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How do you land from 12 ft to flat?
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The front page pic. WTF? I would just collapse on impact and have to go on morphine from shin bang. And maybe a couple knee surgeries.
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12 ft to flat isn't that bad. My dad jumped out of a a 3 story building once and broke his ankle.
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Landing switch is easier on the body and 12 ft isn't all that much.
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ive overshot and gone 35ft to flat and skied away...hurt like a bitch though
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i was there when he did it an everybody was like "why the fuck did he just do that?"
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soft snow is like a mattress in the summer condiitons. it gives a lot more then winter snow.
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12ft isn't that high, i mena haven't you ever done cliffs onto roads? that fucking sucks cuz liek 50% of the time you do 12 feet into a ditch which is pretty much liek casing a step up, that sucks an ass load.Â
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well, 12 feet is nothing, look at free-running and what not. casing or overshooting is soooo much worse. I cased a 70 footer ad broke both my heels, so 12 is pussy.
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let your knees absorb the impact and its not that bad even on east coast ice.
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We had a 15 foot high spine, and we were all havign a blast on it. Like 180 nose taps, all that. I get the bright idea to switch 180 over it. I do it once, and it felt good. I went in the next time with more speed, boosted like 5 feet straight up, cleared the tranny, and fell feet first, immediately my whole body slammed stomach first on the flat. I just broke my binding. Lucky.
Moral of the story is that 12 feet isnt all that high, especially when landing switch, and in softer snow.
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i was thinking the same thing but yea, this isn't ice coast.
but still just landing that is impressive. props cosco, you darn superunknown you
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sack up and huck that shit you fucking homo I FUCKING HATE YOU AHHH
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get a new pic for that page. its getting old
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i hit a kicker too fast and landed forward from 15'. i double relesed and collapsed and skidded on the ground for like 20'. i just laughed.
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just suck the impact up with your lower body and it doesnt even hurt
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soft summer snow plus landing switch is alot easier on the body. everyones gonna hate the reference but rollerbladers do 20ft drops to concrete and are fine cause they land switch
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When I was 12 I hit a snow pile from a snowgun which was about 15ft tall. I overshot the other side and went straight down to flat. It hurt like a bitch and I had shin splints for 3 years from it.
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ya the snow looks super soft and he's landing switch
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you did not go 35 feet high you fucking liar.
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hahaha i broke my nose last night when i was smashed and i was like laughing and bleeding everywhere and everyone was like uhh what the fuck is wrong with him, but it didnt hurt at all.
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first of all that isnt 12 feet to flat and that looks like some soft snow, snow is a lot different than concrete
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ive done like 25 feet to flat but with forward mommentum its a little dif than landing straight down. I've also done 15 feet to conc. and it just stings a little bit if you land wrong.
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true, and ive done 30 to flat, didnt hurt too bad
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soft snow and 12ft is not that high
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FORWARD MOMENTUM. learn a thing or two about physics buddy.
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yea dude 12 feet to switch and forward momentum really isnt that much at all
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fall and then roll it ghurts but it breaks the impact smoothly
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and the kid is probably still made of rubber. give him 10-15 years and let's see him do it again
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it really depends on how you land on impact
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don't be a bitch. 12 to flat isn't bad.
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landing switch isnt so bad, at least you dont get shin bang or black toenails.
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havent u ever hopped a wall that is like 10ft
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He has horizontal momentum so the force is not so "up" on his legs.
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i've dropped 25' to flat, hurt my knees a little.. but it wasn't as bad as i thought it would be..
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that just proves that jumping from 25 feet is bad.
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well 1 : that wasnt 12 feet more like 11
but for real for like 8? or 9
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negative...not at all! soft snow, not really that big of a drop...its not so bad
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the gaper hop...one of my favorites but switch backie is pretty instense
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could very well be him everything matches
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since chads is def. 70 feet
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first of all, 12ft to flat isnt that bad, second - due to his trajectory(?)or the fact he had forward moving energy, the impact was less than if he had say jumped off a ledge, straight down 12ft, third - the snow is not solid or hard, alowing give in the landing and a relatively slow, instead of abrupt change in speed, lessening the impact of the landing.
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didn't quite look like 12 feet. it isn't perfectly flat. the snow is soft. forward momentum. landing switch. he said it didn't hurt.
more importantly, what about his outerwear choice? i like those colors together. fabulous front page.
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no joke, but the jumps at my home mountain are like that.. seriously flat landing its a joke... and theres a hgh knuckle
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Ohhh i love that snow. Its downy soft.
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