I remember walking up the vert ramp steps at Wooward and seeing "some dude" sitting on his bike ..........Little did I know it was JAIME FUCKING BESTWICK... Well until he rolled in and did a 8 foot flare downside whip. 9 time x-games gold medalist and the most humble dude too. He fucking shreds like no other.
Not to say old school BMX riders weren't good, but it's crazy how little skill you had to have to place in the X games back in the day. A run with 540's and barspins won't even get you past qualifiers nowadays... and a lookback flair won't get much attention either. The sports really progressed.
I hear that. It's true in 98 or so a 720 was huge! Now five year olds at Woodward are doing double backflips into the foam pit. Back then a bar spin , xup, and a spin you'd make the podium lol
Jamie Bestwick Last won gold in 2016 that's like 7 years ago and the last medal he won was a silver in 2019 that's only 4 years ago. Jamie Bestwick rode and won in the old-school era and the new. besides i don't think the BMX vert is in the x games anymore.
i'd really like to see a Stephen Murray - X Games Most Dominant. im sure you guys have a lot of old footages deep in your archives
He's now TEAM GB coach and he coached them to Gold and Bronze
Respect the 40’s man who is in a game beating 20 years old guys.
He rides for dk now interesting. I thought he'd be with GT forever. A true vert hero! We salute you sir!
I hope he wins a 10th with decade flair
Oh my brain 🧠!!!😂 best commentary ever Jamie is the king vert bmx truly incredible
I remember walking up the vert ramp steps at Wooward and seeing "some dude" sitting on his bike ..........Little did I know it was JAIME FUCKING BESTWICK... Well until he rolled in and did a 8 foot flare downside whip. 9 time x-games gold medalist and the most humble dude too. He fucking shreds like no other.
One of my heroes.
Bestwick:Balls of Steel
He's literally my neighbor. 😂
I remember last year when I first got into bmx I walked past a tv during the summer. I saw his line, but I didn't know who it was. Mind was so blown
Jamie BestTrick!
That front flip thing was nellyness
they took street out of the Xgames :(
Not to say old school BMX riders weren't good, but it's crazy how little skill you had to have to place in the X games back in the day. A run with 540's and barspins won't even get you past qualifiers nowadays... and a lookback flair won't get much attention either. The sports really progressed.
How little skill? You're an idiot.........
Progressed....from what the founders did. Remember that. And halfpipe vert is no joke either, it's not like park.
I hear that. It's true in 98 or so a 720 was huge! Now five year olds at Woodward are doing double backflips into the foam pit. Back then a bar spin , xup, and a spin you'd make the podium lol
Jamie Bestwick Last won gold in 2016 that's like 7 years ago and the last medal he
won was a silver in 2019 that's only 4 years ago. Jamie Bestwick rode and won in
the old-school era and the new. besides i don't think the BMX vert is in the x games
anymore.