Extreme thing Las Vegas. Dirt jumping with the stars. By Lloyd Ramsay

Apr 03, 2007

Written by Bart de Jong

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Extremething is held in Las Vegas each year: bands , wrestling, AM comp, loads of unhappy looking kids wearing black and Ricardo Laguna's dirt comp. This is the fourth year the dirt comp has been held and the airline making me miss my flight wasn't going to stop me from being there.

Event winner Corey Bohan was more dialled than any sex chat hotline in Vegas. Throwing down moves like a bar spin to tailwhip looks like you are watching a video game. Bohan walked away with $10 000 doing what he does best.

As the finals kicked off Josh Holt's first run looked great with him throwing something in on each jump. Many of the new generation of dirt riders were there and killing it: TJ Ellis, Mike "Hucker" Clark, Thomas Hancock, James Foster, Radio, Mike Saavedra and Dennis Enerson.

These guys run on raw enthusiasim for bmx trying to out trick each other on the asphalt while the track was being watered.

Outside the dirt the AM skate and bmx comp were being held in the Desert Breeze skatepark. I also caught a glimpse of the wrestling but the two guys in the ring were just yelling at each other over the PA system. I felt violated after I paid $3 for a bottle of water and went back into the dirt enclosure before one of those kids bit me.

Vegas local TJ Lavin showed he can still hang with the kids with clicked tables and style all over the place. I stood in the Vegas sun all day so I can't remember everything everyone pulled.

Event organizer Ricardo Laguna rode as well making the finals with tricks like a no-hander backflip over the last step-up. Biz looked awesome despite somehow not being able to make it through the course a few times: super high dead sailors, tobogans, 270 over the hip and clicked tuck no hander.

Also riding were Alistair Whitton, Heath Pinter and Dave Dillewaard making it a really good lineup.

I managed to catch half of Static-X's set on the main stage after the dirt. Luckily all the bottles thrown at us down front never hit and I even saw a skateboard end up at my feet. The band played a few tracks off their new album "Cannibal" ( which will be released this week in the States ) as well as some of their staple songs.

Lloyd Ramsay