What is the 'BEST' Winter Olympic event?

[BigV]

Originally Posted by Griff

Watch for the second jump. It's a blind jump to an off camber turn. That thing was eating up racers all day. Beat crushes it.

he unjumps it. null push off he stays tucked until he's completely airborne, then he uncurls, extending his body completely ready to soak up the imminent landing. meanwhile he swings his lower legs into plane with the coming landing point, touching down tails first but in plane not favoring either edge and longitudinally with the fall line. super, duper smooth.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Isn't that how the jumpers do it on the big 120 meter jumps?

[BigV]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Isn't that how the jumpers do it on the big 120 meter jumps?

landings, yes, takeoffs, no.

in the straight ahead ski jumps, 120 meter, etc, the downslope and the ramp and the landing area are all on the same level left to right, unlike the one in the video from Griff. for the ski jump (for distance), the take off is aaaalmost the same, coiled up on the approach, but just before the point of takeoff, the ski jumper explodes upward, *jumping* to increase their altitude and to get into optimum flight position. That flight posture is dramatically different from what you see in the downhill skier.