Video: 'I Want to Make Mountain Biking Look as Cool as it Feels' - Matt Hunter's 'This is Home'
For many people, mountain biking is a migratory sport. Once you get a taste for the trails, moving closer to ride every day is a no brainer for those who choose the lifestyle. For Matt Hunter, migration was never necessary. He grew up in Kamloops, where the surrounding landscape was an ever-present inspiration for his own riding.
A child of the BC outdoors, Matt’s idea of a good day is any day he gets to ride his bikes. It’s never been about being the best, but rather standing shoulder to shoulder with his peers, never apart and never above. Matt has always just wanted the sport to look as good as it feels when he stomps his butter-smooth lines and gargantuan airs.
In his hometown of Kamloops, Matt never needed to journey far to escape the distractions of everyday life. Now with kids of his own, however, those precious moments are all the more enriched by the people around him. Chill rides with the fam or power trains on The Farm, This is Home.
Photography by Stering Lorence @eyeroam
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Matt you're one of the kindest, most genuine and humble folks in mountain biking, a true role model for life. Thanks for everything you've done for mountain biking and thanks to Anthill, Sterl, Miles and others for being there to capture nearly two decades of inspirational shredding!
Soundtrack on this one was on point. Sort of contemplative and folksy/rootsy vibes as he's reflecting and showing off family and his own past. Then opening chords to "Waiting Room" when he gets back together to do some shredding with the boys.
This dude became one of my favorite riders after watching the collective movies.
Anybody got a Spotify link?
FWIW, I thought the song fit perfectly, but I felt a bit dirty for thinking so. I do wonder if they managed to get it officially cleared, and if they did, how?
What a stand up athlete/family man/free-rider.
Met Matt at IB one year, and he was genuinely humble and friendly. Keep on Living the Dream
**checks home prices in Kamloops**
Housing in Texas may be cheap, but there aren't really any mountain biking options or destinations to consider their. Texas is a great place to be if you want a big nice house on a lot of land and don't care what the topography looks like which is usually very flat and often desolate. So in many respects, it is cheap because its and unattractive place to live. The parts of Texas that are, generally, more desirable to live in also happen to be more expensive, go figure. Any place if interest to live tends to be expensive because there is bourgening demand to live their and there is limited housing inventory to sell. It's an aweful and unfortunate catch 22.