who was the first person to do a backflip on a dirtbike
Freestyle motocross


was the first person to land a backflip on a large motorcycle, on April 25, 2002, at the Rogue Valley Motocross track (RVMX). This backflip was performed over a mulch pile of grass clippings, leaves, and bark collected during maintenance of the RVMX track. Wyatt constructed a quarter-pipe ramp with the take-off completely vertical shoved into the pile of mulch. 2002 brought the backflip to X Games glory. Travis Pastrana and Mike Metzger were both capable doing flips off ramps. Kenny Bartram was still
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Mike Metzger


seen live on ESPN. He is the first person to complete a backflip over the fountains, and only the second person to ever successfully land that jump. The others to attempt the jump over Caesars Palace's fountains include Evel Knievel, Gary Wells, and Robbie Knievel, of which only Robbie landed successfully. Not only did Metzger complete this jump whilst performing a backflip, but he also set the record for distance, landing 125 feet from the takeoff ramp. Metzger recently has been doing freeride. Commonly known as "The
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Freestyle motocross


learning flips, doing them off the backsides of dirt landings, much like Hart in the 2000 Gravity Games. The unthinkable had become reality; a backflip was now common in freestyle competition. Mike Metzger had achieved a back-to-back backflip, which won him Freestyle Gold at Summer X Games 8. When the Gravity Games came along, riders were doing variations in their backflips, wowing the crowd and the judges, who didn't know how to score the riders. In 2003, regular tricks were being used in
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Monster Jam World Finals


Chuck Werner and Tom Meents in 4 Max-D trucks. Neil, Kreg and Chuck perform back-flips together; Tom Meents comes out in his Max-D truck being lifted off a Max-D dump truck, and performs the first successful double backflip. This celebrated 10 Years of Maximum Destruction. Racing Encore: Young Guns do donuts and Marvel Trucks do backflips. Freestyle Encore:Six Doom's Day Trucks come out and all perform backflips. Young Guns Shootout: All of the Young Guns came out for a
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Freestyle motocross


Kohl was the second person to perform the backflip on a motocross bike. The bike was a 1993 Honda Cr80. He was a professional BMX rider who had performed the trick regularly on a bicycle. He continued to exhibit the trick until a crash in 1995 left him with serious injuries. In 2000, Carey Hart attempted the first backflip on a full-size motocross bike off a modified dirt landing ramp at the Gravity Games 2000. The landing was less than perfect, and Hart crashed immediately after. But Freestyle Motocross was
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Tom Meents


and giving his helmet to a fan holding a "Max D" related sign. Meents was the first person to attempt the monster truck backflip. He landed a perfect backflip at his shop in Paxton, IL, but the rear king pins broke off. Other than that, it was perfect. When he attempted it in public at the Monster Jam World Finals in 2009, he over-rotated and landed exactly on the tailgate, then rolled over backwards onto the roof. Meents was the first person to ever attempt a
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Yuen Biao


first asked by his master, upon his first day with him, to do a backflip, Yuen did a proper backflip on his very first try. He remained at the school until the age of 16. When he left, Yuen followed his classmate Sammo Hung into a career in the Hong Kong film industry. In the early 1970s, Yuen began work as a stuntman and extra. After working on "Fist of Fury" and "Way of the Dragon", Yuen became a stunt double for Bruce Lee on "
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Ailo Gaup (motocross rider)


at his first World Cup contest. Ailo was the first European to perform a backflip on a motorcycle, in 2003. He was also the first European do long distance backflips, a year later. In November 2004 Ailo invented the Underflip, which is a sideways flip on a motorcycle. It took almost two years until anyone else was able to perform this trick. The Underflip has later been copied by riders all over the world. Gaup has to date won six Norwegian Championships in two different sports, motocross and freestyle motocross
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Caleb Wyatt


Caleb Alan Wyatt (born January 1, 1976) is the first person to ever perform a successful backflip on a large motorcycle. On April 25, 2002 at the Rogue Valley Motocross track (RVMX), Caleb . A photo of Caleb was taken by the RVMX track owner to document the event. Caleb Wyatt's first successful backflips were performed over a mulch pile of grass clipping, leaves and bark which was originally intended for the maintenance of the RVMX track. Wyatt constructed a quarter pipe ramp with the take-off
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Matt Lindenmuth


Matt Lindenmuth (born March 1, 1981) is an American formerly top-ranked professional vert skater, as well as a professional snowboarder. He is most known for being the first action sports athlete in the world to do a double backflip on a vert ramp, often referred to as a "Double Lindy". At the 2002 Summer X-Games Lindenmuth attempted but failed to pull off the first ever triple backflip on a vert ramp. Lindenmuth was born in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, He began inline skating with his family
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Mohawk Warrior


again competed at the World Finals. Mohawk Warrior was the first truck to do 2 Consecutive Backflips in Freestyle at the World Finals. However, Balhan did it after the scores were in. He lost to Bounty Hunter in Round 1 in Racing. He got a 25 in freestyle which tied with Captain America and Grave Digger. He did his first single backflip in Metlife Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey. In 2013, Balhan competed again at the World Finals. He defeated Monster Mutt Dalmatian in Round 1 and he lost
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Tom Pagès


resulting in a crash from which he stood up immediately. Later in 2009, Pagès got frustrated with the face of the competition and the constant need to perform backflips, ultimately resulting in him quitting Freestyle Motocross and even selling his bike. In a documentary that was released by Red Bull in 2014, Tom said that he had developed depression during that time and it took the help of a renowned sports psychologist to overcome it and to get back onto a bike. His psychologist was also the person who suggested that he stop backflipping
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Aaron Fotheringham


