Someone should report on the Moto X World Championships

In 2002, I watched Mike Metzger land back-to-back backflips in competition. It's not often that something on your TV pulls you out of your chair and has you jumping up and down and hollering, hardly believing what you've just seen, but a man doing a backflip on a motorcycle had that effect on me.

Here's where the sport has taken the backflip, from the Moto X World Championships last week:



Mike Metger holds the record for the longest backflip, after backflipping over the fountain at Caesar's Palace.

Riders typically learn the backflip by landing in a pit of foam blocks, but legend has it that Metzger learned it on dirt.