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At what size do cliffs start reinforcing your manhood?

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themostcrunkmonk
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40's?
Oct 20 2011 4:17PM
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LukeB.
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for every 10 feet of the cliff, it adds one inch to the length of your penis.
Oct 25 2011 12:17AM
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Pow.yuHdig*
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revelstoke eh? is it the gnarnia trees or watever underneath the gondola at the top entrance of the trees? cuz if so im pretty sure ive hit that cliff not necessasarily the same spot but off the same band
Oct 25 2011 12:22AM
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squibble
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i really liked that edit
Oct 25 2011 2:21AM
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phelps
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Cliffs into water? btw i call bullshit
Oct 25 2011 2:23AM
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minihef
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This is an important distinction.

Personally I always think drop size should be judged take off to landing just because so few drops are actually sheer cliff faces. What you're actually dropping can be so irrelevent to the size of the drop you actually make. The obvious extreme example of this is Alaska. People like Seth can hit what would be relatively small features in other circumstances but because of their speed and the steepness of the slope they take them 80ft plus.

Oct 25 2011 5:06AM
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Boooshank
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Seems like a silly post. Maybe my meter is broken. Cliff jumping is the shit. So much scarier on snow.
Oct 25 2011 6:49AM
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EC-Skier
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nice edit, and id say thats about 25 feet or so, just going off of the time it takes you to land
Oct 25 2011 9:37AM
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penguiin
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nice edit bro.

im in nc too, im going to start doing a lot of park this year so ill probably see yuh at app a lot.
Nov 9 2011 6:43PM
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edmonton_skier
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K85HE1znFzQ

That was completely accidental.
Nov 9 2011 8:17PM
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deactivate
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On my first cliff I chipped 3 fuckin teeth.
Nov 9 2011 10:12PM
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armadaski44
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this. Pics or it didnt happen
Nov 9 2011 10:14PM
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DsMoK3
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I did prolly a 15er last year and doubt i could do anything bigger, feels sick to stomp though
Nov 9 2011 10:22PM
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saerki
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Right... Not instantly but when you realize you'll make a "epic topic" for NS in which you brag about you death-denying drop, i bet YOU have a 5 footer right away.
Nov 10 2011 6:53AM
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El.Guapo
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only if you crash
Nov 10 2011 9:42AM
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Rayzor
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anything under 256' youre a pussy..... jk
Nov 10 2011 9:54AM
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El_Patcho
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knee in the chin? good times...
Nov 10 2011 10:09AM
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Mr.Huck
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A little off topic, but I remember an issue of Freeze I had with a photo of Seth dropping 30 feet into a mogul field at a Big Mountain event. I think it was at Crested Butte. It was 100% psychotic.
Nov 10 2011 10:51AM
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COboarder13
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Probably 20 because 40 is huge
Nov 10 2011 11:11AM
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AJizzle
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Straight up death wish
Nov 10 2011 3:13PM
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wootang
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Agree.  There should be a standard formula that is applicable everywhere and to everyone. Except Chuck Norris. He get's an inch and a half for every ten feet.

Nov 10 2011 3:41PM
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AJizzle
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Chuck norris' dick is so big that there is actually nothing in this world that could effect its erect size
Nov 10 2011 5:15PM
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deactivate
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No haha almost but the drop was almost flat from like 10-15 ft and my teeth smashed. Do people wear mouthguards for drops or park anyways?
Nov 10 2011 6:37PM
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wootang
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True. I stand corrected.
Nov 10 2011 7:03PM
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Drail
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I have a few friends who wear mouth guards. They prevent something like 90% of concussions. In all reality we should all be wearing them.
Nov 10 2011 8:33PM
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deactivate
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Other than dropping $50 or so on a dentist made one, what's a good brand? Something thin
Nov 10 2011 9:40PM
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broto
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how many inches are added if it's off of a rail onto concrete? cough stept
Nov 10 2011 9:47PM
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armadaski44
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This
Nov 11 2011 5:28PM
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moment54
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All about what you huck off of it, how sketch the landing is, and how fast you are going off of the cliff
Nov 11 2011 5:35PM
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Ryanvdonk
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like half the field does that at big mountain events...at least the ones ive been in.
Nov 12 2011 12:17PM
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Mr.Huck
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I was looking for the photo, but couldn't find it. I agree that almost everyone in big mountain contests are going big and landing in less than optimal conditions. This looked like Seth was dropping onto skied off teflon. There was nothing remotely soft about it. You could tell it was baked by the shine coming off the snow. My initial reaction to seeing it was the same as seeing someone fall out of a 3rd story window. I wish I could find that photo. Also, pretty sure that Seth was skiing on 210 cm's.
Nov 12 2011 3:09PM
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El_Patcho
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Hit a gizzillion footer once. Then I woke up...
Nov 12 2011 3:30PM
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rozboon
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Mouthgaurds stop concussions now?

