...aaaaaand breaks his back

Wait...forgot to add: Jumps off his bike 10' from landing a perfectly good(for Bender) drop because he was probably out of his most likely baked to a crisp mind...aaaaand breaks his back.

and how big is that drop?

50ft

B-free, shut up..

He was a complete muppet for doing the drop, having been shown the drop (by bender) the landing is smaller and flatter than even this photo shows. So wasnt the best idea.. But the guy is sound and has done more for the sport than 99% of the pro's.

Umm....no.

The problem with him is that he showed the world a new thing. The rest of the world grabbed it and ran, taking it instantly to new levels, Josh remained where he was, still crashing on stuff that he didn't need to crash on. He didn't evolve. The proof is in the majority of the replies to this picture: everyone thinks it was cool of him to just run out and chuck himself off cliffs with minimal preparation. That is not evolution. That's not even intelligent! There's still this meatheaded following that ignorantly assumes that's how it can or should be done. There's just no reasoning behind it!
I should also know by now that anyone who even thinks the stuff he tries is smart can't be reasoned with either, so I don't know why I bother, but I keep trying.
And for the record...YES, he smokes more weed than a ditch fire. And if you have to be that baked to do something...perhaps it shouldn't be done! That's my feelings and i'm fully intitled to them, so eat me if you don't like it!

Well i didnt say he was clever to do it? I said he was an idiot for doing that drop as i mean, well, look at the landing!

Yes he lacks a few brain cells, most of them.. but if he hadn't been jumping off that shit then, well how do you think the latest rampage would have been?

I'll have to agree with that, like I said before, he showed te world something new and inspiring.
I've just always wondered how he, and many others as well so not just picking on him, never seemed to discover that the steeper the landing is, the less likely he is to get hurt? Like dropping in to a big halfpipe, slide right in!

But then there's the other, uglier side of the Bender Saga.... we don't get to see EVERY jump/drop he's ever done...we usually only get to see his crashes. But I've ridden with him/around him at a few annual demos, and failed to be impressed even a tiny bit(kind of ridiculous, really), but I have buds who've ridden with him and claim he's fantastic. Who knows...

the landing here looks pretty smoothed out, and so does the transition

The landing looks like he's just 'swept off the loose stuff'. Maybe a few bumps have been removed. But ultimately he hasn't got a digger in to make a perfectly curved transition to make his landings effortless. He's hucking balls of a cliff to a landing that isn't all that smooth.