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Watch all of the golden knuckle highlights Snowboard Big at X Games Norway 2020. --- Progression at its finest! X Games is your premier destination for all things action sports, music, lifestyle and everything in between. X Games has been the worldwide leader in action sports since 1995. Visit our official homepage at http://xgames.com for more coverage and highlights. SUBSCRIBE: @X Games! Check us on Social @XGames: Instagram ► https://instagram.com/xgames Twitter ► https://twitter.com/xgames Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/XGames TikTok ► https://www.tiktok.com/@XGames Snapchat ► @xgames Thanks for watching X Games! #XGames #Snowboarding #XGamesNorway2020 ]]> Sat 07 Mar 2020 04:41:41 +0200 https://www.gnarpowpow.com/videos/13063/golden-knuckle-video-snowboard-knuckle-huck-x-games-norway-2020/ https://www.gnarpowpow.com/videos/13360/marcus-kleveland-the-comeback-x-games-aspen-2020/
Marcus Kleveland exploded onto the X Games scene at Aspen 2017. The precocious 17-year-old took a surprise Slopestyle gold and added silver in Big Air. He followed it up at XG Aspen 2018 with another Slopestyle gold and Big Air silver, then picked up a third silver medal in Big Air at XG Norway 2018. Among the most whimsical, creative, playful riders snowboarding has ever seen, Marcus was starting to seem unstoppable. And then…disaster in December 2018. “I was practicing on a transfer rail at Dew Tour that I wanted to flip out of, so I was coming in with a lot of speed, f---ed up on the takeoff, came off of the side of the rail before the transfer and just kneecapped straight into the other rail,” Marcus says of his accident. “I stood up and rode for like 10 meters, trying to pretend it was okay, then collapsed. I was on the ground, screaming so bad.” One year after the accident, he’s sharing carnage from Dr. Tom Hackett’s operating room at the famed Steadman Clinic in Vail, Colorado. It’s truly gruesome, if you’re into that sort of thing. “My right kneecap was shattered into like six or seven big pieces and a bunch of little shards,” Marcus says now. He had reconstructive surgery on the knee the same night, then spent the next 11 months rehabbing, including a three-month stint where he was living in Oslo to work with physical therapists at the Norwegian Olympic Training Center. “When I first got my knee brace off, I couldn’t bend my knee even one degree. It was completely straight, and it hurt.” He had a second surgery in November 2019 to remove some of the scar tissue and hardware from his knee, which helped. “When they put my knee back together, they left a lot of stuff in there,” Kleveland explains. “We went back in and removed some of it from in front of the kneecap. It felt a lot better after that, for sure.” X Games Aspen 2020 was Kleveland’s first competition since the injury. And though only the gold medal was awarded, Marcus Kleveland finished 2nd in the rankings. Kleveland did have an argument for trick of the comp with both his Run 2 and Run 3 passes (Nollie backside 1080, Cab 720 press to inverted Cab 540 hand drag). However, those weren’t enough to leapfrog Zeb Powell. It seems like his Run 4 540 to 1080 attempt may have been, but he couldn’t quite land it. “I was so bummed I missed the first Knuckle Huck!” Kleveland said following the 2019 debut. But having him back for X Games Aspen 2020 made the second Knuckle Huck event that much more real. Yes, we’re seeing real time progression, and yes, we have Marcus Kleveland to thank for it. Look for Marcus Kleveland to be competing in X Games Norway, March 7-8. --- Progression at its finest! X Games is your premier destination for all things action sports, music, lifestyle and everything in between. X Games has been the worldwide leader in action sports since 1995. Visit our official homepage at http://xgames.com for more coverage and highlights. SUBSCRIBE: @X Games! Check us on Social @XGames: Instagram ► https://instagram.com/xgames Twitter ► https://twitter.com/xgames Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/XGames TikTok ► https://www.tiktok.com/@XGames Snapchat ► @xgames Thanks for watching X Games! #XGames #Snowboarding #MarcusKleveland ]]> Wed 26 Feb 2020 17:00:05 +0200 https://www.gnarpowpow.com/videos/13360/marcus-kleveland-the-comeback-x-games-aspen-2020/ https://www.gnarpowpow.com/videos/13212/marcus-kleveland-highlight-reel-x-games-aspen-2020/
The second installment of X Games Wendy’s Snowboard Knuckle Huck will go down in history as an all-time X Games highlight and the most whimsically entertaining event in snowboarding. The consensus among fans is that Aspen 2020 Snowboard Knuckle Huck was one of the best contests ever. Though only the gold medal was awarded, Marcus Kleveland finished 2nd in the rankings. His playful knuckle tricks on Instagram helped inspire the debut of this discipline at XG Aspen 2019, but a shattered right kneecap one month prior forced him to miss it. Gold medal or no, X Games is blessed by his return, and his runs in Knuckle Huck were worth collecting for YouTube. Because this event basically happened because of Marcus Kleveland’s influence, we decided to assemble his contributions to Knuckle Huck here. He may not have walked away with the golden knuckles, but he’s the people’s champ of hucking the knuckle. Thanks for the inspiration Marcus! SUBSCRIBE ► http://xgam.es/YouTube X Games has been spreading the shred in action sports since 1995. For more coverage and highlights visit our official homepage at http://xgames.com --------- Twitter ► https://twitter.com/xgames Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/XGames Instagram ► https://instagram.com/xgames --------- Thanks for watching X Games! #XGames #KnuckleHuck #MarcusKleveland ]]> Thu 06 Feb 2020 16:24:44 +0200 https://www.gnarpowpow.com/videos/13212/marcus-kleveland-highlight-reel-x-games-aspen-2020/