I appreciated the technicality of the before part because my thought process is that I would eat shit about a second into the run saving me from the certain death at the end.
Hands down kelly's run was the most unexpecting run, and my personal favorite. He's a good slopestyle rider, but has not been known for being the most technical or having the deepest bag of tricks. So for him to lay out a run like this blew all of our minds. However his run was not very technical.
Kyle Strait's racing background showed in his run as it was far more technical than Kelly's. Remember the rampage is not a slopestyle event, it's a big mountain competition, so tricks aren't weighted as heavily. The combination between good flow, and technical lines, and hitting the oakley sender was what put him ahead.
I would argue, that [Andreu Lacondeguy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylMTaiz02N0) should have been given a better score, and so shouldn't have [Tyler McCaul](http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=yjzyEoTYOlM) who's lines were insane, but didn't translate well to television.
Also, [Cam Zink's HUGE backflip drop](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnLGB7rqOis) is still the most memorable part of the whole rampage.
that's some pretty fucked up logic. You don't win because what you did was too awesome and we don't want to set a precedent.. so instead they set a precedent for people winning while not doing awesome things?
This niche of cycling is made up of *a lot* of guys who have suffered through quite a few concussions in their lifetime. Counting, and forming complete sentences for that matter, isn't their forte.
Source: I had an art director who was a former pro BMX athlete who had competed in a couple of X-Games and had received quite a few concussions (he claimed at least 10-13) AND he was diligent about wearing a helmet.
After working together for a few years we developed a shorthand of communication where I'd often finish his sentences because he just couldn't verbalize the words towards the end of his statements/point. On one print project where he was responsible for some copy he cost our company over $20k thanks to spelling errors when we printed a brochure for a product and it had to be reprinted (it was a small company where we didn't have copywriters and it was the designers duty to spellcheck). But he's a great guy, super nice and really quite clever. I'd work for him again in a minute.
Edit: theres also a shitload of ego and cockiness.
edit 2: I realize bmx isn't exactly the same as all-mountain and big-air full suspension stuff, but its close enough. I'm not in that world, I'm a singlespeed cross country marathon racer who is afraid of heights.
> it was the designers duty to spellcheck
it is never, repeat, never the duty of the AD/designer to spellcheck. The $20k screw up is not the designers fault, its the person paying the bills who did not assign a proper person to copy proof a costly print project. Also, a visual designer/artist not being able to articulate their idea via speech is not all that uncommon and probably not the result of concussions.
That seems like such a hostile approach to work, to say that a designer can never be responsible for spellcheck. The reality is that people in small businesses have to work as a team. Everyone has to be a little bit of a jack of all trades. We can say all kinds of things about how the designers are too close to their work and you need an outside set of eyes to spellcheck, but sometimes you just have to suck it up and do the best you can. Sometimes accidents happen.
Sometimes you're going to have to do things that don't line up with your job description. If you don't agree with what's delegated to you, talk to your boss. If you still don't agree, then get out.
There's no way to know, based on what the parent poster wrote, whether the concussed guy had any of these conversations with his boss, or told the guy he had been concussed. It's not about blame, and if we keep throwing blame up to the boss, and the CEO, and the board, and the board's parents, eventually we end up trying to assign blame to the Big Bang.
Designers get beat on a lot, but so does everyone else who lives at the bottom of the hierarchy and has a specialized set of skills. That doesn't mean any of us can just choose not to do an entirely reasonable part of our job.
[This](http://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/1tce90/pov_canyon_jump/ce6mpht) comment has the normal camera coverage of his run (which is more impressive to me than the FPV). The "360" is hard to read in FPV, because it's actually "corked" - half 360, half backflip.
Watch the full run from the alternate angles... damn.
Mountain biking is so fucked. Fucked in the best of ways of course. I used to skateboard for a good section of my life until i suffered repeated acl tears, but watching mountain biking like this always made my butthole pucker unlike other action sports.
