Mark Monea lands first-ever 360 frontflip

Monea lands carry on

Aussie Mark Monea land's the first 360 frontflip.Tags: ACTIONSPORTS, MOTO X, Cameron Sinclair, Blake Williams

Monea lands carry on

On March 2, Australia's Mark Monea successfully landed the first-ever 360 frontflip on a motocross bike. The trick was landed at X Games gold medalist Cam Sinclair's FMX park just outside Melbourne, Australia and was thrown off a metal kicker ramp set at 51 feet.

Monea, 27, developed the trick after weeks of attempting to throw a straight frontflip into Sinclair's foam pit. Starting off on a BMX bike and then moving to a mini bike, Monea had the frontflip dialed, but after attempting it on his full sized Honda CRF250 the trick turned into something resembling a 360 front flip. "I was more confused than pumped when I did the first one into the foam pit," said Monea. "When I'm on the bike, it feels like a dead-straight frontflip, but when I look at the footage it seems to flatten out and do all types of weird things."

Monea tried the trick, which he's calling "the carry on," into foam for four weeks before deciding to take it to dirt. He landed his first attempt to dirt.