This profile recounts what would end up being a most epic adventure. From whiteouts to near death experiences, straightlining through head-sized boulders straight through to the precarious edge of modern big mountain riding. Here’s our journey to the heart of one of mountain biking’s most exciting riders.
Matt Macduff brought 2 young guns to his training facility in Nova Scotia to show them what Mountain Biking is all about.
In this episode, Bailey Peckford and Fran Vigs get to visit Matt’s Sanctuary Of Fun for the first time. After being intruduced to their training program, the 15-year-old kids realise they have no idea what kind of journey they had signed up for. Do they have what it takes to survive? Only one way to find out: they’re gonna have to SENT IT!
“My first mini edit is finished! A lot of fun digging in some fresh loamy sections, filming all the action and editing it together… Stoked with the outcome, enjoy!!!”
He’s been lighting up the internet for roughly a decade — and has been a superstar in the mountain bike slopestyle world for about half of that time. And the long list of contest results, sponsors, video edits and media profiles has done a really good job of hiding the fact that slopestyle veteran Anthony Messere isn’t even old enough yet to buy a beer in the United States.
Casual observers first became acquainted with Anthony at his Red Bull Joyride debut at Crankworx Whistler, back in 2011. The 15-year-old’s breathtaking aerial amplitude seemed to many stunned fans to be more reminiscent of snowboarding than mountain biking. After Joyride, Messere was no longer the well-guarded secret of slopestyle insiders.