Pretty crazy how well his line was build though. Yes he went OTB on a bad case, but from the looks of that video footage, if didn't case that second jump he just might have had the speed.
yeeeeeeeh love how Brendog is just like "yeah was too slow" at the end, if it was a BRANDON instead, they probably would have thrown a massive wobbly lmao
Ripped the Ulnar Collateral Ligament of his thumb right off the bone probably, which is what I did when I came up monstrously short on a big jump once.
Just a guess of course.
Same here. Last winter skate skiing of all things. Didn't bother getting it fixed, too expensive and I'll probably do it again. Skiers thumb, game keepers thumb and goal keepers thumb are what it usually goes by. Mtbers thumb? Lol.
Brendan said you can't do the numbers, but why not? Measurements, speed guns....looks like there is a need for a consultant for these things. Seems like every jump can be calculated with a fair bit of accuracy. Who knows, by next year there will probably be an app for these things. Although I suppose you don't know if the speed is right until you are fully committed.........
@leopaul: No, but if you calculated the speed needed to safely land on the other side given distance, height, mass, you could then program that into a smart phone app which could give you an alert, a very loud beep for example, when the minimum safe speed was reached before a designated point-of-no-return. I am in no way an app engineer or code writer, but it seems like all of that could be done with current smart phone technology.
@mosierman: OK you can be the one calculating the designated point-of-no-return. If you get that wrong you get even worse crashes with people falling straight into canyons.
@mosierman: Technically, you don't need to know the mass of an object; just the height difference (if there is one), distance, speed at takeoff, and takeoff angle
All i'd say is try following a dirt jumper into a kicky lip when you predominantly ride DH. There is a boost that comes from no where that gives them an extra 5 feet somehow. I try following guys into lines at 4X races but it's no use cos the speed they hit a jump at is usually slower than me to achieve the same distance.
@mosierman: so you're riding up to the lip in your rampage run and you don't hear the beep and then you start thinking about the beep and then you pedal once and still no beep and then you begin to panic and then 1 foot before you hit the kicker it beeps and startles you. You seriously think it's feasible to be riding rampage stuff and thinking about all that and listening for beeps?
The real reason it wouldn't work is cause of the rider. The self correcting in the air, and more importantly the little push in our legs as you hit a jump. You can absorb the lip, pull back like hell, just float it, and thousands of in between. Theres a hundred different speeds you could hit a jump and still make the gap, just from how you take the lip. And that cannot be measured. Just watch the difference between a BMX racer and a BMX Dirt Jumper hitting the same jump...it's completely different styles and speed.
Keep up the amazing DH work next season.
Mad Respect.
Made me laugh, story of my life