super x adaptive
* at Home Depot Center: 9:30 a.m., Hood games experience*; 11 a.m., Hometown heroes street*; 12:15 p.m., skateboard park adaptive jam*; 3:30 p.m., skateboard vert amateur; 4 p.m., BMX freestyle street; 5:30 p.m., Moto X Super X adaptive. [...] Women’s skateboarding has two finals Friday, with Moto X and skateboarding big air competitions Friday night. [...] Freestyle Motocross rider Nate Adams wows the crowd at the X Games today. [1]
The skateboarder whose grisly, 40-foot fall to the floor of the X Games mega ramp two years ago drew gasps and became a viral video sensation, won gold Thursday night in the same Skateboard Big Air competition at Staples Center. [2]
On Wednesday, the 41-year-old king of skateboarding became the first action sports star to get a paraffin replica of himself in Madame Tussauds Wax Museum. [3]
Freestyle motocross champion Ronnie Renner and supercross racing star Ricky Carmichael, despite coming from vastly different styles of dirt bike riding, shared a gold medal in Moto X Step-Up. [2]
Extreme sports legend Tony Hawk points at his wax figure at the figure’s unveiling Wednesday at Madame Tussauds in Hollywood. [3]
LOS ANGELES (AP) ‘ Jake Brown finally has something else to talk about. [2]
In a McTwist of fate, Hawk left competitive skating ten years ago after becoming the first athlete to complete a 900-degree spin on his board at the X Games in San Francisco. [...] Inspired by an idea hatched by friend and Nine Inch Nails percussionist Josh Freese, Hawk is now selling himself on the foundation’s website (tonyhawkfoundation.org) to raise even more money for his foundation. [3]
GO211 is an Action Sports community that represents athletes within Snowboarding, Skateboarding, Surfing and BMX. [4]
This schedule is subject to change. [5]
Lyn-Z Adams Hawkins won gold in the X Games Skateboard Women’s vert competition Thursday despite a routine full of blown tricks. [2]
The Home Depot Center doors at 10 a.m. [5]
She did manage to successfully land several kickflip indies, a trick that just a few years ago was considered untouchable in women’s competition. [2]
Sources:
[1] X Games finals schedule - Los Angeles Times
[2] Two years after brutal fall, Brown gets X Games gold - USATODAY.com
[3] Hawk keeping eye on action while trying to elevate sport - USATODAY.com
[4] X Games 15 Competition Schedule: BMX News in Action Sports from GO211
[5] UTOPIA OPTICS