Robbie Maddison might just be the toughest sportsman we've ever spawned in this country.
I want to beat every other guy, fair and square
“I’m not normal, I broke the rational thinking threshold when I jumped 120 feet on my KX-60 at eight years old," said Maddison. It hurts to even think what might’ve happened to a small child’s body had that particular jump come unstuck, but chances are, it probably didn’t even cross Robbie Maddison’s mind.
He is, after all, the setter of multiple world record jumps, including the big daddy of them all, a 246 feet launch on a Honda CR250CC, done while doing a massive heart attack maneouvre just to please the crowd. He’s also broken his neck, had three seizures, punctured both lungs, broken his collarbone four times and snapped his wrist four times in his quest to be the best FMX rider on the planet.
Maddison claims to have rode a “no hander onto the delivery table at age two seconds” in Kiama, two hours south of Sydney in July 1981. Maddison started riding motocross at age five. “Tricks came naturally to me, I just liked doing them," he said. Despite consistent results, the lack of dollars in the sport meant he had to learn a trade just to get by. But those days are over. “My career is my best achievement, from electrician to an internationally recognized FMX freak in two years, that’s what I’m proudest of,” said Maddison. “I want to beat every other guy, fair and square. I want to jump a dirt bike further than anyone else and I want to race super moto, and win.”
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