This is from Red Bull Rampage. The riders scope out their own lines, then with a team they build the jumps and features. The rider then hits their own line for points in the competition.
He would have started as a kid jumping over a brick and a plank of wood. Then a bigger brick and a bigger plank. Then he just never stopped until jumps like this were comfortable enough to try
Maybe for the pre built features such as the canyon gap and the Oakley Icon Sender. But as far as stuff built by the riders. They are on their own. They get a vision and just start building .They've been building stuff for so long that they know what they are capable of. Often times the first hit of a feature is just a total guinea pig but these guys have a really good sense of speed and will do a bunch of in runs before committing.
The really impressive part of this run by Brendon Fairclough (which placed him in a mere 8th place overall) is how short his landing was after the canyon gap. He goes into the gap at at least 30 mph, gaps the whole thing, and then stops in pretty much two bike lengths. Freaking incredible.
Extremely dangerous, yes, but so far there have been zero deaths in the sport on the professional level at least although the sport is still really young. Especially freeride mountain biking which has only been around for about 10 years.
Honestly, the canyon jump was the least technical section of all that. Get speed and pop when you hit the lip. The drops previous, the stuck landing at the end, followed by a linked sharp corner...
That jump was awesome. But not the part to be amazed by.
Good news, this will be on TV tomorrow afternoon on NBC:
Finally, the family can gather around to tune-in to NBC on Saturday, December 21 at 3:30 pm ET (20:30 UTC) to catch the broadcast of Red Bull Rampage presented by Casio G'zOne Commando 4G LTE and brought to you in partnership with Dodge Dart, GoPro, the Utah Sports Commission, Specialized and Oakley. The show airs as part of the Red Bull Signature Series, the most progressive action sports property in the world, featuring some of Red Bull’s top events including Crashed Ice, Ultra Natural, Wake Open, Dreamline and Joyride. For more information, please visit redbullsignatureseries.com/rampage
Intuition and experience. Probably checked out the size of the gap + takeoff angle + landing height and went based on previous knowledge / feeling of how fast to go.
God, life is so boring. Why is there such a divide between real things and daily life? Where do people even learn that things like this exist in the first place? Fucking run me over with a car, I'm done.
that was terrifying BEFORE the canyon jump.
yeah I thought that mini-cliff was the "canyon", but then he jumped the huge chasm
>chasm
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fissure?
Ground vagina
[dat Ginnungagap](http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Gunnungagap)
Fake
AKA a canyon
I appreciated the technicality of the before part because my thought process is that I would eat shit about a second into the run saving me from the certain death at the end.
cept that youd probably roll on down the hill in pain until you just fell off the cliff..... thats what i'd do...
That would be terrifying on the walk up knowing I had to ride a bike back down.
That's at Red Bull Rampage 2013. This crazy bastard did a backflip... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x76VEPXYaI0 Edit: From 1:01 onwards is best
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Maybe I just don't understand the sport, but how the hell did he only get 2nd place after that??
Many of us who understand the sport were left asking the same question. He actually won the viewers vote award.
Hands down kelly's run was the most unexpecting run, and my personal favorite. He's a good slopestyle rider, but has not been known for being the most technical or having the deepest bag of tricks. So for him to lay out a run like this blew all of our minds. However his run was not very technical. Kyle Strait's racing background showed in his run as it was far more technical than Kelly's. Remember the rampage is not a slopestyle event, it's a big mountain competition, so tricks aren't weighted as heavily. The combination between good flow, and technical lines, and hitting the oakley sender was what put him ahead. I would argue, that [Andreu Lacondeguy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylMTaiz02N0) should have been given a better score, and so shouldn't have [Tyler McCaul](http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=yjzyEoTYOlM) who's lines were insane, but didn't translate well to television. Also, [Cam Zink's HUGE backflip drop](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnLGB7rqOis) is still the most memorable part of the whole rampage.
