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Simon dumont sports science

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billay
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is that shit for real. fuckin stupid
Jan 31 2010 7:32PM
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Elg
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aka helmet cam/pov
Jan 31 2010 7:40PM
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BMskier
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that was retarded especially with the whole brain matter thing...

Jan 31 2010 7:44PM
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_steffen_
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i thought it was hilarious made simon sound like he had magical abilities
Jan 31 2010 7:45PM
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martin.
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hey I thought it was pretty cool
Jan 31 2010 7:45PM
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Sherpa
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what a joke, its called spotting your landing durrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Feb 1 2010 4:22AM
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DedicatedPicturs
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What did I miss?
Feb 1 2010 6:01AM
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Bar_Down
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http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=4874598
Feb 1 2010 8:58AM
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nickyp
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Me too. I never really think about where I look to be honest, it was interesting to see what a skier looks at when they throw down. It pretty cool the way the eye stays locked on to the lip throughout the whole rotation, and the whole narrowing of vision thing, especially since Simon goes huge in the pipe.
Feb 1 2010 9:06AM
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Oreos
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that was sick, really enjoyed that! would love to see more footage of that out of the pipe.
Feb 1 2010 9:20AM
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hewy
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the shaun white one was even worse. they talked about how the shape of a double cork is like a double helix, and then said that no wonder why shaun white is so good, it must be in his dna to be able to double cork.
Feb 1 2010 9:23AM
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pomme-de-terre
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i actually thought that was kinda cool.
Feb 1 2010 9:40AM
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dangerdad
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rather interesting, but a load of crap in my opinion
Feb 1 2010 9:43AM
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shintastic48
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I thought it was pretty cool. I never really think about where I'm looking, I just kind of do it. So it was definitely cool to get see it get investigated. But, I'd like to see something like that at joss or something. Xgames slopestyle would have been neat also.
Feb 1 2010 9:45AM
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Mrvic.
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vestibular supression
Feb 1 2010 10:04AM
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Dan-Man
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lol. its about as good as when they tried to tell us Travis Pastrana has super human powers that let him do stunts.  anyone remember that? when he jumped a barge on new years?
Feb 1 2010 10:17AM
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Steezy_IN_KC
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I'm with martin on this one...
Feb 1 2010 10:18AM
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GreekAR6
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I thought it would've been cool if they showed us a run with it or at least more than one trick.  And if they didn't add in all that other shit so you couldn't even tell what the hell was going on...
Feb 1 2010 10:26AM
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DaNinjew
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it kinda bugs me how they pick simon dumont who was like haveing a period after losing
Feb 1 2010 3:10PM
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solitaryman
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that was slightly interesting, although the guy that was in the video was pretty ridiculous.
Feb 1 2010 3:27PM
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yuck
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the narrator actually says

"these moves would leave us mortals dizzy and discombobulated"

clearly, simon dumont is immortal.

all hail.
Feb 1 2010 3:27PM
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MAPLE_SYRUP
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That announcer was a tool bag
Feb 1 2010 3:41PM
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mer-man
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lol this
Feb 1 2010 4:56PM
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nycskibum
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the eye tracker thing was cool. but i agree that the rest was total crap.
Feb 1 2010 4:58PM
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doyle.
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my threads for later. when i'm not in school
Feb 1 2010 5:37PM
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TheMajesticLife
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i thought it was pretty intresting
Feb 1 2010 6:08PM
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Algebra
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i thought it was fucking wierd
Feb 1 2010 6:18PM
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Baskilla
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The dude is a fuckin beast. furreal.
Feb 1 2010 6:30PM
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Justo8484
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you guys realize they didn't just pull that out of their ass, right? while skiing is certainly not on the same level, go sit in a fighter jet and have the pilot pull all sorts of high-g maneuvers and see how your body reacts. fighter pilots are trained to take that, you're not, and you'll probably black out or puke. i could see the same thing, to a much lesser degree, being applicable here. also, the eye tracking device they were using is something those of us in the web development (user interface design and user experience, specifically) use pretty regularly during usability testing to see how a user interacts with a new kind of interface. microsoft, apple, google, etc are all definitely using this tech before they roll out new products and services.
Feb 1 2010 6:39PM
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CraigAK
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us mortals can only spot landings if we spin under 80 degrees per second! haha.   we must have sent it huge to pull off 4.5 seconds of air time for our first 360s
Feb 1 2010 6:40PM
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gypsytown
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i dont like your name : ( and i thought it was cool
Feb 1 2010 6:42PM
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LightAscension
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i think the technology is cool as hell...but the fact they made simon dumont sound like he was a fighter pilot was fucking stupid. cant wait to see it some edits with it sometime in the future, it'll take pov to a whole new level. but dumont is still a huge doucher.
Feb 1 2010 6:46PM
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faux_real
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The one piece of bullshit I spotted was the claim that Dumont's visual field narrows from 200 to 2 degrees when he drops in. Your visual field is always 200 degrees, and the area processed by your fovea is always 2 degrees. The fovea gives vision its high resolution, and its limited field is the reason we have to make so many eye movements in order to develop a fine-grained image of the world. We're always focusing on 2 degrees out of a 200 degree range . . . Dumont dropping in is nothing special.



 
Feb 1 2010 7:47PM
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zflink
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im gonna say its bs, just like they said travis pastrana was a super human who saw things in slow-mo
Feb 2 2010 7:31PM
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p.jones
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agreed. it was just a bs filler segment, even though it was kinda cool
Feb 2 2010 7:35PM
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Gooseling
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i guess simon isnt a mortal
Feb 2 2010 7:41PM
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16candles
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i liked riddles helmet cam dubs more than that video, that was fucked
Feb 2 2010 7:42PM
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jfletcher
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bahaha "us mortals"
Feb 2 2010 7:45PM
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faux_real
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They should do sports social science, and have sociologists explain why Tanner Hall talks and dresses the way he does, etc.. BroBomb could play the academic if he can churn out more terms like "suburban-Rastafarian patois."
Feb 2 2010 7:56PM
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faux_real
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Here's the working link
Feb 2 2010 7:59PM
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theblacktaco
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yeah wtf .. i throw way faster than 80 degrees a second .. i prop throw like 360 degrees every half second .. and i dont fet dizzy
Feb 2 2010 8:00PM
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magic_raven
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apparently that means you are beginning to ascend to immortality.
Feb 2 2010 8:12PM
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