Jumping Journal: August 22, 2007

Where's the rest of the jump?  Boy did someone pull the rug out from under my feet.

 

Headed back to Lebanon this afternoon for some rather unusual Wednesday jumping.  Jump three times in a week.  Is there snow on the ground and I don't see it?(LOL!!!)  Is it August and this is Camp Cannonball?(I guess it is August but it isn't Camp Cannonball)

 

Definitely does seem a little unusual to be jumping this much this time of the year.  I couldn't resist the temptation though since Cannonball made mention that I supposedly wouldn't like very much coming back to jump the 25 after jumping on plastic on the 48 last Saturday.

 

After changing into the old dirty blue jeans, yes...no jump suit today, I headed up the hill for the first jump.  Other than the fact the it seemed like I was on the ground before I ever got to the takeoff the first jump wasn't too bad.  Boy, did it seem like I was on the ground awful fast.  I have never had that experience when jumping on snow.  I can jump the 50 and turn right around later in the afternoon and jump the 25 and everything seems normal.  Jumping the 48 on Saturday and then jumping the 25 today was anything but normal.  It really seemed like the jump was over WAY too soon.  It was a strange feeling to say the least.

 

The second jump started to seem more natural.  I was starting to notice the lack of the porcelain track on the inrun.  It did seem like I was slightly "hairy" on the inrun.  The jump was pretty decent but nothing spectactular by any means.

 

The third was about like the second jump as was the fourth jump.  The fifth jump was going pretty good until I got onto the sawdust.  I guess, according to Cannonball, I got my hand to close to the ski while at the transition between the plastic and the sawdust.  I hit a bump or something and my hlove went under the ski.  I didn't feel anything that would indicate that I had ran over my finger.  I did notice, though, that my arm got yanked behind me and it about felt like it was ready to get pulled off.  Definitely the first time I've had that experience and hopefully the last.

 

The sixth was better and seventh jumps well you could say wasn't so pretty, especially the inrun.  As I started down the inrun both skis weren't moving at the same time, like usual.  I was a little behind getting one leg started down the inrun.  It created for quite an interesting start to the jump.  I managed to pull it together and end the evening on not the greatest jump but it was still as good as my worst jump of the day.

 

The one thing I was starting to do right on the last couple of jumps is to make sure that I'm staying a little more over the center of the skis when I'm slowing down and stopping on the outrun.  I have gotten so used to getting back that I do it instintively.  That is fine on the 25 but it isn't so fine on the 48.  I need to get myself more of the center of the ski so I can maintain control of the skis better in the future when I jump on plastic on the 48 or 90.

 

Crash