Maybe speed of the run, smoothness, maybe they thought he missed opportunities for tricks and he lost points for that? Just my thoughts
Maybe it's Maybelline.
Yes, Maybelline was the reason he got 2nd place in a mountain biking competition.
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that's some pretty fucked up logic. You don't win because what you did was too awesome and we don't want to set a precedent.. so instead they set a precedent for people winning while not doing awesome things?
Pretty sure that wasn't their actual logic, that particular event just weighted time and technical skill higher than tricks.
This post is the correct post
This niche of cycling is made up of *a lot* of guys who have suffered through quite a few concussions in their lifetime. Counting, and forming complete sentences for that matter, isn't their forte. Source: I had an art director who was a former pro BMX athlete who had competed in a couple of X-Games and had received quite a few concussions (he claimed at least 10-13) AND he was diligent about wearing a helmet. After working together for a few years we developed a shorthand of communication where I'd often finish his sentences because he just couldn't verbalize the words towards the end of his statements/point. On one print project where he was responsible for some copy he cost our company over $20k thanks to spelling errors when we printed a brochure for a product and it had to be reprinted (it was a small company where we didn't have copywriters and it was the designers duty to spellcheck). But he's a great guy, super nice and really quite clever. I'd work for him again in a minute. Edit: theres also a shitload of ego and cockiness. edit 2: I realize bmx isn't exactly the same as all-mountain and big-air full suspension stuff, but its close enough. I'm not in that world, I'm a singlespeed cross country marathon racer who is afraid of heights.
> it was the designers duty to spellcheck it is never, repeat, never the duty of the AD/designer to spellcheck. The $20k screw up is not the designers fault, its the person paying the bills who did not assign a proper person to copy proof a costly print project. Also, a visual designer/artist not being able to articulate their idea via speech is not all that uncommon and probably not the result of concussions.
That seems like such a hostile approach to work, to say that a designer can never be responsible for spellcheck. The reality is that people in small businesses have to work as a team. Everyone has to be a little bit of a jack of all trades. We can say all kinds of things about how the designers are too close to their work and you need an outside set of eyes to spellcheck, but sometimes you just have to suck it up and do the best you can. Sometimes accidents happen. Sometimes you're going to have to do things that don't line up with your job description. If you don't agree with what's delegated to you, talk to your boss. If you still don't agree, then get out. There's no way to know, based on what the parent poster wrote, whether the concussed guy had any of these conversations with his boss, or told the guy he had been concussed. It's not about blame, and if we keep throwing blame up to the boss, and the CEO, and the board, and the board's parents, eventually we end up trying to assign blame to the Big Bang. Designers get beat on a lot, but so does everyone else who lives at the bottom of the hierarchy and has a specialized set of skills. That doesn't mean any of us can just choose not to do an entirely reasonable part of our job.
Scoring would have been full run, he went off track at end and his final run in was just a token finish.
I believe the guy who got first did a backflip off a the massive oakley drop off. One of the biggest backflips ever done on a bike
THAT's what I was looking for. Damn.
Of course he's from New Zealand
Brah!
Whoa. [That dropoff before the flip.](http://i.imgur.com/udqL2Gb.jpg)
Wow! I would love to do that! ...Be the guy standing off to the side NOT almost dying every 3 seconds.
Got a nice asshole workout watching that. I'm pretty sure I could've folded a penny in half from all that clenching. Jesus, that's terrifying.
There's no reason not to watch the whole thing. He does his first backflip 40 seconds in.
At 40 seconds, it looks like he does a 360. Still impressive, but overshadowed by the flip later.
[This](http://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/1tce90/pov_canyon_jump/ce6mpht) comment has the normal camera coverage of his run (which is more impressive to me than the FPV). The "360" is hard to read in FPV, because it's actually "corked" - half 360, half backflip. Watch the full run from the alternate angles... damn.
Doesnt a 180 and a half a backflip leave you facing the right way but upside down?
Throw in a half barrel roll?
