Hey guys, today I’m going to be talking about the X Games, one of the most popular skateboarding events out there it’s full of amazing skaters and lots of cool things.
What is X Games?
X Games is an annual extreme sports event hosted by ESPN with an average of 215,000 people at the event. The top winners of X Games get up to 50,000. The first X games event ever hosted was June 24th 1995 in Rhode Island around 38,000 people showed to that but just about 2 years later 83,500 people attended the winter X Games. Just last year the 2019 X Games was hosted in Minneapolis at the US Bank Stadium.
What is at the X games?
The summer X Games is held in a warm environment and includes competition in skateboarding, BMX biking, motorcycling,, rally car racing and surfing.
Skateboarders compete in the half pipe, a hollow semi circle made of concrete. There is also a competition for the best trick and most air off a jump. In “street” competitions, skateboarders skate around a park of obstacles and perform tricks. Famous skateboarder Tony Hawk, from San Diego, California, is probably the best known X Games athlete in the world.
BMX bikers also compete on a half pipe and a street coarse. Anthony Napolitan of Youngtown, Ohio, landed the first double front-flip on a bicycle at summer X Games 15 in 2009.
There are also motorbike riders, they have to do a supercross race around a dirt obstacle course with street jumps. Travis Pastrana, from Annapolis, Maryland, is one of the top motor sports athletes and competes for Team Puerto Rico in international competitions.
Clips from 2019 Minneapolis, Mn, X Games
Best of Skateboarding 2019 X Games
Best of Women’s Street Skateboarding