X Games Los Angeles 2012 – Day 1
June 29th, 2012 by admin received Comments Off TweetFirst day of X Games 18 in Los Angeles went out confirming this huge event as a perfect ground for freestyle sport’s record breaks. No matter they’re riding a skateboard, a bmx or even driving a car, you can be sure you’ll see something never done before!
The main, Medal Event, for the 28 of July was the FMX Finals, seeing the hottest ever Taka Higashino takin’ gold with a score of 93.33 (I saw video of him training, I was doubtless he would have gone big in competition) and unleashing on the first run the first ever landed backflip rock solid double grab, not to mention this crazy air popped during the contest..kiss of death flip, superman no hander, heel-clicker flip, just to name a few of them. Here’s the full result of the contest:
RANK & BEST SCORE
1 Taka Higashino 93.33
2 Levi Sherwood 91.66
3 Javier Villegas 88.66
4 Nate Adams 88.66
5 Blake Williams 88.33
6 Adam Jones 88.00
7 Rob Adelberg 86.33
8 Dany Torres 84.33
9 Todd Potter 84.00
10 Andre Villa 78.00
On Skateboarding Big Air Qualification, best run was for Rony Gomes, but the show was made by 15yrs old Mitchie Brusco and his first 900 ever landed in X Games history. Obviuosly if you ever heard of Tom Schaar you won’t be surprised he landed consequently two 900 in the successive runs. Well, still not enough to beat the score of the young Alex Sorgente that got 7th place 
However a shotout to the kids is needed, considering that four of the finalist are under 16, including the 11 years old Jagger Eaton (younger rider of X Games) that opened the comp with a crazy backflip over channel!
The 11 qualifiers will battle for a chance for the gold against actual medal holder Bob Burnquist in tonite finals, stay tuned cause there will be a crazy show!
RANK & BEST SCORE
1 Rony Gomes 90.00
2 Jake Brown 89.33
3 Edgard Pereira 89.00
4 Lincoln Ueda 88.33
5 Elliot Sloan 88.33
6 Mitchie Brusco 87.66
7 Alex Sorgente 87.33
8 Tom Schaar 87.00
9 Nolan Munroe 85.00
10 Jagger Eaton 82.66
11 Italo Penarrubia 82.66
12 Martin Andre 82.33
13 Jono Schwan 81.00
14 Trey Wood 77.00
15 Jussi Korhonen 76.66
16 Jocke Olsson 23.33
Tags: 900, alex sorgente, big air, edgard pereira, Elliot Sloan, jake brown, Javier Villegas, Levi Sherwood, Lincoln Ueda, los angeles, mega ramp, mitchie brusco, Nate Adams, Rony Gomes, skateboard big air, Taka Higashino, tom schaar, x games, x games 2012, x games los angeles
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