Ski Jumper sets new world record

[Blue in Munich]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/winter-sports/31473251

Struggling to get my head round the fact that this guy flies as far on skis as the carry on the average forum drive!

 

[louise_a]

its quite amazing how he keeps in the air for so long.

 

[Farneyman]

Is that even a sport?

 

[ManinBlack]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/winter-sports/31473251

Struggling to get my head round the fact that this guy flies as far on skis as the carry on the average forum drive!

It's the dimple pattern on his ski suit that helps, plus the fact that his C of G is low & well forward.

 

[blackpuddinmonster]

To beat it, surely you just need a bigger cliff to fall..cough..jump off..:mmm:

 

[6inchcup]

if i hit my driver from an elevated tee equivalent in proportion to the ski slope how far would the longest drive be??????? falling down a hill isnt a sport.

 

[jp5]

if i hit my driver from an elevated tee equivalent in proportion to the ski slope how far would the longest drive be??????? falling down a hill isnt a sport.

Oh dear, it's not good to profess your ignorance you know!

 

[Paul_Stewart]

Ski-jumping is one of those sports where you really have no brains if you want to do it. So a fair few posters here should be pretty good at it ....

 

[6inchcup]

Oh dear, it's not good to profess your ignorance you know!

does anyone in this country actually care about this ,we had a bloke came last and was a celebrity,when i see any elitist sport i turn off,when a kid from a sink estate become world number one i will take notice.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Could we not shove some "celebs" down one of these slopes and see if their inflated ego's keep them airborne

 

[SaintHacker]

Visited Innsbruck on a school summer holiday years ago, we went to see the ski jump one day. Stood at the bottom looking up the slope is terrifying enough, but if you look where the jumper is looking, the first thing you can see over the edge of the run out area is a graveyard!

 

[BubbaP]

Recalled this one - can skip to about 1 minute in

[video=youtube;-RYkapHBVs8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RYkapHBVs8[/video]

Made a real mess but walked away

 

[CMAC]

Could we not shove some "celebs" down one of these slopes and see if their inflated ego's keep them airborne

The Jump was on all last week doing just that- Joey Essex won

 

[vkurup]

Is Tiger Wood's latest Mrs doing something similar...


... Ever since she joined, both their games have been going downhilll

 

[woody69]

does anyone in this country actually care about this ,we had a bloke came last and was a celebrity,when i see any elitist sport i turn off,when a kid from a sink estate become world number one i will take notice.

Skiing and winter sports isn't elitist, it's about having access to the facilities. There is nothing stopping your hero from the sink estate competing with the privileged privately educated baddie you detest other than opportunity. In the UK that may seem odd as we have so few facilities so it is naturally harder to get into something as you need more resources (money) to get to them, but in the countries that are actually good at these sports snow and access is pretty easy to come by.

Anyway, wasn't Eddie "the eagle" Edwards a plasterer who self funded?

 

[HomerJSimpson]

The Jump was on all last week doing just that- Joey Essex won

Sadly no one watched or cared. And they all survived to get their pics in the papers again with monotonous regularity

 

[Old Skier]

does anyone in this country actually care about this ,we had a bloke came last and was a celebrity,when i see any elitist sport i turn off,when a kid from a sink estate become world number one i will take notice.

We had a couple of army chefs that tried it one night on beer crates. They are no longer part of the gene pool.

 

[CMAC]

Sadly no one watched or cared. And they all survived to get their pics in the papers again with monotonous regularity

I watched as I like Skiing and now snowboarding- plus it was a programme I could watch with my 8 year old that I knew couldnt cause offense or 'problem questions':thup: