My reply to a recent email:
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http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1137883380?bctid=21337502001
I love this stuff, I can watch it for hours. When I can, I like to watch the X Games, which features a bunch of events besides BMX, which is what this is called.
(On a side note, I've been watching the X Games since ~2000, and in the last few years they've been getting a lot more TV coverage. As a result, it seems, the events have changed a bit to get bigger and bigger jumps, more speed, more height above ground, etc.; in a word, more attention-getting. But I think they are missing out...it's the small moves that he makes in this video that are so spectacular, where he's balancing the whole weight of the bike on one small patch of tire or stopping the bike on one wheel and doing almost static jumps from one surface to the next (or for that matter, backflipping off a tree!...never gets more than 10 feet off the ground, but how cool)...maybe just personal taste, I suppose, but that's me. Thanks for the link!)
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http://espn.go.com/action/xgames/xg15/index
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