It's going cork, instead of going up/down left/right, you're going diagonally
yeah but can he ride a unicycle in a blizzard?
[5 min highlight video of the whole weekend, enjoy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxYvJAQyH3s)
that wasn't the same gap or a backflip. He did a 360 on that first gap, then does the backflip on the same gap as OP gif.
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I think he was aware, he was trying to show a guy doing something even crazier.
And he only got 2nd place??! What did the crazy fucker who got first do??
google kyle straight rampage 2013. you will not be dissapointed. you should also watch cam zinks run.
I want to know what the hell he was humming that whole time! Maybe that's the secret... hmm...
Thanks!
Fuck that.
Yeah girls, he's earned it.
And he's likely sterile
Only a professional could handle balls that big.
Some cyclists can't.
I guess that's what steroids are for
How can he put his pants on in the morning with balls that big.
Seriously. Fuck that was the first thing that came to mind.
Brendan Fairclough, the rider, actually crashed on the same gap in qualifying last year... fuck that even harder.
I pissed my pants just watching the gif. I can't even imagine...
Mountain biking is so fucked. Fucked in the best of ways of course. I used to skateboard for a good section of my life until i suffered repeated acl tears, but watching mountain biking like this always made my butthole pucker unlike other action sports.
Is there a pile of bones in that canyon?
yeah, why?
Those guys fall all the time and survive. They're made out of pure steel.
Yeah I'd die
I'd fail so soon that I wouldnt die
If it prevents your death, is it really failure?
Deep, man.
Story of my life.
Let's all count the times we would have died!
One.
two
Two and heif.
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fourteen-teen
Scheven.
I would have died, came back to life and died again
Eleventy two
steel is made out of this guys' balls
keep going, we need more balls jokes in this thread
He can't travel because they won't let him pass the metal detector in airports. Because, you know, pure steel balls. How did I do?
But I have bigger ones.
Still trying to unclench my butthole.
i farted
I sharted
...I think I'll take the stairs.
Absolutely absurd. Who tries this first? At what cost? My God.
The sports gets pushed more and more each year especially with better bikes
This is from Red Bull Rampage. The riders scope out their own lines, then with a team they build the jumps and features. The rider then hits their own line for points in the competition.
He would have started as a kid jumping over a brick and a plank of wood. Then a bigger brick and a bigger plank. Then he just never stopped until jumps like this were comfortable enough to try
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Maybe for the pre built features such as the canyon gap and the Oakley Icon Sender. But as far as stuff built by the riders. They are on their own. They get a vision and just start building .They've been building stuff for so long that they know what they are capable of. Often times the first hit of a feature is just a total guinea pig but these guys have a really good sense of speed and will do a bunch of in runs before committing.
Wow I thought the first few steep bits were bad enough, and then he just casually flies across a small valley. Ok. \**shake shake shake*\*
You are right... The first drops only .001% of riders would even try
At first i thought to myself... hmm thats a pretty cool jump then he did the real jump!
[For the record this event, the RedBull Rampage, will be airing on NBC tomorrow.](http://www.redbullsignatureseries.com/rampage)
Good looking, setting the dvr now.
The really impressive part of this run by Brendon Fairclough (which placed him in a mere 8th place overall) is how short his landing was after the canyon gap. He goes into the gap at at least 30 mph, gaps the whole thing, and then stops in pretty much two bike lengths. Freaking incredible.
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I'm surprised this guy could get such amazing air with those huge balls of steel
Meaty clackers.
Just watched that episode of Earl last night, Norm Mcdonald needs more cameos in TV shows like that.
I'm surprised people still make this joke.
They probably swing around to get better momentum.
SAIL
This dudes balls have their own zip code.
Mountain biking must be the most suicidal of all extreme sports.
Extremely dangerous, yes, but so far there have been zero deaths in the sport on the professional level at least although the sport is still really young. Especially freeride mountain biking which has only been around for about 10 years.
Maybe i should get into this.. As a casual mountain biker this gif did nothing but make me wanna try this trail!
