Matt Hunter

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

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    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

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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.

Summer shred time Filming at Sun Peaks

August 4, 2009

This last week was amazing. Once again the Anthill Films crew came to Kamloops to do some shooting. I have been having a lot of fun working on my segment with these guys. This time Thomas Vanderham came along too, Thomas is a good buddy of mine and we ride together as much as we can.

Since the temperature in Kamloops was about 20 degrees too hot we decided to go do some shooting at Sun Peaks Resort. It's a short drive from Kamloops and the increase in elevation makes it quite a bit cooler. I like riding there in the summer.

We filmed the bike park for 4 days and got some great shots. Sun Peaks is a downhillers paradise, the trails are great for going really really really fast. So that's what we did!

One of my favourite shots I got to do was a berm slash where I sprayed the camera with dirt. The filmers put a cover on the camera and then we found a suitable corner to spray some sun peaks soil. It worked out really well, when we reviewed the footage the screen went to black from so much dirt! Check out the shot of the camera lens here.

I'm off to Whistler now for Crankworx, unfortunately I have to drive through Vancouver to get there ( the really long way) because of all the forest fires burning in BC have so many roads closed!

Keep an eye out here for some of my updates from Crankworx.

Matty

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