X GAMES WOMEN’S ENDURO MOTO X


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The X-Games are one of the most incredible sporting franchises in modern history in my opinion. They are a large factor in how action sports have become legitimized in popular culture. They might of made some mistakes along the way and forgotten to bring along their heroes with them when they dine out four star, but generally it’s pretty impressive what they have done. When they dropped BMX Dirt a few years back I thought that was a huge mistake but this year they have got it all straightened out by introducing Women’s Enduro Moto-X. Brilliant entertainment.

However, if you look through the schedule and calendar of the X-Games now you will see that a lot of ‘traditional’ action sports are being dropped in favor of motorized freak shows. As well as Women’s Enduro Moto-X, there is Action Sports Celebrity Rally Racing, and a raft of moto-x weirdness which ranges from the straight oddness of FMX to the bone breaking gong show that is FMX Best Trick, to the Moto Highest Air comp. Is this a less than subtle message that the engine rules supreme and we should just keep consuming petroleum or is it just that the X-Games is simple entertainment and motors are what gets the audience excited? And does it matter that a lot of these events aren’t actual sports and are just mindless, easily consumed TV slots?

But Women’s Enduro Moto-X, really? Was it really necessary? Of course it was, it was entertaining like pointing and laughing at the new student getting wailed on by the school bully because you are just relieved it isn’t you getting owned in front of everyone.

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  7. Interesting viewpoint Seb. If FMX is “straight oddness” and not a real sport, I can also only assume that Slopestyle MTB/Crankworx is also just mindless? Please explain the difference

    1. cabin… slopestyle is “straight oddness” as well… but the good slopestyle riders take that riding to the single track and thats when it becomes mountain biking. No motor, no petrol, no girls in bikinis with tramp stamps and no lowered two wheel drive utes

  8. Interesting viewpoint Seb. If FMX is “straight oddness” and not a real sport, I can also only assume that Slopestyle MTB/Crankworx is also just mindless? Please explain the difference

    1. cabin… slopestyle is “straight oddness” as well… but the good slopestyle riders take that riding to the single track and thats when it becomes mountain biking. No motor, no petrol, no girls in bikinis with tramp stamps and no lowered two wheel drive utes

  9. You got me there Cabin. In the heat of the moment, a very funny moment, I may of cast FMX (truly a mans sport) into the circus that is some of the other spectacles currently in the X-Games.FMX doesn’t really bare much resemblance to the moto that 99.9% of people participate in, but it is entertaining, highly skilled, requires dedication, preparation and training, both physically and mentally. These things make it a legitimate sport I suppose. A very serious sport that is pushing boundaries of human sporting endeavor.

    MTB slopestyle…well lets say I think it’s the same as FMX. A little weird perhaps, but it still requires athletes to be highly skilled, dedicated, prepared and highly trained, both physically and mentally.
    However, I think more mountain bikers can relate to MTB Slopestyle on a personal level than moto riders can to FMX. How many people jump big ass doubles on a moto? How many people jump the same double and go upside down on a moto? In MTB terms, even though the number of people that do such wild aerial maneuvers is still small, the relative number of people that jump their bike and can go upside down is much greater.

    I think that makes sense…I hope it does.

    However, just to clarify, FMX Best Trick is odd. Look at how they (the X-Games big wigs) drag in loose cannons to try crowd pleasing tricks but who end up doing crowd pleasing crashes. Look at Paris Rosen in X15. He was brought in simply to do the front flip that YouTube evidence had shown him to be attempting. He was an unproven entity and the big wigs chose to put him in just because he might be able to land it. He didn’t. One year later in X16 and Paris tries again very publicly almost kills himself. It’s weird that we want to watch people try amazingly difficult yet potentially lethal moves just to get themselves a helmet deal. Sure that’s like many sports – putting everything on the line – but I feel Best Trick is just blind gambling, not skilled sportsmanship. Hucking could be a term to describe some participants.

    Just saying

  10. You got me there Cabin. In the heat of the moment, a very funny moment, I may of cast FMX (truly a mans sport) into the circus that is some of the other spectacles currently in the X-Games.FMX doesn’t really bare much resemblance to the moto that 99.9% of people participate in, but it is entertaining, highly skilled, requires dedication, preparation and training, both physically and mentally. These things make it a legitimate sport I suppose. A very serious sport that is pushing boundaries of human sporting endeavor.

    MTB slopestyle…well lets say I think it’s the same as FMX. A little weird perhaps, but it still requires athletes to be highly skilled, dedicated, prepared and highly trained, both physically and mentally.
    However, I think more mountain bikers can relate to MTB Slopestyle on a personal level than moto riders can to FMX. How many people jump big ass doubles on a moto? How many people jump the same double and go upside down on a moto? In MTB terms, even though the number of people that do such wild aerial maneuvers is still small, the relative number of people that jump their bike and can go upside down is much greater.

    I think that makes sense…I hope it does.

    However, just to clarify, FMX Best Trick is odd. Look at how they (the X-Games big wigs) drag in loose cannons to try crowd pleasing tricks but who end up doing crowd pleasing crashes. Look at Paris Rosen in X15. He was brought in simply to do the front flip that YouTube evidence had shown him to be attempting. He was an unproven entity and the big wigs chose to put him in just because he might be able to land it. He didn’t. One year later in X16 and Paris tries again very publicly almost kills himself. It’s weird that we want to watch people try amazingly difficult yet potentially lethal moves just to get themselves a helmet deal. Sure that’s like many sports – putting everything on the line – but I feel Best Trick is just blind gambling, not skilled sportsmanship. Hucking could be a term to describe some participants.

    Just saying

  15. Oh dear. I wonder how many times they’ve been told to get back in the kitchen since then. What a sad, sad spectacle. ESPN, this was a mistake.

  16. Oh dear. I wonder how many times they’ve been told to get back in the kitchen since then. What a sad, sad spectacle. ESPN, this was a mistake.

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