Matthew Pritchard

Matthew Pritchard
Pritchard at a show at National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland, Feb. 2008
Born	Mathew Pryderi Pritchard (1973-03-30) 30 March 1973 (age 44) Cardiff, Wales
Occupation	Actor

Mathew Pryderi Pritchard (aka Pentridge Pothole, born 30 March 1973) 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.

Pritchard is known as the founder of Dirty Sanchez, along with Lee Dainton, with whom he filmed the skating bootleg tape "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. Dainton and Pritchard went on to appear on MTV's "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 MTV website.[1] Pritchard was also seen on channel four's Balls of Steel with friend and fellow skateboarder Michael "Pancho" Lock. In 2006 Pritchard, Dainton, Locke, and Dan Joyce traveled around the globe doing stunts and pranks that related to the seven deadly sins for Dirty Sanchez: The Movie.

Pritchard is extremely arachnophobic, which the rest of the team usually take advantage of by playing pranks on him involving spiders. Pritchard has been a lifelong Cardiff City Football Club supporter and regularly attends home games. Late Stereophonics drummer Stuart Cable was a close friend of Pritchard.

Pritchard was born in Cardiff. He worked for Globe Shoes for six years and later designed his own signature shoe, A Sleep When You're Dead model named after his motto.[2] Pritchard began skateboarding at the age of 15. His first sponsor was City Surf skate shop, a skateboard shop established in 1986 that still trades to this day in Cardiff city centre and Pritchard is still on the team! 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.