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Knock On Wood

By Jon Coen
EXPN.com

Wednesday, January 18, 2006

If a wakeboarder blows a whirly, he's in the drink. If a snowboarder comes up short and cases on the flat, he takes a jolt. If a vert skater misses a mute 10 feet out of the coping, he slides out on his three-inch thick kneepads. But when the maniacs of freestyle moto make the slightest miscalculation, it's all sirens and red and orange lights. With a number of heavy hitters benched during last year's Games, Winter X's Best Trick contest looked like an episode of M*A*S*H*. Caleb Wyatt, Ro ...

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