Pastrana, Twitch, Deegan And the godfather of freestyle Mike Metzger. The true spirit of freestyle cant die. The grungy punk aesthetic of the 90s needs to come back!!!!
How is it possible that the most exciting sport that ran the show when I was growing up turned into this. Commentators sleeping on the job. You can have a OK event turn into an exciting tale about event just based off of the commentators energy. Riders don't want it anymore taka the OG is here for viewers. Man I've watched the x games every year since I was old enough to know what motocross was, there's been ups and downs but this event destroyed everything I loved about the sport. Covid or not this was trash.
I completely agree. 2 years later and the entire promotion is a shadow of its former self. I don't believe they're getting nearly the same amount of funding they were or someone in charge has completely drove it into the ground. It's not like these sports aren't popular either...
Still can't believe double backflips are just a casual thing now in freestyle . Used to be a best trick contest winner . And Lucs run was just a series best trick winners back to back. Insane levels of progression.
LOVED IT - I miss the "old days" of these big open air courses with lots of options, makes each run UNIQUE, guys aren't all just riding the same line as each other just with different tricks. Here's to a return to the big boy courses for a couple 'Games, but please give these guys more practice/warm up and a 3rd run!!! I LOVE the tech riding these big multi-option courses demand, but the guys are going to need more practice time to get it down than at the smaller arena courses.
Mike Mason!!! Great Rider, Great Announcer, Great Guy! Love hearing him give his insight and lending his expertise to this event! Noice! Good job Mase! You Rock!
Freestyle is the most evolved sport ever!!!! It is so crazy what all of these riders are capable of now!! I remember when Ronnie Renner was able to win competitions with a whip lol!
what a farce...such a great big course with so many options...but no intensity, no energy...bring back the days of pastrana and metzger when the guys just held it pegged hitting every jump possible. Creativity, flow and intensity should have been rewarded...Rob, Taka and Sheeny were by FAR the most enjoyable to watch here. It really should have been Rob 1, Sheeny 2 and Taka 3....everyone else just looked lost out there.
My heart broke for ben on that first trick. full commitment and so close but didn't get a good rotation. Also need to say, its absolutely bonkers that a rock solid backflip is just another trick in a run now
I miss the Travis Pastrana days when freestyle was actually fast paced during the run. The riders would ride through each jump fast without losing that much speed. Gosh, this event as slowed down A LOT. This used to be my favorite event and now it's the most boring.
Yeah I liked Taka and Sheeny way more this event because they had the best flow through the course. Really don’t like how much slower this is, even the announcement crew seems bored.
@@ecm4062 I appreciate it but still is bored lol... just wish they changed it back like how it was. At the end of the day FOR ME it's entertainment and I wasn't entertained. And those athletes chose to risk too put their lives on the line. I ain't forcing them 😄
3 runs, with the third run being 120 seconds. Alot more scoring weighted towards flow, creativity, intensity and use of course...bring back the golden age of fmx lol
Loved the course, brings back memories of the crazy fmx courses back in the day, also provides better more diverse riding, the only thing that's is lacking is the commentary
Great event, thank you X Games and Monster energy 🙏👍 I don’t completely disagree with those saying this course was difficult and slowed things up, but I also was a huge fan of it. I think much, much more practice time could have helped to negate that a bit. They did the best they could and it was badass 🤷🏻♂️
Def did not feel like Xgames. Course was not set up for a competition. Bad flow, there were more crashes than clean Runs. No Fans however there are many Fans @ other sports 🤷🏻♂️
Me being watching and riding early 2000s seeing these dudes do back flips, double and front flip and announcers like “nice..” I’m still mind blown on the stuff these guys can do that’s so normal now
So Congratulations Luc Ackermann you have finally walked with your first X games medal and it is gold. Also you are now the first German athlete to walk away with an X Games gold medal. So a job well done and the country of Germany will be proud.
I don’t know what it is, but this just has a different feel than back in the Pastrana and Metal Mulisha days. The tricks have progressed an insane amount which in theory should make it better, but it’s just missing that feel that the X-Games used to bring.
Anyone remember like 05-07 freestyle being quicker paced? I was like 6 or 7 watching Adams pastrana deegan all the og riders. Just feels a lot slower lol
The back and forth layout of the course made it hard to focus on anything else. This was more like rapid fire best trick runs than a complete freestyle run.
