Matthew Pritchard

Matthew Pritchard
Matthew Pritchard at a show at National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland, Feb. 2008.

Mathew Pryderi Pritchard (born 30 March 1973, in Cardiff), is a Welsh professional skateboarder, daredevil and one quarter of the Dirty Sanchez crew, who have their own television programme on MTV and also appears on Balls of Steel with Pancho as the Pain Men.

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Dirty Sanchez

Pritchard 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. He and Lee Dainton went on to appear on MTV programme "Wrecked", which follows the same format as the "Prichard vs Dainton" bootleg, with more extreme pranks and stunts being played. Episodes of the show "Wrecked" featuring Pritchard can be viewed on the UK Mtv website.[1] Pritchard was also seen on channel four's Balls of steel with friend and fellow skateboarder Michael Locke (Pancho). So far him and his co-worker have been in three series. In 2006 Pritchard along with Lee Dainton, Michael Locke and Dan Joyce traveled around the globe doing stunts and pranks that related to the seven deadly sins in the Dirty sanchez film: Dirty sanchez the movie. Him and Lee Dainton traveled the world in the Pritchard vs Dainton series to find the ultimate legal high in the Pritchard vs dainton Sanchez get high series. Pritchard is extremely arachnophobic, which the rest of the team usually take advantage of by doing pranks on him involving spiders.

Skateboarding

Pritchard began skateboarding at the age of 15. Skateboarding still occupies a large part of his life. He spent some time on Panic Skateboards 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.[citation needed] In 1995 Pritchard's real skating talent flourished when he skated down a huge double stair case in Milton Keynes with all his teeth intact. Skaters have renamed this stair case the "Pritchard gap"

Other sport

Pritchard has been a life long Cardiff City FC supporter and regularly attends home games.

Other work

Pritchard worked for Globe Shoes for six years and he even designed his own signature shoe, A Sleep When You're Dead model named after his infamous motto to live by.[2] He has continued his work with a clothing line and multiple shoe designs which are available to order from a website set up via Globe for the SWYD line inspired by Pritchard and his three loves; beer, women, and gambling.[3] The late former Stereophonics drummer, Stuart Cable, was a close friend of Pritchard and described him as a person of extremes and excess and a heavy drinker.[1]

Charity

On July 2006 Dainton and Pritchard set a challenge to skate 192 miles from Cardiff to Newquay in aid of Cancer Research Wales. The boys stopped at skate parks and shops for fans and signatures. The boys had forfeits for swearing, drinking and smoking. He ran the Cardiff half-marathon in 2007, raising £2,000 for Cancer Research Wales. He also ran the Cardiff marathon in 2008 after only a few hours sleep from doing a Pritchard vs. Dainton gig in Plymouth the night before, and raised £500 for Cancer Research Wales.[citation needed] Half marathon also completed in 2009 in 1 hour 43 min raising £700 for Cancer Research Wales. He would have beat his personal best but vomited 20 meters from the finish line slowing him down. He ran 900 miles with his friend Matthew Ryan from John O'Groats to lands end in 30 days raising thousands for the elodie appeal.

Stabbing

On the 7th September 2009, Pritchard was attacked with a knife in a supermarket in Toftwood, Norfolk, suffering serious stab wounds to his neck and chest.[2][3]

An ambulance service spokesman confirmed a person in the area had been taken to the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, and was later released to recover at home. Pritchard confirmed this on his Twitter feed. Police later confirmed that a man in his 40s, had subsequently been arrested on suspicion of the stabbing. Pritchard had been stabbed in the neck when he intervened in a dispute in a shop, a court has heard. Mr Pritchard asked him to show some respect because there were women and children around.

"I just grabbed him by the waist and by the arms and pushed him out of the shop," Mr Pritchard told jurors.

"He slashed down my neck. It all happened so quick."

The preliminary hearing took place in early December 2009 where the accused pleaded not guilty to the stabbing or having a knife and he stated that he acted in self defence. The case is due to be heard at court in February 2010.

18 February 2010. The jury were discharged due to a legal issue with a juror. The judge decided the accused would not get a fair trial with only 11 jurors instead of 12. A decision would have been reached on Friday 19 February had the jury not been discharged. The jury heard that Pritchard described himself as more or less a stuntman and the judge had described the thought of his stunts as "giving him a headache".

On August 13, 2010 Mark Edward Smith was found guilty of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and on August 27 was sentenced to five years custody with time already held in remand to count towards the sentence. He is to serve no less than 1 year and 11 months from the date of sentencing when he will then be eligible for parole.

References

Liverpool Wired [http://www.liverpoolwired.co.uk/news.php/81718-Man-guilty-of-stabbing-Dirty-Sanchez-star-in-Norwich) 13th Aug 2010

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