". He is the first person to successfully perform a backflip in a wheelchair at the age of 14, and a double backflip at the age of 18. He performs many other tricks in his wheelchair including 180 degree 'aerials', one-wheeled spins and rail grinds. He plans to fuse the back flip with the 180 aerial into what is known as a ‘flair'. In 2010 Fotheringham joined the Nitro Circus Live tour, an action sports road show that tours Australia, New Zealand, Europe and the
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Jim Rippey


Jim Rippey (born May 11, 1970) is a former American professional snowboarder and snowboard designer for Burton Snowboards. In the 1980s, Rippey became a professional snowboarder and accepted a sponorship with Burton Snowboards. He was known for his extreme mountain freestyle snowboarding, which entailed boarding the largest mountains in the world and reaching the highest speeds and airs possible. Rippey made a name for himself in the 1990s by front and backflipping off of large cliffs in notable backcountry spots. He is also the first person to land a backflip on
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Motorola Backflip


The Motorola Backflip (also called the Motorola Motus in some regions) is a touchscreen smartphone released to the U.S. for the AT&T Mobility network on March 7, 2010, and for other countries on Telus and Optus networks. It runs the open source Google Android software. The specifications according to the Motorola website in June 2010: Users may customize their phones by installing apps through the Android Market; however, some carriers (AT&T) do not give users the option to install non-market apps onto the Backflip (a policy
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Tricking (martial arts)


as tricking moves. Some practitioners (especially those who discover tricking through the Internet) tend to learn the easier moves first (such as the 540 kick, aerial, kip-up, and backflip) and try to progress through a list of recognized tricks in the perceived order of difficulty. However, how difficult a trick is varies from person to person; certain tricks may be inexplicably easier or harder than normal for a particular tricker to learn. Trickers can be divided into different categories of style: some prefer performing mainly
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Freestyle motocross


backflips such as 'No Footers', 'HeelClickers', and 'One Handed' Backflips. 2003 - 2005: These years saw the development of variations including cliffhangers, cordovas etc. As well as the disputed 360s which some consider only off-axis flips. The backflip was perfected over large distances including over . In 2005 at the very first Dew Tour in Louisville, Kentucky, Travis Pastrana landed four backflips in a row. At the Denver Dew Tour in 2006, Kenny Bartram was the first to pull a one
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Moonsault


and a normal moonsault from the top turnbuckle to the inside of the ring with two rotations. The first rotation is an arc of the back The first variation sees a wrestler who is standing on the apron, with a wrestler on the floor behind them, jump up on to either the first or second rope and perform and backflip as in to perform an Asai moonsault but while in mid air tucks their legs reducing resistance and performs a second complete backflip after the first one, landing on a standing opponent below. This is
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Fabián Espíndola


the same time as fellow Argentines Matias Mantilla and Javier Morales. He scored his first goal against Kansas City Wizards, and celebrated this goal by doing his customary backflip. Six minutes into a game against Los Angeles Galaxy on 6 September 2008, Espíndola scored a goal that was later ruled offside. However, before he had seen the final decision on the goal he had commenced his celebratory backflip, which resulted in him injuring his ankle, ruling him out for around eight weeks. Real Salt Lake decided not to purchase Espíndola's
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Lockdown (2005)


Michael Shane (who was accompanied Trinity), Sonjay Dutt, and Chris Sabin in the following bout. It lasted 15 minutes and 42 seconds. In this match, the four competitors fought until two were eliminated by pinfall or submission; the two remaining wrestlers then fought to escape from the cage, with the first to do so the winner. Dutt was the first wrestler eliminated after Shocker slammed him into the steel cage. After this elimination, Trinity climbed up to the top of the cage and performed a backflip off the
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Maximum Destruction


the first backflip landed in competition. Since then, there have been many successful and unsuccessful attempts from several drivers. A few drivers have even completed corkscrew type flips where the truck backflips and lands facing the opposite direction. Linsey Weenk, driver of the Lucas Oil Crusader truck, was the first driver to land two backflips in one scored freestyle run. After George Balhan, driver of Mohawk Warrior, landed two consecutive backflips at the 2012 Monster Jam World Finals, Tom Meents was driven to land the double. After months of
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Maurides


Maurides Roque Junior (born 10 March 1994), commonly known as Maurides, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Changchun Yatai. He is the younger brother of two footballers, Muller who is currently without club and Maicon, who currently plays for Turkish club Galatasaray S.K.. In 2013, after being named to first team of Sport Club Internacional, Maurides played against América Mineiro. On the 88th minute of the game for the Copa do Brasil, Maurides celebrates a goal trying a backflip and sustained an injury
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Tom Pagès


-Fighters event in Munich, Germany.That season he went on to battle Levi Sherwood in the closest ever final of Red Bull X-Fighters in Sydney, Australia, with both riders going into the last tour stop sharing first place in the world tour. He crashed twice on his final run, doing the Volt and attempting the first backflip, an Indy Flip, since 2009 which he jumped with the wrong gear, in a head-to-head competition against Sherwood, who went on to win the final and
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Maximum Destruction


the truck rolling onto its roof. Although spectacular, it did not technically count because it was not landed. It was later revealed in a special DVD release about Meents' build up to the backflip at the World Finals, that he had, in fact, landed a complete backflip in his backyard during testing, before Larry Quick. Therefore, Meents was the first to land a successful backflip. In 2010, Cam McQueen, driving Travis Pastrana's Nitro Circus truck, completed a backflip in Jacksonville, Florida. This was
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Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann


hide, and who severely wounds one of Reese's men Carl Dorsett. The village priest compels them to withdraw, but Reese continues to plot the capture of Swann's dirtbike. In the village, Swann is seduced by Claire and sleeps with her, but she is later kidnapped by Reese's henchman Claude Dorsett as revenge for her shooting and wounding his brother Carl. They also manage to capture the dirtbike, leading to a series of hijinks, while Swann gets help from a posse of two U.S. Marshals, Ben Potter and
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List of Transformers: Cybertron characters


he is a mechanically-inclined 14-year-old who is often called on by the Transformers to do repairs. He lives in Colorado with his younger brother, Bud, and older brother, Tim and enjoys dirtbike racing and has worked at a mechanic's shop. Coby and Bud, along with their friend, Lori (the only female of the series), befriended the Autobots after finding and aiding the damaged Landmine. He develops a friendship with Landmine, and aids Hot Shot on Velocitron. Later in the show, he
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Freestyle motocross


