Huge cliff drops: all balls or technique?

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What's the deal, we see guys falling from cliffs that could kill people. Is that just superdeep pow, and tested in advance or do you really have to perfect a certain technique of cliff drop landing before you can do such heights?

 
Definitely technique, I know a couple dumbasses who have broken legs and sprained ankles taking cliffs too high for them, that they were sure they could handle.

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good call rukus

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yea rukas I like that.

but I would say

skill not to get hurt

even more to actualy ride away and not just hot tub it.

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Balls just to hit the cliff, but you need the skills to look stylish and stomp the landing.

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hip checks take the impact of your knees... and its mostly balls, hip checks come naturally.

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i live in ny so i have never dropped a cliff i would still say that its probably 50-50

The shit hasnt even begun to hit the fan
 
i think it takes balls to hit it, and skill to land it. if you dont kno how to land right u can get seriously injured. my friend got knocked out on a 17ft. knee went right into his chin when he landed.

 
^that sucks. Certain people weren't meant to hit cliffs either. Frickin people like Jamie Pierre who have bodies made of rubber. In the intro to strike 3 pierre does a lincoln off like a 70 footer or so, totally overrotates and lands almost sideways, and he was okay (I am sure it didnt feel good though). If I hucked even a 30 footer and landed sideways I bet I would break at least 2 or 3 bones and have some other issues.

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didnt jamie pierre do that same thing off like a 100 sumwad cliff? i have it in one of my POWDER mags. hes crazy.

Why don't you take a long walk off a short peir.
 
Obviously you have to have some skills to drop cliffs, but I find it is primarily grande cajones. Just getting up the nerve to do it is the main thing, the skiing part comes naturally.

 
My guess is that you need to be snorting some serious disco biscuits to do a lincoln loop of a 165 footer or to drop a 235 footer.

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what skiierman said....anyone can throw themselves off a cliff, but it takes lots of tech and skill to land it, or even to just not hurt yourself

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it seems like all the pros like seth and shane have mastered a certain landing technique for when they land with the impact of a small bomb.

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Dropping Cliffs is an art, at least doing it right is. When you see the guys dropping the 80+ footers, it is basically endless pow pow and landing does not hurt at all. Even so, they work out and condition like no other so they can do it. I know for me, it takes a whole lot of balls, but once you point it, it is no longer the balls that will carry you through it. You need to know what you are doing, or else it will hurt. Scopping the landing first is a must as well, especially if you have never dropped it before. You can seriously break yourself if there is a nice rock 6 inches below the surface.

 
it depends do you actually want to stick shit like Harrison or Morrison, or do you wanna be a no talent dumbass like Pierre and just fall of rocks and land on your side

 
^careful there buddy. make sure you can back yourself up. I am not saying that Jamie Pierre is the best big mountain skier or anything, but seriously, lincolns off 165 ft? gots to be some skill involved no?

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'donna simma?'

'yes, that's right. now how would that appear in a phone book?'

'simma, donna?'

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knowing how your landing looks like is a definite must indeed. Even on the small cliffs I'm doing, I really try to make a mindprint of the landing, so I'm sure i can drop in at the right angle.

Nothing as scary as skiing over that edge and realising you had the landing figured out totally wrong haha

 
Dude,Jamie Pierre is the king,don't talk shit about him,cause he's got the biggest balls on earth...

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Dude,Jamie Pierre is the king,don't talk shit about him,cause he's got the biggest balls on earth...

-----------------------------------------------------------What would happen if the powder was warm?if u actually needed summer in order for snow to fall?Chest deep hot pow?And in Winter,sand would come down the skies,and we would be pissed off,because our cars wouldn't work...
 
Lots of balls and skill. Whoever said taking an 80ft hot doesnt hurt has hit anything over 15ft. No matter how much pow you have it can still hurt. I have have droped 30 footers on 2 ft pow days and still been pretty fucked up, and that is with good landings and skiing it out. Cliff drops are no joke and riders like Jamie Piere, Seth Morison, Hugo Harrison, and many more should be given lots of respet for what they do.

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