With X Games 15 inching closer and closer every passing day, X-related content is starting to become a lot more prominent here on ESPN Action. One totally badical piece that our stellar team put together is a video collection of the 15 most memorable Summer X Games moments. Get it? 15 years of X — 15 most memorable moments? Pretty clever, aye?
Freestyle motocross was able to rack up five of those 15 memorable moments, including Carey Hart's back flip redemption (below), Mike Metzger's back-to-back backflips, Travis Pastrana's nearly perfect run and double backflip and Chuck Carothers' ground-breaking "Carolla". To view all 15 videos, as well as read the story behind each moment, click here. You can also vote on your personal favorite because voting is fun and we here at ESPN like to give you fans a platform to be heard.
Check out the video and description of memorable moment number seven below.
Hart's near-landing of a double back at the 2000 Gravity Games made him famous, but the accomplishment was overshadowed by his next attempt at X Games 6 and not in a good way. Bailing at the apex of the jump, Hart fell 35 feet to the dirt and broke 15 bones in his foot, his tail bone, and three ribs in a crash that rivals Jake Browns for sheer horror. By X Games 7, Mike Metzger had progressed the flip to include a no-handed landing, but Hart nevertheless entered Best Trick seeking to finish what he started. He did more than that, missing Metzger's gold by a mere 33 tenths of a point. "I got this monkey off my back," said Hart afterward, "but I think I'm done with backflips."
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Ryan Leyba
Leyba is a bitter, retired FMX rider that likes to sit in his cubicle and call the professionals of the sport wussies for not pulling 360s and double backflips. He claims he quit riding FMX before flips were even invented... yeah, right.
Cliff Talley
Making FMX videos exciting is easy. Making them look good is not. Cliff Talley does both of these well and still manages to find enough time to piss off his neighbors with his Travis Barker-esque drum skills.
Chris Tedesco
You've seen his photos on the covers of Transworld, Racer X and more. You've also seen his tequila shooting skills at your local dive bar. Ladies, Chris is single and looking to mingle.
Grant "Goba" O'brien
FMX in Australia wouldn't exist if it weren't for Goba. Well, maybe it would, but it wouldn't be nearly as cool. I don't know why, but we can't quit calling him gobalobadingdong — it just rolls off the tongue.
Tes Sewell
Tes is the dude that's always involved in everything that's going on in FMX. How he does it, we don't know, but that's the reason we hired him to share his plethora of FMX wisdom in the form of a monthly column.
