We’ve already seen the video of Robbie Maddison’s and Levi LaVallee’s jumps at this year’s 2011 Red Bull: New Year. No Limits that took place at San Diego’s Embarcadero, with LaVallee breaking the record, while Maddison came up short, but check out this video from LaVallee’s on-board GoPro camera that Red Bull released which gives a entirely new perspective on the daring feat that the two did.

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Happy New Year to all our readers! To start 2012 with a bang we have Robbie Maddison’s and Levi LaVallee’s “2011 Red Bull: New Year. No Limits” video to show you.

It was a tandem jump that took place last night at a foggy San Diego Embarcadero Marina Park. ‘Maddo’ was trying to break the 391-foot record, but the Aussie came up short jumping at 378 feet, 9 inches, while LaVallee broke his own snowmobile world record at 412 feet, his previous record was 361 feet.

“I was just excited to make it to the other side in one piece. I’m exploding with energy right now,” LaVallee said. “When I saw the 410 marker go by, I knew it was going to be an amazing jump.”

“I would have liked to have gone further, but I am just happy to have landed safely on the other side,” said Maddison. “There was a lot of pressure and to be able to live to do this again feels great. I’m at a point where I need to make changes to my bike and I’m going to have to find a gnarlier gap to jump over.”

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This New Year’s eve Robbie Maddison and Levi LaVallee will attempt a simultaneous world record-breaking jump over 300 feet of water at San Diego’s Embarcadero Marina Park for another Red Bull: New Year. No Limits event.

Maddison will be trying to set a new world record for distance jumped on a motorcycle, by beating the existing record of 391 feet, while LaVallee is a seven-time Winter X Games medalist in snowmobiling, and he’ll be attempting to break his own record of 361 feet and set a new world record for distance jumped on a snowmobile.

“Jumping long distances is a passion of mine, and I’m excited to come back for New Year’s Eve and sail over San Diego Harbor,” said Maddo. “Four-hundred feet is my goal. It’s not all about getting the world record to me, it’s more about understanding this feat and the commitment ahead to achieving what most would consider an impossible jump.”

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The video footage isn’t that great, but the feat is awesome as Robbie Maddison’s stunts always are. The Australian has gotten another first, by doing the world’s first indoor drop-in on a motorcycle, during the Crusty Demon’s Thirst 4 Destruction Tour finale at Acer Arena that took place Saturday evening in Sydney.

Riding his Yamaha YZ250F off a platform suspended over 70 feet (21 metres) above the floor of Acer Arena successfully landed his bike on a specially built landing ramp, after his practice session went wrong and the daredevil missed the tilted section and landed heavily.

If you think that this type of jump looks easy, compared to what he usually does, check out what the 29-year old Maddo, who has broken 30 odd bones, ruptured his scrotum, broken his neck and almost died from viral meningitis and encephalitis when he was young, said about the jump.

“It’s tough to ride off the edge and make the bike go into a front dive. You want to keep the wheels under you, and not go face-forwards, but if you land in the right spot, the best technique is to be pointing towards the ground and it’s smoother. But your gut instinct takes you off and you’re trying to lift the wheels up and that’s what I did on the first jump and it was really dangerous. It’s a tough jump, getting the angles right is the key and once I get them right I just need to ride off the edge really slowly… There (are) calculations to work this out but I haven’t been bothered to figure it out, I just kind of roll the dice and go with it. I’m just a dare devil.”

Source | dailytelegraph.com

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The second round of the Red Bull X-Fighters World Tour takes place today in Giza, at the foot of the Great Sphinx. 12 riders will take part, with six qualifying from the Tour. After injuries to Dany Torres and Mat Rebeaud, only four of them will take part: Nate Adams (USA and current champion), Robbie Maddison (AUS), Eigo Sato (JPN) and Levi Sherwood (NZL). Eight other riders will take part and we’ll have more pics after today. In the meantime enjoy these images and the video from the ‘warm-up’ with an impressive jump in the sunset from Robbie Maddison.

Red Bull X-Fighters World Tour pyramids

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Robbie Maddison did another of his spectacular and breathtaking jumps and this time the Australian FMX star jumped over the Corinth Canal in Greece.

Maddison cleared the 85 mt canal that separates the Peloponnesian peninsula from the Greek mainland using special ramps and had to reach a speed 125 km/h with his Honda CR 500 to order to clear the jump.

