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Half Pipe | Acrobatic of Freestyle BMX
BMX is an interesting sport where athletes can often be scored as much on style as they are how fast they can ride or how far they can jump. While in games like paintball there are clear objectives on what playes need to do to win the game, in BMX a player is judged not just on speed and ability, but also on originality and creativity. BMX is one of a number of cycling events where people test the limits of their bodies using various models of bicycles. White road racing, track cycling and mountain biking evens are timed distance events, many BMX events are scored events where the athlete's performance is judged by freestyle moves or tricks. There are three different type of bmx events, the track race, the acrobatic or freestyle bmx, and the Half Pipe.
Half Pipe, posted by user-ilrider on YouTube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VB87Vty7qg
BMX Half Pipe. The dimensions of the Half Pipe are 11.5 m from peak to peak at the highest point on the curves and 3.04 m from the base of the ramps to the top. The half pipe is on either side of a , with at the top of each ramp. In this event, a player starts at the top of the platform and makes his way down the first ramp. In this event, a player starts at the top of the platform and makes his way down the first ramp. Each BMX Half Pipe events lasts 1:30 minutes, where the rider has 1:30 to perform . This is a , where players are scored on the uniqueness, the degree of difficulty, and the execution of their moves.
In this event, bmx athletes perform 90 seconds worth of tricks, while they try to dazzle their audience and the judges. Some of these tricks include lipping, where a rider will try to slide down a stop on the coping at the top of the vertical section. Other bmx moves include the aerials where rides jump up and over the half pipe. To get so high, riders go up and down the vertical curves, building up energy in the same way a person get higher and higher on a swing. Some moves bmx half pipe fans see often are a player spinning on the bike while in the air, and a player starving on his foot pegs while coping. Each player gets two 1:30 min sets where the best one is scored against the best sets of the other riders. Each rider has two opportunities to be among the 20 qualifiers for the final. The final consists of 3 1:30 min runs, and each run is scored separately. The riders score at the end of this run is a total score from all three runs. The rider has each run scored on a 0 to 100 scale, with 100 the best possible score.
BMX Half Pipe events are scored by 4 judges who score runs on a 100 point scale. The judges publish their scores based on height, technical difficulty, and their mastery of the execution of their tricks. Some past champions in this event have included Jay Miran from Canada, with event victories in the X-Games and street. Training for these events focus on the same types of condition as sports like paintball and road racing, namely strength and flexibility training for all BMX events involves developing core body strength and dedication to a flexibility program. In their training programs, riders train themselves to keep their feet moving, and keep pedaling even during landings and runs through the horizontal sections of the half pipe.
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