Nitro world games live! NBC

Two words: Travis Pastrana.

Two other words: Double Frontflip.

Bump this shit up!

You guys are missing some awesome shit. BMX best trick is beyond words.

BMX guys.

Smooth presentation for their first one. Not two tricks then a commercial, then two tricks and a commercial like all the other stunt shows had become. And they saved the best for last. I was cringing every time they rolled up to the front flip ramp. Went off good. Just dudes pulling tricks and more dudes pulling tricks. The way it should be.

Seems like this might be an attempt by TP to take over the X games market from ESPN. Wonder if they will react.?

TP was probably fed up with X Games kind of throwing FMX to the wayside, a sport which he pretty much helped grow. I was disappointed by some of the judging though. The commentators kept throwing around numbers for difficulty and I wasn't sure if I should have a handbook for the event. Also, the prescribed tricks thing? It slowed the event way way down. The hallmark of TP's FMX days was riding fast so he could get an extra trick or two in his run. And the "doing tricks in order" thing was a bit lame. Felt more like a show rather than a contest.

I liked the event though. I stopped watching X Games when TP stopped competing since it is rather boring. But at this event he was like the conductor of the show in many ways. Kind of annoyed that no half pipes or those sorts of ramps were there as I think Tom Pages would have walked the field. The X normal, Y flips and Z whips makes the contest quite predictable because not everyone is good at whips, or flips etc. People should be able to play to their strengths when they compete. But anyway, as far as FMX contests go, it was okay. I liked that there wasn't dirt landings too because hopefully that reduced the cost a lot for the event.

They posted the full show on their youtube channel, since i missed it due to timezones!

I disagree! I get that having the landing of the ramp be resi (the padded material) rather than wood is safer for the riders, but double and triple flip variations just seems too much like FMX - whatever happened to pedaling and pumping on a BMX bike?!

I was pretty disappointed with the parts of the event that I did watch - they sent the skaters through rapid fire and even the guy that won when he was interviewed said the landing of the jump was too small for the size of the gap and that he had been super anxious all day and was just happy to get the event over with. Just my two cents though.

I actually ended up watching all 3 hours and enjoyed it. Seems like TP definitely wanted to bring back the feel of X-games when they used to have FMX best trick. Ended great with the best trick of the night. The only problem is how do you top the best trick year after year without veering off into ultra dangerous territory?

You can't. Pastrana said if Duffy would have over rotated he would be dead.

Because it's entertaining for the average viewer.

I caught it on NBC and the BMX best trick and FMX best trick were incredible to watch. With the somewhat safer landing, those guys really went big.