★Rights sold in Germany.
★And so I managed to overcome all material obstacles, winning for myself a space where nothing was unattainable except for infinity. That space was the woods. I grew up in the woods. I was a child of the woods.
★You jump alone and you’re just dreaming, you jump together and it’s life coming true.

A wild, gawky child who prefers the company of animals to that of his peers. A special bond with his grandfather - his teacher and accomplice - and a profound relationship with the woods, the only place where he finds freedom and harmony. A «wild life» from childhood and adolescence onwards, in constant search of a frontier to cross, a rule to break. This is Vanni and this is his great dream: to jump the obstacle, to fill the unbearable void we all have inside us. His is a life of headlong leaps and tragic falls, yet one in which he has always picked himself up again, inspired by a courage and an energy that reach beyond all limits. And this is his eventful and moving story. Vanni Oddera, world free-style champion, is not only the hero of daring feats in the saddle of his bike, but a sincere person who is not ashamed of his own faults and excesses and is capable of devoting himself to others with enormous generosity: it’s the «drug of love for the world», the joy of bringing the gift of the «wind in your hair» to someone who’s never experienced a similar euphoria. The lonely, difficult child won his personal battle, clearing away all the barriers and wiping out fear. And he’s never stopped flying since.

Vanni Oddera was born in 1980 in Pontinvrea, a town between Genoa and Savona. He didn’t do well at school, preferring to run off and play in the woods, where he met his first friend, the wild boar, Scheggia. He dreamt of owning a motorbike and bought one with his first pay packet, thereby changing his whole life. In only a short space of time, he became a champion of Freestyle Motocross and from 2009 onwards, he started to share his great passion by means of mototherapy,
exhibitions of acrobatic prowess on a motorbike, where disabled children, those with physical disabilities or oncological diseases and wheelchair users can experience the thrill of sharing the saddle with a champion. A project that aims to bring emotions and adrenalin to those who seem destined never to experience them. This book tells his story.