During X Games 14 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, Calif., DeChamp under-rotated on a historic front-flip attempt in the Moto Best Trick competition and ended up crashing in such a way that he went home with a diagonal compression fracture of his T12 vertebrae.ĮSPN will update this story as it develops. Wheelless took a moment to chat with LatinFlyer about stunts, Panama and what makes a sports resort.
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"It's pretty scary," summed up NC Live Creative Director Dov Ribnick, "And if it was anyone else we would be really, really worried right now, but Jim is pretty much the toughest guy in the world."įor DeChamp, who has been a close friend of Nitro ringleader Travis Pastrana since childhood, this isn't the first time doing something radical has broken his back. S ame mother, different daddies is how Johnny Knoxville describes the relationship between his Jackass pranksters and the titular crew of Nitro Circus: The Movie 3D, a group of wannabe-Evil Knievels led by daredevil Travis Pastrana who perform insane feats aboard motorcycles, ATVs, school buses, and retrofitted Big Wheels-style tricycles. Ultimate Action & Adventure 6-Movie Blu-ray 3D Collection:The Hobbit The Desolation of Smaug/An Unexpected Journey/Battle Of The Five Armies/ Hercules/ Terminator Genisys/ Sin City Varius 4. The movie they were advertising, Nitro Circus: The Movie 3D, is a daredevil spectacle from the mind of William Hayes Wheelless, founder and team leader at Nitro City LLC, which operates a new action resort in this Central American nation. Luckily, however, there was no spinal damage says Mortimer and, after a successful surgery on Thursday, doctors expect the 30-year-old Maryland native to make a full recovery. The resulting crash, explained Nitro Circus Live PR maven Jaime Mortimer, left DeChamp with broken vertebrae in his back and severe head trauma. Jim DeChamp suffered a serious back injury on June 29, 2011, while shooting for the 3D film. Nitro Circus: The Movie 3D was released Augin the United States and Novemin Australia and New Zealand for one week.
There are certain risks involved with being a card carrying member of the Nitro Circus family and this week, on the set of their upcoming feature film "Nitro Circus 3D," those risks became an unfortunate and ugly reality for professional mountain biker and freestyle rider Jim DeChamp.Īccording to folks from within Nitro Circus Live management, DeChamp was injured during filming on June 29 in Utah when a car stunt went wrong. Nitro Circus officially debuted on FebruSeason 2 premiered on August 27, 2009.
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