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Title: The "KING" of high air!
Post by: markatkins on December 13, 2008, 04:49 PM
I love this old footage of Matt riding his big air ramp from back in the day.No roll in,no smooth ground just a big set of balls lol.

Pause his first big air..................

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=rKF0ZW34FRk

Mad eh
Title: Re: The "KING" of high air!
Post by: lodge on December 13, 2008, 05:03 PM
I was looking at some footage of this a few weeks ago and I noticed that he didn't even bother to take his pegs off for the big ramp.
Imagine a peg falling onto you from fifty feet :wtf:
The big air ramps still look mental but it must be so much easier when you have seen it done, to do it for the first time like matt did is incredible.
Title: Re: The "KING" of high air!
Post by: QUADROPHENIA on December 13, 2008, 05:55 PM

legend
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Post by: evamedia on December 13, 2008, 06:40 PM
"go fast at that blue thing" LOL
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Post by: rollin72 on December 13, 2008, 07:42 PM
balls as big as bus!! :daumenhoch:
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Post by: Ramp Rat on December 15, 2008, 09:09 PM
Amazing stuff - BIG BALLS! He lands almost the same place as his take off, his run up planks are tiny but he comes back on the same planks. He is the KING!

motorbike bloke at the end  - I don't even know what he does....  so funny.
Title: Re: The "KING" of high air!
Post by: sweetbeats on December 15, 2008, 09:12 PM
seen this a while ago always good to see it again...INSANE :4_17_5:
Title: Re: The "KING" of high air!
Post by: TwoBobRob on December 17, 2008, 03:37 AM
Motorbike bloke is Steve Swope, Mats mucker for many many years  :)

Just for scale Ramp Rat, those runup planks are 8x4ft sheets of plywood....  That 1/4 was 21ft high I think?  Crazy. Especially with no setup jump.

These were some of the first images I saw in 93 that inspired me to ride again. It's all his fault!   ;D
Title: Re: The "KING" of high air!
Post by: condor96 on December 17, 2008, 04:00 AM
this one is just as awesome, his condor motorbike on the 21 foot tall halfpipe (the quarter he is pulled to is half of the halfpipe. and the 2nd of his 21foot quarters)
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2mmv1_mat-hoffman-et-son-mega-halfpipe_extreme
here is mat hoffman and steve swope talking about the big ramp stuff
http://video.mpora.com/watch/igXnKinoE/
http://video.mpora.com/watch/tBXs5B62c/
and some pics...
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/hh166/adamdawson/SDC10563.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/hh166/adamdawson/010330_hoffman4_i.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/hh166/adamdawson/Mat_old_ramp_01.gif)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/hh166/adamdawson/hoffman.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/hh166/adamdawson/2506143852_3b185f9750.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/hh166/adamdawson/SDC10471.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/hh166/adamdawson/SDC10487.jpg)
the team standing in front of it.it looks huge!
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/hh166/adamdawson/SDC10456.jpg)
it still looks big in the backround
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/hh166/adamdawson/SDC10538.jpg)
motorbike madness...
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/hh166/adamdawson/condorstrimmer.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/hh166/adamdawson/010330_hoffman3_i.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/hh166/adamdawson/010330_hoffman2_i.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/hh166/adamdawson/SDC10562.jpg)
 :shocked: :idiot2: :coolsmiley: :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: The "KING" of high air!
Post by: condor96 on December 17, 2008, 08:03 AM
and there is a pic i cant find...shouldnt this be under mid school? oh well lol
Title: Re: The "KING" of high air!
Post by: markatkins on December 17, 2008, 10:15 AM
old skool,mid skool new skool future skool????who cares,its rad and its bike riding!!
Title: Re: The "KING" of high air!
Post by: sweetbeats on December 17, 2008, 10:23 AM
This stuff transcends any skool dude :daumenhoch: LOVE IT!
Title: Re: The "KING" of high air!
Post by: jedi on December 17, 2008, 05:54 PM
fooking raddest of the rad

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