Video: 5 New Friday Fails Compilations

 dual crown fork doesn't make you immortal.

 @mfranzen: by compression you mean rebound??

 @inverted180: Probably both. A lot of them seemed like they dove hard when they hit brakes or leaned forward on the bike which made me think compression. Maybe I was misinterpreting it. There were definitely some rebound issues in there, looked like rabbits on landing.

 Suspension setup is key if you want to stay out of these videos.

 You do realise that 81% of these are people trying biggest jump of their life as well, course they f*cking crash still 19% there too lazy to learn the art of the bunny hop

 Yeah, there were a lot of shorts of pretty big jumps in this batch. I don't really consider those fails as many I would not have even tried to send. Also, even on jumps I've hit dozens of times, every once in a while I just get my weight wrong and do a fair imitation of a deal sailor. Heavy feet light hands works a treat, but things do go wrong. Even for world class riders.

 Not really, In most cases you want to compress into the belly of the jump, not into the lip. Yes you can compress into the lip but it is counter productive and it always catapults you. If you compress into the lip it will kick you up relatively leveled, when you don't do anything it will kick you forward. You want the bike to be light when leaving the lip. Also all of it is easier said than done because if jump is small and speed is high, the timing of compression into the belly/lip has to be perfect. That is why you can fly 8-10m on perfectly shaped jumps in Hafjell without doing almost anything, and you will eat shit on a 3m jump with steep and small kicker at half of the speed if you don't compress well into it. Higher the speed, the more trail it takes for your bunnyhop like movement to take place. That's what I see in most cases of folks riding fast at the small take off - bad timing. Then on big, steep BMX jumps landing becomes as hard as taking off since you need to dive head in, right away. So first you deal with monstrous take off and then you need to remember to look down and lean in. Or you send it to flat from 3-4m and you die. So it would all be cool if it was as easy as "compress into the lip". In fact many beginners fly through the front door because in the last moment they loosen up their arms to absorb the take off while their lower body remains super stiff.

 “Full send” - gorbs

 You good? Ya I'm...wait..ya...f*ck.

 Universally: biting off more than they could chew, rebound too fast in the back, wrong speed, dead sailor.

 i think it depends on the content. for people falling off their bikes, video is pretty much required. no one wants to read "guy falls off bike and hits his head on a tree". whereas for interviews, i think it's just as effective to read someone's answers as it is to watch someone talk. or a bike check - pictures with words will do, we can scroll through them at our own pace and admire everything.

 ahhahaahhah he used what he had, props

 Somehow he almost made it though.

 Haha ha ha ha ha ha

 but you filmed it, right??

 n1

 yeah she does

 @sshane: it must have, you used to be called @shane before the dental work