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Ah come on, it's insanely awesome. Who cares if they're cheating geometry?
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how do you propose we remedy this?
virtual horizontal from the lip of the jump or just land to flat?
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What actual horizontal distance do they travel?
I ran up Bloudkova velikanka [edit: Now I think it was the biggest one, Letalnica bratov GoriĊĦek] to the very top in the summer once. I was fitter then. csb etc.
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But... But.... Surely the slopeyness of the landing has no bearing on how far (horizontally) they fly? Doesn't a descending slope just mean a softer landing?
Have to admit I don't much care for ski jumping myself, but that's mainly because it always seems to overrun on the telly, encroaching on biathlon coverage, which I like muchly
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Ski jumping. They only go far because they land on a curved slope.