An Inspiring Way to Begin 2012 — Levi Lavalle and Robbie Maddison Set Motorized Jump Records in Red Bull’s No Limits Event during 2011’s Last Hours

© 2012 Peter Free

 

01 January 2012

 

 

Courage and extraordinary goal-setting — how better to start a new year?

 

ESPN broadcast last night’s Red Bull’s New Year, No Limits daredevil event.  Minnesotan Levi Lavalle and Australian Robbie Maddison jumped a snowmobile and a motorcycle, virtually side by side, across the 300 foot Embarcadero Marina Park water gap in San Diego.  (The video is here.)

 

Lavalle’s total flight was 412 feet 6 inches.  Maddison’s was 378 feet 9 inches.  (The Washington Post’s article is here.)

 

The crossings were “heart-in-throat” spectacular.  The courage and goal setting that went into both were inspirational.

 

Equally impressive was these men’s humble insistence that they could not have accomplished what they had without their sponsors and their teams.