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3/29/2018 8:29pm
3/29/2018 8:29pm
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The video of of Eli crashing last week was shown in Racer X's Sign of the Lap Times article written by Dan Carlson. He stated that Eli cased a "Quad". However, there were only three obstacles. The logic that seems to be used is if there is a table top involved, it's a double. Pretty lame if you ask me. Especially when it's a small table like the one in Eli's situation. If you want to see a real "Quad", watch this video of Stew in 2011. THAT's a "Quad".
I realize some of you are sick of the Quad talk regardless of your opinion. My opinion is that it undermines the entire fabric of MX/SX. Anyone with a brain knows that quad is short for quadruple which is equal to FOUR. I have never ever ever jumped a table and claimed to have jumped a double. How can some of you claim that a single + a table = a triple? Sensationalism, that's how.
I realize some of you are sick of the Quad talk regardless of your opinion. My opinion is that it undermines the entire fabric of MX/SX. Anyone with a brain knows that quad is short for quadruple which is equal to FOUR. I have never ever ever jumped a table and claimed to have jumped a double. How can some of you claim that a single + a table = a triple? Sensationalism, that's how.
Potential landing zone #1) On top of the tabletop
Potential landing zone #2) Downside (landing) of the tabletop
Potential landing zone #3) downside (landing) of the single
A tabletop is just a double with the middle filled in. They are physically the same size as doubles and can be converted to a double by just chopping out the center of it.
Yes, i do realize that if you have a monkey brain that all you see is one mound of dirt. But thats like me saying a Ferrari is the same thing as a Kia because they are cars and they have 4 wheels.
If the dirtwurx crew got crazy and just moved the dirt out of the middle of the tabletop, would it then count as a quad? There would still be the same number of takeoffs and potential landing zones
Potential landing zone #1) Downside (landing) of the second single
Potential landing zone #2) Downside (landing) of the third single
Potential landing zone #3) downside (landing) of the fourth single
“Undermines the entire fabric of MX/SX”? Seriously?
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No, you didn't clear the single obstacle called a TABLE TOP. The landing zones don't matter. A double with the middle filled in is now something that you can come up short on and pay no penalty. Also, do you say you jumped a double if you clear a table top? If so, we may as well not debate. I guarantee you that you might give a 60' table top a go without much worry but if it were truly a double, you'd be WAY more calculated.
I personally think every mound of dirt ( no matter how big or how far spread apart.....it's a single , double , triple or quad.
What if they just took the top 5' off the center mound on a triple on an SX track? Is that now considered a quad as well? No.....it's still a triple.
This new " it's now considered a quad because there is a table in the middle......is utter freakin nonsense.
But I also agree with zehn.
You know what's not? Supercross.
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A single to table is not a double, triple, or quad. It is a single to table.
If you jump a single over a tabletop and over a 3rd hump, you have tripled over a tabletop.
It is not a quad. There are 3 mounds of dirt. Not 4.
A tabletop is not a double. It is a tabletop. That is why it was called a tabletop in the first place. It is 1 pile of dirt, not 2.
Two tabletops are not a quad. If you jump two tabletops in one leap you have doubled over 2 tabletops.
If you jump two tabletops in two leaps, you have simply jumped two tabletops. You haven't doubled anything, or quaded anything either.
The only time you could run that line is if you are trying to get some pussy and tell a chick that.
But your bros still know all you did was jump two tabletops which still resulted in pee stained underwear.
Its been this way since 1981 that I remember.
He didn't quad quad because a tabletop is not two jumps. It is 1 single jump.
Had they cut the center out of the tabletop, then it would have been Triple, Quad, Quad, Double.
To have a quad, you have to have 4 take offs.
https://youtu.be/Pf-PBA3k8zU?rel=0
Has anyone ever seen a guy jump a tabletop in 2 jumps?
If you cut the center out a a tabletop, it becomes a double because then it could be ridden as two singles and jumped as one it becomes a double.
A tabletop only has one take off. Therefore it is mathematically a single jump.
Math works. Like gravity.
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