Williams Lands Half-Flip Container Stall, a Five-Year NBD

The 14-time X Games gold medalist launched a half backflip into an inverted stall on a suspended shipping container, then rode out into a half frontflip, a sequence so new it had no name.

A crane, a mega ramp, and one clean line

The stage was built from an in-ground in-run, an adjustable mega ramp, a crawler crane, and a Monster Energy container. The trick turned a raw industrial rig into the setting for a world first.

The combination was a documented "five-year fantasy," and completing it at his own Australian compound closed a long arc of privately engineered progression. One observer told reporters: "I've witnessed Ryan Williams do a lot of incredible riding firsthand, yet he still left me at a loss for words with this one."

One first built on a decade of firsts

Williams moved from kick scooter riding to BMX after doubters said he had no future in it, winning his first BMX Big Air X Games gold in 2018. His run of NBD tricks includes a triple tailwhip double backflip and a 540° double flair, a list that now gains its most architectural entry.

Where those victories extended his command of established competition formats, this project asserted something more personal: a structure imagined on a blank page, then ridden into existence.

The container line confirms that Williams will keep designing his own stage, and that his most improbable sketches still end with him rolling away.