84 | SEPTEMBER 2017 http://www.adbmag.com.auunderstandable that they’re
dangerousandtheridersdidn’twant
to do them again.
PATBOWDEN(AUS)
3rdinFMXBestTrick,One-hand
IndytoRockSolidtoDouble-
Grab Hart Backflip.
Ispentthetwoweekspriortothe
World Ga mes t raining at Travis’s
place, and had originally wanted to
doaRockSolidFrontFlip,butit
seemed like everyone was doing Front
Fliptricks.IthoughtI’dstandoutifI
did something different, so I started
hitting the Double Flip ramp with just
onerotationtoseewhatIcoulddo
with that amount of time in the air.
AfteraweekofhittingthatrampI
had the look-through Double Grab
Hart Flip and started mucking around
with combos.
IntheBestTrickfinalsIstarted
with that Double Grab Flip, just for
measitfeltlikesuchacooltrickand
Ibasicallywantedtoseeavideoofit!
Thesecondcombotrickwasdone
forthecontestandIwasdefinitely
happytoplacethirdafterfinishing
second with the Tsunami Front Flip
last year. This year’s trick itself isn’t
actually all that hard... it’s definitely
scary, but it’s more scary than hard as
you’re in the air for so long.
On a whole I thought last year’s
Nitro World Games was probably
bigger and had more world firsts, but
this year they’d ironed out a few of
the faults and it ran a bit smoother.
It’s gained a huge following now, so
I’m looking forward to seeing how
next year’s turns out.BLAKE “BILKO” WILLIAMS
8th in FMX
Well I had a bit of a shocker. The day
before we were filming at a racetrack
and I got sunburnt and dehydrated,
which I’m usually pretty cautious
about. After qualifying I felt sick and
threw up, then an hour later I was
curled up in a ball and had to go to
urgent care at the hospital with an IV
and nausea meds. I couldn’t eat much,
and I slept all the next morning, then
went straight to the finals at 3:30pm!
The Aussie standard ramps only got
set up that morning, so I had noEVENT I NITRO WORLD GAMES
chance to hit them and had to use the
US ramps instead. That meant I
couldn’t do my Lazy-Boy Flips or
Cliffy Flips, but that’s what happens
when you get old and lose your talent.
I was pretty stoked to make it
through to the finals, but I knew I
wouldn’t do much better than
positions six-to-eight, so I just went
out there and tried not to shit my
pants. I would’ve liked to have ridden
harder, but it wouldn’t have made
much difference to the final results
and I still achieved what I wanted to
and showed the young kids what’s up.
The World Games is awesome event.
I like the fact you get judged on what
you do and the degree of difficulty is
sorted beforehand, which gives you
an idea of what tricks won’t score
well, even if you think they’re cool.
That meant I had to take the Cliffy
Humper out of my run, but the system
also worked in my favour as I have
the 360 and that gets scored well as
there are f**k-all people doing them.
But hats off to Levi and Harry for
coming out swinging and winning
their comps. Those boys killed it.Results
FMX
- Levi Sherwood (NZL)
- Javier Villegas (CHI)
- Josh Sheehan (AUS)
- Adam Jones (USA)
- Clinton Moore (AUS)
- Harry Bink (AUS)
- Steve Mini (AUS)
- Blake Williams (AUS)
FMX BEST TRICK
- Harry Bink (AUS)
- William Van Den Putte (NED)
- Pat Bowden (AUS)
- Josh Sheehan (AUS)
- Brodie Carmichael (AUS)
- Gregg Duffy (USA)
SCOOTER BEST TRICK
- Ryan Williams (AUS)
BMX TRIPLE HIT
- Colton Walker (USA)
SKATE BEST TRICK
- Elliot Sloam (USA)
BMX BEST TRICKS
- Ryan Williams (AUS)
Pat scraped through in
third of Best Trick with a
three-combo flip