X Games 15 - BMX Vert Finals Video
FatTony
- August 02 2009
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The final BMX competition at X Games 15 was the vert finals today. Jamie Bestwick put on a demo for everyone and easily took the gold medal home for the third year in a row. Check out all of today’s bangers in our highlights video, and while you are watching it try to imagine what it is like to do these wild tricks this high above a 13ft ramp. In. Sane.
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August 2nd, 2009 at 3:51 am
1st
August 2nd, 2009 at 4:05 am
Sick 2nd
August 2nd, 2009 at 4:23 am
3 and french i fuck you all
August 2nd, 2009 at 4:35 am
Awesome to see DMC still rocking at 42, wow.
August 2nd, 2009 at 5:48 am
Mirra, Mirra on the vert wall…who is the best ramp rider now of them all ?
Jamie has no competition now that Mirra is not riding vert. He does his stuff 7′ higher than anyone competing against him , just plain unstoppable at the moment …SO IT seems.
August 2nd, 2009 at 6:07 am
DMC!!!!
August 2nd, 2009 at 6:10 am
The lack of new tricks is extremly dissapointing.
where are all the new big moves people have supposed to of been “workin on”?
Only Anthony Napolitan has this year stood out from the crowd.
OK the majority of the others are ofcourse amazing riders,but this years x-games has overall been very very LAZY.
generic runs,same tricks repeated countless times…
this year i expected to see.
a double flair on the mega ramp.
some insane new trick from bestwick (anything that doesnt top the double tailwhip flair does not count)
kagy unleash something totally crazy on the mega ramp
someone pull a 25-30 ft air on the megaramp
as for dave mirra… well, sorry but his riding is predictable these days and he lands at an angle on every trick he pulls.
yes he SHOULD be back in VERT…cos hes getting nowhere in the other catagories
as for catagories….they are DISSAPEARING FAST!!!
no dirt?
no best trick?
next year expect both street and park to go.
the year later…vert
August 2nd, 2009 at 6:37 am
I agree with FRANK .
Absoulutely no progression .
Double front flip was it .
They need a best trick contest with a box jump spine and quarter that is were everything will get nuts
August 2nd, 2009 at 6:41 am
Jamie’s candybar alley-oop was AMAZING!
August 2nd, 2009 at 6:47 am
ok i dont normally comment on these things but i cant belive someone would watch a vid like that then complain about the lack of new tricks this year. wtf. forget double frontfilps and frontflip 360s going down at xgames, they dont count i suppose. as for vert and guys like bestwick, every thing he does is impossibly amazing. to be that far ahead of your competitors is somthing special no matter what your sport. im not a fan of the big tricks myself id rather see someone do a good table and look in control while doing it. but thats just me. Bestwick is a prime example of someone with complete contol over his little kids bike, doing an allyoop downside whip across the entire length of a vertramp and making it look chilled still doesnt seem possible. anyway if seeing new tricks every month is all you want from a hobbie i suggest magic school.
August 2nd, 2009 at 7:55 am
it’s the xgames don’t expect progression there
August 2nd, 2009 at 8:35 am
V Weekend - Word.
I love Jimmy Walker’s style: He rides vert like a park.
August 2nd, 2009 at 8:35 am
song???????????? please
August 2nd, 2009 at 8:50 am
Bestwick makes it look like he’s riding against a team from an old peoples home. 2nd may be 2nd, but it’s a billion miles away from Bestwick. He is Super BMX Man. Greater than Spiderman, Batman, and Superman put together.
August 2nd, 2009 at 9:15 am
Tim Wood came 6th, not Coco
August 2nd, 2009 at 9:27 am
The first song is A Punk by Vampire Weekend. The second song is D.A.N.C.E by Justice.
August 2nd, 2009 at 10:21 am
The sport can only progress so far so fast. Right now I think its rediculous. You cant go to a dirt comp and have fun throwing the classics; you need to be spinning like a top and doing no less than a 2:1 tailwhip to jump ratio. I of course wan to see the sport progress but I almost would like to see a slow in the progression. The jumps get bigger, the tricks get crazier; soon there are going to be riders trying stuff out of their league trying to stay current and there will be lots of injuries. We already lost two icons in the sport; what will happen when one of our new age street shredders slips peddle on a 40ft truckdriver gap and slices open his femoral artery, god forbid? I’m just saying its gtting out of control, I’m getting tired of watching a huckfest at every contest.
August 2nd, 2009 at 11:43 am
people still ride vert?
August 2nd, 2009 at 12:01 pm
KING OF VERT 4 ever!!!!
August 2nd, 2009 at 12:59 pm
FRANK and Chris. If you don’t think there is any progression maybe YOU should go and show us how its done. You have no respect for how hard it is to ride at this level, if you don’t like it than put your money where your mouth is and step up.
August 2nd, 2009 at 1:04 pm
+1
August 2nd, 2009 at 2:31 pm
also progression isn’t all about new tricks you know, its also about getting smoother, going higher and being more consistent.
August 2nd, 2009 at 5:13 pm
nice vid shit was good but hey RIDEbmx stop cutting out the audio of the event, we want to hear the crowd and shit, thats part of the experience of being there, so for us watching the vid its missing that part of things.
August 2nd, 2009 at 5:33 pm
+2… and DMC is my hero.
August 2nd, 2009 at 6:34 pm
bestwick owns ur life frank
August 2nd, 2009 at 9:34 pm
Jimmy Walker has gotten so much better. When he had SCRAP skatepark he was not that great for a pro. He is doing very well nowadays. I hope it continues.
August 2nd, 2009 at 10:11 pm
que manera de entrar bien todos los trucos jamie B.
DMC siempre! ejemplo a seguir.
August 3rd, 2009 at 5:22 am
Vert got more coverage than street? That’s bullshit and way too overrated. Street deserved a longer video than this.
August 3rd, 2009 at 10:43 am
hey douche bags who just wrote all the stuff above, you just plain suck.
August 3rd, 2009 at 12:08 pm
the vert ramp itself seems a little toned down from years past.
i hope the powers that be at X-gaymes dont decide to let it go the way of dirt.
August 3rd, 2009 at 4:25 pm
Cool video, thanks Fat
August 4th, 2009 at 10:59 am
hell yea 3 peat
August 4th, 2009 at 3:51 pm
it’s too bad nobody tries to enjoy these videos for what they are. Everyone has some shit to talk
August 6th, 2009 at 1:45 am
Frank thats the worse shit i have ever herd someone talk!
10th place: double whips, bar to whip
that shit a few yrs ago would have won you gold
u say no progression didnt u watch bestwick do a oppo lookback flair bout 8ft above the ramp wake up to your self man
respect these lads more cause if it wasnt for them u would be still in your bed pulling your self
August 6th, 2009 at 6:53 am
DMC still kicks b**t!!
August 9th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
Word to FRANK. The progression seemed a bit off. But then again, with the contest rewarding the best run (consistency counts), risk taking is not rewarded. Should all these events go ‘best trick’ instead?
http://www.stompandflow.com/2009/08/01/2009-x-games-15-bmx-vert-results/