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9/7/2018 11:54pm
9/7/2018 11:54pm
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9/9/2018 9:17am
I was bored at work today and thought this would be a fun topic to discuss.
I've heard people use various terms when describing different jump combinations on a MX/SX track and I also see the argument come up a lot about if a single-table-single is considered a quad or triple. So I thought it would be fun to see how everyone describes different jump combinations to see if we are all on the same page, a few pages apart or in an entirely different chapter from each other.
The picture and jump descriptions below are commonly used in my inner circle and some of them I'm sure are pretty universal.
For #12 and #13 - I think you can consider a single-table-single a quad in certain situations although that could be confusing to some. I would call it a quad if it's a stretch to get over and the spacing is larger than a regular triple jump but if riders are able to jump it with ease, I would probably consider it a triple.
And joking about #25 of course!
I've heard people use various terms when describing different jump combinations on a MX/SX track and I also see the argument come up a lot about if a single-table-single is considered a quad or triple. So I thought it would be fun to see how everyone describes different jump combinations to see if we are all on the same page, a few pages apart or in an entirely different chapter from each other.
The picture and jump descriptions below are commonly used in my inner circle and some of them I'm sure are pretty universal.
For #12 and #13 - I think you can consider a single-table-single a quad in certain situations although that could be confusing to some. I would call it a quad if it's a stretch to get over and the spacing is larger than a regular triple jump but if riders are able to jump it with ease, I would probably consider it a triple.
And joking about #25 of course!
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A tabletop is one jump.
For 13, Even if you jumped on and jumped off, at best it is two small doubles.
For 12 if you jumped on, it would be a triple single.
25. is a classic.
So jumping from a single over a tabletop and landing on the downside is a triple and jumping from a single over a tabletop and landing on another single is a quad. Jumping from a single over a tabletop is a triple because you can single it by jumping the first single, double it by jumping to flat on top of the table top, and triple it by jumping the whole thing and landing on the downside. So 3 things to jump= triple. People call it a step on step off though because you can double to the flat and double off again to clear the next single so it has another name also. Doesnt make it not double doubling. Thats why all the announcers and all the riders call it a triple or a quad... because it is. Doesnt matter what a dude on vital says if RV, Stew, RD, RC call it a quad its a quad. End of story..
Either way it really doesn't matter, if a guy right now jumps a quintuple but it isn't bigger than the quads Stew used to hit it means nothing in my opinion. Size is really all that matters ?
1+1=2.
If you overjump a table to flat, it's just one jump with one takeoff. If they wanted it to be a double, they would have taken out the center.
A single, Tabletop, to single, is tripling over a tabletop (3 takeoffs equals 3 jumps)
Or, without the tabletop in the Middle, it's just one giant double. That would be two take offs. Or to clarify, 3 jumps minus the tabletop leaves 2 jumps, which makes it a big double or 2 singles.
Telling someone you cleared the big double, and it's a tabletop isn't hitting a double. Sorry.
To further this, 2 tabletops in a row is not a quad. There are 2 takeoffs. "He doubled over both tabletops". There isn't 4 of anything with 2 tabletops.
They don't have to build a 5th city.
The Quad Cities is a region of five cities in northwest Illinois and southeastern Iowa: Davenport and Bettendorf in Iowa, and Rock Island, Moline, and East Moline in Illinois
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