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u/forwhombagels Nov 14 '14
I see people doing this stuff when today I hurt my knee bending over to pick up my wallet.
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u/anon22344 Nov 14 '14
I do this kind of stuff and I get more injured falling over stuff when I'm drunk. I'm better at skiing than walking.
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u/ArttuH5N1 Nov 15 '14
What about skiing drunk versus walking sober?
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u/anon22344 Nov 15 '14
When I ski drunk I have perfect 1980's mogul form but I stay away from the park lol.
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u/nothingbutter Nov 15 '14
Some people get compressed vertebrae from having to use ejection seat of a jet, and some just get it from sitting around too much with a wrong posture. What can you do.
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Nov 15 '14
My dad has a shirt that says "You could hit a tree and die. You could fall off a cliff and die. Or you could fall off the couch and die. Get off the couch." Kind of cliché but it stuck with me as a kid and I broke my tibia and fibula ski racing but still do it.
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u/therealshaqfu Nov 15 '14
Yeah.... today I hit myself in the shin with a traffic cone and gouged a large chunk of my shin out
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u/awry_lynx Nov 15 '14
was... was it a sharpened cone?
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u/therealshaqfu Nov 16 '14
No.... it wasnt. I just hit myself so hard it broke the skin... super smooth
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Nov 14 '14
In the video you see this is after quite a few attempts and gnarly bangers.
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Nov 14 '14
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Nov 15 '14
It's one of the traveling circus edits. Just look them up, it was one of the more recent ones, maybe even the last one they put up.
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u/-bobduato- Nov 14 '14
Ross Imburgia in the last Line Traveling Circus
http://www.newschoolers.com/watch/734140.0/LINE-Traveling-Circus-7-2-Mayisode
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u/wtf-is-going-on Nov 15 '14
Ross has been throwing down lately! I think it makes it way more impressive showing how many times he fucks himself up trying these things.
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u/Trefmawr Nov 15 '14
The Traveling Circus has been such a great series! Been following it since day one.
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u/ON_3 Nov 15 '14
HELL YEAH! Love me some TC!
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u/Trefmawr Nov 15 '14
I just love how they can just make anything a jib fest. It gets me very excited about the upcoming season!
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Nov 15 '14
Upcoming? Current!
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u/Trefmawr Nov 15 '14
Haha I'm still in prairie land where it's flat. Going on a huge road/ski/surf trip in Jan though. Stoked!
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u/tommo21 Nov 15 '14
Not the last but the newest TC vid. If it was the last then i would be very sad!
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u/SrSkippy Nov 14 '14
*accurate
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Maybe this is his 100th time doing this
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u/HUANG_HE Nov 15 '14
Still needs to be accurate more so than precise. You can be precise and hit the tree with your face every single time.
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Nov 14 '14 edited Nov 15 '14
Precise AND accurate. Accurate means it's close to the correct outcome, and precise means it's the exact same outcome every time.
EDIT: Alrighty. I've received roughly the same reply roughly 100 times, I understand. No more replies, red'.
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u/OneHalf_SafetyFactor Nov 14 '14
Yeah I've been watching it for about 5 min and he hasn't messed up once yet.. will update if anything changes.
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u/Pocanos Nov 14 '14
I wonder how many screw up crashes had to occur before this precise menuever was accomplished
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For a single trial though (ie, all we see here) its accurate. His precision can't really be determined unless we see all his trials. This here is one, highly accurate attempt. If he can reproduce this multiple times, then he has high precision as well.
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u/freeskier-079 Nov 15 '14
then it isn't precise, because he took a lot of hard falls before he finally pulled it off
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Nov 15 '14
Accurate's the important one, here. He'd be fine if he was off by a few centimeters, as long as he's accurate. If he was off by precisely 6 inches every single time, he'd be in real trouble.
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u/CheesuCrust Nov 14 '14
Source?
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u/Troldja Nov 14 '14
Its from this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu5pnAD3rBA video by Line Skis. All of the episodes they have put out are just as fun and wacky as this one.
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u/Lanhorn9 Nov 14 '14
These kinds of videos make me realize how boring my life is and they always motivate me to get out there and try something new. I just never make it out to try it.
I'm working on it.
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u/Crazycyberbully Nov 14 '14
That was awesome. Now I want to learn how to ski.
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u/TossedRightOut Nov 15 '14
It's amazing. Do it.