-handed takeoff backflip. In 2009 while filming for "Nitro Circus", Pastrana completed a backflip as part of a larger crossover jump, flipping over a number of riders below in the process. 2006 brought footage of Travis Pastrana completing a double backflip on an uphill/sand setup on his popular "Nitro Circus" Freestyle Motocross movies. On August 4, 2006, at X Games 12 in Los Angeles, he became the first rider to land a double backflip in competition. Having landed another trick that many had considered
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The Change (novel)


pair of Hork-Bajir come up from a secret hatch in the woods. The two aliens are promptly pursued by human-Controllers on dirtbikes and jeeps, bristling with shotguns and automatic rifles. Tobias and Rachel decide to help the supposed fugitives. They lead the male one to safety, but the other female trips over and falls into a ditch. The first Hork-Bajir screams for his wife yelling it in his language, but the Animorphs do not understand. He tells them then that she is his wife. The
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Trading Places (Family Guy)


Trading Places" was one of five episodes submitted for consideration for an Emmy Award in the "Outstanding Comedy Series" category in 2011. A drunk Tom Tucker appears on television, announcing a contest to win a dirtbike. Peter decides to enter the contest, in which the person who keeps their hand on the bike the longest wins. As time goes on, competitors continually begin to give up. Nine hours later, the last two contestants remaining are Peter and Mayor Adam West, the latter of whom is tricked into taking
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Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann


Daniels, who are trying to capture or kill the gang. Potter has a personal vengeance against Reese, for Reese killed Potter's son two years previously. Swann manages to retrieve his dirtbike and rescue Claire. Potter is killed by Reese in an ambush, and Daniels is mortally wounded and dies later. In a final showdown, Reese's band of outlaws faces Swann, the last survivor of the posse, and Claire atop a plateau. When a helicopter shows up (sent by the builders of the time travel experiment to
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Dial H for Hero


: Dial E", a coda to the series. It featured the Q-Dial in which a person must be evil to use it. The Q in Q-Dial is for "Qued" which is an old word for bad. A 2019 "Dial H for Hero" series written by Sam Humphries will be released in March 27, 2019. When he was 10 years old, Miguel Montez fell into a swimming pool and hit his head after trying to do the backflip. When he was pulled out and
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Tom Pagès


. In November 2007, Pagès became the first person to land a Double Grab Backflip on dirt, which he repeated at MXWC in April 2008, where he came in second in the Best Trick competition. The same year he and his brother were the first riders to catch frontflips on film and he then went on to be the first person to ever attempt a frontflip in a Freestyle Motocross competition at the Red Bull X-Fighters tour stop in Fort Worth, Texas in June 2009, but backed out in mid-air
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Fired Up!


. While guys are doing their routine, Carly notices Rick is cheating on her with their rivals' head cheerleader, Gwyneth (AnnaLynne McCord). Shawn and Carly later focus all of their attention to the routine. The squad's routine results in their best finish yet, with a perfect attempt at executing the "Fountain of Troy" maneuver. However, when the squad go for executing the forbidden maneuver, Shawn accidentally goes for a triple backflip instead of a double like Carly and backflips into the water in front of them
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Ozzie Smith


the stadium. Strasberg asked Smith to do a backflip for fans during Fan Appreciation Day on October 1, the Padres' last home game of the season. After conferring with veteran teammate Gene Tenace, Smith went ahead with the backflip, and it proved to be wildly popular. Smith finished the 1978 season with a .258 batting average and .970 fielding percentage, placing second in National League Rookie of the Year voting to Bob Horner. After working with a hitting instructor during the offseason, Smith failed to record a base hit in
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Tom Meents


double backflip in Monster Jam. Meents practiced the stunt at the shop, and results were never released to the public. Meents attempted it at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey on June 16, 2012, but did one backflip in the air and then cork-screwed, landing on the hood of the truck. He completed the first ever double backflip at World Finals 14 during an encore, celebrating the 10 year anniversary of the Maximum Destruction truck. On May 15, 2015 it was announced that Meents would be
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Greg Alexander


, a hamstring injury ruled out Laurie Daley. This saw Dale Shearer move from the wing to the centres and Brandy was selected on the wing where he kicked 3 goals to go along with his memorable try which resulted in his gymnastics style backflip celebration. He had performed the backflip several times at training while in England (claiming it was something he had learned in gymnastics while still in school) and had wanted to do it after scoring a try in a game, but with Australia in a battle to retain The Ashes he
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Freestyle motocross


impossible, he vowed never to do it again. 2007 saw Scott Murray perform double backflips onto a large piece of foam placed over the end of a foam pit. Later that year, Murray attempted the double backflip at X Games but crashed upon landing. He landed the trick at a Supercross event in Italy. At the 2008 Summer X games Jim Dechamp tried a front flip and crashed, breaking his back. Three months later during Nitro Circus season 1 on MTV, Dechamp landed the front flip during the Guinness World Record
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Cam Sinclair


