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The year is 2023, BMX has been an Olympic sport for 15 years, it has been part of the X-Games for almost 30 years and a popular sport for over 40 years. Now, after all this time, BMX rider Ryan Williams has just landed the hardest BMX trick ever pulled off.
The ‘Free Willy’ is the hardest BMX trick in existence. It is a ‘Backflip Nothing Front Bike Flip’ and if those words in that order mean nothing to you, you’re not alone.
This trick almost has to be seen to be believed. But the gist of it is the rider is doing a backflip while the bike is doing a front flip. And somehow they meet up at the perfect time just before the landing without breaking any bones.
It took Ryan Williams over 24 combined hours of attempting this trick and it was a feat that was ’10 years in the making’ according to him. Williams attempted the world’s hardest BMX trick well over 1,000 times before landing it but he finally pulled it off and now the Extreme Sports world is celebrating his achievement.
Once more for the fellas in the back:
Someone ripped his YouTube video and posted it to Reddit which is obviously very uncool because he doesn’t get the views/monetization for any of that. But that video has since exploded on Reddit where it hit the #1 spot on r/all.
And the only reason I bring this up at all is the top comment perfectly encapsulates the nature of Extreme Sports. That comment reads “Wait a year and watch some 12 year old do a double.” Every Extreme Sports ‘GOAT’ has endured that at some point in their lives. They pushed the limits of the sport to heights nobody deemed possible. Then boom, some kid watched them do it then went out and did it even better because those kids have no fear.
It’s a shame he didn’t reveal how many bones were broken along the way. Presumably, he practiced the world’s hardest BMX trick by flipping into a foam pit. But trying this on a ramp had to have been TERRIFYING for the first few attempts.