World Record Huck - Page 3

marko · 01-31-2006

I wonder if Pierre would have thanked Christ if instead he became paralyzed from the jump. My guess is he would have blamed him and started hitting the bottle again.

Not once I have heard a losing athlete thank Jesus!

skiweasle · 01-31-2006

I hope this link works but here is his first record jump at 180+ feet.

http://www.freeride.nu/content/517/

blutzski · 02-06-2006

I love all the arm-chair quarterbacking that goes on when someone goes bigger than people can even fathom. How many of you have launched higher than 100 feet and know anything first hand about the risks involved? The guy scoped the cliff and snow conditions for six years and has hucked countless cliffs over 100 feet without injury (evidently he doesn't consider concusions an injuries - maybe that explains something). I remember when everyone was saying how crazy the huckers in the 80's and 90's were. Now those kind of hucks don't even make the films unless they are spinning off it. Oh and to say you have to ski away from it for it to count, come on. When you're going that big it's not going to happen. Ideally you want to land on your back to spread out the force and you're going to crater so hard that you wouldn't be able to ski out of the hole even if you were upright. Granted, landing on your head ain't ideal... but he still gets the record.

But maybe the critics are right. Anything more extreme than figure eight powder skiing should be banned and belief in anything other than mother earth, Ulr and the occasional river god should be ridiculed. I don't know what it feels like to jump 245 feet into "perfect snow conditions" and I don't know who or what god is so who am I to say? But I'm sure you'll let me know if you do.

Jamie, thanks for keeping it exciting you crazy #ucker.

BastrdSonOfElvis · 02-06-2006

It's one thing to believe in Jesus, but to think that cliff diving is going to make him happy or make others believe in him or get you closer to him (although I guess if you die and he exists you'll get pretty close then) is incredibly worthy of ridicule. So, too, is taking such an incredible risk with your life and ability when you have a young child.

But by all means, chastise the sane for pointing at a lunatic and saying "woh...wtf." I guess in some bizzarro universe he could be the one with all his marbles and the rest of us are missing a few. But in this one, he comes off more like Gary Busey than anything else.

But I'll give you that he does keep it exciting...and he definately is a crazy *ucker.

double-a-ron · 02-06-2006

do what ya do

to his, his own

ect. ect. ect.

lots of couch potatoes and housewives think that kayakers and skiers are crazy....are they right? do they understand?
I can't remember the last time i heard of someone dying on skis from purposefully hucking too big yet sonny and a kennedy died while skiing blues and greens....

-aaron

tubers however are crazy!!!!!

blutzski · 02-06-2006

I never heard him say that "cliff diving is going to make Jesus happy or make others believe in him". What he said was "I chose to do it so it would open up doors so I could witness my faith in Christianity." But people who are intolerant of others' beliefs choose to hear what they want to hear.

POD chooses to grow dreads, get tattooed and rock hard to "witness their faith". Those bodybuilder guys with the MC hammer pants on late-night television choose to rip phonebooks apart to "witness their faith". JP chooses to huck his carcass off cliffs. Machinegun guitars, ripped phone books and big air aren't going to make people believe in Jesus, they give those people an access to talk to people who dig metal, extreme skiing, and... uh... buff guys who rip phone books in half.

Like double-a-ron said, do what ya do.....

For those that don't pretend to know what's best for someone else... here's another one of his big ones. Looks kind of fun to me. http://www.tetongravity.com/cotw/cotw104fast.htm

valdezhucker · 02-08-2006

people keep going bigger and bigger. jt holmes is seen doing a flip off this drop in skiing mag. while my budy drew stecklein is in the back of the magazine dropping the same 165 footer being called a copy cat cause he is only straight airing it. hmmm

BastrdSonOfElvis · 02-08-2006

"I chose to do it so it would open up doors so I could witness my faith in Christianity."

What the hell does that even mean? Sounds like something an idiot says...gibberish. What does skiing off of a cliff, rocking out for Jebus (hilarious concept btw) or tearing phonebooks in half (Magnus vonMagnusun digs Jebus?) have to do with Christianity. Or faith in anything? It could be that I just don't get it...that could be...but it's more likely that it's just nonsense. Either way, playing guitar and ripping a phone book don't predispose you to a very high probability that you will die a very premature death.

I'm not intolerant of anyone elses beliefs, nor do I think are the others on this thread who think he's a dumbass. I'm intolerant of using those beliefs to justify stupid acts. Jamie Pierre's actions aren't inspired by faith..they're inspired by psychiatric pathology.

I don't "pretend to know what's best for him" or care what he does or even really give a shit if he lives or dies. But his daughter might. And his wife might not be too stoked to be a widow...or to have to feed her quadrapalegic husband and change his diapers because he broke his stupid neck. And what do you say then, when that (inevitably) happens, huh? Oh, that's ok because it "opens up doors so he could witness his faith in Christianity." Bitch, please. You sound as crazy as him.

double-a-ron · 02-08-2006

i wonder how a coke habit fits in with jesus and monster hucks.......

-aaron

P.S. my impression is that JP is trying unsuccessfully to make a joke and mock christians......

valdezhucker · 02-08-2006

ahahahahahahha^^