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I had seriously reached a point in my life where I wasn't scared of anything. Panic was replaced by awww, shit, how can I fix this before I hit the ground? Childhood for Mat Hoffman was packed with hazardous behavior and a constant searching for a new rush: sliding down the laundry chute, blatantly misusing a trampoline, leaping off the roof holding an umbrella, executing a two-story bomb drop into a swimming pool on a bike, and more. After experimenting with his bike on a plywood ramp at age eleven, Mat found his true calling. He became addicted to aerials. By the time he was fourteen years old, Mat had earned national notoriety with his ramp skills and landed a factory sponsorship from Skyway Recreation. He was consumed by a love of bike riding, a passion that took him around the globe and beyond the limits of what people said was possible. Always pushing for more height or another way to turn air into art, he's shattered world records, conventional wisdom, and his own body in a quest to experience all that life has to offer. The price? More than a dozen major surgeries, fifty broken bones, countless concussions and knockouts -- Mat's sacrifices are evident in a medical file that's 400 pages thick. When the boom years of BMX freestyle bottomed out during a bike industry recession in the late 1980s, Mat's enthusiasm never wavered. To save his sport, he bought a semi truck when he was seventeen and became his own sponsor, spreading the word one demo at a time. He and his friends formed Hoffman Bikes and began running bike stunt contests. It was an era of progress for Mat as a rider, as he unveiled jawdropping tricks like the no-handed 540, backflip fakie, and flair, and became the first rider in action sports to pull a 900. In The Ride of My Life, Mat takes readers on his humorous, hardcore, harrowing journey to the top as a bike stunt pioneer, ten-time world champion, video game superstar, X Games ambassador, recreational ninja, and the most innovative rider to ever hit a ramp. He shares stories of the wild experiences he's had while touring with some of the best riders around -- Dennis McCoy, Dave Mirra, Rick Thorne, Kevin Robinson, Mike "Rooftop" Escamilla, and many others. Spanning two decades of action sports history, as Mat crosses paths with high-risk heroes like Tony Hawk, Johnny Knoxville, and Evel Knievel, The Ride of My Life is the insane, true story of Mat Hoffman, the greatest bike rider of all time.… (plus d'informations)
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This book is called the ride of my life by Mat Hoffman. This about Mat Hoffman's life and what he has accomplished in his life. It talks about his family and how he grew up, how he got into bike riding, to all the trick he has invented. It also talks about the ups and downs of his life from getting married to all the falls and surgeries he has gone through. There are a lot of the older pros that he rode with on a daily basis including Dennis McCoy, Bob Haro, and Dave Mirra. Mat looked up to these pros and began his journey to become pro like his insperations This book covers his life from birth to the present day, his friends and family, other pros that he rode with, and all of his accomplishments. There's a lot of places where he has been to in his life and many of competitions. His favorite was the KOV ( king of vert ). riders from all over would come to compete in this event. One place where he hung out a lot was at the secret ninja ramp that he made. This was at his house I believe. This was his training ground. He would practice on this ramp almost everyday and he would maintain it as well. In the book he has to over come hardship. Mat never gave up the sport, he was committed to it since day one. The world of bmx wouldn't be the same if he hadn't come into play, meaning, people wouldn't know what tricks to do and bike riding wouldn't be as progressive. I would say I could compare to hime because I feel like I'm in the same possition he's in. I just like to ride different things than he does. The main voice in the story is mostly Mat's but there are times where his family or friends talk about him so it gives the story another perspective. This gives an outside perspective of what he was doing. He could be talking about the contest and how he said it wasn't that hard but others could say that he killed it in the contest. To this day Mat still rides but not like he used to. Now he's getting older and can't be doing all the things he used to. Other than that, this is a great book to read if you want to know about his life, or if you're, a fellow bike rider. It's a must read.
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My day, Matthew Hoffman, is the original take charge, do-it-yourself guy. He grew up with nothing. Dad's family were hardworking, salt-of-the-earth- midwestern folk, but they were superpoor.
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I had seriously reached a point in my life where I wasn't scared of anything. Panic was replaced by awww, shit, how can I fix this before I hit the ground? Childhood for Mat Hoffman was packed with hazardous behavior and a constant searching for a new rush: sliding down the laundry chute, blatantly misusing a trampoline, leaping off the roof holding an umbrella, executing a two-story bomb drop into a swimming pool on a bike, and more. After experimenting with his bike on a plywood ramp at age eleven, Mat found his true calling. He became addicted to aerials. By the time he was fourteen years old, Mat had earned national notoriety with his ramp skills and landed a factory sponsorship from Skyway Recreation. He was consumed by a love of bike riding, a passion that took him around the globe and beyond the limits of what people said was possible. Always pushing for more height or another way to turn air into art, he's shattered world records, conventional wisdom, and his own body in a quest to experience all that life has to offer. The price? More than a dozen major surgeries, fifty broken bones, countless concussions and knockouts -- Mat's sacrifices are evident in a medical file that's 400 pages thick. When the boom years of BMX freestyle bottomed out during a bike industry recession in the late 1980s, Mat's enthusiasm never wavered. To save his sport, he bought a semi truck when he was seventeen and became his own sponsor, spreading the word one demo at a time. He and his friends formed Hoffman Bikes and began running bike stunt contests. It was an era of progress for Mat as a rider, as he unveiled jawdropping tricks like the no-handed 540, backflip fakie, and flair, and became the first rider in action sports to pull a 900. In The Ride of My Life, Mat takes readers on his humorous, hardcore, harrowing journey to the top as a bike stunt pioneer, ten-time world champion, video game superstar, X Games ambassador, recreational ninja, and the most innovative rider to ever hit a ramp. He shares stories of the wild experiences he's had while touring with some of the best riders around -- Dennis McCoy, Dave Mirra, Rick Thorne, Kevin Robinson, Mike "Rooftop" Escamilla, and many others. Spanning two decades of action sports history, as Mat crosses paths with high-risk heroes like Tony Hawk, Johnny Knoxville, and Evel Knievel, The Ride of My Life is the insane, true story of Mat Hoffman, the greatest bike rider of all time.
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There are a lot of the older pros that he rode with on a daily basis including Dennis McCoy, Bob Haro, and Dave Mirra. Mat looked up to these pros and began his journey to become pro like his insperations This book covers his life from birth to the present day, his friends and family, other pros that he rode with, and all of his accomplishments.
There's a lot of places where he has been to in his life and many of competitions. His favorite was the KOV ( king of vert ). riders from all over would come to compete in this event. One place where he hung out a lot was at the secret ninja ramp that he made. This was at his house I believe. This was his training ground. He would practice on this ramp almost everyday and he would maintain it as well.
In the book he has to over come hardship. Mat never gave up the sport, he was committed to it since day one. The world of bmx wouldn't be the same if he hadn't come into play, meaning, people wouldn't know what tricks to do and bike riding wouldn't be as progressive. I would say I could compare to hime because I feel like I'm in the same possition he's in. I just like to ride different things than he does.
The main voice in the story is mostly Mat's but there are times where his family or friends talk about him so it gives the story another perspective. This gives an outside perspective of what he was doing. He could be talking about the contest and how he said it wasn't that hard but others could say that he killed it in the contest.
To this day Mat still rides but not like he used to. Now he's getting older and can't be doing all the things he used to. Other than that, this is a great book to read if you want to know about his life, or if you're, a fellow bike rider. It's a must read.