt stick that they werent gonna stick their crazier tricks
August 1st, 2009 at 8:40 am
sucks that he didn’t get the gold
August 1st, 2009 at 8:45 am
If you dont reward innovation, then everyone will just stick to the same old backflip no handers and backflip tailwhips every year.
August 1st, 2009 at 9:37 am
To do what Tony N. did and not get the gold is pure discrimination and the worst I’ve ever seen in my life. I’ll bet Napolitan chopped a vowel off the end of his name. What does he have to do to win, not be ITALIAN?
August 1st, 2009 at 12:56 pm
those judges were RETARDS he should have won
August 1st, 2009 at 2:49 pm
my goodness a double frontflip!!! insane!!! this cant be wooo!!!!
this guy’s really crazy! i can’t understand how could he do that trick….well….very very very insane fuckin trick!
August 1st, 2009 at 4:09 pm
Anthony’s double was unreal! He couldn’t trick the quarter because he did that with a bum knee. There were 2 aspects to big air and he basically skipped one. His score was a little low, but he shouldn’t have won. Don’t think he cared though…
Kevin did a 19ft no handed flair. That is no joke. Yeah he has them on lock, but how many people actually do? Most everyone who does them on regular ramps barely extend them. He holds them. Give the guy props, it is awesome…
August 1st, 2009 at 4:20 pm
He should have taken gold for that shit. If Travis Pastrana won last year for a single trick(double backflip) then Neapolitan should have been treated the same. Well congratulations Anthony and hopefully you’ll come shred Vancouver with us again soon!
August 1st, 2009 at 5:24 pm
the Australian guy didn’t quite pull it… he hit so hard he blew up. it was still amazing. congrats to anthony for pulling it! cutting edge
August 1st, 2009 at 6:50 pm
dude, that wasn’t last year, he did it in 2006 lol.
August 1st, 2009 at 7:12 pm
bmx is gettin’ crazy. duce front flip? damn.
August 2nd, 2009 at 4:45 am
The double front was cool and all, but c’mon, it’s a circus act. I wanna see him do that in a jump box at a local skatepark or maybe at the trails…
Build a 1,000,000 feet high drop and a 500,000 ft high jumpbox so someone can spin a tailwhip 87 times? or maybe a 54 backflip, or a 32 front? Given the fact that this is not what everyone else rides eveyday around the world, it IS a circus act!
August 2nd, 2009 at 5:09 pm
I learned it on a normal size jump. Thanks for the support everyone!!!!!
August 2nd, 2009 at 5:11 pm
haha everyone in the crowd was booing the judges. even kevin robinsons wife was booing. he should have at least gotten a medal
August 4th, 2009 at 12:18 am
I think you should have gotten a medal, its been a while since i seen you ride and that was pretty nuts anthony. congrats
August 5th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
haha yeah and he won that for…. Best Trick. singular. lol the mega ramp isn’t a single trick contest. horrible comparison.