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Top Action Sports Pros Invade Cincinnati
The Action Sports World Tour at the Bank of Kentucky Center
The Action Sports World Tour is the only truly Global action sports competition series, bringing fans all over the world a mix of the best action sports athletes and musical acts together in one setting. From China to Italy. From Paris to Moscow... the Action Sports World Tour has been around the globe many times over since it began in 1998. With the biggest names and freshest faces in skateboarding, BMX, Inline Skating, and Freestyle Motocross taking part, there's no doubt you are about to witness some of the most progressive skating and riding the world has to offer.
The top-notch Action Sports World Tour ramps have been set up in the shadows of the Eiffel Tower, the Vatican, and the Berlin Wall, as part Olympic complexes in Moscow and Munich, in downtown Seoul, London, Shanghai and Beijing, during festivals in Stockholm, Hamburg and Amsterdam and on the beaches of Barcelona, and Rimini and Nice. It is truly a global tour, bringing the best action sports athletes in the world to amazing locations around the planet, some of which have never witness this type of action before. Top local riders have a chance to compete against their idols and possibly a spot on the tour.
Each year, the Action Sports World Tour culminates with the LG Action Sports World Championships. Throughout the season, athletes compete for a chance to earn coveted spots at the big show . Only a few will make it, and earn a shot at the title of LG Action Sports World Champion.
The Phoenix stop of the 2007 Action Sports World Tour played host to a first-of-its-kind BMX competition called the Big-Air BMX Triples. A combination of box jumping and dirt jumping,, the 165' long hybrid park/dirt course features a 22' roll-in, back-to-back wooden jumps and a big quarter-pipe where the riders do three massive tricks in a row. The inaugural event hosted big names like Anthony Napolitan, Ryan Guettler, Dave Dillewaard, and Steven McCann, but even big guns like that couldn't hold off newcomer Dennis Enarson, a sixteen year old from San Diego, who triple tail-whipped his way into the first place spot on the podium. Dennis would go on to have a great competition season, which included a victory on the AST Dew Tour and the Toronto BMX Jam.
The success of and excitement behind the new Big-Air BMX Triples event in Phoenix led to the expansion of the concept in 2008 at events in Costa Mesa, California and Cincinnati.
The Action Sports World Tour's massive 14-foot tall vert ramp -which most of the pros consider the best competition vert ramp around - hosted some of the best Skateboarders and BMX riders in the world throughout 2007, including Simon Tabron, Jamie Bestwick, Kevin Robinson, John Parker, Chad Kagy, Bucky Lasek, Sandro Dias, Bob Burnquist, Andy Macdonald and Pierre-Luc Gagnon, who began his season-long winning streak at the Action Sports World Tour in Phoenix.
One exciting thing about the Action Sports World Tour is that it brings together big name Pros with Pros of the future. For many years ASA Entertainment has given Amateurs a chance to shine at stops around the globe through the Mobile Skatepark Series and the Action Sports World Tour. This past year on the Action Sports World Tour, top Amateur vert skateboarders from as far away as Brazil got their shot on the vert ramp, with a chance to show the world what the next generation of Vert Pros have to offer. Zach Miller (Zach is the son of legendary vert skater Chris Miller) and all-around shredder Ben Hatchell were a few of the standouts, along with Lea and Dylan Taylor (who's older brother, Adam, moved into the Pro ranks this year), Josh Stafford, Lance Childers, Chris O'Rielly, and Marcello Bastos. Young gun Pro vert skateboarders Alex Perelson and Adam Taylor came through the Tour's amateur series and proved to be major forces on the professional circuit during their rookie year of 2007.
Besides top-notch competition, fans attending the Action Sports World Tour get
the chance to watch the insanity of ramp-to-ramp freestyle motocross performances
from some of the top freestyle pros. And what better compliment to Action Sports
than live music? Each World Tour event features nationally known bands playing
live on a stage positioned next to the ramp. Cincinnati is no exception as Theory
of a Deadman and Kardinal
Offishal take to the stage Friday and Saturday night
respectively. All that, and a festival village complete with swag from our sponsors,
and fans can't help but have the time of their life at the Action Sports World
Tour.
