![]() He needed to remove the last three feet the length of the ramp was generating too much g-force. ![]() “The ramp was too steep,” Maddison explained. He also hung the ramp above his foam pit and practiced doing a backflip into it-and promptly tore his calf muscle. Prior to actually taking the bike up, Maddison got reps jumping out of the plane and out of a hot air balloon and doing backflips without it. It wasn’t just, ‘We’re gonna jump out of a helicopter now ’ it was months of planning.”Īll the preparation paid off the entire jump was filmed in just one take, resulting in the destruction of only one Razor bike. “He’s a daredevil in the purest form, but he’s also really careful and got the right team and he really thought about this and planned it all out. “We couldn’t have dreamed this up ourselves Robbie came up with this tremendous idea and the next thing you know, he was building a ramp and testing it in his backyard,” said Alexis Trevino, RAZOR USA’s senior director of global marketing. Razor knew that it wanted to work with Maddison on a project, but it deferred to him as the mastermind to develop it. He’s selecting his projects and preparing for them carefully he’ll be stunt doubling for Jason Statham in the new The Expendables film after doing the same for Daniel Craig in 2012’s Skyfall and for Vin Diesel in XXX: Return of Xander Cage (in that case, riding a dirtbike on the ocean). But he’s not trying to go out every day and do crazy things just for the sake of saying he did them. Make no mistake “motorcycles are always going to be my life,” Maddison says. It gave me the same exhilaration I got from motorcycles, but skydiving seems kind of safer than freestyle motocross.” I dealt with a lot of depression after that. “In 2015, I had a traumatic head injury and died on the front yard of the house in front of the kids, traumatizing the whole family. “I’ve been dead five times,” Maddison says. ![]() In recent years, however, in the interest of his health and preventing head injuries, Maddison has pulled back from FMX and focused more on water-based stunts, as well as pilot training and skydiving. His aforementioned 2008 record of 350.98 feet still stands-though plenty are taking a shot at it. He won multiple other FMX events around the world and soon turned his focus to stunt performing, setting two world records in May 2005 with the Crusty Demons motorcycle stunt group, traveling 221 feet on a 125 cc bike and 246 feet with a Superman seat grab on a 250 cc bike.
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