Jumping Journal: March 6, 2006

Day 52.  Alas, I have finally have a new personal best.  Granted it would be nicer if it was further down the hill rather than the number f days on snow in a season.  Oh well, beggers can't be choosy.

 

After spending around a half hour doing clean up work on the hill from Junior Olympics I noticed what appeared to be a bald spot out on the end of the outrun.  After finishing everything I was doing I walked out and sure enough sometime since Saturday morning the snow melt has begun.  There actually was a couple of spots that was showing through to the dirt and grass.  I wass very surprised to see it like that this early.  There hasn't been any warm temps to speak of as of yet.  The temps the last couple of days have had a hard time making it above freezing.  The damage has been done though.  It should be pretty easy to get the groomer out there and push some snow into the outrun to repair the "damage".

 

I put on the jump suit and headed up the jump.  After making a bit of a correction to the binding, yes still fooling around with them, I took my first jump.  It wasn't pretty to say the least but I did ride it out okay.  I was surprised by how much speed I was carrying on the inrun.  I figured it was going to be slow but it wasn't.

 

The second jump was a litte better, as well as the third and fourth.  Dan was watching and suggested I go for the V again.  I decided on the fifth jump to give it a go.  I was a little taken by the V and ended up pulling out of it early.  When I landed the skis were pretty much right side by side, no standard gap between them like you normally have in this day and age.  It was more like the early days of jumping where you have you feet as close together as possible if you want good style points.  I tried to pull the skis apart and it didn't work very well and I ended up going down.

 

I went up for jump number six and decided to add the V in again.  This time it went better but the left ski cord isn't as short as the right cord is.  The cord came lose tonight.  The left tip came up hard and caught me off guard.  I ended up crashing that jump as well.  The seventh and final jump went smooth with a halfways decent V added in for good measure.  All the jumps were short, under 35 meters.

 

It sure wasn't the night of jumping that I thought I was going to have.  Then again, what else is new.

 

Crash