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AdamHermanDepends, it's usually better to knuckle small jumps and overshoot massive ones.
Joefrengleyhave you seen simo dumonts overshoot?
BenFrostThat was beyond an overshoot.
parkplaygroundMountain made a new jump for this past weekend that was the biggest one they have ever had in the park when ive been skiing there.
Real nice poppy step up. probably close to 40 ft to knuckle, but the thing absolutely BOOSTS you. I guinea pigged it and just mobbed in. Sent it probably close to 90 ft. Almost completely flat landing from being what I can only assume was like 35+ ft in the air over the sweet spot. I have never, ever been that high in the air in my life it was fucking crazy. I landed perfectly, but my whole body hurt and I think my nuts dropped so hard that they are still chillin on the strip of snow after the landing. If only someone got a video...
itsGucciDoes it fell better when you go big air dave and take it to flat or land directly on the knuckle?
CyanicenineI've knuckled the pro line at stevens (I think they are calling the pro line jumps 40 feet). It's not pleasant but you're not going to die, you might lose a toe nail.
People have died from overshooting. Overshooting means you land on the flat. For some reason there are people that think it means you landed 10 or 20 feet down the ramp, but the large jumps are meant to be sent that far. The downramp of well made large jumps are generally huuuge like 100 feet + huge, and landing halfway down one isn't an overshoot, it's just the sweet spot.
The problem is that when you are used to hitting jumps that are under 20 feet sending a smaller jump like that 20 feet down means you potentially land on the flat. So people get used to landing only a couple feet past the knuckle because that's what you have to do on smaller jumps.
Realizing this was actually a huge turning point for me last year getting comfortable on large jumps. Once I was okay with landing deep 20+ feet past the knuckle it made large jumps feel so much better because I didn't have to stand at the top worrying about how to get my speed exactly right to the point of just barely clearing the blue line. Now I just send it, because I know the landing zone is huge and I no longer freak out when I see the knuckle fly by. It also helps that the park crew at Stevens is rad and the jumps are laid out in a way with a long enough landing zone that it would be extremely difficult to overshoot the large jumps.
.GUCCI.wow trying to take my thunder huh?
itsGucciOFC, You're obviously the man! you internet warrior!
ps FREE GUCCI
.GUCCI.wow trying to take my thunder huh?
itsGucciOFC, You're obviously the man! you internet warrior!
ps FREE GUCCI
CyanicenineI've knuckled the pro line at stevens (I think they are calling the pro line jumps 40 feet). It's not pleasant but you're not going to die, you might lose a toe nail.
People have died from overshooting. Overshooting means you land on the flat. For some reason there are people that think it means you landed 10 or 20 feet down the ramp, but the large jumps are meant to be sent that far. The downramp of well made large jumps are generally huuuge like 100 feet + huge, and landing halfway down one isn't an overshoot, it's just the sweet spot.
The problem is that when you are used to hitting jumps that are under 20 feet sending a smaller jump like that 20 feet down means you potentially land on the flat. So people get used to landing only a couple feet past the knuckle because that's what you have to do on smaller jumps.
Realizing this was actually a huge turning point for me last year getting comfortable on large jumps. Once I was okay with landing deep 20+ feet past the knuckle it made large jumps feel so much better because I didn't have to stand at the top worrying about how to get my speed exactly right to the point of just barely clearing the blue line. Now I just send it, because I know the landing zone is huge and I no longer freak out when I see the knuckle fly by. It also helps that the park crew at Stevens is rad and the jumps are laid out in a way with a long enough landing zone that it would be extremely difficult to overshoot the large jumps.
HeartGucci. Always. If it's a small jump, overshooting means you can probably suck it up no problem. If it's big, knuckling can mean bouncing down the landing (see Jossi's broken neck awhile back). Better to land deep and wipe out.
