Video: Friday Fails #252

 Or taking their hand off the bar in mid-air...

 A huge number of these riders seem to be landing jumps with their weight over the front wheel.
Im not surprised at all that most of these crashes feature some kind of OTB...
Who's teaching them to do that?

 Yeah, sometimes a FF crash looks like they almost had it..... but sometimes it looks like they had no business trying whatever move or feature they were on. Lots here where they were nowhere near making it

 Welcome to friday fails....

 It's wild to me that people are like "yeah, I've never hit a drop but let me try this 10 footer real quick"

 LOOKS LIKE THAT LAST GUY "META" THE GROUND IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEANY HEHEHEHE

 @ReformedRoadie: Look Mum….. No teeth

 @Mtmw: Brilliant comment!

 Honestly is probably because medical groups like that are more regional so they wouldn't pay to advertise to such a wide audience. If there were some kind of nation wide orthopedic group they probably would sponsor something like that.

 When I invent the "unbreakable clavicle" implant device I'll be sure to advertise.

 @swellhunter: you joke but there are a ton of patents on collarbone repairs and rebreak resistance is a feature.

www.mititalia.it/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Clavicle_Case_Compendium.pdf

 Go as in go to the hospital.

 Still wondering how the first dude had near enough speed for that feature.

 Poor dude. This is why I don't like to pull someone over big jumps. You never know how they jump or swallow a feature.

 @corposello: The second guy was too close to push into the lip, first guy did

 Which one do you think is the most obvious?

 "You got this" Famous last words, right up there with "wait, hold my beer..." That kid definitely did not "got this"

 @dcaf: good chance he did, was just having a bad day, and dad was trying to get him out of a funk. Wouldn’t be surprised if the kid had ridden that before just fine. Kids are weird like that and confidence is so huge

 He's up . . . no, he's down. . . HE'S UP!. . . nope, down again. . . .

 Total clown show.

 @rrolly: He's all over the place! Nine hundred feet up to 1300 feet. What an a*shole!

 @rrolly: your play-by-play has me in tears

 He thinks he's Neymar

 He rode into a tree and decided that wasn't enough haha

 People say this every time. Fast rebound isn’t bucking them, it’s all body position, speed and timing. Hardtails don’t rebound at all and they certainly buck

 @emptybe-er: This!

 @emptybe-er: did i say fast rebound is whats bucking them? i did not. i did imply rebound contributes to getting bucked though, which it undeniably does

 Yep. The pre-death scream slam combo

 Yeah. Brutal

 Yes! And the cameras are following the carcasses (carcii?) until they lie motionless capturing the entire beautiful moment. Some group learning going on.

 It was "go a little faster" time

 Yea. I did the same - literally in the same order as you. All that crash violence gave me the same impression.

 @10DollarHelmet10DollarHead: same situation here, similar reaction.

 I've watched that one multiple times tryng to figure out they got so nose heavy. Seemed like the speed was ok enough even though it was a little slow.

 Cold-blooded

 @sino428: I have to guess he tapped the brakes right at the end maybe? I've seen people just roll off that and be fine before so I am pretty confused lol

 That person looked like they could hardly roll off a curb, not sure why they got talked into doing a 6' drop

 @OCSunDevil: It was the Pit Vipers for sure. As soon as he put them on he was feelin sendy... well, that's my guess anyway.

 That one was my favorite : D

 Every drop deeper than you can roll through demands a modicum of technique. A 90 cm (3ft) drop is brutal without technique, especially if it's a drop to flat.

On what's going wrong? I see guys lifting their front wheel while going slow, not realizing that if your front wheel goes down again before your rear wheel left the feature you will go over the bars. Quite simple, bad technique. And the other issue is people not going to slow, but way too fast (for their skill level).

I see people railing through woods at moronic speeds. To make this plain and simple, put on your helmet and walk with 3 miles an hour into a tree. If you are not convinced, have a little jog of 6 miles an hour and run into that tree. Not learned your lesson yet? Do it at full sprint. Even with a helmet, I doubt you will be up for another go. These guys go much faster without technique and then find out what a hard stop and momentum do to a body (if not their head).

Lastly there were a few experienced riders having bad luck landing less than perfectly, diving into a corner and then hitting a pebble or rock while their body was imbalanced. Usually it ends well, sometimes it doesn't, with spectacular results (we all have crashed).

But generally it's people not understanding the forces at play. and how dangerous it is to do these things without sufficient skill .

 @Ronkol: I was tempted so many times just to go for it. Im pretty sure now I would have went over the handle bars.

 @phantommtb it probably was bad. We don’t see how he rolled but it looks like he may have scorpioned with him hitting his head and flipping all the way over. That one was definitely the worst today.

 Kid @:30 would've been fine if he 1) had an Ibis and 2) let it to do the job.

 I tell myself that every day, and yet a new day comes without any Zwifting...

 i haven't seen fails for quite a while now, but just watched this one.
i thought it was exceptional. all kinds of fails.
good action comments / reactions too.
'it's go time.' classic, on a big hit too.
brilliant.