{"id":8141,"date":"2013-04-04T07:02:15","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T13:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/?p=8141"},"modified":"2013-04-01T14:19:58","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T20:19:58","slug":"mat-condor-hoffman-toughest-guy-in-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/mat-condor-hoffman-toughest-guy-in-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"Mat “Condor” Hoffman – Toughest Guy in Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"

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ESPN claims Mat Hoffman as the toughest guy in sports. After reading this intriguing article about the history of this legend… I would have to agree.<\/p>\n

\n“I was flipping and tumbling through the sky, holding on as tight as I could. I felt like someone had put me in the dryer and turned it on high. At 8,000 feet I threw my bike and stopped spinning. My chute opened at around 6,000 feet and I started looking for my target. Flying above the desert, the ground below looks like Mars; nothing but cracked earth. I saw what I thought was our van and started flying toward it. I went about three miles before I realized I was headed toward an abandoned house. I dropped into the backyard and noticed a kid sitting by a fire, roasting marshmallows. In the desert. In 100\u00b0 heat. He saw me, pulled his stick out of the fire, reached it toward me and said, “Would you like a marshmallow?”\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hoffman shares even better stories about his childhood growing up and how his parents never limited or stopped him and his brother Travis from accomplishing danger. I was very entertained by this write up from Alyssa Roenigk from ESPN The Magazine.<\/p>\n

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ESPN claims Mat Hoffman as the toughest guy in sports. After reading this intriguing article about the history of this legend… I would have to agree. “I was flipping and tumbling through the sky, holding on as tight as I … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[140,618,24,2511,60,26,2282,267,3,95,37],"tags":[2601,1873,2997,377,48,1969],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2oCe7-27j","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8141"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8144,"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8141\/revisions\/8144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}