Nov 13 2011 7:14PM
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OCM
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same. the other day i dreamed that i tried to hit this rail, and i jumped too far, and all of a sudden i was flying, like 50 feet above the ground, my skis turned to a snoboard, and i went off a cliff and landed. i have no idea why i thought of that.
Nov 13 2011 7:29PM
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BlakeG
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somebody has obviously never skied out of the park or hit a cliff
i would say 20 or 25 feet ive only hit small 10 foot ones
Nov 13 2011 7:49PM
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TheUngroomed
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You sir, are not a man
Nov 13 2011 7:58PM
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ARMADAR7
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the cliff under the sterling lift at smugglers notch is where its at, you jum off of the lift to get to it
Nov 13 2011 8:01PM
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Drail
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can't tell if sarcasm.

either way - most concussions happen when your teeth smash together. The vibrations that travel from your jaw to your skull are enough to give you a concussion.
Nov 13 2011 9:02PM
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rozboon
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Yeah, sarcasm, sorry. Most concussions happen when you smack your head. Smashing your teeth is just a byproduct of hitting a certain part of your head, if you hit your jaw and your teeth get in the way of the force transmission then that's just bad luck on your part. Of all the people I know who've been concussed, myself included, not one of them smashed their teeth. Likewise of all the people I know who've smashed teeth, only one got a concussion at the same time, and that was from taking a softball bat to the face.

The whole mouthguard concussion thing is a bit of a myth, there's several medical publications on the topic. There's some evidence that they'll reduce the severity of head injury from a blow to the underside of the jaw, but the vast majority of "concussion prevention" stuff comes from mouthguard manufacturers, who are going to say that shit anyway.

Nov 13 2011 9:43PM
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Vtsnowski
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25+ when i droped my first 30 footer is was like im there.
Nov 13 2011 9:52PM
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skicowboy
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I smashed the old brain last April at Whistler...totally out for about 15 min and I was not allowed to do any physical activity for 6 weeks. In June I started noticing discolouration in my eye tooth, and it had died as a result of the smash. During that recovery time I was told by 2 different doctors in 2 different cities(Whistler, Revelstoke) that a mouth guard would have reduced the severity of my concussion and when I got my root canal the dentist said it probably would have prevented my tooth dying had I been wearing one. And my hit was directly to the back of my head..overrotated backflip.

To other guy asking about that revelstoke shot, that is not in conifers or kill the banker. I don't know where it is, but it does not look like anything in there..
Nov 13 2011 10:26PM
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Jaymon
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its outa bounds in greely, durty pillows out there aha
Nov 13 2011 10:49PM
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Drail
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Ok, so I guess we can say that the jury is out on the mouthguard debate.

I have never worn one and have had one major and a few minor concussions... from what I understood, they will help with preventing minor concussions (and as the last guy said) bring down the severity of major concussions?

Can we agree that mouth guards don't increase chances of a concussion, and therefor are a piece of equipment worth considering?
Nov 13 2011 11:16PM
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RudyGarmisch
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After you bite your tongue, you'll wear one no matter what. I'm keeping one in my pocket this season.
Nov 13 2011 11:24PM
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fitzcarraldo
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Agreed.
Nov 14 2011 5:13AM
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no_steeze
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stand at the edge of even a 20' cliff and look down and you'll need to pull deep into your balls to hit it. they feel a lot bigger from the top, so hitting anything outside of your comfort zone reinforces your manhood
Nov 14 2011 7:42AM
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JamesR
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it's just so quotable. i've no cliff experience beyond 1 and a half feet /southeastern appalachians
Nov 14 2011 8:20AM
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hendriab
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i read and re-read this thread title for the past few days, never clicking on it, because I thought it said: At what size cliff do you start reinforcing your manhood?

Meaning, at what size cliff do you start wearing a fucking jockstrap or some shit like that. Layoff, Im from the midwest haha
Nov 14 2011 9:58AM
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Boooshank
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I have't hit any cliffs as I pretty much suck on skis and would no doubt really hurt myself the first few times. So looking forward to appreciating gravity on my skis. Love that free fall feeling, but its the actual knowing 100% your going to do it is the rush. Envious of the folks who know what it feels like on skis.

ˇˇMy claim to having a decent sized half inch and a wrinkle on land.

This didn't take any effort to jump off really, and yet a box/rail/jump/cliff at a snails pace scares the living shit out of me. I'm unsure it is 90ft, just what i was told.


Nov 14 2011 5:33PM
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Ski_ThEast
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holy shit that looked like it killed
Nov 14 2011 5:37PM
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Pow.yuHdig*
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The cliff im talking about is at 3:35

this could the biggest cliff int e thread demandskis tiger ridge at whitler my balls werent quite big enough this day and i have regrets big time my 4 friends hit it leaving 4 big bombholes we figured it was done for the day as we r siing away 2 pros one of them was that alex prochlavak guy pro mtn biker and the other was this blonde guy i wanna say was a treadway they yell down how is it my friend says "i dunno man theres lots of bomb holes it would suck to hit one" he shrugs it off rolls off and stomps the piss out of it (60 foot plus cliff) the the blonde guy goes lands one foot ina bomb hole and kind of crunches himself doesnt land it but isnt hurt

so me and my one other firnd who didnt hit it are real stoked to go back and try so we head back and the 2 pros show up shortly behind us and right infront of my face alex pro drops in and sends abackflip taking it atleast 15 feet deeper than any of the previous hits and stomps the pissss out of it and then the blonde guy does the same thing and then i was still scared and then my other frined hit it and i left feelin like a bitch but this season hundo P


that experience made me realize youd have to be stupid to NOT jump off a cliff or try and flip of cliffs into pow unfortunatley that was one of the last april pow days
Nov 14 2011 6:31PM
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