Thought i would share a quick snippet that a fellow on the beach shot with his iphone @ jibe. I had about 10 of these "bounces" hence the beautiful hematoma tattoo. It looks a lot worse then it is.

Scott, you were skyin'!!! Awesome spot, I hope to get there next year!

Just curious, why do you think you are bouncing? Take off looks good, redirect looks good, landing looks good right up to the point you bounce and loose it.

When I fall its usually because I lay my board down at a bad angle and the toeside wheels dig in and I fall forward.

Wondering what is going on that you are bouncing if that is commonly occuring. Coming in too hot or ??

hahahahahah rad! that's awesome scott. i like to see the crashes along with the landings. you were coming in hot when you got dragged. nice vid man:tumble:

B-roc- The biggest reason i think was that i was not redirecting hard enough, i was fine on the smaller jumps ie 5-6 ft but when i got any higher i was landing before the kite had come back around. It seemed to me that the kite was still "behind" me on the higher jumps. Adam (flyjump) had watched a couple and commented that i was redirecting to late on those jumps. Ultimately i think i was just enjoying the float tooo much and did not really want to come down but gravity won.:Ange09: On this particular video or bounce, i was trying more for big then landing because of the number of people and others around- it was right at the launch and land zone and Todd was filming- Yes shameless ego attempting to get filmed :frog:.
Scott

needed the kite more forward, looks like you landed square on all fours but were leaning back a bit. When I land on all fours with low speed I need to be way over the boar dand absorb the impact with my legs. Ideally the kite is powered forward and you're in the standard riding/leaning position. check out carltb's videos, i think he jumps once or twice in there

Almost looks like it could turn into a new dance move! :bouncy:

Dude your enthusiasm alone keeps me smiling! Scott you are great to have on the beach any day of the week! See you soon I hope! Maybe at the cheeseball rally!

Scott

You were coming in quite fast for some of your jumps. I clocked you approaching 30 on one jump. I think that if you come in that hot for a jump, the speed helps you boost higher, but you have a lot of momentum and it is harder to stick a landing.

Dan

i just watch it 8 times ,i'm with arkay ,it looks you were leaning a litte back when you landed, but that was one wicked good crash,pad up friend

i'm going to watch it again.

Thats hurts just watching it , 7 times for me.

gotta absorb much more by bending the knees, that plus landing with your wheels on the right angle for a smooth roll away. Hard impacts need smooth angles and lots of absorption to land smoothly....definatly progessing very fast

It looks far worse then it was. I was able to slow it down in a video editor to watch in slow motion and the bounce off the board was more a reaction of the board actually compressing all the way down to where the deck was hitting the beach. (a little heavy for the board i think) I did not get the bruise from this jump but a culmination of probably 10 or 15 jumps similiar to this one and always landing on that elbow. The road rash hurts far worse then the bruise, i really think i just busted a blood vessel on one of the impacts because it took a couple of days for the bruise to get that big. I have been beat up and actually hurt far worse from an OBE then i ever have coming off the board. I think the difference is that on the Board i just fall more often because i try to go bigger or try a new trick, and the bails just look scary....sometimes the occuring butt/ belly/ or back slide is actually pretty fun. (okay maybe a few screws lose:bouncy: )
Scott

At least your not scared! we know that for a fact.....now if we could just get more people in north america to ride big kites

Yeah- i got some HOOJ ones (at least thats what the wife says, but i think she is just being nice)
Scott

flyguy how do you like your lei for riding -jumping.

@360- Unfortunetly i dont know how the LEI will work because i have not had it in the air yet- bought it last year from my brother for water this spring and have yet to take it out of the bag. But i can vouch for the 16m venom II. In all my jumps at jibe i never had a "hard" landing obviously came in a couple times without enough redirect and landed flat but was never a lot of knee pressure or thuds like i have had when flying the 12m.As you might remember i am in the big boys club at ~225 lbs, but down from 260 in January :D
Scott