Next top three spot, 4th,5th,6th were taken by the UK riders. 4th, Memorable moments included Anthony McGuirk who landed a no handed 540 on Elvis (biggest ramp) and a footjam to no hander and a barspin 900. 5th, Ryan Taylor had absolute perfection of all his tricks including a double backflip, invert flair, barspin flair, fast plant frontflip and 360 window wiper.
6th, Tom Justice is nuts with his super high airs, banging style, super clean turn down 360s, nose dive out of every trick.
7th, Jack Watts had a real memorable moment with his 540 flair but fair play for attempting step through 540 flair.
8th, Brock Horneman final trick was a flair whip to no hander. The street riders held their own with the park riders.
12th, Mike Curley no hander over the jump box showing his park skills, before setting about an unbelievable barrage of street skills, highlights including nose wheelie G-turn 180 manual G-turn 360 off of the ledge onto the 2 foot (nose manual 360 to manual 360 out into bank). An unbelievable combo of street tech tricks. Other Top 20 street rider- Jambul (20th) pulled out a bunch of rail rider tricks, rail ride barspin 180 off and a crazy X-up manual to manual on the rail.
Big shout out to Cornwalls Tom Isted for landing a total of 5 double backflips at Nass.
Final highlight was South African Greg Illingworth jumping out of the course at 100mph and foot planting over the balcony for one of the small ramps. Insane.
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