Well the X Games was a bit of a let down. Even though Travis competed in Best Trick it still wasn’t that exciting since everyone crashed! And Bilko was once again robbed! Kyle Loza should have got 2nd since Best Trick is innovation. A 360 Downside Indy is far more technical than an Electric Doom in my opinion. Anyways to the point of this post…

I was thinking about the results of x Games MotoX Best Trick and Freestyle and everything comes in 3′s. Have a look at this; In 2007 Adam Jones got Gold in FMX and Silver in Best Trick, in 2008 Jeremy Lusk got the same thing and this year Bilko does the same thing! Also, the past 3 years in Best Trick Kyle Loza always got Gold and Todd Potter always got Bronze! Pretty cool aye?

I still haven’t seen FMX or Rally yet so I can’t really comment but the Step Up competition was quite exciting. Ricky Carmichael again proves he is Pro Everything taking Gold with Ronnie Renner.

Well like most people who watch my videos – well probably the people who watch the supercross ones know, the 2009 season of AMA Motocross is kind of boring yet exciting at the same time. Stewart, Alessi, Villopoto and Windham are not even racing and it’s only been 4 rounds.

Good news is though, Chad Reed will likely grab his first AMA Motocross Championship title, I don’t think he won any in the 125cc class, especially against Stewart all those years ago. For those people who say Chad only entered because James wasn’t I bet you didn’t know Stewart never signed the contract for a motocross season. The only reason, and a stupid one at that, Kawasaki didn’t give Stewart a moto ride for 2009 was because they preferred Ryan Villopoto since he crashes less often. Looks like their plan didn’t work out, Ryan was out in round 2 I believe.

What I don’t understand is why they didn’t sign both riders, I’m sure they’d be happy with a 1st and 2nd for the series. I also thought it was pretty cool that James has been Kawasaki his whole life, hardly any riders do that the only ones I know of are Travis Pastrana and Ryan Dungey, both Suzuki riders.

Back to the Motocross and I have to say NBC is the worst when it comes to broadcasting Motocross. No joke, half the show was talk about the first moto, when they could have shown it. Also the commentary is boring, I prefer Jeff and Ralph since they know what they’re talking about.

Since I’m a Suzuki/Reed fan, I hope he wins the series and hope he gets the next Supercross season as well.

I’ve also been watching the 2007 Lites Motocross season, it’s also very exciting to see Grant, Villopoto and Lawrence battle.

If you did not know the first round of the X Fighters kicked off a little while ago in fact it’s finished. If you were lucky enough to remember it (or get a little reminder in my case) then you would have seen the new kid, the 17 year old phenom went off and is instantly my favourite for the year.

Let’s head back to the beginning. To the surprise of commentators Ronnie “Who’s your daddy” Renner and Tes Sewell, Danny Torres 8th in qualifying. To add to that he didn’t even make the semi final going down to X Fighters veteran Eigo Sato who was superb the whole night. Aussie FMXer Cam Sinclair was also on top of this game riding a 2-stroke bike which he had brought along to do the double backflip in an FMX run; Too bad Mexico is so high above sea level and the oxygen levels are low so power to the bike suffered. However he displayed his Aussie pride and took out 4th place overall.

Mat Rebeaud the champ from ’08 had a crash in practice; the day prior whilst doing an underflip. Of course he felt a little pain but you couldn’t tell by watching his run. Throwing down his signature tricks he was flawless against all the competitors except Levi Sherwood. Mat had his usual tricks, the underflip and backflip variation but Levi has the same tricks almost with his one style for each. Not to mention he worked the crowd.

It was disappointing to see so many riders screw up. Eigo Sato missed a shift, Sherwood was a little quick with the throttle on the slick ramps, Andre going off the down ramp. There were many mistakes but most recovered nicely. It’s also disappointing to see so much emphasis on how many tricks you do. Tes Sewell mentioned that the judges want 8 tricks. In my opinion it’s about how good the tricks are. More tricks equals less extension maybe they can improve the course design to compensate that.

But the major shock for the night was Levi Sherwood, the young gun, 17 years old from New Zealand (South-East from Australia for those unfamiliar) literally whacked a frying pan over everyone. It’s hard to comprehend how someone which such huge tricks is a) 17 and b) never been to a big competition before. That’s right, he hasn’t been at x Games, Dew Tour or the IFMXF series. He’s the new kid on the block who is sure to provide some intense rounds ahead.