Highest air on a quarterpipe-Ronnie Renner
sets world record
SANTA MONICA, CA, USA --Freestyle motocross
star Ronnie
Renner jumped 59 feet, 2 inches on a quarterpipe on
the Santa Monica Pier. setting the world record for the Highest
air on a quarterpipe.
Photo: Ronnie
Renner hit the height on his sixth jump in
front of an estimated 20,000 people. (enlarge
photo)
"I'm totally blown away that I went 59 feet,"
said Renner,
who was shooting for at least 50 feet. "I can't believe the
fan turnout. Everything was absolutely perfect. The fifth
and sixth ones, I was giving it everything I had."
Ronnie
Renner went just over 54 feet on his third jump, then
was just under 53 feet on his fourth attempt.After going just
more than 53 feet on his fifth jump, he decided to do a last
jump for the crowd.
"All or nothing," he said. "I knew what I needed
to do on the last one, all for the crowd. Way past my goal
of 50 feet. I'm just pumped on this. Never jump when they
say, 'One more time.' But I'm glad I did it — five feet higher
and I rode away to talk about it."
Renner rode up an 18-foot quarterpipe and made
a sweeping, 180-degree arc that brought him down onto a landing
ramp measuring 25 feet high and 64 feet wide.
The custom quarterpipe and landing ramp used by
Ronnie
Renner were designed and built specifically for Renner’s
Red
Bull Experiment. The ramp was modeled on the traditional
dirt-based quarterpipe design, and built to specifications
calculated from a dirt test site.
Fabricated from galvanised steel and plywood,
the next generation modular system allows maximum versatility
of transport and set-up.
Designed and built by Jack Murphy Productions
from a Dane Herron Industries concept, the quarterpipe landing
ramp measures 64 feet wide and 25 feet tall. The ramp is the
first of its kind and took approximately 24 hours to set up
on the pier.
It was the third jump in the Red
Bull Experiment series, following record-setting performances
of fellow motocross rider Robbie Maddison and BMX star Kevin
Robinson.
Ronnie
Renner is a respected freestyle motocross veteran,
whose credentials include a gold medal in Step-Up at the 2007
Summer X Games and until recently, the Step-Up world record
(35 feet high). Step-Up is similar to a high jump, with riders
attempting to jump their motorcycles over bars at ever-increasing
heights.
Maddison
jumped the length of a football field on New Year's Eve,
clearing 322 feet, 7 1/2 inches at the Rio All-Suite Hotel
& Casino in Las Vegas.
On June 12, Robinson
soared 27 feet above the lip of a huge quarterpipe in New
York's Central Park to set the BMX
big air world record. Weblog
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