Winter x games big air jump

Blair Morgan won the Silver and T. Gullia won the Bronze medal in this exciting snowmobile event. Myles Rockwell came in 1 st for the men as he charged down the course on his mountain bike. This event is a lot like Motocross only without the noise.

It has jumps, banked turns and flat-track foot work, combined with crashes as the studded tires slip on the soft snow. Mike King place 2 nd and Nigel Page 3 rd in this event. Frenchman Candide Thovex won this event by nailing an Inverted on his 1 st jump and a clean Lincoln with a switch landing. Here, skiers slide down a nearly foot tall ramp that tilts up at the end and shoots them into the sky, allowing them to complete gravity-defying tricks.

To achieve the highest score possible, skiers must stick the landing. Extra points are awarded for precise control and personal style. Though this video runs through the basics, too. Freeski big air is one of seven sports debuting at the games.

Big air is similar to other judged freestyle Olympic skiing sports, such as halfpipe and slopestyle. But unlike those events, where athletes complete a series of tricks in a multi-part run, big air athletes only have one jump to earn as many points as possible. The sport has been gaining popularity at extreme sports competitions, including the X Games, for years.

Snowboarding big air made its Olympic debut at the games in South Korea. One of the stats the Curie displays has baffled me for the past two X Games: the G-forces upon landing. If a rider weighed pounds and landed with 20 Gs of force, he would effectively weigh 3, pounds roughly 1, kilograms. I asked Intel engineer Tyler Fetters if this could be bad data. If they had to sustain it for even a half-second, they would probably be crushed or maybe even pass out.

I asked Wade what a G landing felt like. However, he said that athletes and coaches are already asking Intel for a more mobile system in which Curie could send data to a phone instead of the larger suite of computers and radios that is currently used that could be deployed at parks and ramps anywhere and could help them get ready for the next big event. Brent Rose is a freelance writer and filmmaker. X Games 3 posts. A quick word on blocking ads.

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