FMX

Took the grandson to the Freestyle Moto-X tonight. He enjoyed it for
the most part (though he started to get bored near the end) and I
found it tolerable. I was more into checking out the MILFs and various
other assorted female wares on display than watching them do the same
tricks over and over. I was particularly taken with one super-cute
little number who looked to be about 3 years old who was totally agog
at the whole thing. Watching her watch them was a lot more fun for me
than actually watching them. I spoke to her parents in the lobby on
the way out (smokin' hot young mommy and kinda punk-ass looking daddy)
and they said her daddy and some of his buddies ride dirt bikes on
some dunes somewhere near here on the weekends and she likes to go
watch and says when she's big enough she wants to do it too.
After one round you have seen it all, and as I said in response to
BryanUT's post about taking his own grandkids back in January as a
competition I rate it on the same scale as figure skating. Anything
that is "judged" rather than quantified in some way ain't a sport IMO,
which is not the same as saying the people who do it aren't athletes.
Hell, pro wrasslers are athletes, but wrasslin' itself is "sports
entertainment".
I would rather watch real races, but it's pretty interesting if you've
never seen it, especially for those who have kids and/or grandkids who
have also never seen it. This was our second time and there was no
novelty in it this time like the first time we went. The best part of
the whole thing was the demonstration by 10-time US Trials champion
Geoff Aaron who did about a 15-minute routine of wheelies, stoppies,
jumps, and navigating various obstacles without ever putting a foot
down. That was pretty cool even though we had seen it before.