{"id":18486,"date":"2012-01-03T03:39:36","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T08:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=18486"},"modified":"2012-01-04T04:10:29","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T09:10:29","slug":"vw-area-man-breaks-indoor-jump-record-in-fort-wayne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2012\/01\/03\/vw-area-man-breaks-indoor-jump-record-in-fort-wayne\/","title":{"rendered":"VW area man breaks indoor jump record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Van Wert independent\/<\/strong><em>contributor content<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18487\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18487\" style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-18487\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/?attachment_id=18487\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18487  \" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Henry-Rife-makes-record-jump-1-2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"228\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18487\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Henry &quot;The Pitbull&quot; Rife jumps over 10 cars during the 14th annual Rumble in Fort Wayne. (Jan Dunlap\/Van Wert independent)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>FORT WAYNE, Ind. \u2013 Stuntman and Van Wert resident Henry \u201cThe Pitbull\u201d Rife, returning to the scene of one of his worst crashes, successfully jumped 10 cars on an all-terrain vehicle Saturday night at the Rumble in Fort Wayne auto races to set a world indoor record.<\/p>\n<p>Rife, 43, broke the record on his first attempt by clearing nine cars. With the crowd egging him on, he returned six minutes later and easily jumped 10 cars on his modified Honda TRX 450R quad, landing smoothly and stopping several feet shy of the concrete barriers lining the racetrack at the Memorial Coliseum Expo Center.<\/p>\n<p>The stunt was performed in conjunction with the 14th annual Rumble in Fort Wayne midget races. Three-time NASCAR champion Tony Stewart was bidding for his record-extending ninth victory later Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Rife crashed on landing last year at the Rumble, tumbling head over heels and suffering a fractured collarbone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t want to repeat what I did last year,\u201d Rife said, \u201cbecause I don\u2019t like to break dance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rife, who patterns himself after the late Evel Knievel, appeared on \u201cLate Show with David Letterman\u201d in 2007, jumping six taxicabs on 53rd Street in New York City. He performs 20-25 shows a year.<\/p>\n<p>The 1986 graduate of Van Wert High School has been doing daredevil stunts since \u00a0he was 6 years old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent\/contributor content FORT WAYNE, Ind. \u2013 Stuntman and Van Wert resident Henry \u201cThe Pitbull\u201d Rife, returning to the scene of one of his worst crashes, successfully jumped 10 cars on an all-terrain vehicle Saturday night at the Rumble in Fort Wayne auto races to set a world indoor record. Rife, 43, broke the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-03 14:31:31","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}