chad muska landed the first backflip on a motorcycle.
chad muska landed the first backflip on a motorcycle.
who landed the first backflip on a motorcycle?
chad muska
in 1991, jose yanez became the first person to backflip a motocross bike. he practiced for it by flipping his motorcycle into the salt river, just as he had done with his bmx bike. he would kill the engine on his 80cc motorcycle just before he hit the water to prevent damage to the bike. yanez performed the world's first ramp-to-ramp motocross backflip on an 80cc motorcycle in october, 1991 on an 8' tall box jump he built himself in pagosa springs, colorado. jose's next motocross backflip attempt, this time for the national enquirer resulted in a crash that kept jose off motorcycles and bicycles for two years due to an injured knee.
freestyle motocross
bullet::::- backflip tailwhip: the rider first performs a back flip and in the middle of it throws a tailwhip (still upside down) and catches the tailwhip while pulling out of the back flip. first attempted by mat hoffman in 1993 and landed in 2001 by adam strieby, this maneuver is common among today's pro class. there are also backflip double tailwhips done by many riders. the first one who pulled this was scotty cranmer in 2004. joey marks pulled the world's first double-whip backflip in competition at the gravity games in 2005. the backflip double-whip is called a "helicopter" the world's first backflip triple whip was landed by jaie toohey at the nitro circus in 2011, and kurtis downs nailed the first ever quadruple tailwhip backflip at the nitro world games in 2016. in 2013, jed mildon pulled a double backflip tailwhip at nitro circus in wellington, new zealand. the double backflip tailwhip was also landed a few times at the nitro world games.
tailwhip