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Derek Spong Crash

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andy_boy
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBZPfA4B_s4



Oct 20 2006 10:22PM
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Albino
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that angle didnt do it justice. looked like a 70 ft park jump even tho i know full well it wasnt.
fuck it looked like it hurt tho.
Nov 22 2006 3:43PM
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carve_89
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Hope he pulls through, that looked brutal... and also a ridiculous setup.
Nov 22 2006 4:25PM
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newschooler8924
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thats fucked
Nov 22 2006 4:42PM
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PhaedeD
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dspong is a tough kid. hes just perfecting his halo 2 sniper skills now. fuckin kid always gettin all the sniper kills.
Nov 22 2006 4:47PM
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+[wall.e]+
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Any inrun, especially a blue ice inrun, where you have to be going 98mph is not safe . Fucking christ, hope everything works out for spong.
Nov 22 2006 4:49PM
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KillJib
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yeah if he had a helmet cam then you would be like holy shit
Nov 22 2006 4:50PM
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Dilla
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holy shit.
that was terrible.
i hope he's doin well and recovers well.
Nov 22 2006 4:55PM
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watchmefall15
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rag films bitch
Nov 22 2006 4:59PM
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-+Siver+-
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how could you realize that he didn't get hurt he flew into a wall of ice and snow
Nov 22 2006 5:14PM
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skiRay
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agreed
Nov 22 2006 5:19PM
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ecsm.
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holy fucking shit
Nov 22 2006 5:46PM
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skidemon22
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does any one know where there is a different angle? 
Nov 22 2006 5:57PM
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dwalk
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that was nasty
Nov 22 2006 7:09PM
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nicurrie
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ouch
Nov 22 2006 7:18PM
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heFF
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damn i thought that was crazy going into chads at 54mph was crazy but 98....that's insane
Nov 22 2006 8:56PM
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timoski
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wow holy fuckign shit, i never thought of it in that perspective....what the fuckgin shit was rage thinking...FUCK YOU RAGE
Nov 22 2006 9:17PM
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buktoof
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has anyone got a link to the mike wilson overshot or the video cheers
Dec 16 2006 3:08PM
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seemeski
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That is terrible. I hope so much that he gets better.
Dec 16 2006 3:29PM
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daveschu
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the kid almost died, hes actually lucky to be alive
Dec 17 2006 12:26AM
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BigDig
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That was horrific. He is lucky to be alive. As an EMT I have seen people take lesser of a hit and die. Saw him at the first US Open when he was 14. Outstanding! My concern is that when jumps are made, especially this big of a gap, is there any engineering going on? Calculation of speed needed, angle of trajectory, distance needed on the down ramp for safe landing. Or people just building shit to see if it will work? Just wondering.
Dec 17 2006 12:34AM
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SHastatahoe
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As Mt. Shasta is my home mountain I would have to say that they probobly just pushed snow together and told them to go for it.
Dec 17 2006 12:40AM
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BigDig
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That's sad. I think that the guys who build the jump should be the first to go and test it. Maybe that is done, I don't know.
Dec 17 2006 12:43AM
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mark311
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i cant believe that 1. someone built that jump. and 2. that people were willing to hit it. ok, we've got a huge-ass jump here, a gap, the landing is about the exact same length/height/width/transition as the takeoff, and the front of the landing is a solid wall. fucking idiots.
Dec 17 2006 2:11PM
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BFFset.
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shit! that is horrible
Dec 17 2006 2:17PM
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ry.will
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man darryl sprong sure is crazy.
Dec 17 2006 2:49PM
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chairdawg
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is that when he collapsed his long i thought that was from like 2 years ago
anyone have the vid of mike wilson doing it
Dec 17 2006 4:30PM
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ajjackson
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I just cant beleive how fucked up it is if you watch it and think 90 miles an hour the whole time. Ive seen it dozens of times and it still makes me sick.
Dec 18 2006 2:03PM
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johnnypsunami
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i cant even watch that shit anymore. someone should construct a type of crash test dummy that could ginea pig jumps and make sure they are safe.! that would be awesome.
Dec 18 2006 2:46PM
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LesBainsDouches
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Damn, just watched this again. For all the money Rage films has behind it they could have done the physics and spared the crash (they must have a ton of startup cash from a benefactor considering the hi-profile music they license (unless they're using w/out permission)). Monster dollars for what.
Feb 21 2007 12:30AM
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Casey
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ugh.. brutal. props to everyone with balls enough to throw down over such a death gap.
Feb 21 2007 4:05AM
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Crossfade
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dam that shit was gnar, props to my boy d-spong
Feb 21 2007 4:27AM
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corkythewhale
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his injuries are common to those of people who get hit by cars
Feb 21 2007 12:48PM
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Sholte
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ohh man that was bad, i really want to see the helmet cam shoot, some one post it
Feb 21 2007 1:26PM
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pnsski
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hope he gets better.... just goes to show you should respect the kids throwing down in the east( i know hes not on the eastcoast) but that snow is like powder to me and i hate falling on that shit.... not to say ive ever fell That bad though but coming from the eastcoast THAT SHIT HURTS... and going the fast
Feb 21 2007 4:24PM
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crunkasfuck
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that heart
Feb 21 2007 4:46PM
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dorikin
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That sucks so bad it makes me sick. However, there is no way Derek was going 98 mph when he took of into the air. WIlson probably was when he overshot, but I doubt Derek was going any faster than 60 mph there.
Feb 21 2007 5:00PM
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Bo_bot9
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hey tore 2 of the 3 layers in his aorta(heart)
Mar 1 2007 6:12PM
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TomK1
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Yeah it would probubly take about 20 min to work out the math to see how fast he would of had to go to clear it. I wonder what kind of mind set you would have to be in to volunteer to try something like that first.
Mar 1 2007 6:50PM
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