Author Topic: --- Hoffman first 21' Air World Record Video! --- (Read 4105 times)

Stodgy · « **on:** April 04, 2007, 08:33 PM »

Did I ever mention that I love Hoffman??

Why?

Clicky below.

http://www.mathoffman.com/05mhdotcom/movs/21%27_ramp-Mouse%27s_Airwalk_e.mov

Lazarou · « **Reply #1 on:** April 04, 2007, 08:38 PM »

21 inch air?

rory · « **Reply #2 on:** April 04, 2007, 08:39 PM »

that air is rad as dave , i wonder if that record is gonna get bet due to the big air ramp set in dc and ex games.

Stodgy · « **Reply #3 on:** April 04, 2007, 08:40 PM »

Quote from: Lazarou on April 04, 2007, 08:38 PM

21 inch air?

Smartarse

Stodgy · « **Reply #4 on:** April 04, 2007, 08:43 PM »

Quote from: rory on April 04, 2007, 08:39 PM

that air is rad as dave , i wonder if that record is gonna get bet due to the big air ramp set in dc and ex games.

He beat it a few years later, but it's definately gonna get beaten with the big air ramp - I couldn't believe watching Kagy & Robinson last year...that double they did, Kagy's air was knocking on the door - I think he shocked himself by the look of that freeze half way up!

Awesome feckers.

Lazarou · « **Reply #5 on:** April 04, 2007, 08:43 PM »

Thank you Stodge my arse IS quite smart! Thanks for noticing.

Stodgy · « **Reply #6 on:** April 04, 2007, 08:44 PM »

harris · « **Reply #7 on:** April 04, 2007, 09:10 PM »

ooooooooo yyyyyyes

SaMAlex · « **Reply #8 on:** April 04, 2007, 10:09 PM »

When that Hofman add first came out I was sure it was a fake pic. I hadnt seen anything about the big 1/4 pipe and I figured, if you were going to do a 20 foot air, why would you have people standing on the transition?

I was wrong!

QUADROPHENIA · « **Reply #9 on:** April 05, 2007, 07:23 AM »

the first time i see that photo about 4/5 yrs ago i honestly got a semi on and wanted to be mr hoffman

darkersomeday · « **Reply #10 on:** April 05, 2007, 10:13 AM »

amazing, even years later, just amazing,

was that the ramp matt strapped a strimmer motor to his bike and rode?

harris · « **Reply #11 on:** April 05, 2007, 10:15 AM »

i had that video props i think around 1998/9 him riding a massive half pipe with that motor attached lol

highrisedrifter · « **Reply #12 on:** April 05, 2007, 10:27 AM »

That's really quite good indeed.

TwoBobRob · « **Reply #13 on:** April 05, 2007, 12:56 PM »

Quote from: darkersomeday on April 05, 2007, 10:13 AM

amazing, even years later, just amazing,

was that the ramp matt strapped a strimmer motor to his bike and rode?

Nah, different ramp. A few years later he built a halfpipe, using basically the same dimensions, so around 21ft high. Thats the ramp he rode the motorised condor on. It had some rediculous roll in on it, about 50ft or summat.

Cost him a spleen I believe.

For all you trivia types, a lot of the first big ramp designs were done by Mat and a fella called Roger Wells, an old school motorcycle jumper more commonly known as Johnny Airtime. He helped another headcase called Seth Enslow on his way to world record attempts.

Ayethankyou.

brass monkey! · « **Reply #14 on:** April 05, 2007, 01:30 PM »

it thought he'd promised his wife he'd give up, the last time he nearly killed himself !?!

big air, Hoffmann and the Skater Danny Way facsinate me, nutters the pair of em !!

Faze 3 · « **Reply #15 on:** April 05, 2007, 02:28 PM »

Such a good video clip. The man is just top banana

Did anyone see that programme he way in (think it was High 5

)

But he was awesome dude!!!! oh and very funny.....amnesia I think

Stodgy · « **Reply #16 on:** April 05, 2007, 05:05 PM »

Yep saw that High 5, where he pulled out a fresh chrome condor from a box...makes me goo.

