Travis pastrana is the First Person to ever Land the Double Backflip in X-Games competition. And i’m sure that a lot of people never thought it was even possible !

And don’t miss Kevin Robinson’s BMX double flair from the X-Games 12 Vert Best Trick contest :

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X Games 12 Factoids
from Expn

Q: Where will the 12th summer X Games be held?

A: In and around Los Angeles, California at the STAPLES Center (tickets required), Home Depot Center (tickets required) and Puerto Escondido, Mexico (Surfing – FREE). The first eight stages of Rally Car Racing will be held in the Los Angeles area with a Super Special live at the Home Depot Center finale (tickets required). See venues for detailed locations and directions.

Q: When, pray tell, will the 12th summer X Games be held?

A: Thursday, August 3 to Sunday, August 6, 2006.

Q: What is this “X Games” you speak of?

A: If you’ve been under a rock in South Korea for 12 years, I hope you didn’t get flat. But the X Games is the definitive annual action sports competition, featuring more than 150 of the world’s best athletes. This years’ sports are BMX Freestyle, Moto X, Skateboard, Surfing and Rally Car Racing.

Well i’m not sure about the problems that Expn has with South Korea, cause it’s pretty active country in the extreme sports.

If the writer of the article was on the red planet march, i may understand that he missed the fact that Seoul (Korea) hosted the Asian X-Games in May 2005. Stop drinking beers while writing your articles dude.

Check some infos and photos of the X-Games 12, Los Angeles CA :
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Screener of the Soichiro Kanashima Run ; Asian X-Games 2006 winner (park contest).

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Flanegan & Tarquin posted some photos of the Asian X-Games 2006 on his blog.

Flanegan RN Blog | don’t miss the Eito Yasutoko new Trick, More Photos here.

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The Kjrollers website got a nice photo set of the Asian X-Games 2006

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^ left : Tom Hyser, Katie Ketchum, Chris Fowler. right : Katie Ketchum

Freenation Mag was at the Asian X-Games.

Check some photos here and Watch some video edits (4) featuring Ayumi Kawasaki, Eito Yasutoko, Takeshi Yasutoko and Katie Ketchum.

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Empir3 got a nice photo gallery of the Asian X-Games ‘06 that took place in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia).

Watch the Asian X-Games 2006 Photos
Don’t miss the navigation buttons at the bottom right

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Ayumi Kawasaki / Chris Haffey royaling the rail he later Sav’d 270 back full torked.

I knew I was in for trouble as I sat on the couch in the corner of the hotel room, nursing my eigth Guiness talking shit with the Chinese rollers that didn’t speak any English. I spent most mornings tanking complimentary Red Bulls, most afternoons watching world-class rollerblading and most nights spanking married women, cheersing with the Hongkies, pouring Chris Fowlers per diem down my gullet, and finally stumbling in at 6am just as Chris ‘Early to bed, early to rise’ Haffey was brushing his teeth. Sorry Haffenshire.

The judges stand doubled as a perve podium, myself and Tom (Hyser by name but higher by nature) spent many an hour admiring the many varieties of sultry Asian female, the funnest part was guessing their age. Carl Hills ate nothing but potatoes and fried chicken. He wouldn’t even try the sweet ‘n sour dipping sauce at McDonalds. Masaaki Narita and I whiled away the lazy evenings taking English lessons courtesy of NHK television. I fell in love with Ayumi Kawasaki and Ayu, if you’re reading this, I’ll learn Japanese for you.

Soichiro earned his first place the spinny way, forcing Haffenshire to settle for second, with Thailand’s ‘Note’ in Third. But you already knew that (Full Results of the Asian X-Games 2006 here).

Eito waited till Takeshi fell before stealing his Gold, leaving Tomohiko to snatch the crums.

Huge ‘Hooowhats’ and ‘Okays’ must be screamed into the faces of Chris Fowler, Jason Hines Beans, Mike Wilson, Richie Sharpe and that girl Gill with the double eye-lid surgery. She wasn’t a local celebrity, I don’t care what she told you.

Enjoy the pictures.

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Yasutoko brothers reach new heights as X Games Asia concludes in Kuala Lumpur

Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA (ESPN) – Japan’s Yasutoko brothers delighted action sports fans with an exhilarating showcase in the Aggressive In-Line Vert Finals on a sunny final day of the X Games Asia at Sunway Lagoon in Kuala Lumpur. In addition to the Vert finals, visitors poured into the venue to enjoy the finals of Skateboard Park and Best Trick, Sport Climbing (Men Speed), and Aggressive In-Line Best Trick. A total of over 44,000 spectators watched the event over the last three days.

Datuk Azalina Dato’ Othman Said, Malaysia’s Minister of Youth & Sports presented the prizes to the respective winners of the competitions today at the closing ceremony.

Aggressive Inline Vert :

It was another one-two finish for Eito and Takeshi Yasutoko. Eito Yasutoko won the gold medal with a score of 87.75 and then proceeded to land his new trick, “The Twister”, after competition. The trick required Yasutoko to complete a backflip and then a 360-backflip.

“I am really happy to have landed my new trick in Malaysia. The conditions were very challenging today and I feel very fortunate to win,” said Yasutoko.

Tomohiko Nakamura, of Japan, joined the Yasutoko brothers on the podium with the bronze medal. Finishing in fourth with an impressive all-round performance was top woman pro-skater Ayumi Kawasaki, also of Japan

Aggressive Inline Vert Results

1 Eito Yasutoko (JPN)
2 Takeshi Yasutoko (JPN)
3 Tomohiko Nakamura (JPN)
4 Ayumi Kawasaki (JPN)
5 Takayuki Nakamura (JPN)
6 Taiki Kimura (JPN)
7 Kanta Ogino (JPN)
8 Yuusuke Aihara (JPN)
9 Michihito Kawauchi (JPN)
10 Carl Hills (USA)

Aggressive In-Line Park Best Trick :

Chris Haffey from the United States won the gold medal for the best trick with a total score of 93.33.

Jeerasak Tassorn from Thailand won the silver and. Soichiro Kanashima from Japan takes home the bronze.

Park Ride Results :

1 Soichiro Kanashima 93.5
2 Chris Haffey (USA) 89.25
3 Worapoj Boonnim 88.5
4. Carl Hills (USA) 85.5
5 Steven Aleil (France) 81.25
6 Nick Schopfer (Switzerland) 80.75
7 Jeerasak Tassom 75
8 Jaren Grob (USA) 72.75
9 Katie Ketchum (USA) 72.75
10 Craig Brocklehurst 　71.25

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