UTV Underground Releases XP1K4 Teaser
We will be just over two weeks into the new
year when 2017 will get flipped on its head when RJ Anderson and
the Mad Media crew release the fourth installment of the highly
popular XP1K series, XP1K4.
Three years ago the UTV industry went nuts
when a video was released showing prodigy championship off road
racer, RJ Anderson, treating a Polaris
RZR XP like it was a toy as he whipped, drifted, jumped and
slung the UTV around insane obstacles and sailed it over incredible
jumps like it was on the ultimate Hot Wheels track. With the
internet filled with plenty of Ken Block Gymkhana and motorcycle
stunting videos, it wasn't until XP1k came out that we had been
exposed to a professionally produced video that combined great
cinematography and the exceptional skills of extremely talented
driver into a UTV stunt video.
A collaboration between UTV Underground and Mad Media, the video
was used to help promote the new high performance Polaris
RZR XP 1000. Set in an abandoned Iron Mine just outside of Palm
Springs, between the driving skills of RJ, unique camera angles,
and wild stunts, the video was like watching the imagination of an
8-year old kid with a 1:18 scale model RZR and a homemade obstacle
course unfold in real life. To this date that video has been
watched more than 2.5-million times. Go ahead and add to the view
count by clicking below.
https://youtu.be/rEbfteUIkYU
The following year the team took to the forest for a setting that
would be a little more familiar to the average off road
enthusiasts. Off course they had to improve upon the stunts and
tricks that amazed us in XP1K, so they built some natural terrain
style obstacles that gave the impression of what it would be like
to take a RZR on a downhill ladder trail mountain bike course.
Right from the start the video set the bar high as the RZR was
flown in and set atop a steep wooden downhill ramp via helicopter.
That initial drop down the mountain side and the ensuing jump sent
RJ soaring through the air over a record-setting 100 foot gap. Even
after overshooting the landing RJ still managed to handle the touch
down as though it was nothing more than a minor bump in the course.
This video introduced us to some pretty awesome visuals, a RZR
doing skateboard style tricks with a 50-50 grind on some downed
logs over a stream and wall riding a rocky mountain side. The best
stunt in the video however is when RJ whirled the RZR around the
wall of death. Defying gravity, the 1,400-lb plus RZR clung to the
wall like a fly as the overhead shot shows the wooden planks
flexing outward and ready burst into an explosion of wooden
shrapnel with each revolution of the UTV. By far a favorite of the
internet, XP1K2 has been view nearly 4 million times.
https://youtu.be/jxTvMaJBT3c
Last year we were taken to the Rustbelt where we witnessed some of
the desolation and decay around Youngstown, Ohio's, once bustling
steel industry as RJ ripped through abandoned steel mills,
factories and rail yards. Where XP1K2 was all about wood and
natural, lush scenery, XP1K3 was all about steel and deterioration.
We are treated to RJ running in, out, and through crumbling
factories and over scrapped rail cars. Highlights include skimming
across overgrown railroad tracks, jumping over train cars and dump
trucks, and clearing a two-story launch through the corner of a
blown-out building. Not quite as popular as the previous two, XP1K3
has only garnered 1.6 million YouTube views-still absolutely
nothing to sneeze at.
https://youtu.be/7Kdk7PFlQXg
A week into December UTV Underground treated us with an early
Christmas gift by dropping an XP1K4 teaser video, UT
Underground Presents: RJ Anderson's XP1K4 - Inside The Mind's
Eye. In this short video we get to hear from RJ as he explains
what's going to through his mind as he plans and attempts the
stunts in these videos. Of the few clips shown in this video we see
RJ and professional freestyle MX rider Jackson "Jacko" Strong
toying with each other on the course--could this mean the video may
be a play on the old hoops game H.O.R.S.E.? However, instead of a
basket and ball the game is played with a RZR and dirt bike? The
last clip in the video shows RJ flying off a ramp as the RZR begins
to rotate into a backwards flip. That clip alone is enough to get
one drooling for the full video which is due out 1/17/17. See for
yourself here.
https://youtu.be/dL33memBdCY
