Bob Burnquist - X Games 2001 Vert Finals Gold Medal Run [720p60 Upgrade]

Bob Burnquist's gold medal-winning run in the X-Games 2001 Vert Finals.

Newly deinterlaced and upscaled from an original DVD source.

[DiegoRuiz]

I love how at one moment there are THREE people in the booth including Tony Hawk and NOBODY can say anything coherent

[italoasox]

The 90's and early 2000's, everything was perfect. Extreme sports, games, music... Nothing will be like before.

[Reiderreiter]

The ending will always be the most perfect thing of the run to me. Bob finishes the greatest vert run in the history of the sport and just merely raises his board over head, slightly bows his head and just soaks everything in.

Whatever Bob was feeling in that moment is probably the closest a human can get to genuine nirvana. He had a straight up religious experience for about two minutes.

[TUBESTEAKNIG]

It's insane that he needed a 95.5 to win. That makes this run 10x better.

[Taylor]

Been watching skateboarding for almost 30 years. This is still my favorite vert run ever.

[freddiegibbs]

Comment from another video. Bob Burnquist's 2001 "98" Gold Medalist Winning Run:
- Drop In
- FS Air Nose Bone
- BS Kickflip Indy
- McTwist
- Kickflip Indy (catch) to Fakie
- Switch FS Stinkbug Air
- Switch BS Kickflip Indy
- Switch Darkside, 180 Fingerflip to Fakie
- BS Boardslide to Fakie
- Fakie BS 540 Indy to Fakie
- Slob Gay Twist
- Indy Grab Air to Fakie
- Switch FS Ollie
- Switch BS Ollie
- Switch BS Rock & Roll
- Rewind Revert
- Blunt to Fakie
- Half-Cab Blunt to FS 180 out
- BS Boardslide to Fakie
- Fakie BS 360 Indy
- Blunt Kickflip out to Fakie
- Switch BS Rock & Roll
- Fakie BS 5-0, boardslide tap to FS Rock & Roll out...
- Roll out into the deck, holding up the board, and Bob Gnar juicing in the aura

[c.]

One of the greatest x games runs ever.

[jordangroff]

That blunt kickflip out makes me shake my head in disbelief everytime i watch it.

[pittfan]

I was there. Epic to behold in person for a skater in 2001.

[carlsaiko]

You are a saint for giving future kids a chance to see pure unadulterated shredding

[matheusfiorelli]

over 20 years later, still the best run ever :V

[Rabscutle]

There is an art and fluid motion to the way Bob is on a skateboard that nobody else really matches. He is jazz to the technical expertise of Bucky. Bucky is great, but Bob elevates the art form in a way nobody can touch. Also about half way through I'm covered in goosebumps as Sal and Tony Hawk are losing their minds, but when he does the kick flip off the ramp and they lose it, I can't help but smile like a little kid. I've been watching since I was a kid and I'm way too old now, and I've never seen anything this good. It was genius that night and continues to be genius. GOAT for sure, but even more so when you realize that probably half of Bob's tricks are things he attempted in best trick in various years. The run insane. Thank you for posting this version so I can actually see it. Much appreciated.

[adyio]

You have to remember, folks, this is 2001. You don't throw complex grinds that swap your stance mid-run. You don't think twice, but four or five times before you decide to throw a flip trick to fakie as your "last trick". I think Bob knew this run, had it planned out, and finally, looking for a 95.6 or better in what was the biggest skateboarding event on Earth, decided it was his time to throw it all down.

[txterbug]

This was one of the most IN THE ZONE performances in ALL OF SPORTS TO THIS VERY DAY!!!

[SupplementalSense]

Tony's 900 was the most famous skateboarding moment of all-time but this was the greatest skateboarding moment of all-time. Bob Burnquist and Bucky Lasek were in their primes. They would have to be on the Mt. Rushmore of skateboard vert. This is a legend beating a legend with the greatest run ever performed at X Games. As far as competition goes, it can't get any greater!

[patrickbyrne]

Buckys face lol… insane 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 the blunt kick out is just beaaaauuuutiful. That poor vert ramp needed therapy after that

[CollinGill]

this run would have won THIS YEAR, absolutely incredible

[joey]

I remember seeing this live and the feeling when Bob got the 98 was incredible. I was just in awe.

[VonBlade]

My favourite thing about this, you can literally just search "Bob Vert Run" and this video appears. Of the billions on YT, it's _that_ iconic.

[animesoapninja]

The first and only X games event I ever went to and Ill never forget it, right around my 13th birthday and seeing Bob Burnquist and also Stephen Murray do the first ever double back flip in Dirt Bike Stunt were absolute highlights.