R WILLY: The Reward Is Worth The Risk | X GAMES PODCAST

Duration: 48:17 Views: 18K Submitted: 4 years ago
Description: From producing his own YouTube videos hoping to get invited to X Games, to winning X Games gold in BMX Big Air, Ryan Williams is the quintessential X Games model for chasing your dreams.

Several years ago, Ryan Williams was an aspiring scooter and BMX rider that could send it over the Big Air gap on any form of transportation he could find. Then, people started asking him about X Games, but no one had seen Ryan ride the Big Air quarterpipe before. Then, he posted a video of himself hucking huge frontflip flairs and inverts, and a few weeks later, he scored an invite to X Games Minneapolis 2018. Now three gold medals deep in BMX Big Air, Ryan Williams is the new face of Big Air. Not seeing him ride X Games in 2020 has been tough, so we reached out to Ryan to see how he's doing!

1:00 What is your title?
2:00 The Hot Box Segment
5:00 Hot Box Standings
5:25 The new NBD
7:00 How do you come up with tricks?
8:16 How's 2020 going without traveling to events?
9:55 I actually rode rollerblades first.
11:20 When did you realize you could go pro?
13:25 Making scooters more legit
14:00 Meeting Travis Pastrana
16:00 Getting nervous at comps
17:40 Making noise about getting into X Games
18:54 I'm going to the X Games
19:30 Joining the BMXers at X Games
21:30 The Frontflip flair
24:00 Winning gold at X Games Sydney
26:50 X Games Shanghai
29:30 How high did I go?
33:00 X Games Minneapolis 2019
35:40 I'm not a daredevil
37:20 If I don't land straight....
41:00 R Willy's YouTube channel
43:00 Never being satisfied
44:00 R Willy land
45:30 I still haven't talked to Tony Hawk
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