Day two of X Games 18th was unbelievable! There have been so many events that was rather difficult to follow all the competitions without losing highlights and best moves from the different contests that took place in the hot Los Angeles nite.

Bob Burnquist won the fourth gold medal in skateboard Big Air with a run of his own, including a jaw dropping switch backside 180 ollie over the channel and indy grab 720 on the 27-foot quarter pipe. Even more amazing if considering Bob was injuried after slamming hard on Tuesday practice.

The kids in the competition pushed the limit givin’ everthing they got – Brusco, 15years old, took silver with a 720 and a 900, Nolan Munroe, 17, got bronze with an HUGE McTwist 540. But was not enough to defeat the well, 35 years old, skateboarding legend. This was a cool demonstration that still a good, super stilish switch back 100 can still be better than any other doped rotation

Tom Schaar, attended for his 1080, failed to land and got 6th with “just” a 900. Man, pretty sick contest, isn’t it?

RANK BEST SCORE
1 Bob Burnquist  94.33
2 Mitchie Brusco 93.00
3 Nolan Munroe  91.00
4 Jake Brown      90.00
5 Rony Gomes     90.00
6 Tom Schaar     89.33

On Bmx Street Garrett Reynolds took gold with a smooth overall 85.0, but this time the shout out is for Simone Barraco, at his first X Games experience, gaining a good 5th position! Props Kid!

RANK BEST SCORE
1 Garrett Reynolds 85.00
2 Chad Kerley         83.00
3 Dakota Roche      69.00
4 Jeremiah Smith 69.00
5 Simone Barraco  68.00
6 Bruno Hoffmann 62.00

Alex Sablone got gold in Women Skateboarding Street Finals with a super 85.66 score, amazing result considering she’s the only skateboarder to have finished in the top two each of the last four years, winning in 2010 and finishing second last year and in 2009.

RANK BEST SCORE
1 Alexis Sablone     85.66
2 Leticia Bufoni      81.00
3 Rachel Reinhard 80.33
4 Marisa Dal Santo 76.66
5 Lacey Baker         68.33
6 Elissa Steamer    62.00

Day two ended with the Finals for FMX – Step Up and Best Trick competition – seeing Ronnie Renner setting a new high (literally!) with a 47 feet clean jump!

RANK MAX HEIGHT (FT)
1 Ronnie Renner 47.00
2 Matt Buyten    46.00
3 Brian Deegan  39.00
4 Myles Richmond 36.00
5 Max Bianconcini 32.00
6 Todd Potter        32.00

On FMX Best Trick, unbelievable gold medal by Jackson “Jacko” Strong with the “Jack,” a variation of the Special Flip body varial backflip invented by BMX rider “Special” Greg Powell. The word “Stono” on Strong’s front race plate was a tribute to rider Luke “Stono” Stojanovic, still in coma after suffering a serious FMX injury.

RANK BEST SCORE
1 Jackson Strong 91.00
2 Taka Higashino 90.33
3 Cameron Sinclair 89.33
4 Thomas Pages 88.66
5 Clinton Moore 86.66

To be mentioned the crash occurred to Finnish rally driver Toomas “Topi” Heikkinen during rally practice, broking his left ankle and suffering abdominal injuries. Man, can be funny and stuffs but don’t forget, the kids are risking it all for the show! Big Ups tp Topi and all the riders of this CRAZY X Games Edition!

Ryan Decenzo wins Games of Skate, beating Silas Baxter-Neal, Austyn Gillette and Brandon Westgate. The format was different from a traditional contest: the leadoff skater attempted a trick, and if the trick was landed, the next skater would attempt the same trick. But if the skater attempting his peer’s trick fell, the next skater in rotation would attempt a new trick. Decenzo was still a bit confused by the celebrations of the night before (for his silver at the skate street), but after a little time on his board he regained all his consciousness. Gillette was knocked out when he failed a frontside kickflip over the bump-to-bar. Baxter-Neal was knocked out next when he failed to attempt an ollie up onto the loading dock obstacle which Westgate had ollied onto with ease. Only Decenzo and Westgate remained then. Decenzo ended with a switchstance feeble on a handrail. Westgate couldn’t land that move and the win went to Decenzo.

Garrett Reynolds is the undefeated champion in BMX Street at X Games, and he just added a fourth gold to his collection beating out Dennis Enarson and Dakota Roche. Reynolds has won BMX Street each year since it was added to X Games competition in 2008. Final score: Reynolds 92, Enarson 85, Roche 84. Reynolds performed several technical manual combo lines, like grind up the short rail, barspin out to manual around the deck, barspin 180 to fakie into the bank and also big tricks like double barspin 180, a barspin to barspin gap over the wheelchair ramp rail, a 180 to reverse crooked grind to 180 down the short rail, and a feeble up the hubba ledge to opposite 360 out. Enarson’s 360′s and smooth slide weren’t enough to beat Reynolds, and he placed second.

Julian Christianson wins his fourth Hometown Heroes Amateur Skateboard Steet championships on the same course of the Skateboard Street finals. Among all the other tricks, he pushed a huge switch heelflip down the big stair set. His score is of 88.33 and allowed him to take the win. Second is Brendon Villanueva, 86.66, and third Dan Coe, 80.00.
Brian Deegan won at RallyCross final, over Tanner Foust and Marcus Grönholm. Travis Pastrana, who participated despite the injuries he got on Thursday night, ended hitting a wall on the last lap and losing what seemed to be a sure bronze medal, ending as fourth.

Taddy Blazusiak and Maria Forsberg won gold medals in Enduro X. Mike Brown and Justin Soule were second and third among the men. Tarah Gieger ended second in the women’s race and Kacy Martinez claimed bronze.

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