🎥 Nitro World Games: FMX Highlights

Minds were blown and records were broken at the second annual running of the Nitro World Games, held in Salt Lake City, Utah, over the weekend. Relive all the Freestyle Motocross action by watching the FMX and Best Trick finals highlights videos below…

FMX Highlights

Starting off with the Freestyle Motocross Finals, the course was a similar three jump layout, with one 100 plus foot jump and two standard length hits with multiple take-off ramps from super-kickers to front flip ramps. The eight qualified riders had only one run in the finals to lay down eight tricks, with a score being assigned to each trick and added together for the results. 33-year-old Chilean, Javier Villegas, laid things down early as the veteran put down a solid run full of high-tech tricks with great extension. With the per-trick scoring system, Javier really maximized his score on each trick and his score of 67.65 held the top spot for nearly the whole competition…even as the double backflip master, Josh Sheehan, threw down his run, coming up just a few points short of taking the the number one spot from Javier. In the end though the rubber man himself, Levi Sherwood, went out and put on the performances he’s known for. Insane extension and twisting himself through each trick, plus adding in as many combos as he could. Even with scores that were going to get him a solid victory, he showed to the crowd he’s willing to go big and landed his first ever double backflip in competition on his last jump, giving him over 70 points on his way defending his title.

FMX Top 5

1. Levi Sherwood, 71.63 (NZ)
2. Javier Villegas, 67.65
3. Josh Sheehan, 67.57 (AUS)
4. Adam Jones, 67.40
5. Clinton Moore, 66.56 (AUS)

Best Trick Highlights

FMX Best Trick 2017 was the year of the front flip variations. Right out of the gate Josh Sheehan threw down a double backflip then followed it up on his second attempt with a double backflip heel-clicker, but it wasn’t quite enough to take on the upcoming tricks. Every other rider in the field threw down a front flip variation, with Brodie Carmichael crashing on his first attempt and landing his second go, Pat Bowden and William Van Den Putte nailed there’s in great fashion. Last year’s champ Gregg Duffy failed to land his trick in both attempts, with the second try mangling his bike. The man who went before Duffy though, Harry Bink, over-rotated on his first attempt at the Rock Solid Front Flip, going face first and tearing his visor off aka Mike Metzger style. His second go though, he stomped the trick clean but still almost lost it on the landing…but was able to keep it together to take the victory.