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X Games XV
X Games XV was the fifteenth annual X Games extreme sports event. It took place from July 30 – August 2, 2009, in Los Angeles, California, at the Staples Center and the Home Depot Center. It was broadcast on ESPN networks, ABC, and EXPN.com. The game featured the sports of motocross, skateboarding, BMX, surfing, and rallying. Results Moto X Skateboarding BMX Rallying Highlights Highlights from the competition include: * Jake Brown wins gold in Skateboard Big Air, two years after he suffered a horrific crash in the same event. * Danny Way wins the inaugural Big Air Rail Jam, a contest which he created. * Josh Hansen, son of champion Moto X rider Donnie Hansen, wins his second consecutive gold in Moto X Super X. * Kyle Loza becomes the first person to win three consecutive gold medals in Moto X Best Trick in controversial fashion by using the same trick he used to win in 2008, ''The Electric Doom''. * Ricky Carmichael suffers an injury during Moto X Step Up. Due t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world's most populous megacities. Los Angeles is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Southern California. With a population of roughly 3.9 million residents within the city limits , Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic and cultural diversity, being the home of the Hollywood film industry, and its sprawling metropolitan area. The city of Los Angeles lies in a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the west and extending through the Santa Monica Mountains and north into the San Fernando Valley, with the city bordering the San Gabriel Valley to it's east. It covers about , and is the county seat of Los Angeles County, which is the most populous county in the United States with an estim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blake Williams
Blake "Bilko" Williams (born 4 April 1985, in Baxter, Victoria, Australia) is a motorsports competitor who has won championships and X Games medals in several events, including motocross and freestyle motocross. He was awarded the FMX rider of the year in 2009. Racing record Global RallyCross championship results GRC Lites Race cancelled. Blake Williams also competed in the One Lap of America race with Travis Pastrana Travis Alan Pastrana (born October 8, 1983) is an American professional motorsports competitor and stunt performer who has won championships and X Games gold medals in several disciplines, including supercross, motocross, freestyle motocross, a ... in a 2018 Subaru WRX STi, in the Mid-Priced Sedan & Stock Touring category. They placed 26th Overall, 2nd in Mid-Priced Sedan & 1st in Stock Touring. References External links * * 1985 births Living people Australian motorcycle racers People from Mornington Peninsula Sportsmen from Victoria (Aus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Rodriguez (skateboarder)
Paul Martin Rodriguez Jr. (born December 31, 1984), also known by his nickname P-Rod, is an American professional Skateboarding, street skateboarder, actor, rapper, and recording artist. Rodriguez has won a total of eight medals at the X Games, four of them gold, with the most recent first-place victory occurring in Los Angeles, California in July 2012. Early life and family Rodriguez was born in Tarzana, Los Angeles, Tarzana, California, U.S. His father is actor/comedian Paul Rodriguez (actor), Paul Rodriguez, and his mother is Laura Martinez. He also has an older sister Nikole and a younger brother Lucas. As a child, Rodriguez occasionally got to meet celebrities through his father. In a later interview, he recounted one such memory: I'll tell you a good story about Mr. T. I believe it was 1988, every year there was a Christmas Day parade in Pasadena, California, Pasadena [California, US]; I was probably about three-and-a-half, four years-old—I loved Mr. T. He had the cartoon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danny Way
Danny Way (born April 15, 1974) is an American professional skateboarder, company owner and rallycross driver who has been awarded ''Thrasher'' magazine's "Skater of the Year" award twice. He is known for extreme stunts, such as jumping into a skateboard ramp from a helicopter; that was featured on the cover of ''Transworld Skateboarding'' magazine. One of his more notable stunts was jumping the Great Wall of China on a skateboard via megaramp. Early life Way was born in Portland, Oregon and grew up in San Diego, California. His childhood was marred by difficult circumstances. His father, Dennis Way, died before Danny's first birthday – Dennis was jailed for failing to pay child support to his previous wife, and after nine days in jail was found hanged in his cell; his death was ruled a suicide.Danny W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedro Barros (skateboarder)
Pedro Barros (born March 15, 1995), known as Pedrinho Barros, is a Brazilian skateboarder who is specialized in Bowl and Park Skateboarding. He won the silver medal in the inaugural Olympic men's park skateboarding event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Also in doom metal/dark punk band Melissa, Pedro is also a entrepreneur, having his own beer company (LayBack) and also his fashion and lifestyle brand called Privê (Privet, in Portuguese). Career His skateboarding career started in 2008. In 2008, Barros won the X-Games Skateboarding Vert amateur event and in 2009 he ended up in third place in the same event. These two appearances were Pedro's kick-start into a successful X-Games career. Furthermore, he got second at the Red-Bull-Crossover in 2009 where he defeated his big idol Sandro Dias for the first time. In 2010, Barros won X-Games gold in Park as a rookie after a battle against Andy Macdonald. Pedro was the first rookie to win skateboard gold since Ryan Sheckler wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Burnquist
Robert Dean Silva Burnquist (; born 10 October 1976) is a Brazilian-American professional skateboarder who competed for Brazil throughout his career. In 2010, he became the first skateboarder to land a " fakie 900" (900-degree reverse-natural rotation), making Burnquist the fifth person in history to successfully complete the 900 trick. Early life Burnquist was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to an American father of Swedish descent and a Brazilian mother. He began his skateboarding training in his hometown of São Paulo at 11 years old, and turned professional at 14. He holds dual citizenship in Brazil and the United States. Career upBurnquist skating in 2012, left Burnquist's specialties are switch stance skateboarding, and creating vert tricks. He has a signature trick called the "Wee Willy grind". In 2000, Burnquist won the X Games' best trick contest, with his famous Fakie 5-0 with a fakie kickflip off of the grind bar. Burnquist's biggest success to date came in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jake Brown (skateboarder)
