Robbie Maddison is a self-described “nutter.”
The Aussie daredevil is no stranger to wild stunts, but recently he outdid himself. On August 2, DC Shoes shared a video on YouTube titled “Pipe Dream,” which shows “Maddo” riding on water with his motorbike, surfing waves on his motorbike and performing other God-like activities to slam home the fact that he is not a human.
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the video, it took nearly two years of training for the epic stunt to become a reality. Using a highly-modified dirt bike with skis attached on the waters of the Pacific Ocean in French Polynesia, Maddo rides the waves like he is riding on air.
He has backflipped the Tower Bridge in London, flown across the Corinth Canal in Greece and scaled the Arc de Triomphe replica at the Paris Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, but this stunt is the most hardcore he has performed.
Maddo himself puts it perfectly, telling Surfer Mag, “At the end of the day, the images and footage say something pretty awesome, but the ferocity and how gnarly that thing was can’t really be put into words.”