A Response to the X-games Pipe height measurement complaint READ THIS

Triple_Strum

Triple_Strum

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A) you guys are exaggerating worse than ESPN

B) you can't see or measure correctly

Okay, let's clear this up. The line above the number is the height, not the below the number. So, in the referenced picture, there are numerous factors that you guys decided to get all worked up about that weren't true. Let's look at them

1) The guy is standing slightly above the 2 foot mark, probably around 2'3".

2) He is wearing ski boots which add approximately 3 inches to his height.

3) Because of his hat thickness and the little pom pom on the top he is measuring his hand approximately 3-4 inches above where his actual head is.

4) His hand is still about an inch below the 9 foot mark.

Doing a little math, that is 7 feet on the marker minus 2 inchs above the 2 foot mark, 3 inches for ski boots, 4 inches for hand height above head, and 1 inch below the 9 foot mark; hence the guy is really only 6'1" or 6'2". The camera people are measured correctly, it is initial offset error.

Next let's look at the spacing between the foot marks. HELLO, the lines are a couple of inches thick! The true measurement is the center of each line to the center of the next, not edge to edge.

Next, let's deal with the orientation of the measuring tower. If someone is jumping in the pipe ABOVE (like, top to bottom of the pipe) the tower, then the height of the skier appears slightly higher than actual. If the skier is below the tower in the pipe, the skier's height appears LESS than actual, since the tower is straight up and down and not at the exact angle of the pitch of the slope the pipe is on.

In the first picture with Hatveit, he is ACTUALLY at about 13-14 feet. Because, he is right in line with the tower even though the picture is a littler skewed and it is hard to tell, he is looks to be around 15-16 feet. And since we know the offset error is about 2 feet, we subtract that from the appearance height.

IN Conclusion, people like Dumont and a couple of the other big hits still got about 20 feet out , so simmer down and look at the facts rather than making stupid assumptions.

Yes, the offset error is about 2 feet, other than that, get over it.
 
OWNED

(on a side note, the 3 inch boost you get from ski boots is probably offset by the fact that you're usually standing with knees and legs bent forward)
 
Next let's look at the spacing between the foot marks. HELLO, the lines are a couple of inches thick! The true measurement is the center of each line to the center of the next, not edge to edge.

this doesn't matter at all when measuring the guy's height. we already knew that the bands were thicker. measuring from top to bottom, with big lines or not, still gives the guy's height
 
I agree. But someone in the previous thread was amusing enough to state that the lines were each less than a foot trying to misrepresent how high the athletes were. I felt the need to correct that
 
well he as proved some of us wrong, but still pal u must ave a sad life to measure the extra hight on a ski boot. n all dat shit, dude get a job!!
 
I apologize for being intelligent. Wait, no I don't. I haven't taken out a measuring tape to find out how tall a boot sole is, but I can look at it and use common sense.

As for a job, I get up at 5:30 every morning and go to work. I usually get home around 5:00. Then I do more work. Don't lecture someone about a job when you cannot spell and need to abbreviate even the most basic words in the English language.

p.s. - being analytical and not taking things at face value is a good thing. Don't try to make our society more ignorant than it already is.
 
:) I love that someone can't have a life if he takes 5 minutes to create a thread. Glorious.

As for Amanda's comment: I wasn't commenting they did the measurements correctly, merely that people on this site don't need to flip out and exaggerate everything to say "oh no! freestyle skiing is getting screwed"
 
in all reality....

the numbers dont matter as much as realizing that he launched out of the pipe so huge in the first place.
 
As for a job, I get up at 5:30 every morning and go to work. I usually get home around 5:00. Then I do more work. Don't lecture someone about a job when you cannot spell and need to abbreviate even the most basic words in the English language.

man i get up at 6 AND don't get home till artound 8:30. then i ski so don't go lectureing us about all that im hard done to bullshit. And as for not being able to spell i was in a rush. so i apologize for haveing a life.
 
no hard feelings, I enjoy a little challenging banter once in a while :) and holy crap dude, why do you work a zillion hours a day?
 
Are you joking...You think this kid works 6-8:30 and then skis and can't spell? HAHAHAHAHA...What does he do for work? 14 and 1/2 hours...HAHAHA
 
obviously he is exaggerating. Let it go.

p.s. CO Flats, do you guys still make vids: short bus productions or whatever you were?
 
TS, it's Bubble Down Productions...I had lots of injuries last season and I've been kinda out of the mix this winter with double knee surgery, but look for a new film next season...I think ShortBUS Prods is still out there as well...
 
I said this in the other thread and have some pics:

few things, not that i like espn, but you dont know if that pic is the peak of his air and if you discount the hat, skis, and boots, he is probably about 6'4" or so. Also, he is uphill of the measurement. the pipe is downhill but those pillars are set on a horizontal. If you look closely, you can see that the snow level is higher on the measuring stick near him. Also, I believe the numbers refer to the line above them. It wouldn't make sense the other way around. So his height with gear on ranges from about 2.25 feet to 8.75 feet. If you take half a foot off for skis, hat, and boots you get 6ft. So, that measurement isnt unresonable. However you are correct, the pillar is buried two feet deep in snow. At most there is prolly 6-12 inches of extra snow there to anchor the pillar thing in, so it is skewed by about 1-1.5 feet I think. You can see that extra snow in the first pic in front of the navy banners.

So, your cameramen and people around are not 9 feet tall. The camerman in front of the chair is actually almost exactly 8 feet in that pic, and if he is over 6 feet tall, we are looking at a skewing of 1.5ish feet. The people are slightly less by the measurement if you look closely. Also, take into account the slope of the pipe for those people uphill of the pillar which causes huge skew factors.

Lastly, when measuring height, you need to be looking on a level. We are measuring in that pic downhill of the skiier and pillar. We are looking up at them, skewing it. If he is downhill of the pillar, then air is downsized and vice versa for uphill. We don't know where to measure from, but assuming we do measure from this pic, we get about 19 feet (taking one off for burying variable). And we dont know where in the trajectory of the jump he is. So he couldve been higher or not. PLus other skiiers too couldve gone higher. (SIMON)

There could be a mistake in there, but it seems logical to me.

These show slope and all that I said. You can see snow buildup too.

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Well I'm glad at least someone found it irritating enough to make a thread about this... Or it would have been much easier just to call all the guys/kids retards and just go out and ski. Either way, congrats my friend for getting the truth out.
 
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