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02-11-2008, 02:04 PM #1
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How NOT to do a frontflip: A video
Hosted by out very own Summit!
This may look like a wreck, but actually its a new urban style of BC jibbing being progressed by Summit. He calls this one the "Lawn-Dart to inverted cliff nose-press to fakie turbgurl out"
video is all weirdly horizontally compressed, buy you get the idea
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02-11-2008, 02:08 PM #2
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I guess he gets credit for having the balls to do it. Fuckin ouch though. He ok?
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02-11-2008, 02:08 PM #3
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Trying to download...
I'll never forget the rocks coming straight at my face (at which point I stopped tying the rotation which I didn't fully set anyways (you can see I didn't kick the rotation)). It's a good lesson in overconfidence. I was overconfident because I stuck a larger front last month:
(landing out of frame lower left)
And I'd hucked the cliff just lookers right to the one in the video with ease:
I was complacent here and figured it would work out... oops.. and didn't hear my spotters warning me about the rocks... doh! I was almost seriously hurt. I am lucky. This is by far the stupidest and most dangerous shit I've pulled in years.Last edited by Summit; 02-11-2008 at 03:33 PM.
Originally Posted by blurred
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02-11-2008, 02:10 PM #4
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Wow... Peligro! Perhaps a little more speed on the run in or perhaps not digging the tips quite so deep on the decent = smoother transition.
Uno mas
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02-11-2008, 02:10 PM #5
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In the immortal words of the great Nelson Muntz, HA HA!
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02-11-2008, 02:12 PM #6
singletrack state of mind
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we know that he is ok now, but holy shitballs.
not that I am one to talk, since i am incredibly well known on the interwebz for my arial stutn, but where the hell did you think you were going to magically come up with the momentum for that flip?More fucked up than a cricket in a hubcap
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02-11-2008, 02:16 PM #7
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Why do I have a burning urge to tell you you should have known better?
Chocolate? This is doodoo, BABY!
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02-11-2008, 02:18 PM #8
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It looked VERY different from the top and I was under the mistaken impression that there wasn't much to clear, and I didn't hear/understand those spotting for me telling me otherwise... oops... like Blurred says "speed is your friend" Originally Posted by Crinkle
The takeoff above me was too steep to sidestep up (it simply couldn't be done, I was on a bench below a pillowish thing).... I should have just straight aired it and I'd have been fine.
Also remember, the video angle is misleading and is looking up a slope (ie, the takeoff and landing are NOT flat like they appear in the vid)Last edited by Summit; 02-11-2008 at 03:29 PM.
Originally Posted by blurred
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02-11-2008, 02:20 PM #9
on the other side
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That's what happens when you huff a bunch of nitrous before a huck.
Anyone else get that low-voice effect when they downloaded?"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. The winds will blow their freshness into you, and the storms, their energy. Your cares and tensions will drop away like the leaves of Autumn." --John Muir
"welcome to the hacienda, asshole." --s.p.c.
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02-11-2008, 02:21 PM #10
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Maxed out on sendspace, wtf?
Put that shit on google video, you can keep it high quality.
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02-11-2008, 02:22 PM #11
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Originally Posted by dblatto
Yeah, I usually ski with a case of whippets....you know, to take the edge off.
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02-11-2008, 02:24 PM #12
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Needs...more...speed!
Props for trying it, but $DEITY.
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02-11-2008, 02:28 PM #13
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Sometimes it takes things like this to realize that speed is your friend, and that you should NEVER hesitate or stop on a set rotation.
We told Summit to hike up and get some speed to clear the rocks, but I guess he wasn't listening. It was pretty gnarly in person, totally happy he wasn't hurt more.
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02-11-2008, 02:32 PM #14
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i dig
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02-11-2008, 02:41 PM #15
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I lol'ed
glad you're ok
"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible" -Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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02-11-2008, 02:49 PM #16
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I am so relieved that he is OK because my 4 year old son is imitating it right now off the couch.
BTW How did you get Herman Munster as your play-by-play man?
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02-11-2008, 02:51 PM #17
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Jesus - how about NO speed is not your friend. Doing the front flip was probably the only way to clear those rocks. You would have ruined your skis even just dropping that from where you were.
I had a similar experience with a cliff with horizontal distance years back ending in base damage and a head to toe to head to toe rag doll.
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02-11-2008, 02:51 PM #18
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Um, what's this have to do with this thread?
Guess you hit your head harder than we thought!
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02-11-2008, 02:55 PM #19
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02-11-2008, 03:00 PM #20
is a fine box of wine...
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dude, so glad you weren't hurt. that looked bad. why not leave this to the professionals...
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02-11-2008, 03:01 PM #21
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wow...I love the satanic slow mo voices, though...
I bet if you ask that rock out-cropping, it thinks your face kicked it's ass for sure...
Seriously, props for trying that, and for sure as everyone has said, get more speed, take more speed, etc...
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02-11-2008, 03:25 PM #22
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That might have been the dumbest thing I've seen someone do on skis.
Glad you weren't seriously mangled by those rocks.
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02-11-2008, 03:27 PM #23
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You are one dumb son of a bitch.
Please don't reproduce.
Glad you are OK.
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02-11-2008, 03:38 PM #24
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Jesus mother of god.
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02-11-2008, 03:39 PM #25
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Wow, good thing Summit didn't use his ski pole straps, things could have ended differently. His poles might have kept him from protecting his face with his arms.
That video looks like the quality Break.com would give you some money for.
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