Cameron "Cam" Sinclair is an Australian freestyle motocross rider associated with the Metal mulisha group. He competed for the LG World Championship in 2008. He was injured while practicing for a double backflip in June 2008 and he was unable to compete until September 2008. Sinclair landed the first double backflips in a freestyle motorcross run at the third event of the Red Bull X-Fighters World Tour 2009. It was a June 2009 event in Fort Worth, Texas. Sinclair landed two double backflips in the competition and finished third at
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John Spence (musician)


John Francis Spence (February 3, 1969 – December 21, 1987) was an American musician who was the founding member of the ska band No Doubt, along with Eric Stefani and Gwen Stefani. The three came up with the idea while working together at Dairy Queen. Spence, who named the band after his favorite expression, took on the role of lead vocalist, with Eric playing keyboard. Spence was known as an energetic frontman, doing backflips and wild screams on the stage. On December 21, 1987, at
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Samantha Peszek


. She placed second on beam and seventh on floor exercise at Nationals and made it to the second and final selection camp for Worlds, but pulled out and decided to get her torn labrum fixed. In her first season at UCLA, Peszek won the balance beam title at the 2011 NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championships, where she became the first college gymnast to do a standing backflip with a full twist on the beam. She was a first-team All-American on beam in 2011 and 2012. Peszek redshirted the 2013
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Journey's End (Doctor Who)


while your brain is telling you, 'This is crap!' your heart is still doing backflips then it's your kind of episode. 'Journey's End' is almost a two fingers up at technobabble; there's certainly tons of it in the episode, but it's largely irrelevant." He praises the action sequences and the portrayal of Davros, Donna, Rose and the Doctor, but remarks that the overcrowding of minor characters made parts of the script seem "underdeveloped" and describes the Daleks as mostly "
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Seth Enslow


Seth Enslow (born January 22, 1975) is an American motorcyclist and stunt performer most notorious for his big jumps and equally big crashes. When he was sixteen, he bought his first dirtbike and started to race as an amateur in New York and Florida. In 1993, after graduating from Wellsboro High School in Pennsylvania, he moved to California. It was there that he met up with Dana Nicholson who had just founded Fleshwound Films with fellow filmmakers Jon and Cami Freeman. In 1994, they released their first film "
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DDT (professional wrestling)


wrestler applies a three-quarter facelock on the opponent and performs a backflip over the opponent while maintaining the facelock turning it into an inverted facelock and then either landing face down to the mat, on their own back to the side, on their knees, or in a sitting position, to drive the opponent's head back-first down to the mat. This move has several names, usually depending on the person performing it. The official name of the move used to be the "Asai DDT" as it was
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Buck 65


three one-track albums for free download. The three "Dirtbike" albums featured guest production and verses by Cadence Weapon, Emily Wells, D-Styles, Skratch Bastid, Serafina Steer, Jorun, Moka Only, Mia Clarke of Electrelane, Doseone among others. "Dirtbike 1/3" signified a return to Buck 65's pre-"Talkin' Honky Blues" hip hop roots that was expected in "Situation"; in Buck 65's own words "it's a lot like the original versions of "Vertex" and "Man
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Dropkick


aided version, where the wrestler uses the ring ropes to elevate his body, connecting with a dropkick to the opponent's chest upon landing. This move is used as a finisher by British wrestler Gentleman Jack Gallagher Also known as a backflip dropkick, a dropsault is an attack where the wrestler jumps up and kicks the opponent with both feet and then executes a backflip, landing on the mat chest-first. Sometimes this move can see the wrestler land chest-first on "another" opponent. Many wrestlers perform this move
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Concubine Forming


to the chagrin of the band who would never be able to shake the comparisons during the rest of their time together. Concubine Forming soon signed to Big Neck Records and released a 7" entitled "Stiff" in 2002. The record was extremely popular in their hometown, and the lead track "Yo Mama" became a concert highlight. The band's live performances (and Witz's penchant for doing potentially dangerous stunts like backflips while playing guitar, in particular) garnered them a sizable following. But the band was temporarily
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Baltimore Police Department


7-year-old Gerard Mungo while he was sitting in front of his house on a dirtbike. Though he was seated on the dirtbike at the time of the arrest, officers reported they saw him riding it earlier. Local law prohibits the operation of vehicles with an engine capacity of less than 50cc inside the city limits. However, police ordinances passed by city council, Article 19 Section 40-6 states that any and all unregistered motor bikes, dirt bikes, scooters, or anything similar in nature is illegal in Baltimore City
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Lil Uzi Vert


from him by his record label. On December 8, 2016, Woods was arrested in Atlanta, Georgia for recklessly driving a dirt-bike. Woods and a friend was driving a dirtbike without lights and helmets before being noticed by police. While being chased by the police, Woods fell off his dirtbike and attempted to run away on foot before being caught and held on $6,500 bond. In November 2017, the charge was eventually resolved with Woods receiving community service. Woods has had a long-standing stand-still
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Jet Moto


to the player to do in air-tricks such as the heel clicker and can-can, similar to modern day tricks performed on specialized dirtbikes. Developers cited lack of marketing support, camera issues and a flawed physics model for the jet motos as a few of the main concerns with the game's development. Other concerns included a new company president that did not support the game, and the studio director seeking to widen all the tracks, causing a significant increase in development time. These, along with lackluster sales of
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Taïg Khris


