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Park at the X-Games used to be all about the big tricks coming out that weekend. The box jump is where the focus was but not any more. The last few years the Park discipline at the X Games was more a concrete bowl contest, and that requires a different style of riding. Colin MacKay took some great shots all week for you guys here at FATBMX and gave us some inside scoop from the sidelines:

Getting a cover of a magazine is a big deal. Just as Joe Embrey. He made it on the cover of issue 189 of RIDE UK BMX magazine. Hunting for spots is part of BMX. It kills me sometimes when people just show up at the perfect park and don't search for spots themselves or complain about the imperfect situations. Go create a spot yourself. Even if it's not perfect from the start, you can always make it better. And you know what, having the place destroyed by some fuck-up is part of it. Show who's stronger by keeping the place going.

The fourth and final day of the inaugural X Games Austin again saw large crowds streaming into Circuit of The Americas primed for Sunday’s competition. Attendance at the event was strong through all four days and totaled 160,000, bringing all-time X Games attendance over the last 20 years to more than 5 million.

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