The landing was less than perfect, and Hart crashed immediately after. In 2000, Carey Hart attempted the first backflip on a full-size motocross bike off a modified dirt landing ramp at the Gravity Games 2000. He continued to exhibit the trick until a crash in 1995 left him with serious injuries.
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He was a professional BMX rider who had performed the trick regularly on a bicycle. In 1993, Bob Kohl was the second person to perform the backflip on a motocross bike. Jose's next motocross backflip attempt, this time for The National Enquirer, resulted in a crash that kept Jose off motorcycles and bicycles for two years due to an injured knee. Yanez performed the world's first ramp-to-ramp motocross backflip on an 80cc motorcycle in October 1991 on an 8' tall box jump he built himself in Pagosa Springs, Colorado. He would kill the engine on his 80cc motorcycle just before he hit the water to prevent damage to the bike. He practiced for it by flipping his motorcycle into the Salt River, just as he had done with his BMX bike. In 1991, Jose Yanez became the first person to backflip a motocross bike. Also it had been done many times on BMX bikes, and FMX riders were using tricks from BMX riders, such as when Travis Pastrana performed an Indian Air, originally from Mat Hoffman, a BMXer. Freestyle riders began contemplating it after the 1998 film "Children of a Metal God" showed riders attempting the trick into water. The backflip was once considered all but impossible, the "holy grail of FMX". Notable freeriding locations include Ocotillo Wells, Glamis Dunes and Beaumont in California, and Caineville, in Utah.Įvolution of the backflip A One-Handed Hart Attack performed by Ailo Gaup In many ways, freeriding requires more skill and mental ability. Some freeriders prefer to jump on sand dunes. Riders form natural jumps and drop-offs to execute their tricks on. It has no structure, and is traditionally done on public land.
Notable freestyle motocross events include Red Bull X-Fighters, NIGHT of the JUMPs, the X Games, Gravity Games, Big-X, Moto-X Freestyle National Championship, and Dew Action Sports Tour.įreeriding is the original form of freestyle motocross which started in the hills of southern California due to professional racers such as Jeremy McGrath and Phil Lawrence "play riding" in the hills of reche canyon. Like big air, a panel of judges assigns each contestant a score based on a 100-point scale, looking for difficult tricks and variations over jumps.
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