This year's X Games (yes, that is still a thing) just ended, so I figured it would be appropriate to name BMX legend Mat Hoffman the Hoffmann of the Month for August.
When the X Games debuted in 1995, Mat had already been a bike bigwig for almost a decade. He broke onto the scene at 15(!) and just kept catching bigger and bigger air. There's a whole bunch of killer pictures and videos of his cool tricks on his website. There's way more aggro there than anybody would know what to do with (psst...somebody tell me what aggro means).
Some of my favorite Mat Hoffman tidbits:
--He was in one of the most ridiculous movies of all time, Triple X.
--Once, when a trick went bad, he tore his spleen! That's probably the most painful thing I can conceive of.
--According to his official bio, "only Hoffman knows what the future holds." So if you want to know who September's Hoffmann of the Month will be...you'd better ask Mat.
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