Kinda boring slow pace for a contest .. fans or no fans .. I think the course is set up for practice and training .. not for competition so that’s why it’s so difficult to create any flow to the runs .. but even if it’s bad it’s still good .. always love to see this comp..
a 2+ run format (2 and an option for a mulligan) might help with the nerves... and I'd agree that Taka's use of the course held true to the original spirit of the event (thoughtful line choice and continuity) and should've been rewarded.
I appreciate that they held x games this year but it sure seems so dulled down. I miss the days of sold out coliseum. TAKA GOT SCREWED. SHOULD HAVE BEEN GOLD
Nice to see some 2021 xgames...,,word......New Zealand 🇳🇿,,,Christmas day ...25th dec,,saturday... 28°C ??!! South Auckland....🤯😷. . ... .... ..... . .. ... . ..
I went to the X Games III in San Diego and watched the first 10 years or so. I'm sorry but everything original has been done by bigger and better names. I'm not taking anything away from these kids, but it's just not the same X games.
My favorite show to watch grew up on xgames started riding when i was 8 years old when i started watching the xgames i started jumping hills my inspiration in dirtbike riding and skateboarding.
So Axell host the X games and doesn’t even get on the bike to compete because he can’t hang with these heavy hitters of moto x. Doesn’t have to risk his life and still gets paid! They are too smart! He has to stick to his whips hahaaa
I was thinking the same thing, the dude doesnt even ride his own course bahaha!!! brilliant, he cant do moto, supercross, or freestyle now i take it.. just has dads money lol. dont get me wrong hes got style but
13:39 its more of rodeo than a 3... i had the x games 9 DvD where Deegan and Pastrana both did the 360 in the LA Collisuim, i was iin like early elementary school but thats what got me into xgames, and Dave Mirra RIP The Goat . and Ryan Nyquist..met them both at gravity games in cleveland when i was in like 2nd grade. this was before dew tour, witch also came to cleveland and mirra and scotty and everyone was at that one it was one of the major stopson the tours 20min from my house it was sick we went every year. nitro circus live where travis pstrana broke his leg doing a 720 in cleveland right in frot of me live was the last event we had here.
That's so funny they think 79% is hot.... We should have this event at K Dubs next summer in August so the announcers' can experience what we southerners call hot lol
how is x games going to be in 10 years?? the progression just keeps getting more and more insane! I remember when Metzger did the first backflip in competition and how crazy that was!! I don't think anyone ever thought they'd be doing what they're doing today. mind is blown! 🤯
@@robshef1903 what does a mountain bike have to do with anything? I wasn’t the one bitchin. Also what does a kid have to do with anything? Some of the gnarliest guys have kids
Well unfortunately these freestyle jumps are over. We have all been seeing it to long so it’s worn out. It ran its course. The only thing they can do now is team up and do jumps with multiple people like jet fighters, ice skating, gymnastics, etc. I want to see 4 guys jump together then click rear tires doing an incredible jump. I also know there is one jump left that has never been done and that’s with by standing strait up and spinning in a circle. Now no flip just a whip where they complete the circle. A whip is 180 degrees so just go in a full circle. Also the tricks they do on the superbikes just stay in the ground and the bike dances around and they do all kinds of tricks and they need to do this on dirt bikes. No need to risk a life doing flips because it’s so old and not really interesting to see anymore
Pastrana, Twitch, Deegan And the godfather of freestyle Mike Metzger. The true spirit of freestyle cant die. The grungy punk aesthetic of the 90s needs to come back!!!!
How is it possible that the most exciting sport that ran the show when I was growing up turned into this. Commentators sleeping on the job. You can have a OK event turn into an exciting tale about event just based off of the commentators energy. Riders don't want it anymore taka the OG is here for viewers. Man I've watched the x games every year since I was old enough to know what motocross was, there's been ups and downs but this event destroyed everything I loved about the sport. Covid or not this was trash.
I completely agree. 2 years later and the entire promotion is a shadow of its former self. I don't believe they're getting nearly the same amount of funding they were or someone in charge has completely drove it into the ground. It's not like these sports aren't popular either...
Still can't believe double backflips are just a casual thing now in freestyle . Used to be a best trick contest winner . And Lucs run was just a series best trick winners back to back. Insane levels of progression.
