Metal Mulisha

Not much to say other than hell yeah Lusk and Potter! The Mulisha dominated X Games Mexico! First Lusk wins Best Trick, then he followed it up with a huge win in FMX, while Faisst took 4th in FMX. Potter crashed hard in his FMX run, but still made it back to compete in Best Whip where he cracked the whip shirtless for a gold medal, while Lusk took bronze!

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Check out this interview on EXPN with Ronnie Faisst about conquering the 360! Good stuff. Wanna know what the 360 and the rest of his qualifying run looked like? Watch it below!

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You already heard what went down in Speed & Style, and probably saw the photos, but now here’s the video! Enjoy.

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The newest Metal Mulisha recruit, Nixey Danielson, was an alternate for FMX at X this year. When you’re an alternate you get to ride the course and practice like the qualified riders just in case you need to be ready for the big show. While practicing and getting used to the jumps, Nixey came up short on the big 120 footer. He got weeded to say the least…2 broken legs, 1 broken wrists, still spitting up blood, and plenty of pain meds!

We stopped by to see him in the hospital today and showed him the footage of the crash for the first time. Check the video and leave Nixey some comments below ’cause he will be reading them from his couch! Get well soon buddy.

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Todd Potter OWNED the X Games Best Whip Contest! Check the video and see for yourself just how upside down and backwards Potter was getting compared the rest…nuts!

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First off, HUGE congratulations are in order for mister Jeremy Lusk. By now everyone knows that Lusk won the Gold in X Games FMX. All the other events are cool and all, but everyone knows if you win FMX you are THE man. Winning X Games ain’t bad for his first big contest win! Congrats again, Lusk, you earned it!

So here the rundown of how shit went down:

First up in the head-to-head format for Mulisha was Jeremy Lusk vs. Bilko. Bilko crashed in practice about 10 minutes before the big show, so he was a little off in his run, which is understandable. Lusk was on his game and Bilko didn’t have a chance against Lusk’s huge bag of tricks and dialed run. Lusk advanced to the semi’s.

Next Twitch vs. Robbie Maddison. Maddo went first and threw down a bad ass run! All big tricks and even a solid seat grab flip over the 120 footer. Unfortunately for Maddo he was up against Twitch. The Mulisha vs. Mulisha bracket heats suck! Twitch also had a flawless run and had some bigger tricks off more difficult jumps, and did a 1 handed lander on the big dog! Twitch advanced.

That would put up Lusk against Twitch to see who would be in the finals versus Rebeaud. Yet another Mulisha on Mulisha matchup those bastards set up! Lust was up first and kept his run pretty close the his first run…still HUGE! This was going to be close for the judges to decide. But here is where all hell broke loose. Twitch was putting in a solid run. But after landing for a KOD flip over the 75 foot step down Twitch looked down at his bike in discust, threw it to the ground, and stormed off to the pits and breaking shit all the way. Why? What was wrong? The brake? The foot peg? Nope! It was the motor!

I called Twitch the next day after he had time to settle down to hear what really happened. After he landed he heard some grinding and whistling in the motor. Something was wrong. He knew something was wrong and did not want to risk it cutting out with 2 jumps to go as the last jumps were going to be the dirt hit and the 120 footer…huge consequences if you screw up. Twitch’s mechanic pulled it apart and the water pump main bearing was ready to explode! So there you have it.

Lusk advanced to the finals versus Mat Rebeaud!

Rebeaud went first and was putting in another big run. But on the dirt hit he dead sailored it. You’re not winning X Games if you can’t hold it together and get a trick off on every jump. It was all up to Lusk. Lusk mixed up his run from the previous 2 and busted some bigger tricks on a lot of the jumps. Lusk held it together under the pressure and came away with his first X Games Gold Medal!

Check out the X Games 14 - FMX Photo Gallery for more of the goods!