Posted by JA
on December 24, 2008, 7:57 pm, in reply to "Re: Maddo's Practice Video - INSANE!!!!"
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When I viewed the footage, there was no sound because I didn't connect the speakers. He would be smart to sell the jump as scary, because that makes the spectators more excited. I'm sure it's a nice rush for him, and repetition will make it less scary. He looks pretty comfortable. I think he's fine.
One of these days I'll upload a picture of me with my landing ramp that's strikingly similar to the one Maddo is using. I built it with Jennifer Caputo's help specifically for dropoffs just like that one. There was a launch tower that went up 5 feet at a time.
Yeah, even though the step-up is fun and awesome, the dropoff will be a visual fright-fest for the Robmeister. Even though there's not a whole lot of room for error, he should be perfectly consistent enough for the job. When I was dropping off of cliffs like that, I was able to consistently hit right near the bottom, as far as possible, without overjumping it. He has the experience to get the consistency to do the same.
JA
--Previous Message--
: With the limited amount of
: "practice" video that has been
: released up to this point, it looks like
: "Maddo" has the "up"
: part pretty well "locked in" and
: the real challenge will be the
: "drop" down.
: With the "overhead" shot of the
: Arc that JA has posted and seeing Maddos'
: practice setup it almost seems to guarantee
: that the landing platform on top of the Arc
: will be level with the "lip" or
: wall that surrounds the top of the Arc.
: There's probably a 3 or 4 foot high wall
: around the top of the Arc which probably
: wouldn't be a "bad" thing for the
: "up" and landing part, but given
: the drop between the top and the beginning
: of the landing ramp, plus the steep angle of
: the landing ramp (meaning there's very
: little horizontal room for error - better
: not go "long" or the impact
: becomes greater the farther he falls without
: touching ramp) one would think that he
: doesn't want to have to "travel"
: up that far (and therfore out/forward)
: before getting the bike adjusted downward
: for what will be a quick and steep landing.
: Since there hasn't been any video of him
: "practicing" the "drop",
: I'm gonna guess that he's going straight off
: or has a small "bump" of a ramp
: that will allow him to adjust quickly before
: dropping too far. Either way, I think the
: "down" part of the stunt is going
: to be way more intense than the
: "up"!
:
: P.S. It is hard to tell whether the
: nervousness that you can hear in Maddo's
: voice when he is talking about the stunt
: being "scary" (he mentioned that
: they finished with a deck height of 83 feet
: - what happened to the other 13 feet? - Arc
: de Triomph = 96ft right?) is more
: "hype" or actual reservation about
: being able to pull the stunt off.
:
: --Previous Message--
: OH YEAH! What AWESOME FOOTAGE, what an
: AWESOME
: LOOKING JUMP! Excellent work, Maddo! Our
: hats are off to you for stepping WAAAAY up!
:
: The practice jumps will probably look
: crazier than the real jump, because
: everything is just air all around, and
: underneath the deck!
:
: This will DEFINITELY be the place to be in
: Las Vegas on New Year's Eve.
:
: JA
:
: --Previous Message--
: Just saw this short video on an ESPN
: website.
: Nice to see how well calculated and
: engineered this whole jump is (for sure,
: lots of money involved!).
:
: However, no matter how rehearsed this stunt
: is, still an extremely dangerous jump. As
: if you didn't know already, Maddo has got
: serious balls!
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: http://sports.espn.go.com/broadband/video/video?id=3778145
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