Testing Gaps?

[switched]

After watching Tanner and Simon, I was just curious. How do the pros test those big 100 foot gaps like that? Because if you go to slow, your dead. If you go to fast, your dead. How do they know how fast to go the first time?

 

[drewishish]

they sent some little boy

 

[mathers]

catapult and a team of physisists

 

[lorida]

big cohona's and pro jump builders

 

[AwR]

rock paper scissors

 

[redpointist]

they just have to die every now and then

 

[steevner]

draw straws?

 

[twix_182]

cannons

babies

 

[a-g-b]

smallest guy goes first

 

[JibEarth]

innie meenie minne mo

 

[JibEarth]

for a 100 ft gap they go full bore

 

[QuazBotch]

rock paper scissors

 

[Pklink04]

no you guys go it all wrong, its 1,2,3 not it

 

[Schoellkopf]

guess a number behind some one's back

 

[eheath]

when there is alot of powder, you can come up short on chads and pyramid, many vids of it.

 

[bighit]

i read anj article and they just pick the yungest rider there and make him go...thats what the did at the high north heli shoot a couple of years back

 

[GotamaBCshredder]

you sack up and DO IT

 

[CBROOKS]

hahaha, yes

 

[skiierman]

Basically what everyone said above. You just got to go for it.

 

[JayDope]

after seeing thalls fall and him screaming in pain after i just cant get that outta my head hwo he was yelling his ankles r broken thats just insane

 

[smknbud420stoner]

there is always some one with a few screws loose that day you can get to ginnie it.

 

[millhouseskis]

^ that

 

[nickmcnutt]

yep, did anyone see that one snowboard movie where the one guy kept loosing at it, and he had to guinnea pig like 5 in a row, and he always overshot or cased?

 

[jflo453]

hahahahaha yea, shit what movie is that, he shorted it twice adn then went over

 

[BIGairVZ]

a man to that

 

[$tezzyStu]

they man up and throw themselves, normally with im riding with ppl and i havent hit something we just trade of gunnie'ing

 

[Itsbackfliptime]

are skiers retarded? Anyones that taken a high school physics class could figure out how fast to go for jumps. Especially if they're towing in with a snowmobile.

 

[stellaphile]

If anyone knows more than ^^^^ they know that you can pop a lip for amplitude or absorb some of it for more distance. And besides, there is alot more going on than high school physics...

 

[KWagner]

ya, this kids right. ITs really not that hard.

 

[AKFREERIDE]

nose goes.

 

[japie99]

Still it is hard. Cause u have to jump from the exact same please. Also u got air resistance which are also hard to calculate cause of wind and your body surface. Although it gives u a good look on the jump!!

 

[reggyboy]

ye mayby for a 30 to 40ft gap but a hundred foot gap its a whole diferent ball game, that shit aint evan in the same leage and tanner had allready tried that gap before his crash and cleared it fine. allthough this time he did go in switch

 

[japie99]

Are there some pictures of it?

 

[*cowboy*]

Dude, if your basing it on physics, it shouldnt really matter how large the gap is.

 

[fredsters_s]

haha

 

[reggyboy]

ye im just saying that a whole lot more can go wrong when ur in the air that long eg wind

 

[Jwenz]

balls to the wall

 

[cobble_hills]

im pretty sure any pro skiier dropped out of highschool before they got around to kinetics

 

[ArmadaAR4]

its pretty obvious they just try it and see wut happens...simons test didnt go so well

 

[SnowMedic]

they send the stupidist person or the one that is the most stoned

 

[FUUUCK]

they send candide

 

[CooksCorner]

i know that some snowboarders toss snowballs to get a feel for the trajectory. Then they just go for it.

 

[Fusion]

Physics wouldn't be exact, but it gives you an idea...I dunno, I would give it a shot if I was fuckin around with a 100' gap or somethin like that...at least you would know the min speed you gotta hit it at.

 

[Sharpy]

thats why i ski with Apple(aka Thom Savery, aka Piggy)

 

[head686]

thats what i thought

 

[Liam.]

why not go first...you gain respect and improve as an athlete and girls will wanna fuck u

 

[bwilmot]

That wasn't a BC gap. He held onto the sled too long.

 

[bwilmot]

He cleared it on a switch 9 too. The inrun had slowed. I don't think the crash related to him going in switch.

 

[JAYTRON]

word

 

[JAYTRON]

that and the nose game

 

[GotamaBCshredder]

or you look at it from the side, and someone charges itt, and then you decide wether they would have made it and go from there