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Well, maybe I don't need to say anything more than is in the
title and subtitle. The extra height would make it easy to do
flips as well as spins, for example.
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Extra height is only a good thing if you've also accounted
for the extra drop. |
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Does it have a ramp you skate up to the diving board? |
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Probability of spectacular injuries. [+] |
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Lack of dangerous, ill-considered and inadvisable employment
single-use pyrotechnic impulse engines. [-] |
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[doctorremulac3], the springboard I'm talking about is
the type used by gymnasts when doing a vault. I
picked it over an ordinary ramp, to cover with ice,
because ramps are too obvious (the snow-sport
events seem to have them everywhere). |
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You'd need to buy in some flexible ice. |
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Buy the rocket motors first, though. |
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The flexibility could be achieved by fixing
many narrow parallel channels to the upper
surface of the springboard, like a sort of ice-
cube tray. |
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//You'd need to buy in some flexible ice.// |
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//The flexibility could be achieved by fixing many
narrow parallel channels to the upper surface of the
springboard, like a sort of ice- cube tray.// |
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I was thinking the stiff board would just have a spring
pivot at the base end. |
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This is definitely something would want to see. I like
this idea as an extended diving board like concept
where they skate up, the whole board tilts down as
they skate along it then it
vaults them up 6 feet in the air. Extra points for
landing alive. |
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Well, the landing is kind of going to happen
anyway … |
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It is possible to land alive even when falling from
great heights. People who fall hundreds of feet
regularly land alive. |
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It's the instant after the landing that's usually the
decisive moment. |
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