Taïg Khris (born July 27, 1975 in Algiers) is a Greek-Algerian professional vert skater. He started skating when he was six years old. He learned in-line skating as a teenager and began competing, eventually winning gold medals in X Games competitions. In 2001, Taïg Khris wins the Inline Vert event, with the first double backflip in X Games history, although Matt Lindenmuth was the first to land the double backflip in a vert ramp. In 2002, Taïg appears in a video game, "
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Banco (Sir Michael Rocks album)


entertained by having these huge whales clap and do a backflip in a pool for a couple fish. It’s kind of just fucked up, and I watched that and I just wanted to say something. I was fired up about it and I just wanted to say something man. [Laughs.] And that’s what happened." On December 17, 2013, the album's first single "Memo" was released. On January 14, 2014, the music video was released for "Memo". On June
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Jack Donaghy


a talented painter and flautist, and can also do a backflip, which he states is "90% confidence." Jack has also expressed an interest in science and admits that as a child he wanted to be a marine biologist until his father discouraged him. Though several characters on the show are portrayed as high-functioning alcoholics, Jack appears to be the only one who is chemically dependent on alcohol. This is evidenced by the fact that he experiences physical withdrawal symptoms when he attempts to stop drinking. Jack also appears
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Change Your Life (Little Mix song)


, "We always want our videos to be the best we can do," Thirlwall explained. She also revealed that the video will be more mellow and real than the group's previous music videos. "We're just chilling and portraying the song and performing it how it should be; there are no fireworks or backflips, it's just us delivering a great song," Thirlwall added. Little Mix wanted to showcase who they are with the video by centering it more around themselves than in previous music videos. The
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Professional wrestling aerial techniques


executing a mid-air backflip to land elbow first on an opponent lying on the mat. A move in which a wrestler jumps down from the turnbuckle on an opponent driving his fist into the opponent's head. While doing it, wrestlers have their front four knuckles out, and their thumb to the side. This move was popularised by Jerry Lawler as his finisher. Also known as a diving headbutt drop, it is delivered from the turnbuckle to anywhere on the opponent's body. The move was accidentally innovated by Harley
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Andreu Lacondeguy


also a professional mountain biker, honed their skills in California. In 2008 he won Crankworx Whistler and also became one of the first to land a double backflip on a mountain bike in competition; he was the first to land a backflip from a snow-covered big air ramp. In 2012 he won the Red Bull Berg Line event in Winterberg, In 2013 Lacondeguy earned a Bronze medal in the Munich X-Games Slopestyle event, and in 2014 he won the Red Bull Rampage. He came second in 2015 and 2018
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Kenan Harkin


and he began experimenting with the camps newly built foam pits. In 1996 he began working on the 360 backflip, a trick that had only been performed by one other rider, English BMXer Zack Shaw. Harkin was the first rider to use the foam pits to take a trick from inception, to competition. He pulled the trick for the first time in competition at the Chelsea Piers B3 event aired on ESPN. He turned pro at that event and subsequently went into larger competitions. Performing his 360 backflip at these events gained
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Tom Pagès


when he came back for the second tour stop of the year in Glen Helen, California. Upon his return to Freestyle Motocross competitions he still refused to do any upside down tricks like backflips, but instead focussed on bringing in his new tricks, like the Volt body varial, the 540 Flair or his very own Special Flip, and on the execution and extension in existing tricks. He became a runner up at his first event in Glen Helen, coming in fourth in Madrid and finally winning his first ever Red Bull X
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Total Overdose


Ramiro pursues and boards Johnson's train. Johnson, separating the coaches from the engine, battles Ramiro until Trust sends air support to destroy a canyon bridge ahead: Ramiro rescues Angel, and they jump over the broken rail on a dirtbike as the train falls into the canyon, dragging a trapped Johnson to his doom. "Total Overdose" is a third-person shooter open world action/adventure game. Players assume control of Ramiro, Tommy and Ernesto. The most playable character in the game is Ramiro, while Tommy
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Journey 2: The Mysterious Island


since the events of the first movie. Seventeen-year-old Sean Anderson (Josh Hutcherson) is caught by the police after a brief chase on his dirtbike which ends with him driving into a swimming pool while trying to evade them. Minutes later, his stepfather Hank (Dwayne Johnson) arrives when a police officer (Stephen Caudill), who is friends with Hank tells him that Sean has illegally broken into a remote satellite research center and that he has talked Mr. and Mrs. McGillicutty (the owners of the swimming pool
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Freestyle motocross


episode. In early 2009, Metal Mulisha rider Jeremy Lusk attempted a Hart Attack Indian Air Backflip. He under-rotated, and crashed, hitting his head on the landing. On February 10, he was pronounced dead due to head and spinal cord injuries. At X Games 17, Jackson Strong nailed the first front flip on a dirt bike during the best trick competition. In early 2015, Nitro Circus rider Josh Sheehan landed the first triple backflip, yet another trick deemed impossible by many, on a custom ramp/
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Robbie Maddison


in London, with a backflip, whilst the drawbridge was open by 25 feet. The following weekend Maddison went on to the Red Bull X-Fighters championship in Madrid, winning the best trick contest with a brand new trick, an under flip one hander to side saddle lander. In March 2010, Robbie Maddison become the first person to jump the start gantry at the Formula One in Melbourne, Australia. On 7 April 2010, he performed a moto-x jump over the Corinth Canal in Greece. That made him
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Maximum Destruction


manage to land a complete backflip during a small show. This was rumoured to be the first successful attempt. In 2009, at World Finals 10 in Las Vegas, Meents rolled on to the floor during the encore in Maximum Destruction. Nobody knew what he was going to do until he launched his truck off the backside of the center jump, which was almost a solid wall of dirt. The truck instantly bounced up into the air and managed to rotate one and half times backwards until landing on the tailgate, resulting in
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Caleb Moore


as he learned how to do a backflip. Caleb mastered the maneuver in two weeks. Despite being raised in Krum, Texas, Moore practiced by landing his sled in a foam pit built by his father. Moore's first professional competition as a freestyle snowmobile racer was at the 2010 Winter X Games in Aspen, Colorado. With just one month of practice, Caleb earned a bronze medal in the Freestyle division, while finishing sixth in Best Trick. The next year, Moore earned bronze (Freestyle) and silver (Best
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Live & Grow


