I like the idea, top 3 weekly winners move on to the top 12 for monthly vote. Top one per month moves on to end of year rollup of top 12. Have somebody narrate the top 12 of the year in a long format rollup and allow people to vote.
In the fails you could easily just put a # next to each one in the vid and use a numbered poll.
Is that Crab Apple @ 2:28? Dude noses in that first jump, barely makes it then sends the second bigger one and destroys himself....no kneepads, there is a fine line between stupid and brave, but bravo my friend
As someone who has hit them and is still immensely scared by them, yep. you can't screw around on jumps this big; you need to pick them apart and dial them in order.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again - if you have the guts and the talent to even attempt a superman or backflip or a 10ft+ drop and you don't make it, that's not a fail in my book. That's just practice. Kudo's to them for even trying. Also, I don't get the party train thing. Seems like you're just asking to get run over if you don't make it. I hate riding with someone behind me for that reason.
Up until the 2 minute mark when dude lacking 3rd grade understanding of gravity rolls off a rock drop at 0.2 miles an hour these were all fails on legit attempts. High quality of riding this week, even if they weren't 100% successful.
Big air edition.Hope everyone survived in more or less one piece. I enjoy the ones like the trail pile up or the tree skinny more than seeing people smash to the ground on 50ft jumps.
The crashes when the people clearly survived with either none, or light injuries, are much easier to laugh at than the ones where you know they are just lucky to have survived, and are facing weeks/months of recovery.
The number of people that sort of appear to have survived the crashes without horrific injury, is impressive to me.
If I had crashed like the guy in the first opening clip, I'd be broken into 100 pieces, almost guaranteed.
Really makes me wish I'd picked up the sport when I was younger and still made of magic and rubber. My current goal is to learn to safely ride jumps before my bones turn ceramic .
Adrenaline can make very hurt people seem not hurt (for a short while). I occasionally see the stars of Friday Fails post in the comments here. Quite often they will list their injuries. I would bet a a sizeable portion of the big accidents on Friday Fails involve at least 1 broken bone.
2:28 is crabapple hits I think? Lucky to ride away from the first landing so nose heavy, and silly enough to continue onto the second, and all without knee pads too. Crazy.
I did something very similar on a rock only half that size, and the next thing I remember, I was a half-mile down the trail with a broken helmet and banged up knee. Two hikers were asking me for directions and I couldn't remember how to get back to the parking lot even though these were my "home" trails. Bad concussion. Wish I remembered what happened. Last thing in memory was approaching the lip, and I really thought I had enough speed. Lesson learned not to try stuff like that riding alone.
In the fails you could easily just put a # next to each one in the vid and use a numbered poll.
"You got to know when to hold 'em
Know when to fold 'em
Know when to walk away
And know when to run"
P.S. The opening "air" swim was majestic.
Also, I don't get the party train thing. Seems like you're just asking to get run over if you don't make it. I hate riding with someone behind me for that reason.
It's okay to have a fetish, but it's not okay to non-consensually involve other people in it.
The crashes when the people clearly survived with either none, or light injuries, are much easier to laugh at than the ones where you know they are just lucky to have survived, and are facing weeks/months of recovery.
If I had crashed like the guy in the first opening clip, I'd be broken into 100 pieces, almost guaranteed.
Really makes me wish I'd picked up the sport when I was younger and still made of magic and rubber. My current goal is to learn to safely ride jumps before my bones turn ceramic
Lucky to ride away from the first landing so nose heavy, and silly enough to continue onto the second, and all without knee pads too.
Crazy.