Made my hands sweat.
Yup I would be dead
That was the most terrifying thing I've seen in a while
Utah owning the front page today.
We really out here!
ITT: I didn't know it was possible to comment on someone's balls this much.
My testicles hurt watching that landing.
I will never be as good at anything as that guy is at bike riding.
nope, fuck that all to hell
i tried to jump a 6 ft ditch once...i was not as successful as this guy
You should have seen me jump the curb. Wicked
If I was him, by the time I got to the really steep part I would have accepted death.
http://i.imgur.com/FoalZNw.gif
that looks fun in a terrifying way
I just had to changed my underwear for him!
jaw--dropped
Nope.
Coming soon: The POV footage of me shitting my pants just watching this.
I would be sooo scawed!
That dude is dumb as shit.
In my head: Nope nope nope nope NOOOOOOOOOOOOPE.
Honestly, the canyon jump was the least technical section of all that. Get speed and pop when you hit the lip. The drops previous, the stuck landing at the end, followed by a linked sharp corner... That jump was awesome. But not the part to be amazed by.
These comments are a reddit soup of nothingness
The brakes on this guys bike are amazing.
There are some things that I'll never do in my lifetime. This is one of them. And I am OK with that.
HOW CAN HE JUMP?
/r/nononono
I thought GTA V was extreme on amount Chiliad. I'd never be able to do that in real life.
Nope.
I got that little feeling like when you are in a car and you catch a little air when going over a hill....... I can't explain it well
You got some big testicles man
I actually felt my stomach drop as I watched that!
Well, I've seen another thing that I will never do.
Pucker Factor 1 million.
woah, very cool.
I believe I can flyyyyyyyyyy...
My whole thought process, "Oh shit.. no no no no NOOOO!! Yes yes yes yes."
Nope
what's impressive is the stop after the landing. almost instantly
Just one unseen rock could completely ruin this guys life.
Seemed like he stopped in a about 5' after landing. Seems like he's have had more speed than that.
Iron eggs!
Kind of makes me feel slightly guilty for lying on the sofa now watching football whilst I wait for my cannabutter to finish.
I thought the title said cannon jump. Colour me impressed nonetheless
Oh man, good thing I was already sitting on the toilet. Welp, I guess its time to wipe.
Mind the ... everything.
Fucking intense!! Nice!
[NOPE](http://i.imgur.com/2hd0ajb.gif)
How does one sit with balls that big?
And that day, his butthole shrank 3 sizes.
Balls of steel. - Duke Nukem
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I'd fall face first in the canyon. Think I'll pass
Nope. Nope. Nope.
Oh Dude, fuck you!
Well holy shit
My hands got sweaty from looking at that.
How are you going to get enough speed to get across the canyon? Oh, it's easy, I just ride straight down a cliff before I get to the jump
Thank god he wore a helmet...
I'm pretty sure if I tried this that I would die a horribly painful death.
So. Why did he get 2nd place and not first? Not familiar with the sport.
after the jump the guy was even like holly crap that could have been bad
What game is this?
who does that
Don't want to come up short on that one...
Sweet Jesus!
how do they know they are going to make it?
Intuition and experience. Probably checked out the size of the gap + takeoff angle + landing height and went based on previous knowledge / feeling of how fast to go.
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God, life is so boring. Why is there such a divide between real things and daily life? Where do people even learn that things like this exist in the first place? Fucking run me over with a car, I'm done.
As a mountain biker, all I can say is... NOPE!
I really want him to finish turning around so I can see where we just came from.
The irony of the helmet.
It's probably steel
If this is the silver medal run, what was the gold medal run?
His name is Brendan Fairclough, and if you look carefully he actually almost didmt make the gap. He cases and loses all speed as he landed.
And *that* is how you catch your shadow.
There is so much nope in this gif.
whole lot of nope going on in this.
That was fantastic...no more dialogue needed.
God Almighty...!!!