This weekend some of the planet's biggest extreme athletes will ride, jump and jam into State College as Tony Hawk's Boom Boom Huckjam tour comes to the Bryce Jordan Center at 5 p.m. Sunday.

The tour features the world's best BMX riders, motorcross racers and skateboarders along with a multi-million dollar set, sound system and, of course, plenty of jumps, tricks and the crazy air for which all the athletes are famous.

Many of the athletes on the tour are medallists in their respective sports at ESPN's X Games, the Olympics of extreme sports. While competition is certainly a part of every athlete's life, the Boom Boom Huckjam tour is a chance for these athletes to come together to put on a show, have fun and demonstrate some of the biggest and most dangerous tricks on earth to their fans.

"As far as the crowd goes, the great thing about this [compared to the X Games] is that it's not a competition," said 2003 X Games Global Championships gold medallist BMX rider Kevin Robinson.

"It's just a show so I can feed off the crowds energy and rely on the other guys to really get going and get crazy ... we've become like a family."

Because of the nature of their respective sports, the athletes on the Huckjam tour have had their share of injuries while learning tricks and honing their crafts. Robinson -- who has broken his pelvis, both of his legs and had over 30 concussions, according to his Web site -- said that a passion for his sport has kept him going through all of those setbacks. He said many times athletes land huge tricks for the first time live.

"The first time you land it, it's the best feeling in the world," Robinson said. "You normally do it in front of an audience because the adrenaline's pumping and you just go for it not knowing what the result will be and when you land it's just incredible."

While many people don't consider State College to be a hotbed for extreme sports, one of the country's biggest and best facilities for BMX, motorcross and skateboarding, Camp Woodward, is only about a 30 minute ride outside of State College in Woodward.

Having this facility close by has attracted several top professionals to the area to live full time. Nearly every professional extreme athlete in the country has come to Central Pennsylvania at some point to train or work with the thousands of campers Woodward brings in from all over the world.

Because of this, when the Huckjam tour comes to town, many of the athletes will already be familiar with the area.

"Having those guys around definitely helps because it legitimizes us as a world class facility with a lot of those guys moving in or around State College or visiting here a couple of times a year," said Woodward operations director Steve Hass.

Bryce Jordan Center Marketing Director Bernie Punt said tickets for the event still remain in all price ranges and the response for the event has been huge.

Hass said that with so many local ties to the Huckjam tour, the show should shed a very positive light on extreme sports in State College and elsewhere.

"Many of the athletes involved are part of the Woodward family," Hass said. "Anything that's going to promote action sports in a good way is a good thing, which this tour really does. To see them out there performing and educating is great because it shows people this is more than a circus show but that these guys are athletes ... and world class athletes at that."