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First ever front flip on a snowmobile (Video)

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US Snowmobiler Heath Frisby landed the first ever front flip at the Winter X Games in Aspen, Colorado.

Poor guy

It would later be discovered that Joe had been eaten by an Indomitable Snowman, or Snow Sasquatch, for the layman. R.I.P. Joe 1924-2012

Machinist

Awesome!!! But I'm wondering how you train for something like that? It's not like you can do it in small steps and make it incremently harder… you either do it or you don't. Do you sit 100s of hours and sketch out physics parameters on a computer or what?

Machinist

Wow, thanks for that… a legitimate question being ridiculed… you're not a real chiver, you're a bully! Even if you use foam or whatever there's still a huge risk of getting smashed by the sled if you don't get the full spin.

pacman57

I think they train like in freestyle motocross , in foam pit.
Michael

First trampoline, then jump in foam pit with bmx and then go on to MX or snowmobile.
That's the way Travis Pastrana learnt his 720.

F stuf

Foam pits….they jump into giant foam pits and have a crane pull their sleds out so they can practice all they want

Fickled pigs

Epic, things just keep getting better
David

Where did all the physics go?
Anonymous

Oh some of you idiots never seize to amaze me. Even in a foam pit I wouldn’t want that thing to land on top of me after half a frontflip.
curt

Makes me want to drink a certain green energy drink for some strange reason…..
Wtf

Since we’re being jackasses, I think you meant “cease” to amaze you.
http://thingden.com/first-ever-front-flip-on-a-snowmobile/ First ever front flip on a snowmobile – Thingden » Thingden

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dbartlett

he also had a special ramp to start the rotation

Reality

It looks like a standard ramp in the video. All he had to do was get his body weight out over the nose to start the rotation.

BostonChiver

WOOOOT! Jobe, you want me to run up there?
p dangerously

But can he do a wheelie on a unicycle? – C. Norris
Michael Vallance

You ever make me watch an advertisement before a video again, and we're through.

Claud

Wow Team USA Weightlifting can barely get funding to keep the sport part of the Olympic program while people stand out in the cold to see a guy do tricks on a recreational toy. MERICA!

AsciiAdam

Because weightlifting is not a sport. It is something you do to help other sports.

McBoogerballs

Plus, whats more entertaining; watching a man defy death on a motorized contraption or watching a borderline obese man lift something heavy?

Dalton

usa weightlifting is like watching fucking paint dry……
DylanSOB

Just do front flips whilst lifting weights and you will have all the support in the world!