Live & Grow is the debut studio album by American rapper Casey Veggies. It was released on September 25, 2015, by Epic Records and Vested in Culture. The album's first single, "Backflip" featuring YG and Iamsu!, was released on November 7, 2014. On January 14, 2015, the music video was released for "Backflip" featuring YG and Iamsu!. The album's second single, "Tied Up" featuring Dej Loaf, was released on April 27, 2015. On June 9
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Jeremy Lusk


Jeremy Daniel Lusk (November 26, 1984 – February 10, 2009) was an American freestyle motocross racer from San Diego, California. He was part of the riding group Metal Mulisha. He won gold and silver medals at the 2008 X Games and a bronze helmet in the 2008 Moto X World Championships. He was a born again Christian. On February 9, 2009, Lusk crashed while attempting to land a "Indian Air Backflip" (after Carey Hart who initiated it, see "Evolution of the backflip" in
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Freestyle motocross


forever changed. Many people started to attempt it, such as Travis Pastrana, who attempted the backflip off a Step Up jump at Summer X Games Freestyle. He bailed off mid-flight, breaking his foot. The trick was still not attempted on a normal FMX setup, off a ramp-to-dirt setup. Hart attempted the backflip again at Summer X Games in 2001, during the Moto X Best Trick competition, but bailed off the bike in the air, seriously injuring himself. In 2002, Caleb Wyatt
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List of Storm Hawks characters


, they do her bidding under the threat that their home, Terra Bogaton, would be destroyed otherwise. The promise of riches and access to new hunting grounds provides further incentive. Their names, apart from Repton, are onomatopoeic for the expulsion of mucus. The Raptors pilot Bone Wings, vehicles resembling a Skimmer in basic design but optimized for rough terrain and ground combat, being built somewhat like dirtbikes. Their design makes them quite noisy and hence makes them impractical for stealth. The Raptors, aside from Repton with his boomerang
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Tourism in Karnataka


way to Sakleshpur Bisle ghat is also a must place to be visited by any foreign tourists.Farmers son Paintball arena and other ATV & Dirtbike sports are some of the interesting things to do at Hassan. Karnataka tourism started promoting Motorcycle tourism and tied up with Wicked Ride a Bengaluru-based motorcycle rental company to promote adventure and motorcycle tourism as a policy, they are working to set up camping sites across the state to provide safe and clean camping sites for backpackers and motorcyclists to explore the state. Rock climbers visit several areas
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Backflip (song)


"Backflip" is the second single by American singer-actress Raven-Symoné from her third album, "This Is My Time". It debuted on Radio Disney on July 28, 2004. The music video was filmed in Los Angeles and directed by Sanaa Hamri, premiered on BET's "Access Granted" on August 25, 2004. The video received heavy rotation on Disney Channel, BET and MTV. Michael Copon plays in the video as Raven's love interest. Symoné performed the song live for the first time
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John Nemechek


John Frank Nemechek (March 12, 1970 – March 21, 1997) was an American race car driver who most notably competed in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. The younger brother of four-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race winner Joe Nemechek, John followed his brother into racing, participating in his first race at the age of twelve in an 80 class dirtbike race. After a quick progression to the 250cc class, he moved onto mini-stock cars, where he raced against his brother, and eventually late-model
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Carey Hart


the Silver medal in the MotoX Best Trick at the Summer X Games in Los Angeles. The same year, Hart participated in the "Tony Hawk's Boom Boom HuckJam Tour". At the 2003 X-Games in Los Angeles, Hart successfully completed the backflip in the best trick competition picking up the Silver medal behind Mike Metzger, who landed a no-footed backflip. The same year, Hart participated in the Gumball 3000, an annual British 3,000-mile (4,800 km) international road rally which takes place on public roads
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Freestyle motocross


FMX". Freestyle riders began contemplating it after the 1998 film "Children of a Metal God" showed riders attempting the trick into water. Also it had been done many times on BMX bikes, and FMX riders were using tricks from BMX riders, such as when Travis Pastrana performed an Indian Air, originally from Mat Hoffman, a BMXer. 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
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Red Bull New Year No Limits


Robbie Maddison set a new world record for the longest jump on a motorcycle, jumping 322 feet, 7½ inches. He then made a second attempt, largely because his personal goal was 360 feet. He failed in that attempt, and in fact the second jump was slightly shorter. Maddison jumped above a makeshift football field set up in the Rio's parking lot, which was used to provide a perspective of the distance. The show was also scheduled to feature the first-ever backflip in an off-road truck,
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Travis Pastrana


. On February 27, 2010 in Jacksonville, Florida, Cam McQueen successfully executed a backflip in the Nitro Circus monster truck during the freestyle competition, making Nitro Circus the first to do so in competition. The "Nitro Circus" monster truck made its final appearance and was retired after the 2011 Monster Jam season. Travis Pastrana paid tribute to his role model growing up, legendary daredevil/stuntman Evel Knievel by breaking a few of his records. On July 8, 2018, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Pastrana safety cleared
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Melissa Andrzejewski


world record that same year. Melissa has participated in the Wingsuit World League in China several times for the women's race. In June 2016 Andrzejewski participated in a first-of-its-kind aviation stunt where she flew her stunt airplane underneath a motorcross freestyle rider, ‘Fitz’ doing a backflip and a slackline artist, ‘Sketchy’ Andy Lewis, on his slackline at the same time. Andrzejewski was divorced in May 2016 from Australian Rex Pemberton. Melissa married Trent Burns in 2017 and changed her name to Melissa
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Mike Metzger


