BMX bikes. Dirt bikes. Scooters. Tricycles. Kayaks. Snowboards. If a human can ride it, chances were it was on display on November 3rd at the Tacoma Dome with Nitro Circus Live.

The show began with a series of high-flying jumps on dirt bikes. Crew members were being launched into the air by a pulley system that they called “The Slingshot.” This propelled riders from zero to 60 mph in 2.9 seconds. It seemed like a normal show at first, the basic flips and tricks on BMX bikes that you see all over the internet; but as the night went on, the tricks got more insane, adding tricycles, snowboards, and even a kayak.

Right at the point when you thought it couldn’t get any crazier, the crew pulled three guys out of the audience and into the show. One of the riders managed to pile all three of the audience members onto his dirt bike with him, and they attempted a berserk backflip with a total of four people on the bike. Somehow, defying all physics, the rider landed the trick.

Crazy was redefined that night. Other highlights of the night included synchronized backflips and frontflips, a competition between riders from the USA and the rest of the world, and attempts at slingshotting riders into a giant Zorb ball, an orb made of transparent plastic. The main highlight for many people was when everyone in the audience stood, in respect, as Bruce Cook rode onto the stage. Cook wasn’t on a BMX or dirt bike. He rode onto the stage in a wheelchair. Following an attempted double frontflip crash in 2014, Bruce Cook was left paralyzed from the waist down. He returned to dirt bikes and successfully landed the world’s first ever backflip by a paraplegic only a few weeks before the Tacoma Dome show. The crew helped strap Cook into his specially made dirt bike, complete with a cage around his legs and a seatbelt, and Cook successfully landed another backflip. What an amazing and inspirational moment for everyone in the Tacoma Dome that night.

The whole show was amazing, and action-packed with insanity. Not once did anyone in the audience yawn, or even look at their phone. The crew did a great job at keeping the show interesting. Overall, Nitro Circus was outrageous, dangerous and completely mind-blowing. The tricks they attempted made everyone gasp, and even when they didn’t land the trick, the crowd still went crazy. As the posters say, “You have never seen a circus like this before.”