Travis Pastrana Double Backflip On August 4, 2006, at X Games 12 [wiki] in Los Angeles, Travis Pastrana [wiki] became the first rider to land a double backflip in competition.Hit the Play button or follow the link to Youtube video to watch the jump.Link - via Contagious News Comments (9) Yawn - they still are doing X-games? Didn't x-treme anything die in 1995? Abusive comment hidden. (Show it anyway.) donno... I never follow sports... XD Abusive comment hidden. (Show it anyway.) They're still doing X Games (two of them actually: X Games and Winter X Games). The 2007 X Games in next week or something like that. Abusive comment hidden. (Show it anyway.) i dont care what anyone says about x games, a double backflip is impressive by any means .... Abusive comment hidden. (Show it anyway.) Jonno - I'm not as impressed ... I do double backflips in my sleep. Oh, and underwater. They need to add syncro swimming to the x-games. Maybe syncro swimming on motorcycles. Now THAT'S extreme.In all seriousness though, that was pretty cool. Abusive comment hidden. (Show it anyway.) I was flipping through the channels on the day this took place and just happened to stay long enough on ESPN to see this happen. I didn't know it had never been done before. Abusive comment hidden. (Show it anyway.) how sad, this is probably the happiest day in this guy's life. Abusive comment hidden. (Show it anyway.) What are you guys talking about that was the sickest trick ever done FMX Freestyle history. Abusive comment hidden. (Show it anyway.) You guys know about extreme ironing, right? Abusive comment hidden. (Show it anyway.) Login to comment. Enable JavaScript and Click here to access all of this post's 9 comments
Yawn - they still are doing X-games? Didn't x-treme anything die in 1995? Abusive comment hidden. (Show it anyway.)
They're still doing X Games (two of them actually: X Games and Winter X Games). The 2007 X Games in next week or something like that. Abusive comment hidden. (Show it anyway.)
i dont care what anyone says about x games, a double backflip is impressive by any means .... Abusive comment hidden. (Show it anyway.)
Jonno - I'm not as impressed ... I do double backflips in my sleep. Oh, and underwater. They need to add syncro swimming to the x-games. Maybe syncro swimming on motorcycles. Now THAT'S extreme.In all seriousness though, that was pretty cool. Abusive comment hidden. (Show it anyway.)
I was flipping through the channels on the day this took place and just happened to stay long enough on ESPN to see this happen. I didn't know it had never been done before. Abusive comment hidden. (Show it anyway.)
how sad, this is probably the happiest day in this guy's life. Abusive comment hidden. (Show it anyway.)
What are you guys talking about that was the sickest trick ever done FMX Freestyle history. Abusive comment hidden. (Show it anyway.)
Oh, and underwater. They need to add syncro swimming to the x-games. Maybe syncro swimming on motorcycles. Now THAT'S extreme.
In all seriousness though, that was pretty cool.