Mike Metzger (born November 19, 1975 in Huntington Beach, California) is an American Freestyle Motocross (FMX) rider. In the 2002 X Games he won the Freestyle and Big Air events and got second place in Step Up, earning him an estimated $100,000 in three days. In 2003 he also got first place in Big Air. On May 4, 2006, at 9:26, Metzger completed "The Impossible Jump", doing a world record backflip over the fountains in front of Caesars Palace, Las Vegas,
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Daniel Hemric


, he started doing his backflip celebration, which was taken from Carl Edwards. At 16, Hemric moved up to Legends cars, and in 2008, he won the track's Pro championship, as well as the first of two back-to-back Legends Pro national championships. In 2009, with nearly 60 wins in just under 80 starts, he maxed out his National Points early on the way to winning his second national Legends Pro championship, in addition to earning the Summer Shootout Series championship on the strength of six
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Don't Try This at Home: The Steve-O Video


Don't Try This at Home: The Steve-O Video is Steve-O's first DVD. It contains mostly footage that the censors wouldn't allow on MTV. Aside from Steve-O, the DVD includes Chris Pontius, Jason "Wee Man" Acuña, Preston Lacy, Johnny Knoxville, and Ryan Simonetti. Some noteworthy scenes are Steve-O drinking bong water, the fireball face off where Steve-O spits a fireball while doing a backflip, burning his face in the process, ice skating and falling
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UFC 145


. Immediately after the fight concluded, Blanco executed a backflip, which was mimicked by Brimage. The two fighters then engaged in an impromptu backflip competition to the delight of the fans. In the second match, Keith Wisniewski took on UFC newcomer Chris Clements. In the first round, Wisniewski clinched and dragged Clements to the mat, and passed to full mount. Clements regained half guard as Wisniewski landed hard shots. With two minutes left in the round, referee Fernando Yamasaki issued a controversial stand-up order. Following the
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Sam Young (basketball)


been me. And I know if he had my opportunities, he'd be doing something constructive with them." Young's athleticism is not limited to basketball. Before his senior year at Friendly High, he promised to do backflips if the Patriots won the state title, and proceeded to do exactly that. He also reportedly stunned Pitt's diving coach one day by climbing up to the 7½-meter board and performing a nearly perfect 2½ somersault into the pool. He also writes poetry; he has spoken with a publisher about compiling
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Backflip Studios


Backflip Studios is a mobile game developer and publisher based in Boulder, Colorado, United States. It was founded by Julian Farrior, Dale Thoms and Tom Blind in April 2009. In August 2009, it was announced that the company had raised US$145,000 in funding to continue developing for the iPhone OS. Backflip Studios is best known for their free iOS game "Paper Toss", which has been downloaded over 50 million times. They are also widely known for "Dragonvale", with over 10 million downloads. In 2013
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Backflip Studios


while dodging protruding objects and attacking things in the air. This version has three new levels. "Backflip Slots" is a casino slot machine game in which you win cash, prizes and use bonus buddies. It also has the appearances of characters from other Backflip Studios games. "Mahjongg Dimensions" is a puzzle game in which you have to match images and clear the blocks as quickly as possible. "Shape Shift" is a simulation puzzle game in which you swap shapes with the same colors in unlimited levels. "
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Social bookmarking


and some services automatically sorted bookmarks into folders (with varying degrees of accuracy). Blink included browser buttons for saving bookmarks; Backflip enabled users to email their bookmarks to others and displayed "Backflip this page" buttons on partner websites. Lacking viable revenue models, this early generation of social bookmarking companies failed as the dot-com bubble burst—Backflip closed citing "economic woes at the start of the 21st century". In 2005, the founder of Blink said, "I don't think it was that we were
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Professional wrestling aerial techniques


maneuver. It can also refer to the motion when a backflip is twisted around so the attacker faces the inside of the ring instead of the outside when the maneuver ends. A wrestler executes a backflip and lands torso first on the opponent. A basic moonsault is generally attempted from the top turnbuckle, though a myriad of variations exist. As the name implies, this term is used to refer to any move which sees the attacking wrestler walking along the top rope before performing a move. When a wrestler jumps forward from an
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Freestyle motocross


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. In 1993, Bob
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Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann


can be returned to the present. While taking a swim break in a local pond, he runs into a gang of outlaws led by Porter Reese, who becomes obsessed with stealing Swann's motorcycle, and the outlaws pursue Swann into the small village of San Marcos, but his red suit and dirtbike scare the local Mexicans, who think he is the Devil or 'El Diablo' (Spanish for 'The Devil'). There, he meets a beautiful woman, Claire Cygne, who gives him a safe place to
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The Reality of My Surroundings


memorable television appearances: performing "Sunless Saturday" and "Everyday Sunshine" on "Saturday Night Live", and "Everyday Sunshine" on "The Arsenio Hall Show". (The SNL performance of "Sunless Saturday" has been re-edited in reruns. The original television broadcast showed a brief glimpse of Angelo Moore doing a backflip on stage. The re-edited version simply switches the camera angle, making it possible to see the full flip right after signaling "Special K" (Kendall Jones) to do
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Marshall Law (Tekken)


about Marshall's backflip-kick special move having been given to Jin for the fight: "If you’re not going to have Marshall Law do it, you shouldn’t have someone else do it to Marshall Law ... they [the filmmakers] kind of diluted the action a little bit which was kind of B.S." Matt Swider of "Gaming Target" rated Marshall the eighth-best "Tekken" character out of eleven in 2006: "Marshall Law, the practitioner of 'Marshall Arts,' has always entered the
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Apprenticeship learning


