Jeremy McGrath on Freestyle MX

Make_FMX_Great_Again. 1/26/2025 1:09pm
1/26/2025 1:09pm
Flatliner wrote:

To answer the OP question,  he may have made the finals with his 4-5 tricks, but that's it.  Didn't learn seat grabs till 2001.

Still I believe he could have won Cinq in 3rd place Screenshot 20250126 220338 Instagram

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Flatliner 1/26/2025 1:17pm
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Flatliner wrote:

To answer the OP question,  he may have made the finals with his 4-5 tricks, but that's it.  Didn't learn seat grabs till 2001.

Make_FMX_Great_Again. wrote:
Still I believe he could have won Cinq in 3rd place

Still I believe he could have won Cinq in 3rd place Screenshot 20250126 220338 Instagram

CINQ got second.

Make_FMX_Great_Again. 1/26/2025 1:25pm
1/26/2025 1:25pm
Flatliner wrote:

To answer the OP question,  he may have made the finals with his 4-5 tricks, but that's it.  Didn't learn seat grabs till 2001.

Make_FMX_Great_Again. wrote:
Still I believe he could have won Cinq in 3rd place

Still I believe he could have won Cinq in 3rd place Screenshot 20250126 220338 Instagram

Flatliner wrote:

CINQ got second.

Yes my fault I thought he was 3rd. You are right Deegan was 3rd

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dingaling 1/26/2025 1:56pm
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I could never get into FMX. Although the tricks/stunts they do is insane I struggle to really respect it because it was pioneered by the cowboys and failed racers. Apart from TP if you were crap at racing you went into FMX? Maybe I'm being pretentious but I always thought real guys race and real fans appreciate racing? I've grown up watching SX and MX. Back in the day friends who didn't ride would give me shit about motorbikes ie, they're so easy, all you do sit there and turn the throttle etc. I'm sure we've all heard it? Then all the sudden these same guys are moto fans because of FMX?? 

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Make_FMX_Great_Again. 1/26/2025 2:06pm
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dingaling wrote:
I could never get into FMX. Although the tricks/stunts they do is insane I struggle to really respect it because it was pioneered by the cowboys...

I could never get into FMX. Although the tricks/stunts they do is insane I struggle to really respect it because it was pioneered by the cowboys and failed racers. Apart from TP if you were crap at racing you went into FMX? Maybe I'm being pretentious but I always thought real guys race and real fans appreciate racing? I've grown up watching SX and MX. Back in the day friends who didn't ride would give me shit about motorbikes ie, they're so easy, all you do sit there and turn the throttle etc. I'm sure we've all heard it? Then all the sudden these same guys are moto fans because of FMX?? 

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Kelz87 1/26/2025 6:41pm
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tyler113 wrote:

He would have been a freestyle super star at the county fair race intermission with those moves!

These days, maybe not even that 😂 but at that time, he really could’ve done well with those moves. FMX was still new and exciting, no one knew these modern moves could be done. Nowadays it’s both boring and too dangerous at the same time, even with the insane moves IMO

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Chris_Buehler 1/26/2025 7:02pm
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Make_FMX_Great_Again. wrote:
Barcelona Supercross 1994 the King with some moves

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The nac nac was badass. His Superman not so much

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JM485 1/26/2025 7:10pm
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Flatliner wrote:

MC respected the heck out of those guys.... he'd ridden with Cinqmars a bunch (rip) and cinq would usually jump things first.

Random as heck thread, though.

Exactly.  I have to laugh at all the “core” guys on Vital that have never even hit a freestyle ramp telling everyone how lame it is.  Go ask any decent rider and they’ll have nothing but respect for the freestyle and freeride guys, because the can actually comprehend the level of skill and courage it takes to get to that level.  

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Make_FMX_Great_Again. 1/26/2025 7:25pm
1/26/2025 7:25pm
Flatliner wrote:

MC respected the heck out of those guys.... he'd ridden with Cinqmars a bunch (rip) and cinq would usually jump things first.

Random as heck thread, though.

JM485 wrote:
Exactly.  I have to laugh at all the “core” guys on Vital that have never even hit a freestyle ramp telling everyone how lame it is...

Exactly.  I have to laugh at all the “core” guys on Vital that have never even hit a freestyle ramp telling everyone how lame it is.  Go ask any decent rider and they’ll have nothing but respect for the freestyle and freeride guys, because the can actually comprehend the level of skill and courage it takes to get to that level.  

Respect to you my friend. Probably all those "core" vitards when they watch freestyle they are feeling poor beings but I don't mind with them I only laugh 

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