Larry Edgar laying out a topside no foot can in the 15 minute warm-up before the heats started.
Steve Van Doren on deck!
MC Darryl Nau
The legend Ryan Nyquist didn't get a special pass to ride the event, he qualified like everyone else.
Kris Fox - Spine to Waterfall smooth as butter
Kris Fox
Dennis Enarson won practice and now qualifying.. What's next?
40 riders in Qualifying and no one else messes with these downside peg grinds. Gary Young rules
Practice went for 15 minutes before the heats and Alex Hiam blasted this dipped 450 in his first lap of the day.
Ben Wallace
Boyd Hilder
Chase Hawk - Pocket Tabe
Chase Hawk
Chris James
Clint Reynolds does the best lookbacks. So effortless.
Cody Pollard won some money at the Australian stop and used it to pay for a sick Chicken. Unfortunately the chicken past away. RIP Stacy
Cody Pollard - Table for Stacy
Enarson, Matthias and Maxime
Corey Bohan rode to the same song he won a handful of X Games Dirt comps to back in the mid 2000's. It worked for him today too!
Corey Walsh didn't have the best day today.
Daniel Sandoval - Flair
Daniel Sandoval - Triple Whip
Larry Edgar looks really good out there!
We love Tom Dugan at the Vans BMX Pro Cup and unfortunately a routine bail has him at the hospital with a shattered finger. Such a bummer
Australian Dylan Lewis is the master blaster
Dylan Lewis
Kevin Peraza owns the can can tire-grab
South African now Hastings, UK resident Greg Illingworth
Greg might of been the first to hit this transfer and with all that speed he hits a couple more big gaps. Awesome.
Vermont Maple Syrup farmer Jamie Cooper-Ellis
Jason Watts won the Mexico stop a few weeks ago and surprisingly didn't qualify today. He won't be riding on Sunday. He did pull this nose manual though!
John Wadlund got in through his Alternate spot. He was killing practice so when the opportunity came up, he went straight on the start list.
Kevin Kalkoff rocked Dak's new Style 112 Mid Pro that dropped this week.
Kevin Kalkoff
Gotta love when the rider goes out of the screen. You should never underestimate Matt Cordova going high. Lesson learned.
Maxime Charveron has done the biggest pocket so far this comp.
Pat Casey - Switch whip
Ronnie Napolitan went straight from roasting beans at his coffee shop called Rothrock, to roasting tables on Huntington Beach.
Imagine getting run advice from Scotty Cranmer! Matty listening closely to his brothers instructions.
Big Boy, Matty and Scotty
Matty Cranmer with encouragement from big brother Scotty
Trey Jones in fresh Checkerboard Slip-On's after someone peed on his last pair late night. Unreal.
Tyler Fernengel
Feeble to bar in. Tyler Fernengel
We took 40 riders down to 20 for Sunday's final today.