How not to land a drop-in

“I was like ‘this is going to hurt’,” Robbie Maddison told Australia’s Daily Telegraph. “I saw the end of the ramp, I could see I was going too fast so I leant right back to brace for it… I thought ‘this is going to smash me’, but I rode out of it, so I got lucky. It was a pretty brutal impact.” The drop-in apparently remains one of the most difficult jumps for the 29-year-old Australian stunt rider, he had a similar near-miss when he jumped off the 96-foot tall Arc de Triomphe replica in Las Vegas two years ago.

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