Mat Hoffman 1997 X Games

The birth of big air.

Mat hoffman 1997 x games.

From 30 for 30. X games 8 bmx vert part dave mirra and mat hoffman no handed 900 duration. After a windstorm knocked down the first big air quarterpipe that hoffman and friends built hoffman returned to regular sized vert ramps competing in the x games expanding his bmx brand hoffman bikes and producing a show for espn2 titled kids in the way. Momento inolvidable en los x game 8 dave y matt a full.

X games icon dave mirra dies at 41 1 14 according to police in greenville north carolina x games biker dave mirra has died at the age of 41 after a self inflicted gunshot wound. Although bmx big air was only introduced to the x games in 2005 the pursuit of the highest quarterpipe air on a bmx bike stretches back to the early 1990s when bmx vert pioneer mat hoffman decided to build a bigger ramp on an open lot on the outskirts of oklahoma city. In 1997 x games also introduced snowboarding to the summer lineup and those in attendance were lucky enough to see snowboarders flying through the air alongside skateboarding bmx surfing and more. The winter x games viii in 2002 was the first time an x games event was televised live and also had coverage by espn s flagship news program sportscenter viewership across the three networks that carried coverage of the event abc sports espn and espn2 exceeded 2001 s household average by 30 according to nielsen media research.

Hoffman worked with activision to produce the video games mat hoffman s pro bmx 2001 and mat hoffman s pro bmx 2 2002 the latter released in conjunction with the mat hoffman s pro bmx2 tour tv show which aired on espn2 and is available on dvd and vhs. The event also reached record highs in several.