The style, trick difficulty and originality provide a score out of The other is when riders perform two routines on a course that has multiple jumps. Each rider is given a score from a panel of judges looking for style, trick difficulty and originality before providing a score out of In addition to defending his Moto X Best Trick gold medal and his reputation for being the first rider to land a front flip at X Games, Strong is definitely a competitor to watch.
This is stunt riding that has 5 disciplines including street, park, vert, trails and flatland. The Winter X Games have taken place in Aspen Snowmass for last sixteen consecutive years, hosting world-class action sports athletes competing for prize money and for medals. The games feature winter sports such as snowboarding, skiing, and snowmobiling.
Competitors in those sports face off in a variety of different ways. Joe Parsons is the most decorated snowmobiler in X Games history, earning three medals at a single X Games winter event. In Skier-X or ski cross and Snowboarder-X or boardercross , athletes do not race individually, but rather they go head-to-head, going down the mountain four—at—a time. The courses feature a variety of terrain, including jumps, moguls, and bank turns. Ski cross became an Olympic sport in In Slopestyle, skiers or snowboarders have to navigate their own route through a course that has similar features and obstacles to the Skier-X and Snowboarder-X course.
The aim in Slopestyle is not to complete the course in the shortest time, but to use the features to perform tricks and are judged on how well they perform them. Other competitions rate the athlete for performing the best trick or getting the most height or in technical terms, most air off a jump. Jossi Wells is known as one of the most versatile skiers on the planet.
Wells won his first X Games gold medal in for his SlopeStyle performance. The X Games Snowmobiling competitions include Snocross. This is a competition where athletes race around a track on snowmobiles that contain both obstacles and steep jumps. Toggle navigation Menu. Home » X Games Sports.
Big Air Big Air is a discipline where the competitor rides a vehicle for example a snowboard, skateboard, ski or a motocross bike down a hill and performs tricks after launching off very large jumps.
Half-pipe A half pipe is a hollow semi-circle made of concrete. Street In street competitions, competitors take their vehicles around a park of obstacles and perform tricks. He made it to the finals, and finished the comp in a respectable fifth place. Mitchie Brusco first competed at X Games in , whenhe was 14, weighed 95 pounds and was 5-foot Four years later, he's now a 6-foot, pound year-old who recently moved out of his parents' place and lives on his own. I wouldn't say I'm nervous," Brusco said during Big Air practice.
Trey Wood, 14, was the youngest skater in the field in Skateboard Big Air for the second year in a row. He gained 10 pounds and three inches in height since last year, but he's still only pounds. He was unable to land a run on Friday night, and finished in ninth place. He followed that up with another Big Air bronze in Austin last year. The Brazilian skater is known for technical tricks, like his heelflip body varial to heelflip Right before practice, the MegaRamp was doused by a small squall.
In an event beset with weather delays, the usual being wind, the rain was cause for small concern. But by the time the event got rolling, the skies had cleared, leaving the finals to go down under a beautiful twilight Texas sky -- a perfect way to close out Friday at X Games Austin.
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