Career
Ot Pi (aka "Hot Pie") Isern made his United States. debut at the age of 17 at the Mammoth Mountain World Mountain Bike Championships in August 1988 where he easily clinched the Trials competition. His fluid style and signature 360-degree dismount from atop boulders, logs and planks, drew crowds and amazed all onlookers. As Zapata Espinoza wrote in his racing re-cap:
Several months later, Ot returned to the United States of America as a guest of Trials rider, Kevin Norton.
The two were videotaped at Corona del March, California on moonscape cliffs above the crushing waves of the Pacific Ocean and appeared in a video released in 1988 called "Ultimate Mountain Biking: Advanced Techniques & Winning Strategies.".