X Games 17: Tail Whips and Tre Flips

Here's a recap of a few of the highlights from X Games 17.  This stuff never ceases to amaze me.  Shocking to nobody Shaun White gets nasty...Travis Pastrana does something stupid...Bob Burnquist defies physics and wins...and little kids continue to dominate street skateboarding.









Complete list of winners (Mens):

Moto X:
Enduro - Taddy Blazusiak
Freestyle - Nate Adams
Step Up - Matt Buyten
Best Whip - Jeremy Stenberg
Best Trick - Jackson Strong
Speed & Style - Nate Adams

Skateboarding:
Big Air - Bob Burnquist
Freestyle Vert - Shaun White
Street - Nyjah Houston
Park - Raven Tershy
Game of Sk8 - Ryan Decenzo

BMX:
Freestyle Vert - Jamie Bestwick
Freestyle Park - Daniel Dhers
Big Air - Steve McCann
Freestyle Street - Garrett Reynolds

Rallying:
Racing - Liam Doran
RallyCross - Brian Deegan

EA...Please Just Let Me Flick - It

With EA all but confirming the end of the Skate series by not making Skate 4, now seems like an appropriate time to bitch about it.

EA Skate was to Tony Hawk Pro Skater what iPods were to CD's.  When was the last time you popped a CD in without thinking, "Shit...I wish I wasn't being forced to pop in a CD right now."?  It almost brings me to the brink of calling off the jam session, and I do like to jam.

Ill take 10,000 tracks over 12 any day...much like I'll take EA Skate over an other low budget pre flick-it control skateboarding game.

I'm a simple gamer and the thing is...I do not ask much out of EA.  Give me this years EA NHL (NHL 12) and give me the next game in the Skate series (Skate 4) and were all set for a year.  Goals and grinds.  You would think they would care that I am upset about the end of an era.  They don't.

Quitting is for pussies.

Kilian Martin's Weird, Awesome Skateboard Tricks

I would like to say that I am capable of doing what Kilian Martin does, but I am not.  Nobody is.  Rodney Mullen...and that's still only maybe.

3:00 in.  Sick.

Skateboarding is not a crime and I still love it.

I'm done with this post.  Lets go skating.