I've got a pic of that motorised Condor in an old BMX Plus...I'll get it scanned in and posted up - brilliant....twobobrob is right it was for a halfpipe and it did cost him a body part!

teamsano · « **Reply #17 on:** April 09, 2007, 11:33 AM »

truly insane. i was lucky enough to go to the hoffman comp in okc in 93 and see mat ride the ramp. MENTAL!

i also had a go myself, i sprinted the full length of the plywood run up and only made it to the bottom of the letter 'o' on 'hoffman bikes', the ramp was still nowhere near vert at that point, and it felt weird to run out of speed, a scary experience for sure.

i have some snaps of mat riding the ramp, but alas, no scanner.

Stodgy · « **Reply #18 on:** April 09, 2007, 11:37 AM »

Quote from: teamsano on April 09, 2007, 11:33 AM

truly insane. i was lucky enough to go to the hoffman comp in okc in 93 and see mat ride the ramp. MENTAL!

i also had a go myself, i sprinted the full length of the plywood run up and only made it to the bottom of the letter 'o' on 'hoffman bikes', the ramp was still nowhere near vert at that point, and it felt weird to run out of speed, a scary experience for sure.

i have some snaps of mat riding the ramp, but alas, no scanner.

Bloody awesome! Just to have rolled on that ramp would have been rad, I bet it really bought home just what he acheived on it?

Would love to see those snaps dude - find a scanner!!

dirtyvans · « **Reply #19 on:** April 12, 2007, 09:27 PM »

mental

, he is a god

when he did the air with motor attached to his bike, it must have made the air feel horrible with a heavy motor hanging off one side of the back of his bike

christhejob · « **Reply #20 on:** April 12, 2007, 09:42 PM »

if you see the video on mad matt on the halfpipe he dropped like a stone on the air he crashed. He put that down to the weighting caused by the engine (i think it's in his book) - that crash ruptured his spleen which nearly killed him (flatline and all i believe, very kieffer sutherland)

TwoBobRob · « **Reply #21 on:** April 13, 2007, 09:49 AM »

Quote from: teamsano on April 09, 2007, 11:33 AM

truly insane. i was lucky enough to go to the hoffman comp in okc in 93 and see mat ride the ramp. MENTAL!

i also had a go myself, i sprinted the full length of the plywood run up and only made it to the bottom of the letter 'o' on 'hoffman bikes', the ramp was still nowhere near vert at that point, and it felt weird to run out of speed, a scary experience for sure.

i have some snaps of mat riding the ramp, but alas, no scanner.

I heard a story that Dave Mirra looked over the edge of that quarter and point blank refused to ride it. Is that a true story do you know? It allegedly happened at that comp.

I can imagine standing up there, looking down and saying 'fcuk this, and fcuk you.......'

But thats just me.............

SaMAlex · « **Reply #22 on:** April 13, 2007, 09:51 AM »

Quote from: TwoBobRob on April 13, 2007, 09:49 AM

Quote from: teamsano on April 09, 2007, 11:33 AM

I can imagine standing up there, looking down and saying 'fcuk this, and fcuk you.......'

But thats just me.............

Me too, and thats on any ramp over about 8 foot!

YGT · « **Reply #23 on:** April 13, 2007, 09:56 AM »

I have heard many stories about this ramp.
From Matts crash to actually flatlining from the crash for a short period ..... from what i understood after mat cained himself on this and was recovering steve swoope and some others damaged the ramp by taking half of it appart and trashing it claiming it was a hurricane or bad weather. This was done simply because there was a big fear at the hoffman house that matt would kill himself on this....

TwoBobRob · « **Reply #24 on:** April 13, 2007, 10:16 AM »

I reckon thats true for sure. You can imagine Steve Swope saying to the others 'he's out of town, lets get this thing down before he kills himself'. Thats what mates are for, right?

Author Topic: --- Hoffman first 21' Air World Record Video! --- (Read 4105 times)

Lazarou

rory

Lazarou

SaMAlex

darkersomeday

highrisedrifter

teamsano

christhejob

SaMAlex

YGT