{"id":528751,"date":"2010-04-15T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T15:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/04\/15\/video-pushing-the-limits-with-robbie-maddison-311-feet-above-t\/"},"modified":"2010-04-15T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T15:59:00","slug":"video-pushing-the-limits-with-robbie-maddison-311-feet-above-the-corinth-canal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/528751","title":{"rendered":"Video: Pushing the limits with Robbie Maddison, 311 feet above the Corinth Canal"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Look closely for the flying Aussie – Click above to view the Corinth Canal jump video after the jump<\/a>
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\nDetermination<\/span> is been defined as to do or achieve something with a firmness of purpose. We can’t think of a more fitting description of Australian daredevil<\/strike> freestyle motocrosser Robbie Maddison’s high flying motorcycle stunts over the last few years.<\/p>\n

This determination was fully exemplified last Thursday in Greece, as Maddo and his custom-built Honda CR 500 two-stroke<\/a> (no, they are not dead yet) became the first man and motorcycle pair to cross the Corinth Canal… that is, in flight. Covering the gap required navigating a run that, to put it mildly, was less than Ideal. Maddison threaded his way by a pool, across a soccer field and past a chicken coop while traveling on surfaces ranging from concrete and wood to grass and eventually carpet on his way to just under 80 miles per hour before taking flight.<\/p>\n

However, soaring 279 feet through the air was not Maddison’s longest leap. If you remember New Years Eve 2007, during the Red Bull “New Years, No Limits” series, Robbie flew 322 feet<\/a> to set the Guinness Wold Record for distance jumped on a motorcycle. That being said, the Corinth Canal jump was more of a technical achievement that placed Maddison 311 feet in the air mid-flight.<\/p>\n

Athletes like Maddison keep pushing the limits ever further with companies like Red Bull<\/a> footing the bill to go bigger and badder year after year. We can’t help but wonder if those limits will be found, or if progression of equipment and stunts can go on at their current frenetic rate. Click past the break<\/a> to watch the video and to hear what Maddison had to say about this latest stunt. Thanks for the tip Brandon!<\/em><\/p>\n

[Source: ESPN<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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Filed under: Motorsports, Videos, Motorcycle Look closely for the flying Aussie – Click above to view the Corinth Canal jump video after the jump Determination is been defined as to do or achieve something with a firmness of purpose. We can’t think of a more fitting description of Australian daredevil freestyle motocrosser Robbie Maddison’s high […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5799,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5799"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}