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shit the bed http://www.vitalbmx.com/videos/member/Kye-Forte-Breakfree-World-Record-BMX-High-Jump,40089/LorenzoGallegos,5781
Whilst this is very impressive and i really dont want to knock it. It does raise a couple of questions for me. The bar is 6.38m above floor level, but the take off looks to be around 2m high and the landing 2.5m high.Surely the measurement should be taken from the lip of the take off? Still an impressive 4.38m Air But surely not 6.38m? Else whats to stop me building a 6m high take off and landing and geting 400mm of air to beat the record? Obviously there was an offical Guiness Adjudicator in the video so im hoping there are some rules or restriction to ramp sizes. I feel like maybe im being a bit Anal but had to ask and maybe someone has some answers?
Quote from: martin46 on August 11, 2012, 08:03 AMWhilst this is very impressive and i really dont want to knock it. It does raise a couple of questions for me. The bar is 6.38m above floor level, but the take off looks to be around 2m high and the landing 2.5m high.Surely the measurement should be taken from the lip of the take off? Still an impressive 4.38m Air But surely not 6.38m? Else whats to stop me building a 6m high take off and landing and geting 400mm of air to beat the record? Obviously there was an offical Guiness Adjudicator in the video so im hoping there are some rules or restriction to ramp sizes. I feel like maybe im being a bit Anal but had to ask and maybe someone has some answers? If you want to break this record, you need to use the same ramp dimensions to meet Guiness rules.At least it's not the debacle that Kevin Robinson's high air 'record' was
surely how high you can go is equal to how fast you can go as well, if the run-in ramp was twice as high and you could get another 10mph at the lip surely you would probably get another 1 meter of air, taking into consideration the laws of diminishing returns....