Japanese rider Taka Higashino unveiled a never-before-seen backflip Rock Solid double grab in Moto X Best Trick material. In the first hit of his first run in the Moto X Freestyle final on Thursday on his way to claiming his first gold medal at X Games.
Higashino posted a score of 93.33 for his first of two runs, which also featured a Kiss Of Death flip, a heel-clicker flip, and a massive no-handed Superman air to holy grab. The score held for first place, beating out New Zealand's Levi Sherwood and Chilean rider Javier Villegas, whose bronze medal marks his X Games debut.
U.S. rider Nate Adams, last year's gold medalist, finished in fourth place after a tie-breaker decision that scored his and Villegas' second runs as an average of all five judges' scores, instead of the usual average of three scores, with the highest and lowest point-scores dropped out. Australian rider Blake "Bilko" Williams finished fifth, ahead of U.S. rider Adam Jones, Australian rider Rob Adelberg, Spanish rider Dany Torres, U.S. rider Todd Potter, and Norwegian rider Andre Villa. All three of Thursday's top finishers now live and train in California full time, but the all-international podium reflects the global spread of freestyle motocross over the past decade.
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