Robbie Maddison said: “Overcoming fear, that’s always the hardest part. Jumping across the Corinth Canal became a challenge I just could not resist. This Jump involved the highest consequences I have faced so far. I believe that sometimes you have to take risks in life to become wiser and facing a challenge like this will help get me ready for the next aim I will face in the future. I am thrilled about managing to pull it off, as you know there is only one opportunity to get it right!”

Another video after our jump.

Continue reading: Robbie Maddison jumps over the Corinth Canal (w/video)

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Four riders had almost equal chances to win the 2009 Red Bull X Fighters World Tour Championship at London’s Battersea Power Station, Nate Adams, Mat Rebeaud, Robbie Maddison and Eigo Sato, but at the end of the event Saturday evening, it was Nate Adams who finally took the prestigous crown.

A heavy fall stopped Rebeaud in the quarter final, resulting in bruises, stitches and a flat tire. Eigo Sato was also forced out in the quater finals, after a fall he picked during Friday’s qualification, while Adams went on to defeat Robbie Maddison in the semi finals and then 17 year old Levi “Rubber Kid” Sherwood in the final.

This year’s Red Bull X-Fighters World Tour also saw the first ever double backflip in FMX history by Cameron Sinclair.

Results after the jump.

Continue reading: Nate Adams wins X Fighters 2009 Championship

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Take a look at Chris ‘Swampy’ Birch during a staid English tea party. The freestyle motocrosser, a regular rider for the Red Bull X Fighters did a little stunting promo at Stowe House, ahead of tonight’s season finale that will crown the king of the Red Bull X-Fighters 2009 World Tour Championship at London’s legendary Battersea Power Station.

Twelve of the best freestylers of the world will be participating, with four that will be contesting the title, Nate Adams current points leader, followed by Mat Rebeaud, last year’s winner, Eigo Sato and Robbie “Maddo” Maddison.

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Spanish rider Dany Torres grabbed the victory at Red Bull X-Fighters World Tour 2009 last Friday night in Madrid in the Plaza de Toros de Las Ventas bullfighting arena. Nate Adams took second, while Robbie Maddison was third.

Maddison just four days before the Madrid event, was the first motorcycle rider to ever jump the Tower Bridge in London.

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Robbie “Maddo” Maddison does it again. This time the 27 year old Australian daredevil performed a no-handed backflip over an open Tower Bridge in London, becoming the first rider in history to jump the bridge on a motorbike.

The Wizard of Oz as he’s also known, had an approach speed of approximately 40mph, taking off from the north side of the bridge, performed the no-handed backflip, and held his landing in front of the south tower.

Robbie Maddison:

“The whole experience was awesome. Since the jumps in Las Vegas I have been set on doing something special here in London so the Red Bull team and I have been secretly scoping out Tower Bridge for months. We had a matter of minutes on the bridge and had to time everything to the second, there were so many factors to get right, but we pulled it off. People say I’m crazy, but I just want to push the boundaries of my sport and my body to the limit and I love taking on these huge challenges. It was an incredible feeling to fly between the two towers and over the Thames.”

Source | channel4

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At the second event of the Red Bull X-Fighters World Tour 2009 in Calgary, Canada, FMX Superstar Robbie “Maddo” Maddison who is known for his world record feats was able to stay in front of Japan’s Eigo Sato and Mat Rebeaud and take his first X Fighters win in front of a sell out crowd of 21,000 spectators at the Stampede Park.

Robbie Maddison:

“I can’t believe it. It’s a dream come true. The hard work paid off. The whole day was totally insane. I had a feeling from the start that I had a chance to win today, and after winning the quarter-final against Nate Adams I knew I could go all the way.”

This is for sure the biggest win of my career because it was on an international playfield.I’ve won events before but not of this magnitude. This has always been a goal of mine and it ranks up there with my world records.

The event was sick. The place was sold out, we had the best riders in the world, every rider was on point, and I can honestly say this was the best event I have ever been a part of.”

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Robbie “Maddo” Maddison the Aussie daredevil did it again. In the Red Bull New Year No Limits Event Robbie Maddison said hello to 2009 by climbing on his Yamaha motocross bike, launching up a ramp and flying vertically almost straight up 37 metres in the air and landing on top of a mock replica of France’s iconic monument, the Arc de Triomphe that is outside the Paris Casino on the Las Vegas strip.

Upon completing the jump and getting his bike slowed down in the space allotted, he then dropped off the Arc and free falled on another ramp.

Our congragulations and all our admiration goes to Robbie Maddison.

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