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I dont' think you can call what happened to Tanner a 'knuckle'. That is an undershoot of a gap jump, and comes with a whole other set of horrible circumstances.
In my mind a knuckle means hitting the knuckle and not before it.... which sucks but the terrible possibilities of an overshoot dramatically outweigh any knuckle.
Now, would you rather overshoot or undershoot a gap jump and you've got a debate on your hands.
Mr.BishopI dont' think you can call what happened to Tanner a 'knuckle'. That is an undershoot of a gap jump, and comes with a whole other set of horrible circumstances.
In my mind a knuckle means hitting the knuckle and not before it.... which sucks but the terrible possibilities of an overshoot dramatically outweigh any knuckle.
Now, would you rather overshoot or undershoot a gap jump and you've got a debate on your hands.
Depends on the conditions. If it's a legit pow day, then I'm trying to land in Alta's parking lot, but if not then I'm going to try and tranny-find the landing.
Personally I'd rather overshoot. I've knuckled so many times. Concussions,blackouts, soo many faceplants. Including the knuckle to eject skis to face drag-frontflip down the landing. But thats just my experience
The problem with knuckling is that you also might bounce down to spot where you would have landed if you overshot... so it's either two impacts or one big impact.
This. At my home mountain we have a "kicker" pretty big I guess. But if you overshoot to the flat you have broken legs. I'd knuckle that over overshoot any day of the week
I would knuckle any day over an oveshoot at the jumps at my home mountain. If you were too overshoot like big are dave on these jumps you would probably break your legs. scary as hell.
i over shot a jump at windells it hurt but my feet hurt for bit but not too bad then the next day i tried a nose butter 5 safety landed all the way in the bottom it hurt so bad
brett_fisheri over shot a jump at windells it hurt but my feet hurt for bit but not too bad then the next day i tried a nose butter 5 safety landed all the way in the bottom it hurt so bad
it depends how bad you knuckle it. if you bounce a little and you roll down the landing, its not as bad because all of the energy gets transferred over the course of the roll. if you come up so short you land straight down on the knuckle and don't move at all, that shit hurts and sends a shockwave up your whole spine.
same with overshooting...if you take it to the end of the gucci plateau with a little bit of transition where you can sit it down and still slide out of it, not so bad. but if you overshoot to the flat simon dumont style, then you are just doing the same thing as knuckling it short but falling 2 or 3 times the distance. so that would suck
PowstagramOvershot a huge kicker once doing a mute tailgrab. Landed on my face on the hard-pack landing and tore my face up. Lots of blood, lots of pain.
No way dude, a mute tailgrab?! Can you teach it to me?
DeebieSkeebiesthat still has to be one of the most brutal diggers ever recorded. I don't think ive never cringed watching that crash.
Yeah man... dude got fucked up.
I'll never understand why people say overshoot. I mean sure if you go too deep in the landing then whatever its better than a knuckle.... but if you actually land past the landing on the flats its like dropping off of a 6-story building to concrete.
Knuckling's not that bad compared to overshooting. I mean think about the physics of it. Knuckling you have accelerated towards the ground for a short amount of time before landing flat. Overshooting you have been accelerating toward the ground for much, much longer before landing flat. It's a no-brainer.