Jake Brown (born 6 September 1974) is an Australian skateboarder who specialises in transition skateboarding. He began competing in 1996 and regularly appears as a contestant in the X Games contest events. Brown has also successfully skateboarded the "MegaRamp" structure, on which he is the first person to ever perform a 720-degree rotation without grabbing his board as of September 2013. During X Games 2007 he separated from his board 14m (45 feet) in the air, suffering multiple injuries in the fall, but walked away from the incident, winning Gold in the same competition in 2009 and successfully defending his title in 2010. Early life Following the divorce of Brown's parents, he resided in Sydney with his mother until he was 12 years old, and then lived with his father, also in Sydney, until he was 16 years old. Brown left his arrangement with his father to relocate to Melbourne so that he could skateboard more frequently. Professional skateboarding During an Australian tour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elissa Steamer
Elissa Steamer (born July 31, 1975) is an American professional skateboarder. Early life Steamer was born in Fort Myers, Florida, United States, and began skateboarding in 1989. Steamer frequented a small city owned skate park on Grand Avenue. Professional skateboarding 1995–1998: Toy Machine, ''Welcome to Hell'' Although she received a concurrent offer from Real Skateboards to ride the company's decks, Steamer first began receiving skateboard decks from Lance Mountain in 1995, who was running a company named "The Firm" at the time. Steamer's first official skateboard deck sponsor was Toy Machine, founded and owned by professional skateboarder, Ed Templeton. Professional skateboarder, Chad Muska, then a leading member of the Toy Machine team, facilitated Steamer's sponsorship; at the time of Steamer's acceptance, Toy Machine consisted of Templeton, Muska, Mike Maldonado, Jamie Thomas, and Brian Anderson. Steamer subsequently filmed for her ''Welcome to Hell'' video part, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karen Jonz
Karen Jonz Domingos Santos Claudio, known as Karen Jonz (born 29 September 1983), is a Brazilian skateboarder, designer and singer. She won the World Cup Skateboarding four times in the women's vertical class and also won the 2008 X Games women's vert skateboarding competition in Los Angeles. Biography Karen was born in Santos in 1985. She moved to Santo André at age 5 and began skating at age 17, an age considered late for skateboarders. In her beginning, she competed in the men's tournaments. Achievements X Games Women's vert *2006-3rd place *2008-1st place *2009-2nd place *2010-3rd place World Cup Skateboarding Women's vert- won 2006, 2008, 2013 and 2014. Personal life Jonz has a bachelor's degree in radio and television production and is also a fashion designer. She has a label named "Monstra Maçã" Jonz married Lucas Silveira, vocalist for the band Fresno Fresno () is a major city in the San Joaquin Valley of California, United States. It is the county s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyn-Z Adams Hawkins
Lyndsey "Lyn-Z" Adams Hawkins (born September 21, 1989) is an American professional skateboarder. History and family Born in San Diego, Lyn-Z Adams Hawkins was raised in Cardiff-by-the-Sea, California, and spent part of her childhood in Sayulita, Mexico, just outside Puerto Vallarta. An athletic child, Hawkins started surfing and skateboarding at age 6. She got into skateboarding when her brother Tyler bought her a membership at the Encinitas YMCA. She also played soccer, baseball, basketball, and gymnastics. Her legal name is Lyndsey, and Adams is her middle name. She started using the nickname Lyn-Z in the 4th grade. Hawkins often customizes the griptape on her skateboards. Many bear the letters RIP, in memory of her father, who died in December 2003. On June 4, 2011, Hawkins became engaged to Travis Pastrana, who stopped the show at the Nitro Circus Live World Tour in Las Vegas, got on one knee, and proposed. The two married on October 29, 2011, near Hawkins' southern C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nate Adams
Nathaniel Adams (born March 29, 1984) is an American professional freestyle motocross rider and extreme sports athlete. A resident of Temecula, California, he attained national fame when he won the Freestyle Motocross World Championship in 2002. His nicknames are "The Destroyer" and "Nate Dog". Biography Adams was born in Phoenix, Arizona, and began riding when he was eight years old after his father bought him his first dirtbike. He graduated from Mountain Ridge High School in Glendale, Arizona, in 2002. While successful in local and regional circuits, he became well known in freestyle motocross by winning his first freestyle championship at age eighteen in 2002. Since then, Adams has won the gold medal at the X Games in 2004, the Gravity Games in 2003, and has enjoyed top finishes on the Vans Triple Crown. In 2007, Adams was awarded AST Dew Tour Athlete of the Year. In 2009, Adams became the Red Bull X-Fighters champion, clinching the title at London's Battersea Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeremy Stenberg
Jeremy "Twitch" Stenberg (born September 27, 1981) is an American professional freestyle motocross rider and professional off-road truck racer. Stenberg received his nickname "Twitch" from his Tourette's syndrome, which he was diagnosed with at the age of eight. He started riding dirtbikes at the age of two so his father could spend more time with him and keep him out of their dangerous neighbourhood. He is a born again Christian. Other projects In 2006, Stenberg starred in MTV's ''True Life: I Have Tourette's Syndrome''. In 2011, VH1 debuted their reality series ''The X-Life'', in which Stenberg co-stars alongside BMX dirt rider Cory Nastazio, skateboard vert champion Pierre-Luc Gagnon (aka PLG) and their families. Stenberg has been racing off-road trucks in the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series and he won the 2010 Super Lite season championship. In 2015, he competed in the X Games' Stadium Super Trucks category, but failed to qualify for the final after finishing fourth and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
