“It’s a small town that people kind of drive by, like, people think about L.A., they think about Santa Barbara, like, ‘Oh, Opera’s over there, L.A. The competitor panelists all spoke highly of the courses after trying them out - and also of Ventura itself. “Kevin, you’re killing it,” one person said. Then he dropped in for real, to his competitors’ praise. Before dropping in on wheels, he ran down into the concrete bowl to get a feel for the course. “But to me, the passion is everything, and the fact that I’m even an invited athlete again at the X Games already feels like winning,” Peraza said.Īfter the press conference, Peraza took his bike out to the street park to keep practicing. It’s just years and years of practice,” he said. “You really are not only taxing your body with injuries.
“Skateboarding is, to me, the fastest, most progressive sport across the whole board,” Eaton said.įor Peraza, competing at the top level in BMX requires dedication and sacrifice. On top of the intra-sport competition, there’s also the inter-sport competition between skateboarding, BMX, and motocross. “The progression has been it’s felt like a steep, steep climb … the experience pays off,” he said. Having been a part of that development, he now knows what to expect. As Masekala said, “The stakes each month … within the sport get higher and higher.”Īs a veteran of the sport, Sheehan has seen it develop throughout the years as athletes work to one-up each other with the most death-defying tricks possible. Motocross is one of the most dangerous action sports out there, with an engine to shoot riders even higher into the air to perform daredevil tricks.
Sheehan is perhaps best-known for landing what Nitro Circus called the “biggest trick in actions sports history” - a world-first motorcycle triple backflip. Peraza comes from a BMX family and has medaled at all four X Games he’s attended, so expect nothing less this time around.
Representing the older side of the age spectrum were 37-year-old motocross rider Josh Sheehan and 28-year-old BMX rider Kevin Peraza. In 2019, Khury broke Eaton’s youngest competitor record at age 10 and later also became the youngest X Games gold medalist. He also won the first-ever bronze medal in Men’s Street Skateboarding at the 2020 Olympics - no big deal. In 2012, Eaton became the youngest ever X Games competitor at 11 years old. Jagger Eaton and Gui Khury represented skateboarding as two of the most accomplished young athletes in the sport, at 22 and 14 years old, respectively. Gui Khury carries his board after a practice session in the halfpipe.
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