Matt Hunter

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    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.

Late Season filming

November 4, 2009

Filming a segment for a mountain bike film isn't easy. Ideally, a location is selected... then a few weeks are spent preparing the lines, then the film crew shows up and the sun shines and the wind stops blowing and the stars align and BANG! Segment in the bag.

Unfortunately sometimes it doesn't happen that way. This season while filming for Anthill films I have had some tough times. I had a couple crashes that resulted in hospital trips, and while I have been able to recover from them... it ends the shoot until I am healed, and then we have to get the stars to align AGAIN. Not easy.

Anyhow I don't want to dwell on the negative and the challenges but just to make it clear that filming is a tough thing to do well.

I blogged recently about a crash on a wallride that ended a film session. There is a story at this link http://www.nsmb.com/3358-dedication It talks about the way that trip went before I got hurt. I think it is an interesting perspective because Phil, who wrote the story, has never been on a film trip before. Enjoy.

Get out there and shred!

Matty

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