this is where it all gets done
you good
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hey guys welcome to my house the world
knows it is pastranaland
just outside of annapolis maryland it's
been
a lot of fun we have a lot of ramsmen
evolution we'll show you
all the innovation that's gone into
building pastranaland and making it what
it is today
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when i was 15 years old we always used
to ride the woods back here and found
that this property was for sale
was able to sign my pro contract win the
x games bought this piece of land
built the shop when i was 17 18
built the house 19 we got the foam fit
in there
we have a constant evolution everything
keeps getting bigger
crazier and more fun
welcome to the viper pit
this is a figure eight pit bike
something
nope my knees i couldn't swap out the
feet
too big for this thing
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it's pretty cool one guy gets in another
person gets in another person gets in
actually tara geiger there's a couple
girls that have done this
when one person comes across the next
person is coming and you're just just
zoned in and
the g-forces get pretty high third gear
pinned on a 110
whoo baby it's some good times oh we got
three in
oh not gonna work stop stop stop stop
there we go go keep going
the most we've had in is eight people we
got four now and you can see it's
already getting a little sketchy out
there
oh
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i mean that looked like that looked
entertaining i was entertained out here
watching that was a good time
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so originally this was the bmx dirt jump
area but it rains
all the time in maryland so called my
buddy nate wessel i said hey
i'm gonna go to x games again this year
i said if i win anything
we're gonna put whatever that winning is
into
a skate park i ended up winning two gold
medals that year
all the bonuses everything in i would
have loved to put some of this in the
savings
but as it turns out i got one of the
baddest skate parks
on the east coast
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my wife is a two-time world champion as
well as i think three-time x-games gold
medalist
should probably know that but yes anyway
she skates real well
when i first met her she was the only
girl actually doing uh the mega ramp
that's
actually how i met her for gigana so
this is pretty cool we built her a big
old roll in
so she could work on her quarter pipe
air is right there been a lot of fun
so we started with the slip and slide
down the hill and then we built this
slip and die
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which was an over under cross this has
all been kind of repurposed after we got
a little bit older we realized that
that was really painful this is a lot
more functional for the stuff that we're
doing now
i'd say the not the item what's the word
i'm looking for
feature thank you the feature that gets
used the most
on our property has to be the pump track
it's awesome because my girls started on
the little
stasics and striders when they were two
years old they get a feel of how to pump
how to maneuver and it's so good for
training for myself a good place when
you're trying to get back in shape or
you're trying to get back from an injury
before you hit the skate park and
all the big ramps
so this is where it all gets done
everything basically that you see
is done right here because around the
maryland we have a lot of trees so this
is our one
open area where we have enough room to
kind of work
we got a little mini bag jump for the
kids to start working on their first gap
jump and first ramp jump
which is always kind of fun
we take a lot of motivation from the
bicycle guys from the mountain bike guys
i've been rally racing with brandon's
seminar
probably the greatest free ride mountain
biker of all time
he came out with a red bull video and he
did a couple things on that video that i
know we can do on dirt bikes and he
talked me into building this
and then i broke my wrist so thanks
brandon
a lot of help you are but i think it's
going to work you are right
it's got to be a little bit better next
time
we got some great people always out here
helping us
with uh with everything no one's no
one's afraid to work around here if they
are they don't come back so uh
it's a pretty cool little group that's
what makes it go
we got craig duffy over here front flip
hero part of the maryland wrecking crew
and the only rider that was willing to
hit some of these big ramps and the only
rider that's ever been able to do a
double front flip on a dirt bike
should be good we test this uh this new
ramp basically we got a little bit of an
incline to see if you can pop them up a
little bit higher so
we'll see how far that throws you good
luck see what happens yep
trial and error
so
there we go ah it's perfect
these things are the most scariest
design ever but they do make
the impossible possible and when we're
working on nitro circus like that's kind
of what the goal is
we'll see how he hits this jump first
time short
i framed the top first out he did way
better than me it's a pretty small jump
to be messing up that bad but
i'm glad to see he messed it up too
makes me feel better
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oh here we go
so we're gonna save this for another
time you guys maybe uh
check back later and you'll see what
we're gonna be doing off it but uh we at
least know the uh the jump on work so
so when james foster and jed milton came
and said hey we wanna do
a quadruple backflip on a bmx bike we
took the biggest hill that we had
and we put some plywood on it and that
wasn't enough so then we built
a 25 foot tall platform and that wasn't
enough so it went up
another eight feet and then that still
wasn't enough so we had to actually dig
the bottom which you don't see right now
we actually
dug down um another about 10 feet into
the ground so they had more
of a down and that way we didn't have to
build quite as tall of a landing for
them
this one is now 24 foot tall and that's
the one that jed milton ended up coming
over to the states to use
to do a quadruple flip right there
that same week triple backflip joshian
uh only one to ever do it on a dirt bike
was right there
those guys both did it to a wooden
landing which is extremely impressive
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my property line stops here uh but it's
awesome because there's about six of us
all different property owners
the motocross track is on the property
two over
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the hair scrambles track and the can-am
track uh is on the property right next
to us
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we try to keep most of the the super
sketchy stuff on this land and then
uh the the fun shenanigans the pit bike
tracks and that kind of stuff is all
kind of on everyone else's property so
it's amazing that we are
fortunate enough to have this much land
um this close to
to everything else
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knock the wind out of you can i get some
help on the airbag
we're gonna we got enough people right
now it's dry until tonight like
i think we're gonna be able to get that
thing quick
appreciate you guys thank you really
what makes pastrana land work
is not only that it's here and we have
access to everything it's
my friends it's my dad and my uncles and
the construction and
just the the blue-collar hard-working
people that surround us i am so
fortunate
and you know the fact that my dad from
time to time
needs work and charged me double to come
here and build some really rad stuff
um you got to time your crossing
thanks for coming along with me taking a
tour of pastrana land uh we have a lot
of fun here a lot of passionate people
make this place tick
and uh if you come out at any point it's
probably going to be completely
different because every single day we
change something we innovate we progress
and that's what it's all about
you