ExtremeThing "Ricardo Laguna Pro Dirt Challenge" 2012 Recap. By Ricardo Laguna

Apr 07, 2012

Written by Bart de Jong

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This weekend, over 20,000 people came out to attend ExtremeThing - Las Vegas' largest annual Sports & Music Festival held at Desert Breeze Park. This year's event marked the 17th year fans have come out to enjoy live music, carnival rides, wrestling, MMA, Vegas Am Jam as well as the 9th year of "Ricardo Laguna's Pro Dirt Challenge".

During Friday's practice, we got to see Jaie Toohey jumping higher than the parking lot light posts and Big Daddy sending 360 to 360 opposite at light post height. To everyone's dismay, with the wind picking up Saturday morning, we weren't able to move forward with the full competition. The riders came up with the best criteria to continue the contest which was "cash for

tricks" plus a bigger payout for top 3 best tricks.

On the day of the contest, riders came from all over including Brandon Dosch, Ryan Guettler, the Cordova brothers, Nicholi Rogatkin and Lance Mosley to compete. Despite the windy conditions, fans were fully satisfied as they witnessed riders pulling off tricks like a casual double backflip, flip double whip, a superman double seat grab stretched to the maximum, and a tail whip to no hander suicide. In the end, third place went to James Foster for his double backflip, second place went to Colton Satterfield for his 360 backflip no hander, and first place went to Dustin Grice for his 360 windshield wiper. In my opinion, the bars that were set in this contest are an indicator that 2012 is going to be a great year for these riders.

I want to thank Clark County and every one of the riders who came out for making the best of the circumstances we were given, plus putting on a great show for the fans who had the stands full, even while waiting for the wind to die down. This year's ExtremeThing was a huge success and I can't wait to see what 2013 will bring for sports and music fans!