Skateboard Big-Air at X Games: 900 reasons to be afraid
Posted on July 29, 2010 with Comments Off
One of the defining moments in X Games history was in 1999, when Tony Hawk became the first skateboarder to successfully land a 900-degree rotation above the lip of a vert ramp.
That’s 2 1/2 spins while airborne, and Hawk nailed the landing on his 12th try.
Fast forward to 2010 and to a relatively new contraption called the Mega Ramp, which has delivered vert skating to daunting new heights.
Skateboarders must speed 70 feet down one ramp, soar and perform a..
via grindtv
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