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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Dragon on July 02, 2009, 03:58:40 PM
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Just gets crazier every year:
http://www.grindtv.com/moto/blog/4052/cam-sinclair-lands-first-double-backflip-in-freestyle-motocross-competition/ (http://www.grindtv.com/moto/blog/4052/cam-sinclair-lands-first-double-backflip-in-freestyle-motocross-competition/)
:O :O :O :O :O :O :O :O
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Testosterone poisoning! Holy Cow. He barely got it in.
I use to do a double forward flip off of a low diving board. All at 240 beefy lbs. Uh I only missed it 1,000 back buster screaming times.
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Testosterone poisoning! Holy Cow. He barely got it in.
I use to do a double forward flip off of a low diving board. All at 240 beefy lbs. Uh I only missed it 1,000 back buster screaming times.
This is the coolest one ever!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acVh5D_VGcM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acVh5D_VGcM)
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Uh I only missed it 1,000 back buster screaming times.
LOL....ouch
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meh.. Chuck Norris does a tripple while blasting vietcong with an m60.
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Travis Pastrana is better
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This is the coolest one ever!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acVh5D_VGcM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acVh5D_VGcM)
:rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl
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Not to try and sound all cool and hardcore but backflips are a 100% 'balls' trick.
Obviously more balls are required to do it in FMX and even more still for the double, but all backflips consist of is leaning back and holding on.
All you need is a foam pit to practice, no respect for your life or body and massive testicles. Then you're good to go.
Have a search on YouTube for the guy mentioned in the article who died crashing a backflip variation in Costa Rica(?).
Stephen Murray, a professional English BMX rider, snapped his neck crashing a double backflip. He is paralysed from the neck down now.
This all brings me to my point, there is pushing the sport through skill and then there is pushing it through disregard for your life. After watching a guy I grew up looking up to when I was a teenager crash onto his neck, ruining his life and devastating his wife, I can no longer get excited about crazy big stuff like double backflips.
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Being around as a young fella with motocross bikes and bmx in its early stages the tricks were simple and we thought we were da chit, now I look at some of the tricks now days and think WTF. I wish I was 16 again and mad enough to pull of this stuff. Big waves still dont scare me yet but its getting there.
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The last flip I crashed put me off riding. It was on one the rare occasions I bothered to wear a helmet and had I not been wearing it, I think I'd have suffered some sort of brain injury. As it was, I had to deal with a concussion, smashed back and elbows that were bruised purple from my forearms to triceps. I don't want to do that again any time soon.
It's not the only reason I stopped, I couldn't afford the injuries with work and my band, so riding got the chop.
I had some of the best times of my life riding but it's not worth it for me anymore.
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and this is what happens when u miss the back flip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiMGE2bhBbU
jeremy lusk a great rider, died last year from a missed backflip.
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=52105062