LOVED IT - I miss the "old days" of these big open air courses with lots of options, makes each run UNIQUE, guys aren't all just riding the same line as each other just with different tricks.
Here's to a return to the big boy courses for a couple 'Games, but please give these guys more practice/warm up and a 3rd run!!! I LOVE the tech riding these big multi-option courses demand, but the guys are going to need more practice time to get it down than at the smaller arena courses.
The best sport in X Games!!
i like the two stroke in the background interrupting the commentators, lol
Would have loved to see Taka get a metal. Him and Sheeny were the only two that felt good riding the course for two runs.
Fuckin spoiler alert
Takas runs were trash didn’t hit a single big trick
_He_ and Sheeny *
Mike Mason!!! Great Rider, Great Announcer, Great Guy! Love hearing him give his insight and lending his expertise to this event! Noice! Good job Mase! You Rock!
Freestyle is the most evolved sport ever!!!! It is so crazy what all of these riders are capable of now!! I remember when Ronnie Renner was able to win competitions with a whip lol!
what a farce...such a great big course with so many options...but no intensity, no energy...bring back the days of pastrana and metzger when the guys just held it pegged hitting every jump possible. Creativity, flow and intensity should have been rewarded...Rob, Taka and Sheeny were by FAR the most enjoyable to watch here. It really should have been Rob 1, Sheeny 2 and Taka 3....everyone else just looked lost out there.
My heart broke for ben on that first trick. full commitment and so close but didn't get a good rotation. Also need to say, its absolutely bonkers that a rock solid backflip is just another trick in a run now
I miss the Travis Pastrana days when freestyle was actually fast paced during the run. The riders would ride through each jump fast without losing that much speed. Gosh, this event as slowed down A LOT. This used to be my favorite event and now it's the most boring.
Fr it’s so much better in the stadium 75sec is not enough for this outdoor style
@@benwan5425 I just dont like the set up.. it ruins the momentum and flow.
Yeah I liked Taka and Sheeny way more this event because they had the best flow through the course. Really don’t like how much slower this is, even the announcement crew seems bored.
At the end of the day, You should just appreciate the riders and the tricks they do risking there lives for there carers and all the people watching!
@@ecm4062 I appreciate it but still is bored lol... just wish they changed it back like how it was. At the end of the day FOR ME it's entertainment and I wasn't entertained. And those athletes chose to risk too put their lives on the line. I ain't forcing them 😄
If you say “Monster Energy brings you a commercial free broadcast, Monster Energy” over and over its not really commercial free
do you know what a commercial is
@@FreshKozy do you?!
@@JakeIsaacs no
I think this could have been sooooo much better to watch with some more colourful commentary! Like let’s get pumped up!
Id love to see a 3 run format. Best two runs count.
3 runs, with the third run being 120 seconds. Alot more scoring weighted towards flow, creativity, intensity and use of course...bring back the golden age of fmx lol
Luc Auckerman is the best - I've never seen anything like this before in my life... wow so amazing
Would have loved to see a home field advantage run to demonstrate the course.
Seems like Moto X needs an extra day of practice, and a 3rd run!
WE LOVE YOU XGAMES
So glad to see x games thriving! So fun to watch
This stuff is so insane I remember early 2000s fmx could not imagine people doing trixs like this
Axels dad be like ,we gotta get rid of this Raha kid😅 then Axel be in the first place high jump competition🤣 !
Loved the course, brings back memories of the crazy fmx courses back in the day, also provides better more diverse riding, the only thing that's is lacking is the commentary
This is BLUE OK
Not been able to watch x games for a few years now crazy to see how it’s changed. Also weird to watch Fmx without hearing a crowd cheering
Imagine the drone hitting one of them mid air 😂 I’m sure that thing flying around is messing with them so bad
X games They need to put on more freestyle motocross competitions
Great event, thank you X Games and Monster energy 🙏👍 I don’t completely disagree with those saying this course was difficult and slowed things up, but I also was a huge fan of it. I think much, much more practice time could have helped to negate that a bit. They did the best they could and it was badass 🤷🏻♂️
Def did not feel like Xgames. Course was not set up for a competition. Bad flow, there were more crashes than clean Runs. No Fans however there are many Fans @ other sports 🤷🏻♂️
Me being watching and riding early 2000s seeing these dudes do back flips, double and front flip and announcers like “nice..” I’m still mind blown on the stuff these guys can do that’s so normal now
35:33 Claims a commercial-free broadcast. “We’ll be right back” followed by a long silent monster energy logo and sneaky Geico ad.
