Video: 4 of Loic Bruni's Most Dramatic World Cup Crashes

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 @goldsie: GOLDEN pun right there! Well done.

 @Trudeez: So true!

 @gossman: the batteries are dead in your joke detector..

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 He would have made a good Paratrooper. He's got the PLF down naturally.

 That's youth and muscle. Get your upper body strength y all

 Crash more... Eventually you figure it out.

 @jomacba: Or die.

 @Mondbiker: well you know what they say, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger

 @jomacba: seriously unrated comment!

 @jomacba: underrated* damn autocorrect!

 His physical strength helps him survive such crashes with minor consequences. I think this is the most important reason a pro rider should be fit as fuck.

 @DuckyHoodman: Well that, and likely if he (or she) wasn't fit as f*ck they probably wouldn't be pro... at least at the highest level anyways. I have to say my general fitness has saved my ass many times, but as I said, crash more, you eventually get used to it. One of the first fundamental elements to learning martial arts is to correctly break fall. The same can be said for mountain biking. I can't tell you how many times I've used the exact same techniques.

 A squirrel calculates his landing and starts making body position changes in about 300 milliseconds. Loic is smarter than a squirrel.

 @JohanG: Never assume anything.

 Sorry you're hurt and out, but holy crap your description gave me a hilarious mental picture of someone in a old-school superman flypose as they eat sh!t.

 @JohanG:
I see somebody watched the squirrel ninja warrior video on YouTube.

 @jomacba: Years of skiing and mountain bike crashes have hard wired me to tuck and roll. Practice does make perfect. Still effing hurts tho.

 @jomacba: Crash responsibly kids

 I’ve had so many crashes where you go.....holy f*ck how am I not hurt! Then others that seem minor in comparison that take you down the road of physical therapy and surgeries.

 I did martial arts as a kid and we spent days working on forward rolls. Since I practiced thousands of times, now when I crash, I roll out of it (most of the time). That skill has definitely saved me from more injuries than any of the actual fighting techniques I learned.

He probably did tumbling or gymnastics and learned the same thing at a young age so now it's instinct.

 @mtb-sf:
Also, if you consistently wear armor, you can calculate your roll to impact or slide on that body region. My Evoc backpack absorbs most of my crashes, because I typically roll from elbow/shoulder to back. My elbows are haggard, but I haven’t convinced myself to pad them for the sake of vanity.

 1 part muscle acting as padding, 1 part yoga allowing for the flexibility to not break things. Then the rest is years of experience I'd guess. Like how you see the slopestyle boys bail out of a corked 3 tailwhip, and pretty much slide/run it out every time.

 @spankthewan: That shit was so entertaining

 @EricHarger: Couldn't agree more. I raced XC for a while when I was in uni. The best takeaway from that (other than that Ontario trails aren't technical) was how to minimize damage in a crash.

 42, and thanks for all the fish.

 and hang in the air exactly the same way bricks don't!

 If MTBers were like soccer players:
1. Rolling over 10 times after crash
2. Clutching a body part that wasn’t hurt
3. Anguished look on face (“May never walk/ride again!”)
4. Getting up and gesticulating angrily at the root
5. Arguing with trail side official with whistle

 6. Getting yellow card for “theatre”

 www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjsH2qPtseM

 The comparison to football is erroneous. The rule set and referee use in football has created the situation where achieving a dead ball situation, or a card for the opposing team, is highly valuable (winning games at the highest level is economic in nature). Any opportunity to sway the split-second decision making is taken and maximised. The only way out of it is to start penalising play-acting or any attempts to influence the game.

In contrast, bailing in a mtb race, with nobody else involved, serves only to diminish that riders chances. The total opposite.

 @mi-bike: Gesticulating angrily at the root :'D
Think that was a 90's XC thing...

 @tobiusmaximum: you’re doing analogies wrong.

The dead-bike situation is highly advantageous to the opposing team, the trees, and their most ardent supporters, the roots.

 Take note:

Football players play between 40 - 60 90+ minute games per season, cover 10-12k in games, faster players making regular sprints of 85% on grass of Olympic sprinters.

They train 5+ times per week, often at higher intensity than actual matches.

They may also play 10 - 12 international matches.

They do lots of unseen community work and have contributed massive sums of cash to the current crisis. Some like Juan Mata (ManU and ex Spanish international) contribute a percentage of there wages each month)

Catastrophic lower limb injuries are not uncommon, often similar to those seen in two wheeled sports. From an age ago but google David Boost (Coventry) injury. Unfortunately head injuries are common and there is growing evidence of early onset dementia with ex football players. Shoulder injuries, arm and facial also regular and due to pressure to play they are often at 35/36 left with the knees of OAPs. Tragically players loose there lives mostly through undetected heart conditions that in normal life cause no issues but can be deadly for football players at all levels.

Nobody likes the play acting you are alluding to but unfortunately it is cultural is some countries - I don't like people straight lining tracks to get a decent strava time and dont get me started on roadies and doping.

There is lots wrong with football but at it's most basic level it's a fantastic, simple, inclusive game. And just cos it's it's not an 'extreme sport' don't ever under estimate the mental or physical toughness of the players.

 @jemscott: It's a joke........lighten up Frances.

 @rideonjon: Frances??

Just cant be doing with the extreme sport bro macho attitude, to many people think it makes you cool or tough by association, then they always want to dis every other sport and especially football. There usually about 15 though not 44!

 @jemscott: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN-aXzpQUdw

 @rideonjon: Haha, nice reply! I think lockdown is making me grumpy, although I have ridden my bike loads as we have been allowed to do that in the UK

 @jemscott: To be fair, football players have incentive to argue that they were hurt. If they can penalize another player, it can help their team. DH is the opposite. Pretending to be okay will let you get a race run in, vs. being told to stop by paramedics. Obviously both are impressive athletes that are tougher than 95% of the general population in a rough crash, just footballers pretend to be more injured and DH less injured

 @IsaacWislon82: I've never heard roots complain either. If anyone has a #machobro attitude here, it's them. Way tougher than DH riders or soccer players.

 @jemscott: spoken like a true Englishman.

 Adrenaline, my friend. My worst crash, I got up, picked my bike up, and took off my helmet. Didn't feel any pain, just a little fuzzy vagueness. After I sat down for a minute I couldn't move my leftarm without insane pain. Left collarbone was in four pieces...

 but he "rolls" perfectly into the sweetspot

 He's clipped in and did ok?

 @50percentsure:
Everybody form a circle
You put your left foot in
You put your left foot out
And you shake it all about
You do the hokey pokey
And you turn yourself around
That's what its all about