It felt great when my wheels touch the ground because I don't think my body could have handled another hit. It wasn't easy, I knocked myself out a couple times but I finally accomplished what I've been trying to do for years. - Paul B |
The double back flip isn't the most technical trick, but it takes a lot of airtime and even more commitment. Once you leave the take off, there is no turning back and no way to bail out. Paul has guts and it's great to see that he's pushing the limits. - Travis Pastrana |
There are a lot of kids on mountain bikes doing the same crazy tricks that BMX guys are doing. Let's bring that into the big mountain scene and showcase what a mountain bike can actually do. - Paul B |
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Still massive props (especially after some of those "landings")
Then NOTHING we ride is natural. Sorry.
Even newly carved XC trails are still man-cleared and prepped for riding.
In fact, IMBA and everyone else DISCOURAGES off-trail riding, which is the only true definition of "Natural"...
So just let this be cool for what it is!
Reductio ad absurdum - look it up (hint: It's not a Harry Potter spell)..
secondly.. ya.. pretty vague on that definition of "natural".. given his jump wasn't anything different than something you'd find in a bike park or dirt jump lot I'm wondering if he was maybe just trying to say that that was HIS first double backflip?
BS aside - he's got some balls to even jump that stuff. Flipping it twice makes it other-worldly. Restecp!
It depends on how your are parameterising "we". If it means the majority of riders - your point stands. However if it includes the very best riders, I've seen the big mountain guys ride an incredible amount of natural lines - basically just carving down the side of mountains!
Some DH trails are made naturally, by marking out a track and riding them in. Admittedly, some man made features, such as jumps/berms are usually added to trails "built" like this - but arguably 90% of the trail is natural.
Gee Atherton and Bearclaw demonstrated how some subtle building can be used to enhance natural terrain in the 2010 Red Bull Rampage. If I remember correctly there was some minor work* to a couple of take-offs and landings to make them rideable combined with a huge amount of natural line choice.
*obviously excluding the massive dirt quarter Gee used at the bottom of his run...
Btw, Props, Paul...
Still it was a very sick jump and X2 flip , but about as natural as M,Jackson..
Other than that - Its sick, yo!
"Reductio ad absurdum" is not Latin. It's jibberish that sounds like Latin. But you "took Latin for 4 years" so of course you knew that.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPettABWlrI
Big props for the dedication to get this double bagged but it's a total marketing BS to call it natural terrain and especially first!
2) I've yet to see a single person bash Paul for hitting this jump. In fact there are alot of people giving him props for not only sticking the trick, but trying again and again after taking repeated hard hits.
3)What people are disputing is whether or not "Paul Bass made history". And since the double backflip has long since never been a first, his claim rest solely upon whether or not his feat can be defined as "natural". Unfortunately as it is painfully obvious that this jump was in fact built. Which in and of itself demeans every other athlete who has performed a double backflip off of a scultped jump, by saying that his was the first.
In short.. His jump is no more natural or unnatural than any sculpted dirt jump, and He is not the first to perform a double back flip off a double dirt jump. Have him pull that off of a drop or over an unsculpted ridge and ya.. he's got it. Good for him. But the only thing here demeaning is the clearly false claim that has been made.
But here's what I have to say about this... That is NOT a natural hit. Sorry. But this claim is 100% B.S. That's like saying Shawn White's custom built half pipe is a natural terrain hit because it's in BFE and you have to fly out to get to it. Or all those booters people have been building off train forever are natural terrain. Or hell call a half pipe natural terrain, it's built out of wood.
And secondly... Pretty sure Greg Watts pulled a double on a more natural hit than this 3 years ago.
yeah for hype!
I don't see how that's natural.... the kicker was obviously built in that position etc. This is just a TEVA advert.
I'm still failing to understand how a double flip can be better than a triple- ok so it's on dirt rather than wood- but last time I checked Jed Mildon did a double flip and then flipped again afterwards- surely that means it's crazier? Bas is sick- don't get me wrong- but this is a load of hype over something we've all seen before, however impressive.
I'm not going to take anything away from Sam Reynold's double backflip or the whole lot of bmxer's who can tre'flip over wooded ramps and djs, but riding down a ridge trail w/ exposure and what not adds a different element to the game(not necessarily any easier or harder).
I bet Paul would have a hell of a time just doing a double back flip at a skate park and the bulk of your bmx riders would have trouble just riding a big bike on the line Paul double back flipped over....just too many variables to get into it and have a viable argument.
I refuse to buy Teva MTB shoes, anyway. They were never a company that helped develop MTB gear, nor do they have roots to MTB. They simply decided to jump into a market after evaluating profitablity varibles.
The TERRAIN is natural. That is what is being referred to here. It is a man made jump placed in natural terrain. The jump isnt part of a man made course, dirtpark, skatepark etc. Which is where all other doubles have been landed?
Haters gonna hate. Amazing trick and props to Paul bas.
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mad props for a double flip, period!