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Testing Gaps?

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switched
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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?
Jan 31 2006 4:47PM
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drewishish
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they sent some little boy
Jan 31 2006 4:48PM
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mathers
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catapult and a team of physisists
Jan 31 2006 4:49PM
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lorida
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big cohona's and pro jump builders
Jan 31 2006 4:49PM
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AwR
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rock paper scissors
Jan 31 2006 4:49PM
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redpointist
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they just have to die every now and then
Jan 31 2006 4:50PM
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steevner
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draw straws?
Jan 31 2006 4:50PM
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twix_182
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cannons

babies
Jan 31 2006 4:51PM
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a-g-b
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smallest guy goes first
Jan 31 2006 4:52PM
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JibEarth
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innie meenie minne mo
Jan 31 2006 4:52PM
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JibEarth
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for a 100 ft gap they go full bore
Jan 31 2006 4:53PM
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QuazBotch
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rock paper scissors
Jan 31 2006 4:54PM
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Pklink04
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no you guys go it all wrong, its 1,2,3 not it
Jan 31 2006 4:54PM
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Schoellkopf
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guess a number behind some one's back
Jan 31 2006 4:55PM
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eheath
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when there is alot of powder, you can come up short on chads and pyramid, many vids of it.
Jan 31 2006 4:55PM
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bighit
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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
Jan 31 2006 5:25PM
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GotamaBCshredder
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you sack up and DO IT
Jan 31 2006 5:25PM
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CBROOKS
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hahaha, yes
Jan 31 2006 5:26PM
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skiierman
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Basically what everyone said above. You just got to go for it.
Jan 31 2006 5:27PM
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JayDope
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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
Jan 31 2006 5:33PM
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smknbud420stoner
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there is always some one with a few screws loose that day you can get to ginnie it.
Jan 31 2006 5:43PM
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millhouseskis
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^ that
Jan 31 2006 6:26PM
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nickmcnutt
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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?
Jan 31 2006 6:33PM
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jflo453
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hahahahaha yea, shit what movie is that, he shorted it twice adn then went over
Jan 31 2006 6:34PM
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BIGairVZ
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a man to that
Jan 31 2006 6:35PM
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$tezzyStu
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they man up and throw themselves, normally with im riding with ppl and i havent hit something we just trade of gunnie'ing
Jan 31 2006 6:37PM
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Itsbackfliptime
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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.
Jan 31 2006 6:40PM
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stellaphile
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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...
Jan 31 2006 6:50PM
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KWagner
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ya, this kids right. ITs really not that hard.
Jan 31 2006 8:32PM
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AKFREERIDE
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nose goes.
Jan 31 2006 8:46PM
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japie99
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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!!
Jan 31 2006 10:30PM
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reggyboy
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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
Jan 31 2006 10:37PM
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japie99
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Are there some pictures of it?
Jan 31 2006 10:50PM
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*cowboy*
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Dude, if your basing it on physics, it shouldnt really matter how large the gap is.
Jan 31 2006 10:54PM
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fredsters_s
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haha
Jan 31 2006 10:59PM
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reggyboy
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ye im just saying that a whole lot more can go wrong when ur in the air that long eg wind
Jan 31 2006 11:31PM
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Jwenz
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balls to the wall
Feb 1 2006 1:37AM
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cobble_hills
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im pretty sure any pro skiier dropped out of highschool before they got around to kinetics
Feb 1 2006 4:24AM
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ArmadaAR4
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its pretty obvious they just try it and see wut happens...simons test didnt go so well
Feb 1 2006 4:25AM
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SnowMedic
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they send the stupidist person or the one that is the most stoned
Feb 1 2006 4:56AM
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FUUUCK
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they send candide
Feb 1 2006 5:28AM
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CooksCorner
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i know that some snowboarders toss snowballs to get a feel for the trajectory. Then they just go for it.
Feb 1 2006 5:32AM
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Fusion
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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.
Feb 1 2006 6:01AM
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Sharpy
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thats why i ski with Apple(aka Thom Savery, aka Piggy)
Feb 1 2006 6:04AM
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head686
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thats what i thought
Feb 1 2006 6:07AM
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Liam.
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why not go first...you gain respect and improve as an athlete and girls will wanna fuck u
Feb 1 2006 6:07AM
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bwilmot
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That wasn't a BC gap. He held onto the sled too long.
Feb 1 2006 6:07AM
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bwilmot
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He cleared it on a switch 9 too. The inrun had slowed. I don't think the crash related to him going in switch.
Feb 1 2006 6:09AM
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JAYTRON
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word
Feb 1 2006 6:12AM
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JAYTRON
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that and the nose game
Feb 1 2006 6:12AM
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GotamaBCshredder
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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
Feb 1 2006 6:19AM
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