Austin Coleman Doing a Backflip.
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Big Air BMX Triples Thrills Southern California Fans with Gravity-Defying Round Two Action
Australia's Josh Steed soars above the course as he qualifies for Thursday evening's final round.
LOS ANGELES (July 29, 2008) - Tonight's second round of ASA Entertainment's Big-Air BMX Triples included a "double back flip", a few "front flips", a "360° double tail whip", and several "720°s" on the way to Rob Darden (Greenville, NC), winning preliminary round two and collecting $1000. The night's top three riders, Darden, Austin Coleman (Los Angeles, Calif.), T.J. Ellis (Moreno Valley, Calif.), performed a variety of tricks that displayed the progression in BMX jumping and shocked the crowd into amazed silence. At evening's end, it was Darden's clean, confident, consistent execution of big-air stunts that surpassed even the wildest combination of aerobatics attempted by Coleman and Ellis and left everyone eagerly awaiting Sunday's finals.
Before Darden, Coleman and Ellis battled for the night's top performance, three other men qualified earlier in the evening to join them in Thursday's event finals. Mexico's Ricardo Laguna, Illinois' Koji Kraft, and Australia's Josh Steed bested their head-to-head opponent to receive a spot in the final round of the Big-Air BMX Triples.
Chris Hughes (Toronto, Canada) performs a superman back flip in the finals qualification heat. Photo by Jared Souney.
The battle begins at 8:15 p.m. at the Orange County Fair's Action Sports Arena. Reserved seats can be purchased via Ticketmaster.com for as little at $12.50, while limited General Admission seats are free, offered on a first come first served basis. CBS Sports will feature highlights of the Big Air BMX Triples event later this year during ASA Entertainment's Action Sports World Tour programming. Please check your local listings and stay tuned to www.bmxtriples.com for more details.
For more information on the Big-Air BMX Triples presented by ASA Entertainment, please contact Denise M. Abbott at 310 430 0496 or via email at abbott@asaent.com, or visit www.bmxtriples.com.
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About ASA Entertainment:
The leader in the action sports industry since 1994, ASA Entertainment, headquartered in Culver City, California is the largest action sports event and television production company in the world. The company produces more than 200 events and 100 television programs annually around the globe that feature skateboarding, freestyle BMX, inline skating, freeskiing, freestyle motocross, snowboarding and music. Its events are broadcast on CBS, VERSUS, Spike, Fuel and Fox Sports Net domestically and distributed to more than 1 billion HH globally throughout Asia, Europe, USA, Africa, Canada, South & Central America and Australia. ASA's properties range from large-scale international competitions such as the LG Action Sports World Championships to grassroots amateur contests, lifestyle and branded entertainment events, demonstrations, exhibitions and mobile tours. As one of the oldest and most established organizations in action sports, ASA Entertainment leads the market in developing premium content around the fastest growing sector of American sports. For more information visit www.actionsportstour.com or www.asaentertainment.com.