Gucci or knuckle

Gucci. Always. If it's a small jump, overshooting means you can probably suck it up no problem. If it's big, knuckling can mean bouncing down the landing (see Jossi's broken neck awhile back). Better to land deep and wipe out.
 
13614273:BenFrost said:
That was beyond an overshoot.
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No that was the very definition of an overshoot. Overshoot doesn't mean "go big" it means clear the fucking landing and die.
 
You can die from both but gucci is not launching past the landing. Gucci is a little past thug zone.

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Mountain made a new jump for this past weekend that was the biggest one they have ever had in the park when ive been skiing there.

Real nice poppy step up. probably close to 40 ft to knuckle, but the thing absolutely BOOSTS you. I guinea pigged it and just mobbed in. Sent it probably close to 90 ft. Almost completely flat landing from being what I can only assume was like 35+ ft in the air over the sweet spot. I have never, ever been that high in the air in my life it was fucking crazy. I landed perfectly, but my whole body hurt and I think my nuts dropped so hard that they are still chillin on the strip of snow after the landing. If only someone got a video...
 
13614288:parkplayground said:
Mountain made a new jump for this past weekend that was the biggest one they have ever had in the park when ive been skiing there.

Real nice poppy step up. probably close to 40 ft to knuckle, but the thing absolutely BOOSTS you. I guinea pigged it and just mobbed in. Sent it probably close to 90 ft. Almost completely flat landing from being what I can only assume was like 35+ ft in the air over the sweet spot. I have never, ever been that high in the air in my life it was fucking crazy. I landed perfectly, but my whole body hurt and I think my nuts dropped so hard that they are still chillin on the strip of snow after the landing. If only someone got a video...
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hit reply before I finished.

But my point is that it did not hurt in a direct sense like tacoing a rail. Knucklling this jump would probably give me broken knees however so I always vote for overshoots
 
I've knuckled the pro line at stevens (I think they are calling the pro line jumps 40 feet). It's not pleasant but you're not going to die, you might lose a toe nail.

People have died from overshooting. Overshooting means you land on the flat. For some reason there are people that think it means you landed 10 or 20 feet down the ramp, but the large jumps are meant to be sent that far. The downramp of well made large jumps are generally huuuge like 100 feet + huge, and landing halfway down one isn't an overshoot, it's just the sweet spot.

The problem is that when you are used to hitting jumps that are under 20 feet sending a smaller jump like that 20 feet down means you potentially land on the flat. So people get used to landing only a couple feet past the knuckle because that's what you have to do on smaller jumps.

Realizing this was actually a huge turning point for me last year getting comfortable on large jumps. Once I was okay with landing deep 20+ feet past the knuckle it made large jumps feel so much better because I didn't have to stand at the top worrying about how to get my speed exactly right to the point of just barely clearing the blue line. Now I just send it, because I know the landing zone is huge and I no longer freak out when I see the knuckle fly by. It also helps that the park crew at Stevens is rad and the jumps are laid out in a way with a long enough landing zone that it would be extremely difficult to overshoot the large jumps.
 
13614380:Cyanicenine said:
I've knuckled the pro line at stevens (I think they are calling the pro line jumps 40 feet). It's not pleasant but you're not going to die, you might lose a toe nail.

People have died from overshooting. Overshooting means you land on the flat. For some reason there are people that think it means you landed 10 or 20 feet down the ramp, but the large jumps are meant to be sent that far. The downramp of well made large jumps are generally huuuge like 100 feet + huge, and landing halfway down one isn't an overshoot, it's just the sweet spot.

The problem is that when you are used to hitting jumps that are under 20 feet sending a smaller jump like that 20 feet down means you potentially land on the flat. So people get used to landing only a couple feet past the knuckle because that's what you have to do on smaller jumps.

Realizing this was actually a huge turning point for me last year getting comfortable on large jumps. Once I was okay with landing deep 20+ feet past the knuckle it made large jumps feel so much better because I didn't have to stand at the top worrying about how to get my speed exactly right to the point of just barely clearing the blue line. Now I just send it, because I know the landing zone is huge and I no longer freak out when I see the knuckle fly by. It also helps that the park crew at Stevens is rad and the jumps are laid out in a way with a long enough landing zone that it would be extremely difficult to overshoot the large jumps.
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so truu
 
this is probably the easiest question in the world. sure you might fully fracture two femurs and bruise your heels if its a big jump, but at least you feel like a G (or double g if u know what im sayin) takin it to gucci.
 
13614380:Cyanicenine said:
I've knuckled the pro line at stevens (I think they are calling the pro line jumps 40 feet). It's not pleasant but you're not going to die, you might lose a toe nail.

People have died from overshooting. Overshooting means you land on the flat. For some reason there are people that think it means you landed 10 or 20 feet down the ramp, but the large jumps are meant to be sent that far. The downramp of well made large jumps are generally huuuge like 100 feet + huge, and landing halfway down one isn't an overshoot, it's just the sweet spot.

The problem is that when you are used to hitting jumps that are under 20 feet sending a smaller jump like that 20 feet down means you potentially land on the flat. So people get used to landing only a couple feet past the knuckle because that's what you have to do on smaller jumps.

Realizing this was actually a huge turning point for me last year getting comfortable on large jumps. Once I was okay with landing deep 20+ feet past the knuckle it made large jumps feel so much better because I didn't have to stand at the top worrying about how to get my speed exactly right to the point of just barely clearing the blue line. Now I just send it, because I know the landing zone is huge and I no longer freak out when I see the knuckle fly by. It also helps that the park crew at Stevens is rad and the jumps are laid out in a way with a long enough landing zone that it would be extremely difficult to overshoot the large jumps.
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Some of us aren't so lucky to have jumps with long landing. In the midwest it's rare to find a jump with a landing much longer than 30-40 feet. It's a lot easier to overshoot jumps here than it is out west where landings are much longer.
 
13614224:Heart said:
Gucci. Always. If it's a small jump, overshooting means you can probably suck it up no problem. If it's big, knuckling can mean bouncing down the landing (see Jossi's broken neck awhile back). Better to land deep and wipe out.
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Agreed, in my opinion ALWAYS better to go gucci than knuckle
 
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