cooperate to secure the person's implicit goals, despite these goals not being explicitly known by either the person nor the robot. In 2017, OpenAI and DeepMind applied deep learning to the cooperative inverse reinforcement learning in simple domains such as Atari games and straightforward robot tasks such as backflips. The human role was limited to answering queries from the robot as to which of two different actions were preferred. The researchers found evidence that the techniques may be economically scalable to modern systems. Apprenticeship via inverse reinforcement learning (AIRP) was developed
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Hüseyindede vases


crouching position. A second man is shown doing a backflip, landing his feet on the hindquarters of the bull. The third leaper is shown leaping over the back of the bull. Since the positions of the three leapers are very different, they probably do not represent three phases of a single leap. Rather, they depict simultaneous action, with acrobats and dancers performing all around a quiescent bull. In this way the Hittite image differs from Minoan depictions of bull-leaping, which are well known from Knossos. In depictions
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Pit bike


in between Freestyle BMX and Freestyle Motocross. A lot of the tricks that can be done on the bigger Motocross bikes can also be done on the smaller Pit Bikes. A lot of Freestyle Motocross riders use Pit Bikes to learn the Backflip on because they are smaller, lighter and do not cause as much injury if you do not land correctly. There are also tricks on the BMX, like the flat spin 360, which have been done on Pit Bikes. Supermoto is slowly being taken over by pocket bikes. that generally
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Sorry (Madonna song)


the intermediate verse whence Madonna is shown standing in a cage opposite to a number of men. As the bridge builds up, Madonna starts fighting with the men. She starts bending backwards and tying herself in knot like positions, while doing backflips and somersaults which defeats the men. The chorus starts again and Madonna and everyone else are shown skating in circles around a roller rink. The three male dancers return and join Madonna in doing a dance routine and in a conga line with everyone else. Madonna and her dancers all get
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Desmond Howard


Michigan game against Ohio State. Howard commented afterward, "Any time you have your name mentioned along with Gerald Ford, you've done something right." During the 1991 season, after he became a Heisman contender, Howard decided that he would do "something special" during the Michigan-Ohio State game "as a little shout-out to the people back in Ohio". After scoring in the game, in the end zone he wanted to do a backflip but, Howard later said, "chickened out"
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David Lebuser


fracture). During his time at the hospital and his rehabilitation the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing took place, so he soon realised that there was more to do than getting pushed around in a chair. While still in hospital a friend showed Lebuser a YouTube video of Aaron Fotheringham doing a wheelchair backflip, which inspired him to go to skate parks and start wheelchair skating. He also started playing wheelchair basketball soon after rehabilitation. Since 2012, Lebuser competes in the WCMX World Championships, also known as Life Rolls On "They
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Monster Jam World Finals


donut performance, while New Earth Authority and El Diablo perform backflips. Racing: many of the Young Guns do a donut performance, Dragon, El Toro Loco and NEA (BLUE) do a train jump over the center stack. Freestyle - Different Zombie monster trucks go out and crash into each other while hauling dead bodies. Each Zombie truck has a different look: two original Zombies, one Red Zombie, one Yellow Zombie (based on a girl), one Green Zombie (based off a biker), and one
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Bailey School Kids


Ghosts Don't Eat Potato Chips (6) Frankenstein Doesn't Plant Petunias (7) Aliens Don't Wear Braces (8) Genies Don't Ride Bicycles (9) Pirates Don't Wear Pink Sunglasses (10) Witches Don't Do Backflips (11) Skeletons Don't Play Tubas (12) Cupid Doesn't Flip Hamburgers (13) Gremlins Don't Chew Bubble Gum (14) Monsters Don't Scuba Dive (15) Zombies Don't Play Soccer (16) Dracula Doesn't Drink Lemonade (17) Elves Do
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Professional wrestling aerial techniques


the top turnbuckle. With the attacking wrestler's legs scissored around the opponent's head while they face each other, the wrestler backflips to swing through the opponent's open legs, dragging the opponent into a forced somersault that distances the wrestler from the opponent, who lands back-first. The name comes from Scott Steiner, who popularized the move. A handstand variation can also be used. With the opponent seated on the top turnbuckle facing the ring, the wrestler performs a handspring on the bottom turnbuckle, wrapping both shins
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Motocross Madness 2


, takes place in massive, open wilderness. In Enduro mode, which is similar to baja, the player also races against other opponents to ride through gates, with the goal of being the first to complete a certain number of laps. Except, in this mode, the races take place in urban or rural maps, which is smaller and more variable than Baja. In Nationals mode, the player is restricted to racing within a dirtbiking track against other opponents, with the goal of completing a certain number of laps first
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Zero Motorcycles


2020 SR/F. The Zero S began shipping in volume in 2010, the first model year to include the Agni Motor, at which time the DS, a dual-sport model based on the S chassis became available. The XU, a smaller street bike with a removable battery, based on the same chassis as the Zero dirtbikes was produced from 2011 to 2013. In 2012, Zero introduced the ZF9 Power Pack with the Zero S & DS models making them the first production electric motorcycles that can exceed an EPA-
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Jonathan Smith (racing driver)


Jonathan Smith (born November 3, 1986) is a racecar driver from Beacon Falls, Connecticut. He started racing at the age of five on dirtbikes, by the age of 12 he was racing BMX bicycles, where he was crowned State Champion in his first year. Smith began racing go-karts at the age of 14 where he competed in the Nite Series at Poughkeepsie Speedway in New York proving himself in his first year by finishing in second place in both series' championships. In his second year of competition,
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