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Over shooting jumps

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MoneyMakerMike
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So friday night, my mountain built these medium size jumps. First run on the mountain, and i decided to just guess the speed. The first jump my speed was perfect and I landed right in the sweet spot, but the second hit, I shot the jump straight to flat, and compressed my spine and cant do anything physical besides walking for a week or two (says the doctor). I'd say I got away lucky without getting a compression fracture, but does anyone else have any experiences overshooting?
6 years ago
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apapel20
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I have experience over shooting. At trollhaugen right now, they have a booter with a really steep landing. In he course of a month, my brother messed up his shoulder and I broke my helmet due to landing flat. I feel like it’s pretty common
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beckums
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PhreeKandiI shot the jump straight to flat, and compressed my spine


I've overshot a handful of jumps in my day. But i've never compressed my spine. I normally just purposefully land by bending my knees so far that I am or almost am laying down. Sounds quirky but works for me to absorb the shock. Trick is just do everything humanly possible to try and gauge the speed properly and if you do under/over shoot just be prepared to absorb more shock than a wife with two kids finding out her husband had an affair with her.
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VragBikernes
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I have overshot jumps quite a few times but the only thing that happens to me is that it feels like one of those nightmares where you fly over the landing.
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ObjectMocked
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Yeah I overshot a roller a week ago. I’d been hitting it all day and the snow was sticky so I was mobbing in full speed... snow sped up later in the day and I didn’t even think twice. Backslapped the flats and rode out... Heard a pop and my right side has been mad sore. Thinkin I pinched a nerve or sum.
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MoneyMakerMike
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bike.life.beckI've overshot a handful of jumps in my day. But i've never compressed my spine. I normally just purposefully land by bending my knees so far that I am or almost am laying down. Sounds quirky but works for me to absorb the shock. Trick is just do everything humanly possible to try and gauge the speed properly and if you do under/over shoot just be prepared to absorb more shock than a wife with two kids finding out her husband had an affair with her.


Good tip. My feet hit first and I tried to absorb, but the impact was a little to much to recover from the impact by absorbing. If it was a softer day, i bet I would have been better off, but the landing was straight ice.
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Finito
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I broke my upper arm a few seasons ago overshooting a knuckle. Pretty sketchy.
6 years ago
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GeertFreestyle
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In my indoor center I overshot a medium kicker (for indoor skiing) to the flat when doing a followcam with a friend. I got clapped and folded double, my chin was bleeding and I could barely breathe. So I was pretty lucky I think
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SPK_
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Apparently, spinning pizzas in Whistler works wonders to make you stomp every trick to the parking lot and ski out unscathed with mad style.
6 years ago
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Finito
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SPK_Apparently, spinning pizzas in Whistler works wonders to make you stomp every trick to the parking lot and ski out unscathed with mad style.


Jake Carney is a mad man!
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big_tent
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Last winter I turned a 30 foot jump into about a 60 foot jump. Landed completely flat but somehow I still landed.
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MoneyMakerMike
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apttLast winter I turned a 30 foot jump into about a 60 foot jump. Landed completely flat but somehow I still landed.


Thats insane. When I hit I couldn't even breathe
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Jems
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I’ve got issues in my left knee and I’ve almost completely stopped hitting jumps and whenever I do end hitting then I either undershoot one or overshoot and blowing out my knee for the day
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nmwninjart
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apapel20I have experience over shooting. At trollhaugen right now, they have a booter with a really steep landing.

I know which one you're talking about. If I screw up a jump its usually undershooting. I havent hit this yet because I dont really want to umdershoot that one.
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Ito
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JT9D...like one of those nightmares where you fly over the landing.


Glad to know I'm not that only one that has had those nightmares.

I've overshot a bunch of times, though thankfully have never had any massive problems. The one I thought was going to be the worst back on a shit jump at a local resort like 10 years ago where I completely cleared the landing somehow I was totally fine. I overshot once and landed on my shoulder which messed it up for a little while.
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HypeBeast
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Idk how Big Air Dave does it..... Thankfully (knock on wood) I've never had anything too serious happen other than knees to the face or total explosion of all my gear every which way
6 years ago
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natepc37
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Sunapee just got some nice booters, prolly like a 40 and a 45 with short and steep landings. Me, usually being pretty good at finding the speed for jumps, hit them with no problem. Then, New England being New England, we got like a foot of snow, then it all melted, and froze. I went to hit them after all this, and totally overcooked the first one. I had to have sent this 40 footer at least 60. I was all good besides some gnarly shinbang. Probably one of the scariest moments of my life.
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freestyler540
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OP learned a critical lesson; always speed check everything on first lap, unless...damn we know the drill.
I hope you recover well and back on your skis in no time
6 years ago
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NickelbackFan420
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still remember the day i hit my first jump in the park as a little boy. white out, no sense of speed on some hot head rentals mountain so backseat i dont think i had any tails. pretty much B lined it to the lip, and felt like i was flying for a solid four seconds. landed on my back so hard but had so much dren pumping through me it didnt hurt. til the next day. felt like i was hit by a train haha
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