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Thread: Air Jordan Drop
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01-09-2014, 11:11 PM #76
Never been up there to check it out, landing of the second always looked flat to me in video, but if it's steep that makes sense. I know the platform is steep and a steep takeoff to flattish landing is no bueno at speed. Thanks for clarifying, should help when I hit it one of these days (just need to get up there!).
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01-10-2014, 06:12 AM #77Registered User
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The reason I slowed up was probably two fold:
1. I was pretty nervous (was the biggest drop I'd done at that time [2008])
2. I was hungover from Tommy Africa's Monday 80's night...
Jokes aside, this was about my limit.
No worries about the vote, thanks for watching and commenting.
+1 on Aguille du Midi and Swiss Wall in low snow. The latter nearly busted my knees doing it two seasons ago from top to bottom! Need a lot of fitness to hit all those moguls.
Thanks, man. Sorry, will just post straight up video/pics next time.
I agree that it looks very sloppy and would love to travel back to Whistler for another go and do some combination of flips! I stomped the platform alright but it was quite deep. My legs weren't as stong as they are now. Four years of CrossFit and squats has helped a lot. Congrats on taking the straight line! If you don't take the normal (wimps) entrance that I did, the natural fall line has sloped rocks so you have to have the balls and speed to make sure you make the platform which carrys loads of speed into the second stage. I can't remember which movie it is in but Mike Douglaus (I think) sends the natural fall line at Mach 3. PS, your website in your signature is brilliant.
Combine this with stomping the whole thing in one go and I think we'll have reach the pinnacle of what skiing can do! Great vid
Sorry for the massive multi-quote posts, don't have much time to check the forums at the moment! Thanks for the chatter though.
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01-13-2014, 07:40 PM #78
Canada, its the new Colorado
Hello darkness my old friend
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01-13-2014, 07:59 PM #79Flying the Bluehouse colors in Western Canada! Let me know if you want some rad skis!!
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01-13-2014, 08:14 PM #80
You guys are savage, hes probably a virgin and just wants girls to notice him. Now hes got Gonads on his jock, Matt is straight killing it!
Has anyone ever rappelled AJ? That would be cool. Maybe those zipline folks could set something up?
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01-14-2014, 04:59 PM #81
Air Jordan isn't cool any more unless you lawn dart the whole thing.
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01-14-2014, 06:26 PM #82
Certainly is a lot of e-rage, butthurt, localist dickwaving going on in ALL of the Whistler threads these days.. Bad snow year, eh?
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01-14-2014, 08:49 PM #83Registered User
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If ya can't take the heat best stay out of the kitchen or at least off the big boy cliffs.
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01-14-2014, 09:32 PM #84dickhead
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01-14-2014, 09:37 PM #85dickhead
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01-15-2014, 08:39 AM #87Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature... Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. -Helen Keller
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01-15-2014, 09:00 AM #88
Wait, whats the diff?
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01-15-2014, 12:09 PM #89dickhead
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01-15-2014, 08:37 PM #90Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature... Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. -Helen Keller
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01-15-2014, 08:49 PM #91Both times I hit it I took speed and straight-lined it no problems. That platform is pretty steep, in the video that's a total hipcheck to stop. If you need to turn to kill speed there are other features for that on the mountains.... the bottom landing is more than steep enough to take heat into it. More often that not when people try to stop/slow down they simply fall off the bottom stage and that ruins it for anyone else who wants to hit it. I've seen people yard sale trying to stop and leave gear on the platform. If you're going to hit it dont pussyfoot around with turning, it's a double-stager, so hit it like one.
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01-15-2014, 08:55 PM #92www.dpsskis.com
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Fukt: a very small amount of snow.
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01-15-2014, 08:56 PM #93
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01-15-2014, 09:48 PM #94
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01-16-2014, 08:20 AM #95
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01-16-2014, 06:24 PM #96dickhead
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01-17-2014, 12:16 AM #97Registered User
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WTF?
60% of avalanche fatalities are on N (WNW-ENE) facing slopes. Because they don't get any sun in winter they take a long time to consolidate and avy danger takes much longer to decrease. They are much more prone to faceting and depth hoar also. Plus, where I live weather tends to come from the SW and N facing slopes get loaded heavily and develop wind slab. They are much more likely to have dry slab or dry loose slides than wet.
In spring, they tend to become safer than S facing.
Back to school.
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01-17-2014, 03:04 AM #98
I think he was trying to kill DD. Thanks for ruining it... dick
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