Matt Hunter

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    Demo 8

    When you ride this hard, your bike has to ride harder.

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    Enduro

    Attack the big stuff, the small stuff and everything in between....

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    Pitch

    All Mountain riding is about attacking the big stuff...

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    P-3

    Jumps, tricks and berms—as long as you've got the skills.....

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    Tires

    The product that started it all.....

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    S-Works MTB Helmet

    The lightest certified helmet in the world, worn by 2008 UCI World XC Champion Christoph Sauser...

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Demo 8

I was born in Kamloops, British Columbia in 1983. Singletrack zigzags through the hills behind my parents' house; bikes were freedom. I explored the hills and trails wherever and whenever I could. I was 12 when I got into XC racing. I was really into it until I was about 15, when I started focusing more on DH riding. Some of my friends who I raced with made the same transition, and we started to learn together. We started building big jumps and aggressive trails. We filmed ourselves riding and I made a short video. I entered the video in an online contest, the "Ultimate Freeride Challenge" and ended up winning. That was the beginning of my sponsored career in 2003. Specialized sponsored me then and I have been with Specialized ever since.

My focus has always been shooting photos and filming video segments, that is what I love to do. I really enjoy finding adventure in the mountains - whether it be challenging moves and airs or maybe it's a multiple day ride.

I like watching big mountain skiers and snowboarders, the way they shred the mountains in the snow inspires me on dirt. Besides riding, I surf, fish, and backcountry skias much as I can.

Sponsors: Specialized, Shimano, Adidas Eyewear, Dakine, Chromag, MRP.

Coaching week

July 14, 2009

The last few days I have been coaching my camp at Sun Peaks. It has been a really good time, we have definitely had a mix of weather. My campers definitely had a chance to work on their mud riding! It rained hard for a couple days, but when the clouds cleared we had epic conditions - soft dirt with a few nice puddles for splashing each other. Couldn't ask for better dirt.

One of my favourite things about riding in BC is that you can see all kinds of wildlife. This is definitely the case at Sun Peaks, where you can see animals right from the chairlift. Yesterday I saw 3 deer and 6 bears in the bike park! Pretty awesome. My campers were pretty excited about it too.

The Anthill film crew is coming back to Kamloops to film some more next week, so I am off to do some digging!

Matt

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