Nate Adams

Nate Adams is an American professional freestyle motocross rider and extreme sports athlete who lives in Temecula, California. Born in Phoenix, Arizona, on March 29, 1984, he began riding at the age of eight, when his father bought him his first dirt bike. He rose to national attention in 2002, at the age of eighteen, by winning the Freestyle Motocross World Championship, and he later won the gold medal at the X Games in 2004 and at the Gravity Games in 2003. He was named AST Dew Tour Athlete of the Year in 2007, and in 2009 he became the Red Bull X-Fighters champion at London's Battersea Power Station, retaining the title the following year. He is described as the first rider to win double and back-to-back X-Fighters championships, and his nicknames include Xecutioner and The Destroyer.