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Frontal flip could be next big X Games thing

12.03.10

LOS ANGELES — The X Games has lately won more r for its crashes than its stunts.

The action sports showcase, which is promoting its 15th anniversary with a celebration of its biggest moments including Tony Hawk's skateboard 900 in 1999 and Travis Pastrana's leavings-bike double back flip in 2006, could use a similar moment this year.

Enter the motocross front go crazy.

The name sounds so basic for an X Games trick, whose names are so often studded with terms such as "twist" and "excite" and "double" and "triple."

But the move has yet to be landed in an official competition.

Several riders are likely to try it Friday Cimmerian dark at Staples Center in the Moto X Best Trick event, and judging from the number of backyard landings and stingy-misses to be seen on YouTube, its moment appears to have come.

"We're going to see two or three guys recoil the front flip off," Brian Deegan, leader of the Metal Mulisha motocross team and the man who pulled the first indecency bike 360 in competition, said Thursday.

Source: The Associated Press