Matthew Pritchard
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Mathew Pryderi Pritchard (born March 30, 1973 in Cardiff, Wales), is a professional skateboarder and one quarter of the Dirty Sanchez crew, who have their own television programme on MTV.
When he was young, he allegedly enjoyed jumping out of his house window into several trees for fun. From here, he discovered he wanted to become a stuntman, an idea which didn't go well with his mother.Mathew Pritchard 1.83 cm 85 kg
He began skateboarding at the age of 15.
He is often seen as the founder of Dirty Sanchez, along with Lee Dainton, with whom he filmed the skating bootleg "Pritchard vs Dainton", where the two were in competition against each other at skating, as well as hitting and playing pranks on each other, the basis of the Dirty Sanchez programme.
Skateboarding still occupies a large part of his life.
Pritchard is known in the Sanchez team as "Mr. Fifty-Fifty" as he is very much a risktaker. A chance he could get hurt, or a chance that he wouldn't and 50% chance is good enough for him! Pritchard has various tattoos as well. His most recent including one just above his buttocks saying "Coach Parties Welcome", another reading "Я Люблю Джонни Ноксвилл" ("I Love Johnny Knoxville" in Russian) on his right leg after being tricked into believing he was having "Sleep When You're Dead" instead, and "I ♥ Dainton" on his penis. He is also known for the infamous "Water Jungle" situation, which involves himself and Lee Dainton playing a game of Moisty's Mallet, the word association game with Dan Joyce as the mediator. Pritchard confuses himself trying to say "Rainforest" and instead says "Water Jungle". After the laughter has stopped, he get punished via a bamboo cane smacked across his head.
Aside from his role in Dirty Sanchez, Mathew Pritchard is also one of the most famous skateboarders in Britain. He spent some time on the Blueprint skateboard team in the late 1990s before transferring to his current team, Death Skateboards. He had a small skateboarding role in Death Skateboards recent video release, Squadrophenia. He has his own line of skateboarding shoes and products under the Globe Shoes company, called the "Sleep When You're Dead or SWYD range.
In addition to his sponsorship from Death, Pritchard is also endorsed by several other companies, namely Globe Shoes, Stimulus, Fury, Ricta, Von Zipper, and Eastpak.