So Congratulations Luc Ackermann you have finally walked with your first X games medal and it is gold. Also you are now the first German athlete to walk away with an X Games gold medal. So a job well done and the country of Germany will be proud.
8:02 This is why you wear a shirt and a chest protector kids
@raving videos 2 cups 0_0
I remember watching on TV and wanting to be in it so bad now I'm practing daily ❤️
Great tricks! I'm glad that there wasnt hard crashes and everyone is ok
Liking seeing all these different venues. Can't wait to hear that crowd again though!
Dude's are nucking futs !!!!!
Congratulations to all of you 🤘🤘
Yeah man !
😂 Harry. That in Australia is called a ring stinger my friends.
💕I really love the sport of freestyle motocross FMX is the number one Best sport on gods American soil and on the planet Earth
A big thanks to Monster for helping protect us from evil commercials.
Imagine wanting to watch commercials. Consumer brain
I don’t know what it is, but this just has a different feel than back in the Pastrana and Metal Mulisha days. The tricks have progressed an insane amount which in theory should make it better, but it’s just missing that feel that the X-Games used to bring.
Anyone remember like 05-07 freestyle being quicker paced? I was like 6 or 7 watching Adams pastrana deegan all the og riders. Just feels a lot slower lol
The back and forth layout of the course made it hard to focus on anything else. This was more like rapid fire best trick runs than a complete freestyle run.
FMX has lost its amplitude, intensity and identity in the chase for technical perfection. I miss what fmx was.
Gratulation, Luc👏 Erster deutscher X-Games-Teilnehmer und dann auch noch Gold! 👍
That first dude should find another job I'm serious 😂😂😂🤣🤭🤭👈
Anyone else watching this because its fucken awesome
amazing flow, energy, skill and speed... the flips mind blowing... amazing sport
Kinda boring slow pace for a contest .. fans or no fans .. I think the course is set up for practice and training .. not for competition so that’s why it’s so difficult to create any flow to the runs .. but even if it’s bad it’s still good .. always love to see this comp..
This sport has been pushed so far. Just crazy.
a 2+ run format (2 and an option for a mulligan) might help with the nerves... and I'd agree that Taka's use of the course held true to the original spirit of the event (thoughtful line choice and continuity) and should've been rewarded.
hi dhannng di gelay? HAHAHAH
Y'all gotta get some better commentators. Sounds like golf play by play.
I disagree these commentators were fine normally it’s overhyped “gnarly gnarly gnarly” annoying announcing.
Freestyle motocross is the best sport it’s dear to my❤
🎉🎉🎉ยอดเยี่ยมครับผม
❤I really love the sport of freestyle motocross I always believe the sport of FMX was given to us by God for everybody to get into
What’s up with the four stroke engine sounds while a two stroke is on the course? Cheesey
you have bad detective skills
This at Axel Hodges compound ?? 🤘🤘
You have to quarantine going back to Australia but not coming to the United States baby. Go America! We're number one in covid.
You optimized this with ADS ?
I appreciate that they held x games this year but it sure seems so dulled down. I miss the days of sold out coliseum.
TAKA GOT SCREWED. SHOULD HAVE BEEN GOLD
Doing tricks without the upper body protection ( apart the helmet ) is wild
Nice to see some 2021 xgames...,,word......New Zealand 🇳🇿,,,Christmas day ...25th dec,,saturday... 28°C ??!! South Auckland....🤯😷. . ... .... ..... . .. ... . ..
Very Good Video! Amazing!!!
Can post 10 minutes of delay, but can't post all the runs of bmx best trick, ok
This is the dirt bikes not the bmxs
If I lived in Australia I think I would just stay in the states. The 14 day quarantine when returning home would suck
as much as i miss the “pastrana -deegan” comps this is great too
Taka got boned... Maybe not gold but podium without a doubt.
wow its really great ....
I went to the X Games III in San Diego and watched the first 10 years or so. I'm sorry but everything original has been done by bigger and better names. I'm not taking anything away from these kids, but it's just not the same X games.
