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Kenyon
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k this might seem like a dumb question but why is it whenever someone hits a huge jump they never straight air it, they akways do something crazy

Oct 18 2010 4:08PM
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Billups
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Because you don't buy movies for straight airs, you buy them for the crazy tricks.
Oct 18 2010 4:19PM
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Nooschoolers
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lulz
Oct 18 2010 4:56PM
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EastCoast...
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nooob haha nah its just in videos who wants to see a straight air. gotta be somehting crazy
Oct 18 2010 4:57PM
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grilledsteezeyo
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this.
Oct 18 2010 5:13PM
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KarmaInitiative
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sometimes people straight air them in movies, but theyre usually edited out if theres cooler tricks

sometimes i like straight airs better, it emphasize the size of the gap
Oct 18 2010 5:14PM
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rickroller
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lol they just dont show you it in the movie
Oct 18 2010 6:35PM
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DJ_Pauly_D
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why straight air when you can switch triple ??
Oct 18 2010 6:55PM
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RubberSoul
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sometimes they just dont show the first hit if it's a straight air or just a 3 or something..

but honestly, on the jumps as big as they are in big movies, a lot of times the pros dont do straight airs. probably half the time because it's a waste of time, and the other half because it's actually way scarier to straight air a really heavy jump than to spin it sometimes
Oct 18 2010 6:59PM
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Kenyon
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yea thts what i thought some people also said tht if u straight air it u lose control while in the air
Oct 19 2010 3:49PM
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RubberSoul
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yeah i mean even my ugliest 3 ever was definitely better looking and calmer than some of the straight airs ive done over bigger jumps. just looking at the landing the whole time is sometimes a pain
Oct 19 2010 3:52PM
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