Aight people, I need all of you to download this short video, a mere 2.6 megs, and tell me how far this person went through the air. This person is me, the end result was 4 stitches in my chin and hopefully a sweet scar I can brag about later. But I need y'all to REALLY watch this video, I mean pause, zoom, rewind, etc. to give me your best guess as to how far I went. I say I flew 30 feet, my friend says 10. I will win this discussion. You must watch  carefully to see exactly where I left the ground, and where I eventually landed. Also realize how small I was at the beginning of the jump, and how my size has increased by the time I land. And enjoy the music.

                                          http://atlas.walagata.com/w/blingmasta/LacerationMusicVideo.wmv

And if the consensus is less than 25 feet, I will politely decline to link my friend to this thread. 

nice flight, id put guess somewhere near 20ft

The music sucks.  The digger you took as punishment for forcing me to listen to disco was worth watching it.

20 or so feet.

I can't play it...keep getting an error.....

I bet I exceeded my bandwidth....lemme check


Nope, I've still got like 1.8 Gigs left

"INVALID MENU HANDLE"  I don't know what that means, but that's why I can't play it....

I'd say 20 or a 25 feet.

I'll give you somewhere in the area of 20 - 25 ft.

17-20ft. Figure a car length is 15ft. You're landing at around a Suburban.

I think he went farther then you guys think.



I would think each ski is about 5'
I then think he went over 30+


Even still, at after all that my head says, on the slopes it seems you go far, but you dont really. Then I think back to watching some people hit the jumps.. some times they do go waaaay down the hill before hitting the ground. Maybe only 20-25 horizontal feet, but 30 or something down the hill. I donno, what do you people think, after looking at my pic?

Edit: added a Suburban . I tried to set the heights of the car to the right height compaired to the guy.. though for all I know hes 4 foot 2...

15 meters

My vote is for around 40'

That picture is just swell, thanks nightryder. Keep the opinions comin, and thanks to everyone who has said something so far.

isnt there some sort of mathematical equation we can apply to this and get the exact distance?
dont you people watch csi, they do this kind of shaZam! all the time..
i have no clue how far you went man, but i bet it hurt when you landed

Quote from: Kessen on January 13, 2006, 12:06:32 PM
isnt there some sort of mathematical equation we can apply to this and get the exact distance?

Sure.. send them back up there and measure with a photo in hand to mark where they were and landed. Oh, and take something to measure with too

Actually, if we could figure out how tall he is in one of the points,  like the last one would be good, then you could probably estimate it.

Height at end : Height at start <-- some good ratio. Then, um..
measure the distance on the pic from start to end,
multiply the distance by the ratio.
*dont actually try this, it probably isnt sound math at all

Where's motogeek when you need him?

yeah, Down can be messured in feet too. how about you may only gone 25' out but toss another 10' down

That seems about right.....25 feet out, 10 down...but I don't know how to get a number out of that. My Geometry class is trying to kick in but...can't....remember.....teacher....sucked....

A² + B² = C²

A and B are the edges of a triangle that form a 90 degree angle.
A = 25'
B = 10'

So basically the angled side (from take-off to landing) is 26.92582403567252'