I guess you just have to repeat "like I said" about 3,000,000 times and you too can be an commentator.
Ronaldo wild af all these dudes are nuts
Oh Look at the Little Wimps they need a Umbrella Bless their little hearts....
Senang Nonton ❎🌐 GEMES 🚴🏼♂️🚴🏼♂️🚴🏼♀️
My favorite show to watch grew up on xgames started riding when i was 8 years old when i started watching the xgames i started jumping hills my inspiration in dirtbike riding and skateboarding.
Crazy tricks but where’s the flow? The old days on the 125s were crazy fast
To be fair their riding on axels home course and he doesn't do all the tricks these dudes do, kind of a weird spot to have the event imo
So Axell host the X games and doesn’t even get on the bike to compete because he can’t hang with these heavy hitters of moto x. Doesn’t have to risk his life and still gets paid! They are too smart! He has to stick to his whips hahaaa
He's in QuarterPipe High Air!
@@XGames haha I know..home field advantage ? 🤔😂
I was thinking the same thing, the dude doesnt even ride his own course bahaha!!! brilliant, he cant do moto, supercross, or freestyle now i take it.. just has dads money lol. dont get me wrong hes got style but
I always wanna be an X. games
Taka should have atleast gotten 3rd
what is that music 0:40 ?
Pretty good stuff :)
Be nice if y'all named each trick
Can’t believe Adam Jones didn’t get an invite . Brutal @xgames
Para que sirven esas palancas que mueven en el manubrio?
13:39 its more of rodeo than a 3... i had the x games 9 DvD where Deegan and Pastrana both did the 360 in the LA Collisuim, i was iin like early elementary school but thats what got me into xgames, and Dave Mirra RIP The Goat . and Ryan Nyquist..met them both at gravity games in cleveland when i was in like 2nd grade. this was before dew tour, witch also came to cleveland and mirra and scotty and everyone was at that one it was one of the major stopson the tours 20min from my house it was sick we went every year. nitro circus live where travis pstrana broke his leg doing a 720 in cleveland right in frot of me live was the last event we had here.
muito legal 👏🏻🦸♂️💥
❎ GAMES 🌐🚴🏼♂️🚴🏼♀️🚴🏾♂️sangat seru dan sangat menantang uji nyali
That's so funny they think 79% is hot.... We should have this event at K Dubs next summer in August so the announcers' can experience what we southerners call hot lol
Great riders
how is x games going to be in 10 years?? the progression just keeps getting more and more insane! I remember when Metzger did the first backflip in competition and how crazy that was!! I don't think anyone ever thought they'd be doing what they're doing today. mind is blown! 🤯
So axel Hodges doesn't compete in anything, what a wheeny. All he really can do is whip like everyone else.
I got sick of watching his videos, it is just nose manuals and whips for 15 minutes.
So you’re sending a quarter pipe?
@@josephcapps7325 would be if I wasn't raising a kid on my own. Are you? 🙃 doubt it on a mountain bike 😂
@@robshef1903 sure you would ...
@@robshef1903 what does a mountain bike have to do with anything? I wasn’t the one bitchin. Also what does a kid have to do with anything? Some of the gnarliest guys have kids
poor fella on his first run. Thats got to smart.
We need deegan and twitch and pastrana back
Hope to see richards come back strong next year
Well unfortunately these freestyle jumps are over. We have all been seeing it to long so it’s worn out. It ran its course. The only thing they can do now is team up and do jumps with multiple people like jet fighters, ice skating, gymnastics, etc. I want to see 4 guys jump together then click rear tires doing an incredible jump. I also know there is one jump left that has never been done and that’s with by standing strait up and spinning in a circle. Now no flip just a whip where they complete the circle. A whip is 180 degrees so just go in a full circle. Also the tricks they do on the superbikes just stay in the ground and the bike dances around and they do all kinds of tricks and they need to do this on dirt bikes. No need to risk a life doing flips because it’s so old and not really interesting to see anymore
Is Mike mason a judge or commentary 🤫
Commentary!
Harry bink walks funny 😄
hi dhang hahah
Nice ✨
I love Harry's bike is it custom
Wtg woohoo 🎉🎊🎉 💯💖💋✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
15:35 taka is the best
cant win um all but it sure is fun trying
I wonder if anyone is sponsored by Redbull.. I don't know. They could have water in those cans lol