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.

Crankworx bike family reunion

August 9, 2009

Whistler has been great. The cool thing about Crankworx is that there is something here for everyone, so it's like a big annual reunion. I get to see friends from all over the world who I have met through biking. I have been riding the park with everyone from world cup racers to the top freeriders to endurance athletes and even some good budies from back home. It feels like a big birthday party.

This year at Crankworx they are having a photo contest called the Saint Deep Summer Photo Challenge. It's a contest for photographers, they shoot for 3 days and make a slideshow of their images. I have been shooting for the past two days with John Gibson. We have been getting up early and staying out late for the best light. It has been really fun because Gibby is a fun guy to hang out with and we have a similar vision for how we want the shots to look. I hope our slideshow shows how much fun we had making it, because it has been a really good time.

The coolest thing that happened yesterday was Kyle Strait winning the dual slalom. He beat Brian Lopes in the final. I am really stoked for Kyle, I think it's sick because he was joking around and having fun the whole time while Lopes was super serious. Kyle is amazing to watch ride DS. Unfortunately I didn't get to see the final race because the evening light was good, so Gibby and I were out shooting for the photo contest.

OK I'm out, gotta go shred!

Matt

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