What I don’t get about this sport is … lets go extremely, dangerously fast on this tiny sled down an ice chute on a HALF PIPE!!! … where it’s half a tube and that if you ever fly off or go out of control, you’ll fly out of the tube and your squishy meat popsicle self will get thrown around like a rag doll.
If they want these guys running this fast in this situation … they should have a FULL PIPE and we should be watching them run down as fast as possible inside a glass or plexiglass tube … and when they do lose their shit, they can just fly down the tube until they stop.
EDIT: for context this is what happens when you lose control on these tiny sleds … this is 21 year old Nodar Kumaritashvili, from the country of Georgia, at the 2010 Winter Olympics in British Columbia, Canada … he was moving at about 146km/h when he lost control, flipped his sled, flew off the track and slammed into steel girdles that made up the structure … what do you think is going to happen to your spandex wearing body if you fly at 140 km/h onto an immovable steel beam?
What I don’t get about this sport is … lets go extremely, dangerously fast on this tiny sled down an ice chute on a HALF PIPE!!! … where it’s half a tube and that if you ever fly off or go out of control, you’ll fly out of the tube and your squishy meat popsicle self will get thrown around like a rag doll.
If they want these guys running this fast in this situation … they should have a FULL PIPE and we should be watching them run down as fast as possible inside a glass or plexiglass tube … and when they do lose their shit, they can just fly down the tube until they stop.
EDIT: for context this is what happens when you lose control on these tiny sleds … this is 21 year old Nodar Kumaritashvili, from the country of Georgia, at the 2010 Winter Olympics in British Columbia, Canada … he was moving at about 146km/h when he lost control, flipped his sled, flew off the track and slammed into steel girdles that made up the structure … what do you think is going to happen to your spandex wearing body if you fly at 140 km/h onto an immovable steel beam?
https://youtu.be/la2Q7YiJSWg
Im down for competitive watersliding
God damn that crash was brutal. For his own sake I hope he died on the spot 😬