Josh Bender going big on a Ellsworth dare/888

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flag slopestyle123 (Oct 21, 2009 at 11:48)
oh is it bender?
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flag norco466 (Oct 21, 2009 at 14:08)
...aaaaaand breaks his back
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flag b-free (Nov 22, 2009 at 16:59)
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.
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flag slopestyle123 (Nov 22, 2009 at 17:35)
and how big is that drop?
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flag fantaman (Nov 22, 2009 at 17:38)
50ft
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flag jezzah (3 days ago)
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.
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flag b-free (2 days ago)
Umm....no.
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flag b-free (2 days ago)
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!
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flag jezzah (2 days ago)
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?
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flag b-free (2 days ago)
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...
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flag dh-pete (Oct 21, 2009 at 12:24)
Bender is gnar, not only were the drops and gaps he did huge, he never smoothed out the landing or made a proper transition. He just swept off the loose stuff and hit what was already formed.
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flag jascha100 (Nov 21, 2009 at 5:51)
the landing here looks pretty smoothed out, and so does the transition
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flag dh-pete (Nov 21, 2009 at 12:58)
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.
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flag mendoza (Oct 21, 2009 at 13:28)
que buen salto ..ahi deben haber mas de 15 mts seguro
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flag two6-4by (Oct 23, 2009 at 16:45)
I find i cool that hes back doing this...

New bke, not so much new style

who knows, he may go after his nemesis again.. the jah drop.
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flag mkirk05 (Oct 27, 2009 at 23:44)
he tends to chose drops with relatively flat landings...
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flag ridinkona (Oct 27, 2009 at 23:57)
who the hell cares if he chooses landings that are as flat as some girls chest it doesnt god damn matter its just like what berrecloth had to say about bender if it wasnt for him nobody would have no god damn balls or even realize it was possible to huck anything nearly as big as he has so for that i give him respect as many people should alot of people over look bender and they shouldn't
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flag Maddox6 (Nov 21, 2009 at 5:50)
man thats a cool drop
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flag TheLongMan (3 days ago)
If I was woman I'd marry him.....huge drop....props!
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Date: 2009-10-21
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