• ricecake@sh.itjust.works
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    Olympic athletes: does jump, lands, waves to audience and skis off to wait results.
    Normal person: visibly nervous when near start of ramp. Shaking. Gentle tears as they line up. Nopes out with open sobs and goes to hug family with a new found perspective on their appreciation of just being alive.

    I watched a video of one of the more benign ski jumping videos. Seemed like the first half would be easy, since that’s just hitting a ramp. It’s the not breaking your knees going up, falling over on the ramp. or landing on your head that’s hard. Actually doing a trick is impossible, so I don’t even count that against me.

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      Honestly, I’d settle for a crash test dummy on skis tumbling down the ramp then ragdolling off into the air, like a SuperDave sketch.