kfennell Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFs7jVgUeDo This is just nuts, almost 600 ft and SOOO many SEVERE injuries. Insane sport. The commentators even say they cant believe they are doing it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kfennell Posted February 19, 2014 Author Share Posted February 19, 2014 Over 600! I hadn't finished watching it yet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Horton Posted February 19, 2014 Administrators Share Posted February 19, 2014 meh as long as the hill falls away they keep gong. Support BallOfSpray by supporting the companies that support BallOfSpray California Ski Ranch ★ Connelly ★ Denali ★ Goode ★ KD Skis ★ MasterCraft ★ MasterLine ★ PerfSki ★ Radar ★ Reflex ★ S Lines ★ Stokes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller ForrestGump Posted February 19, 2014 Baller Share Posted February 19, 2014 600 ft my ass. The world record for snow ski flying is 809 ft. There are only 5 hills like that in the world. Where the K point at Sochi is 125m on the big hill, ski flying rules mandate the k point of a ski fly hill to be 185m(607 feet). CRAZY!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kfennell Posted February 19, 2014 Author Share Posted February 19, 2014 Yeah I saw that video of the 809 ft in the Reddit thread. I cant believe they just scrape those dudes up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mwetskier Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 the way it was explained to me those distances are a measurement of the arcing path the snow skier travels not the straight line distance across the surface of the earth. so that 600 ft is a combination of outward and downward direction -more downward then outward. unless something has changed water ski jumpers still travel farther distance over the earths surface than any other sport. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller ForrestGump Posted February 19, 2014 Baller Share Posted February 19, 2014 As far as I have known, it's always been a straight line path. From the lip of the jump to a line drawn between the heels of each boot where they touch down. Hills are measured with an average, or expected distance, known as the K-point. That is always measure from the lip. Theoretically, if the K-point is calculated correctly, no jumper will ever go farther than 10% over K point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller ozski Posted February 19, 2014 Baller Share Posted February 19, 2014 The release on the bindings seem to work quite well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller thager Posted February 19, 2014 Baller Share Posted February 19, 2014 Couple of those in there looked like pre-releases to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller eleeski Posted February 19, 2014 Baller Share Posted February 19, 2014 I did a few Nordic jumps in college. The 40 meter hill was terrifying on the inrun and runout - but fun in the air. I fell on the 25 meter hill. The release was Radar style. The boots pulled off my feet, socks and all. The sport got a lot less fun after that... @ozski That was an awful video. Eric Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller swc5150 Posted February 19, 2014 Baller Share Posted February 19, 2014 These guys are crazy! I grew up with a 90 meter jump at our local ski hill. Half our alpine team, myself included, went off it on GS skis. It was scary as sh!t, and I only went may 50'? I couldn't imagine going full bore with break away heal bindings! Insane sport! Funny, I had a few jumpers tell me they'd never race down hill or super G, and thought I was crazy, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller_ Jody_Seal Posted February 19, 2014 Baller_ Share Posted February 19, 2014 Yea now go stick a handle in their hands, Strap on skis twice as wide and heavy, hook the other end of the rope to a 400 plus hp boat and see what they can do over a flat surface!!! Bruce Neville did both Water ski and Alpine jumping for a while! IMOP Waterski jumping has far more the extreme dynamic's involved if one wants to go far! SkiFly anyone? Ill bring the boat! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller disland Posted February 19, 2014 Baller Share Posted February 19, 2014 Yup!!! Oh and the snow guys get all freaked out about a 5mph tail wind Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller swc5150 Posted February 19, 2014 Baller Share Posted February 19, 2014 Waterski jumping takes huge stones! Kudos to you guys who do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E_T Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 @jody_seal bring back ski fly! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TylerR Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 @jody_seal I'll fly with you anyday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller_ Jody_Seal Posted February 19, 2014 Baller_ Share Posted February 19, 2014 Then again their is Gelande Jumping, Our boy Norm does this! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_vSgTliHNA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller Ajskier Posted February 19, 2014 Baller Share Posted February 19, 2014 Anybody know what ever happened to the red nautique ski fly boat? Was that the one with the v10 in it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klindy Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 @Jody_Seal I'd bet a 6-pack that "Lynn Wenzel" in that video is none other than our own @normanwenzel. And he may have been the "winning amateur".... :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller disland Posted February 19, 2014 Baller Share Posted February 19, 2014 Couldnt resist putting this on here again. With these new supercharged boat engines how fast could we get a boat to go? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller_ Jody_Seal Posted February 19, 2014 Baller_ Share Posted February 19, 2014 @Klindy I wont take that bet! @Ajskier no we did not have a V-10. One of the Lightning boats went to a Ford Executive and they put a Lightning engine package back in it. Keep in mind their were 4 supercharged boats. two bubble backs 1999's and 2 2002 196's with supercharged LS 6 liters. When we stopped the program the 2002's were re-purposed and had natural aspirated 6 liters installed. A few years ago Freddy told me he would love to take a poke at Jaret's Record. I know their are a number of young guy's that would like to Ski Fly again but they all say they aint doing it for nothing!! Got to Have some Chabo in the equation! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klindy Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 @Jody_Seal which bet? That it's Norm or that he was "winning amateur"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jcamp Posted February 21, 2014 Members Share Posted February 21, 2014 And yet some dude does a lame 180 off a rail slide and it's called "extreme." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jcamp Posted February 21, 2014 Members Share Posted February 21, 2014 And yet some dude does a lame 180 off a rail slide and it's called "extreme." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller Ajskier Posted February 21, 2014 Baller Share Posted February 21, 2014 @jody_seal, thank you for the information. Was it the mastercraft that they were running the big engine in? I do remember reading something along the way that one of the skifly boats was running a v-10, but from what I remember that was when they were first developing ski flying and not sure if that was the engine package that they landed on and used for tournaments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller_ Jody_Seal Posted February 21, 2014 Baller_ Share Posted February 21, 2014 I still dont know of any V-10 that were put in ski fly boats. MC had 496 BBC they ran, we (Nautiques) first ran Pythons/502 and then the lightning's and after that a supercharged LS package. I remember the very first Big block that PCM loaned us for ski fly testing the year before the Python came out, This bad boy was a Hoss! A ZZ 502, over 600 HP and over 500 ft pounds of torque and carbureted !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller jimbrake Posted February 21, 2014 Baller Share Posted February 21, 2014 @MattP - please tell @jcamp what is up. OK? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller MattP Posted February 21, 2014 Baller Share Posted February 21, 2014 @jimbrake ha I do have to remain consistent. I just noticed your reply. @jcamp reference comment in other thread. I would love to see you try.. take video please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller swc5150 Posted February 21, 2014 Baller Share Posted February 21, 2014 What is the boat speed for ski flying? They look like they're hauling @$$. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klindy Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 @swc5150 max speed is 45mph (72kph) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baller swc5150 Posted February 22, 2014 Baller Share Posted February 22, 2014 Wow, that's creating speed at the ramp! Crazy!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edbrazil Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 Best as I can recall, for one of the events on TV, I saw a radar-measured 73 mph at the ramp for Ski Flying. Initially, was a great event where the Boyz could exceed the current record without going too crazy at it. But, when they were going for the win, we had some big crashes. See my comments in another post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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