After all the insane crashes by Danny Way at X-games 14, I was hoping things would run smoother for everyone at #15 and they did… a lot more polished routines with cleaner falls.  Nonetheless, these folks still take a beating on every bad landing, which amazes me how they can stay so competitive.  Mark, Marina, Kennen and Shawn our bamboosk8 interns drove up and joined me at the Staples Center for the festitivities.  This years event was nearly sold out for all the good seats, but I was able to wheel-n-deal one for $50 for the preferred seating area, although it still wasn’t that great of a seat like years past right down by the bottom of the ramp.  It was great to see Jake Brown get Gold with his backside 360 over the gap into a 20 foot high mctwist over the half pipe.  Silver went to 2 time back-to-back winner Bob Burnquist and bronze to Rob Lorifice.

After the event, we watched the motorcycles go for highest air, which is pretty amazing for them to high jump 34 feet in the air.  I ended up leaving early so I could get to the premiere across the street of the X-games in 3D at the Nokia Theatre.  The red carpet was laid out for this event with celebrities such as Pamela Anderson, Slash, Hayden Penitier, and more, as well as many action sports athletes and industry folks.  How all those celebrities can handle all those bright lights and photos is beyond me, so I decided to do my own filming and photography of them… video to come soon.  Funny thing is – all we had was regular passes to enter the theatre, not do the whole red carpet crap, but I was able to make a girl laugh as I told her I was a X-games champion.  She said, “where’s your athelete badge”?  I said, “I can’t compete my knee is blown out in 12 different places”.  She looked at me and saw i had no cast or anything and she just laughed and said, “Have a good time and don’t do anything stupid.”  So, I decided to strip down to my underwear and run across the red carpet…  no, just kidding.

Coming out soon also is a really rad video of the Next X, which is 5 young kids (Mitchie Brusco is one of them) who get to meet their heroes for a week at Camp Woodward – check it out on Disney.

rock and roll,

Geoff Koboldt

Geoff with Slash

Andy Mac with Shawn