You gotta remember, the experiment, although "kind of similar" to a traditional aerials jump, was actually much smaller and mellower than the jumps that those guys use for throwing triples.
The big side of the "experiment" was probably somewhere in between a traditional aerials single and double, and still not as steep.
The jumps those guys use for triples are insane, they point straight up, and the guys go 50 feet high on them. The g-force when they hit them is so intense that the only way to do it is to lock your body out completely straight so that you don't buckle from the force (kind of like circus people getting shot out of a cannon).
As Jon undoubtedly realized, if he had actually built an aerials triple kicker to spec., nobody would have hit it, or they would have gotten severely worked trying.