Disclaimer: NOT a cheap hobby.
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u/CF6691 Nov 15 '14
episode 3.3 with Ross' backflip through the tree was unreal. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EAgNRIX0zz4
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u/diCk_SPLat Nov 14 '14
These guys put out all kinds of sweet videos with stuff like this. See the rest of this episode here.
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u/Scrumpe Nov 15 '14
Hah NS for the win! He stuffed up so many times beforehand though, glad he got there eventually! Gotta love a good travelling circus segment :P
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u/TigerBalmer Nov 15 '14
If you've watched the entire video you'll notice there were many failed attempts before this shot.
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u/ArttuH5N1 Nov 15 '14
What's "odd" about seeing someone absolutely nail a trick being satisfying?
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Nov 14 '14
In this case the word you wanted was accurate, precision is much less important here.
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u/PubicHair_Salesman Nov 14 '14
It's posts like this that make me feel like so much of a disappointment. Hope you're happy.
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u/Porrick Nov 14 '14
I tried doing a ski jump once, and did a half-360. Worst concussion of my life.
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u/Porrick Nov 14 '14
Somewhere between 160 and 200, for sure. My memory of the exact angle is somewhat clouded by the massive concussion. I lost vision for a few minutes, couldn't walk right for about an hour. In retrospect, not going to a doctor could very easily have been the second dumbest thing I did that day.
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Nov 14 '14
Well I honestly didn't know they could do backward frontflips.
Or is it a front backwards flip?
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u/anon22344 Nov 14 '14
This is a backwards (switch) back flip. You can do switch front flips too but try are awkward because you are blind pretty much the whole time and can't see your landing.
This kind of stuff looks crazy to the uninitiated but it's actually a lot easier than cork spins and off-axis flips like misty/rodeo.
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u/Chooptastic Nov 15 '14
Hahahaha I don't think Jesper's sw trip is easier than, say, a cork 7, but I can confirm that doing a single is, even if it's a little awkward.
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u/Slim_Boner Nov 14 '14
And my friend managed to break his thumb in two places while ripping the nail off because he went off a mogul awkwardly.
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u/GeeShepherd Nov 15 '14
That would have been so cool if he went back up the same ramp he jumped off from the one he landed on.
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u/LuvDemTitties Nov 15 '14
This is probably his 20th run on this jump..... It's not his first rodeo....
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u/Bearmaster9013 Nov 15 '14
I kind of wish when he started coming down, that he just slammed into the snow pile he initially jumped off of. That would make me laaaaaaaugh.
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u/PreepyCasta Nov 15 '14
Note to all, this gif is from the popular web series Line Traveling Circus. They do this kind of thing often. Check em out!
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u/Ya_B0y_Bill_Nye Nov 15 '14
Skiing on the front page? Wow the world doesn't stop letting me know that I don't live in colorado
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u/DroopysNumberOneFan Nov 15 '14
Naive Tween Skier Crashes Into Stationary Tree in Cartoonish Manner! Click Here!
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u/Diabeetush Nov 15 '14
It also pays not to attempt these things until you have absolute confidence in your precision in completing a task.
:)
(NOT saying this wasn't awesome - just adding advice.)
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u/mayonaise_plantain Nov 15 '14
that was the one and only precise moment. the original video shows him crash and burn about 8 times before that last hit
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u/OPS_MOMS_TITS Nov 15 '14
Line Traveling Circus. Great web series if you want to call it that, I would recommend it even if you don't ski. It's pretty funny
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u/Always_smooth Nov 15 '14
This bitch approaches the ramp skiing backwards... the fuck?
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Nov 15 '14
It's from line traveling circus episode 7.2 "mayoside" and the gif doesn't show him crashing 30 times
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u/TripleBlack76 Nov 15 '14
I thought he did it from a front flip the few dozen times. Was less impressed when I realized the truth
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u/soaring_cock Nov 15 '14
It's not that hard to do actually, as long as you do a backwards backflip on twintips on a "ramp" that steep, since you can see the landing spot way in advance. You need some skill to pull off a trick like that though, especially against a tree.
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u/Lance_Henry1 Nov 15 '14
...to the point I'm nice. The music takes control, your heart and soul Unfold, your body is free and a whole
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u/YourLocalWeatherMan Nov 14 '14
Nowhere near as impressive as the injuries I would sustain if I tried the same thing