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Head over to the Red Bull website where Jeremy Pavia caught up with Coco Zurita to talk a little bit about his plans for X-Games Barcelona, how he feels about vert not being at the Los Angeles stop this year, his love for cars and more. Definitely a good read and you already know the photos are dialed!
Head over to the Red Bull website for a quick Q&A with Kriss Kyle about his thoughts on being at X-Games in Barcelona this week. Definitely want to see some footage of him riding the course, that’s for sure.
Jeremy Pavia will be doing some contributing to the Red Bull website as well as The Union now! To kick things off, he caught up with Zack Warden to talk about his win at X-Games Brazil, what his thoughts are on riding Mega Ramp, his plans for Barcelona and more. It’s a good read with some dialed photos that you can check out right here.
A few months back, X-Games announced that after this year, they will be looking to move their annual event that has taken place in Los Angeles for the last decade (or so?) to other parts of the U.S. When they announced that, they decided to give different major cities around the country the opportunity to try and wow them in an attempt to get them to give them a shot at hosting one of the worlds largest known action sports events. Detroit is one place that has really been putting in some work to get their attention and the video above, in my opinion, is a hell of a way to wow the people making the decisions. I guarantee once you hit play you will end up watching all 5 minutes of this.
Plus, it has Matt Sparks in this! What a legend.
The X-Games is holding an amateur street contest this summer, and they are looking for participants. If you think he deserve a spot, watch the above video and follow the directions.
Over the past few days, word that park and vert would not be happening at the X-Games stop in Los Angeles this summer. Obviously this decision caught everyone off guard and it definitely got some people a little fired up about it. Today, Mat Hoffman shot out an email to a few people explaining why they chose to do this and how this actually affects the entire picture of BMX in the X-Games in 2013 and into the future. Given it sucks not having that exposure, it does make sense as far as prize money and the combined exposure from all of the stops. Below is the email we received… Take a peek!
“I would like to address the news that BMX Park and BMX Vert will not be included in ESPN’s X Games in Los Angeles this year.
As the BMX organizer for ESPN’s X Games, I, of course, would like to see all disciplines represented at all X Games events, especially my life blood, Vert. However, we have been reassured by ESPN that they are not withdrawing their support and coverage of BMX. They are changing the coverage of sports and disciplines for each stop, as their focus is to produce 6 diversely different TV shows. In fact, to put into perspective, in 2012, ESPN had 4 BMX competitions with $359,000 in prize money. This year, they have 12 BMX competitions with over $1 million in prize money, tripling their support for BMX.
This is progression. We will continue to strongly advocate BMX for all of ESPN’s events and we hope that the BMX community will stand with us in building upon this year and the years to come.” -Mat Hoffman
Red Bull followed Daniel Dhers around during X-Games Brazil. This video gives you some insight into how the week went from the flight in to the course, his experiences during his stay and more. I call this living the dream, haha. This is part 2 of the videos (somehow we missed part one) and part 3 will drop in the next few days.
Filmed and edited by Will Stroud
