Hoskins: Tell me a little bit about your injury and about coming back to ride again. Ridgway: In I was practicing for the outdoor nationals on a track, just pounding out laps. I missed a big jump and my bike broke, mid-air. I had to jump off, and ended up crushing both of my legs, my ankles and my heels. I spent a couple years in a wheelchair. I started racing again, and I kept breaking my leg. The doctors kept breaking it to try to fix it, to try to make it better. And finally I asked to have it removed so I could just kind of move on with my life.
Hoskins: So you knew, right after your amputation, that you were going to keep riding? Ridgway: I was pretty sure. I just knew that I wanted to do it. Hoskins: Tell me about participating in a big event like the X Games and about riding on a course that seems pretty intense. I love it. I really enjoy it. The stage is just as intense for them as it is for you. This is a helluva compilation video, definitely worth […]. This time, Chad Kerley is back with a trick that takes time, effort, and balance — but once you have this dialed, nose wheelies or nose manuals will become a dream come true.
Get your […]. Someone get Steve Caballero on the phone. Chad Kerley is back with the knowledge, telling us all how to do a half-cab on a bike. Chad is easily one of the best dudes in the […]. Get your spins on with Chad Kerley — if you want to know how to barspin, how to throw the bars, how to toss the Bs… then Chad here breaks it down in a quick […].
So […]. Looking for the best way to nail that bunnyhop? Do you need more pop in your hops? Get this basic move right, and […]. Red Bull was a thing, but it wasn't sponsoring athletes for action sports until the turn of the century. Nowadays, an energy drink sponsor is the norm for an X Games athlete.
Back in , when The Extreme Games were born, mobile phones weren't really a thing yet. At the time, if you wanted to film a trick, you had to film it, edit it on your desktop computer, export it to a VHS cassette and mail it around the country. Nowadays, Nyjah can grind a rail, edit it on his phone, upload it to Instagram and reach a lot more people in an hour than he would have 25 years ago.
When The Extreme Games started, we featured everything from barefoot water skiing to sky surfing to climbing. Not to discount any of those sports, but we've since narrowed the focus to skateboarding, BMX and freestyle motocross. But, anything is on the table If you were invited to The Extreme Games in and wanted to hear a certain Stone Temple Pilots song during your run, you had to cue up your own cassette Walkman to play the song and make sure that the Walkman was secured to you without getting in the way or falling off.
Now you can use wireless earbuds and an iPhone to pump your tunes, and you probably won't be listening to STP either If you skated or rode BMX in and were invited to The Extreme Games, you may have been very lucky to be getting free shoe hook ups from Airwalk or Vans.
But, chances are, you were buying your own shoes not made for your sport. Now, there's a shoe for any type of skateboarding or BMX riding, designed by someone from within your chosen industry. Street skateboarding and BMX Street were recognized activities when The Extreme Games started in , but they weren't brought into the X Games until after the dawn of the millennium. In , vert and park were the main flavors of the day at The Extreme Games.
Before The Extreme Games, getting paid to ride a skateboard or bike existed, but they were not the norm.
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