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barcodebilly:
Lookin like pumped bmx

tim_sch:
Why would you want to do that to your body?

montymitch:
I must be getting old because I can't stand this stuff. Pastrana turns everything into a circus and people get hurt for no good reason. Look at the video--these guys are dangerously high by any standard, rotating fast, and landing hard. Every one of them is moments away from a life altering injury and Pastrana is just cheering them on because it isn't his health he's risking. I know they have the ability to opt out, but the action sports peer pressure wins every time and these guys can't back down for fear of being labeled weak. Colin Winkleman destroyed both his ankles and a wrist for one of Pastrana's dumb shows and ended up taking his own life a year or so later. I can't help but think his career ending crash had something to do with his suicide.
BMX isn't BMX when it becomes a circus act.

torontoflatlander:
They must have the biggest balls ever to go for it, potentially have a life-altering injury, AND have to deal with American health care. "I'm $25.3 million in debt because they had to fuse my spine together, but it was gnarly almost landing that quad flip"

dude...:
they make big money doing this shit but the risk is massive, and whole Xtreme image that its marketed with kind of sucks as thats what other people think bmx is like. nitro circus is an appropriate name though they really are making clowns of themselves.

and the competitive narrative on that video was pathetic.

i guess the hucking themselves to pull it at no matter what cost is kinda reminiscent of mat hoffman and miron and those guys in the early/mid 90s who were pushing the sport back then learning new stuff by just throwing themselves at it til it stuck, its just more on a motorcross scale ramp in this case. if they werent doing it for nitro circus publicity it would almost be kind of cool

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