FreestyleXtreme Magazine Issue 5 | Page 118

2007 – Robbie Maddison jumped into the Guinness Book of World Records on New Year’s Eve ‘07-’08, by jumping 322 feet 7,5 inches over an American football field in Las Vegas. 2008 - At 8:30 PM PST, Rhys Millen performed a Backflip in a truck. He launched 80 feet long and went 50 feet high, and landed hard on all four wheels before the truck then rolled over. Shortly after the stroke of midnight in the Eastern Time Zone, Robbie Maddison successfully landed his ten-story high jump on to the replica of the Arc de Triomphe at a Las Vegas casino, before dropping 60 feet back down to earth. 2009 – The New Year No Limits moved to Long Beach, CA, where Travis Pastrana jumped his Subaru Impreza STI rally car off the Pine 2007. 2010 - On Friday December 17, Red Bull officially announced that Levi LaVallee was injured during a practice run and would be unable to make his record-setting attempt this year. As a result there was no New Year No Limits event for 2010. 2011 - This year New Year No Limits featured LaVallee making a second attempt at crossing San Diego Bay, while Maddo attempted to do the same, side-by-side on his dirt bike. When they safely landed, both established new world records for distance jumping on a snowmobile and motorcycle, respectively. 2008. “I’m as excited as I think a person can be,” said LaVallee. “I just landed an over 400-foot jump. I’m not sure how the sled’s doing, but I’m OK, so it was good. It’s an amazing feeling. You have no idea how pumped I am.” “It’s a cool feeling to do what I do and have the backing I do,” said Maddison. “I was confident we were going to go a long way tonight and we’re going to come back and go even further.” 2009. Although it’s sad to see the back of this awesome series, it’s good that they went out on a high. Massive respect to everyone who was involved in the epic Red Bull New Year No Limits! 2010. © CHRISTIAN PONDELLA / RED BULL CONTENT POOL Avenue Pier, clearing an insane 269 feet and landing on a floating barge at around 9 PM Pacific Time. © CHRISTIAN PONDELLA / RED BULL CONTENT POOL N EW YEAR APPROACHES AS I write this and over the last few years we’ve noticed something missing from our New Year entertainment line-up: The Red Bull New Year No Limits. After three years and no word of another record attempt in the pipeline, it seems safe to say the series must have come to an end. From 2007 to 2011 on New Year’s Eve, various Red Bull athletes stepped up on huge purposebuilt jumps in an attempt to break existing world records, seeing in the New Year in serious style. We thought we’d give a quick shoutout to each and every one of these mind-blowing jumps! © CARLO CRUZ / RED BULL CONTENT POOL Ringing in the new year with Red Bull’s No Limits series Looking back at the five epic world records attempted at the Red Bull New Year No Limits events. © GARTH MILAN / RED BULL CONTENT POOL #throwback: 118 | FreestyleXtreme.com © GARTH MILAN / RED BULL CONTENT POOL 2011.