KIAMA BIKE LEGEND STILL SETTING RECORDS

Kiama motorbike legend Robbie Maddison, is currently performing with the Freestyle Kings as they tour Australia and appeared in Perth on Saturday 8 July and July at RAC Arena.

They will be touring New Zealand in November appearing 18 November at Eden Park in Auckland and 25 November at Sky Stadium in Wellington.

The Freestyle Kings have appeared at the Kiama Show as recently as 2020.

Robbie holds many height and distance world records for bike jumps, and last year scored another world record with a motorbike converted for surfing, one of his own inventions.

numerous injuries and told media recently “I have been dead five times” and his injuries are used for case studies for the Hand and Wrist Institute.

him to tour with the Crusty Demons.

Holly Wishart and Lucy Darragh have taken out the NSW Ocean & Earth High School Senior Girls State Surfing 2023 title.

The comp was held at Corrimal beach on 20 July with 45 teams for 25 schools competing.

Both Holly and Lucy are Kiama High School students, members of the Junior High Performance team, and both are members of the Werri Boardriders’.

Holly is sponsored by Mambo and Lucy by Ripcurl with a lot of support from Daz Longbottom from Zink surf shop in Kiama.

Kiama High ended with a score of 12.75 with Narrabeen on 8.80 and Cronulla High on 3.95 which means Kiama in first scored 3 times as many points as the school that came in third.

Lucy’s dad Larn Darragh told The Bugle

’The sea is a family passion they all share, nippers, swimmers, boardriders’ everything’ Larn said he liked that surfing is a non-contact non-violent sport where focus and calmness can decide an event, the life skill of looking at a big wave approaching and being calm in tackling the problem of a big wave is a skill for life.

Holly is in Year 12 at Kiama High and Lucy is in Year 8. They have competed in both micro grommet and grommet competitions for many years. Micro grommet is from 5 - 11 years. Congratulations to all team members Evie, Coco, Dayan, Evann, and Holly and Lucy in the senior girls team.

by Mark Whalan

The team perform death defying stunts on motorbikes in arenas involving a lot of air, twists, flips, and turns, with some big impacts on landing.

Robbie’s 12-year-old son Kruz has now joined the act.

On 29 March 2023, Robbie set a new world record for longest ramp to ramp motorbike jump in Calder Park in Melbourne with a jump of 107 metres. This broke his own world record by nine metres , which he set on New Year’s Eve in Las Vegas in 2007.

Robbie has suffered

His injury list includes a broken neck, broken collarbone, twice broken leg, fractured vertebrae, brain hemorrhage and a ruptured scrotum.

Robbie lived in Kiama Downs as a teenager and attended Kiama High School.

His early career was competing on motocross bikes at the X Games in Melbourne where he won gold for performing 13 consecutive back flips in 2004, which led

Robbie has also done bike stunt work for film, notably the amazing motor bike sequence over the roofs of Istanbul for the James Bond movie Skyfall.

He also has performed stunts with bikes modified for snow and sea travel.

In 2021 he rode a water bike from Asia to Europe crossing the Bosphorus Strait starting in Istanbul. The ride took only 60 seconds, and the return trip 90 seconds, as part of an ad for Samsung in Europe.

by Mark Whalan

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