The traveling action sports show is not a new concept, we've seen it before with tours such as Tony Hawk's Boom Boom HuckJam and more recently with Nuclear Cowboyz. We've even become accustom to the occasional fmx or bmx demo at halftimes of major sporting events. Not everyone lives by a beach, or owns a dirt bike, or has a skatepark in their town, so the point of these tours is to bring the action to them.

There's nothing like the feeling you get when you first witness a backflip on a motorcycle, or stand staring up at the enormous mega ramp, thinking to yourself, would I have the balls to slide down the ramp on my butt nevertheless do a double backflip on a bike.

Point being, there's good reason why these traveling tour's have done so well, there's nothing like seeing something for the first time. That's exactly what the Nitro Circus crew has been doing down under for the past month. Backed by Red Bull and the craziest athlete in action sports, Travis Pastrana, the Nitro Circus pride themselves on innovating every show.

Travis himself has been blown away with what the crew has accomplished while performing down under. In a recent journal entry from the tour Travis had this to say, "I'm really proud of the crew we have down here and a lot of new tricks have gone down. Our goal every Nitro show is to have someone attempt a top-level trick that has never been tried before."

So far on the tour, Clinton Moore landed the first ever body varial to heel clicker combination, while fmx rider Mark "Monz" Monea landed what people are calling the first ever 360 front flip, a trick he calls the "carry on". Even though some are claiming the trick is a variation of a front flip the Pages brothers landed 2 years ago, it was still an impressive corked out variation that has generated plenty of Internet buzz.



BMX rider Andy Buckworth has invented a new variation of the double front flip pretty much every time he jumps the mega ramp, but the real highlight for Buckworth came when he almost landed the triple front flip. It's not long ago that the first ever double flip was landed by Anthony Napolitan but it looks like Buckworth could pull the triple front at this years X Games.



And then there's Jay Toohey, who somehow landed the first ever triple tail whip back flip during a show in New Zealand. This trick didn't seem possible a few years back.



The 2011 Nitro Circus Tour has officially been dubbed as the "The Progression Tour" for the amount of new and impossible tricks that have been landed.

Pushing the limits has also come at a cost, there have been several injuries while down under, most recently Pastrana and Cam Sinclair were hospitalized. Cam Sinclair under-rotated his double backflip resulting in a serious concussion. The details of Pastrana's injury are less known, but according to ESPN, "Travis experienced severe pain in his leg before the show...it was a suspected blood clot, or blood rushing to a muscle around his knee area."

As details develop it will be interesting to see how this effects his recent Nascar experiment.

Don't miss your chance to witness the progression tour first hand when the Nitro Circus is bringing their show to North America soon.

Photos courtesy of Nitro Circus