Canadian Rider Returns To Where His Professional Career Started
Every person who is interested in freeride has built jumps in the woods. Usually, this is a learning process. The first jumps people build are often bad, and building skills get honed over time.
Mark Matthews, however, just might have been born a skilled builder. Watch him revisit his old jump line in a recent video below.
In this video, Mark Matthews takes a trip to his childhood home in Victoria, British Columbia. After a visit to the popular Jordie Lunn bike park in honor of the late freeride legend, Matthews shows his viewers the first place he ever dug in.
While most of our first jumps look like a pile of logs and have enough kick to hospitalize even the most experienced jumper, Matthews's first trails are amazing. Thanks to a revitalization by Lunn before he passed and maintenance from local young riders, the decade-old trails still run perfectly.
And huge at that. Mark said in the video that many people are too sketched out to hit the step down to turn. Still, it is no problem for Matthews’ trail bike!
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Though Matthews lives a couple hours up the road in Cumberland, he does not ride at his old haunts much.
Community jump spots like these bring riders together in the best way. Even though riders grow up and move on, their creations remain to provide camaraderie for the next generation of young riders.
The memories at the local jump spot last a lifetime.
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