The Double Back Flip
- Thread starter Ross_C
- Start date
- Location
- Lake Havasu City, AZ USA
:bigeyes: Sweet! That takes Balls of unobtainium! Congrats! and the dude does not look like a spring chicken either! Whats Gils age?
I think that nosing it in is the only way I would want to land that.
About how deep do you think it was where he landed? Just curious.
I think that nosing it in is the only way I would want to land that.
About how deep do you think it was where he landed? Just curious.
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w-nut
x2 nut
- Location
- christchurch new zealand
wow
timoNZ
less work more surf
- Location
- Gisborne New Zealand
Thats INSANE!!! Hes lucky not to smash him self too! So much height! thats one crazy frenchman well done
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Kwaka
NFC!
- Location
- South Africa
That is SICK!!!
This made a big polemic on french forums, because most of the people who were there said he didn't totally land it. I wasn't there, but after seeing the video, we can see he lands a bit upside down. This is the most succeeded attempted today anyway.
Let's see what's gonna be the answer to that...
Let's see what's gonna be the answer to that...
- Location
- Cleveland Ohio
Awesome! Unbelievable!!
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Frosty
New York Crew
- Location
- Western New York
Oh hell yeah!!! Abso-muthafocking-lutely sick Gil!!!!!!!!!!!! :arms:
- Location
- arcachon france bordeaux
grat man but the trick is ended ???
hell's
hell's
Based on how fast you have to rotate and how it completely stops your forward movement when you hit, I doubt we'll see anyone truly 'ride it out', but I call that a double backflip for sure.
If you look at hit rotation at the peak, he was already one time around so he got it.
If you look at hit rotation at the peak, he was already one time around so he got it.
yamaslut
kill it
- Location
- Daytona Beach, Florida
sweet!!!!! that was almost perfect
stanton
High on jetskis.
- Location
- atascadero,ca
sick attempt but he did land upside down.
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SXIPro
JM781 Big Bore
- Location
- Here on the 'X' mostly
Yawn........Let's see that on flatwater. In that surf, you could pull that off on a superchicken!!!
I kid, I kid. :cheer2:
I kid, I kid. :cheer2:
- Location
- Del Mar, CA
On an earlier attempt he landed upside down. I'm pretty sure he broke a couple motor mounts then becuase he said the ski had a bad vibration, but he wanted to give it another shot.
When he landed the second time (the one from the video), the battery broke and the ski died. Presumably becaue of the previously broken motor mounts and/or newly broken mounts, the motor shifted and hit the battery. Or the battery was loose and flopping around after the first crash.
I believe that he could have ridden out of it if the ski had not died. As it ended up he floated up with the ski upside down.
I'm on hour 23 of my trip home now...waiting for my last connection home!
Guess this should have been a poll!
When he landed the second time (the one from the video), the battery broke and the ski died. Presumably becaue of the previously broken motor mounts and/or newly broken mounts, the motor shifted and hit the battery. Or the battery was loose and flopping around after the first crash.
I believe that he could have ridden out of it if the ski had not died. As it ended up he floated up with the ski upside down.
I'm on hour 23 of my trip home now...waiting for my last connection home!
Guess this should have been a poll!
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227
Its all about the surf!
- Location
- Oceanside, CA
That was SICK!!!! He definately made it! That wasn't landing upside down--- I can show you what upside down is LOL!!! So he "lawn darted" it a little, no big-I'd definitly call that good. You know he'll have it down in a few more months anyway. A SUPER congrats to Gil!!!