The distance they jump/the speed at which they fall seems like it would be impossible to land without falling flat on your face. There is obviously some cool physics going on, but please.
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Impact damage comes from stopping fast. If you go from 60 to 0 in 10 seconds it’s just a gentle push. If you go from 60 to 0 in 0.0001 seconds it’s big hurt.
The ski slope is like a big slide that makes it so they can keep falling down while slowing down in contact to the ground. They are also trained athletes that land in a way made to maximize the amount of time it takes them to slow down.
Because fall damage only happens in games that have proper physics enabled. skiing isn’t a real game
It’s not fall damage. Think of it as “stopping damage”
If you fall off a building and hit the ground, you go from travelling “very fast” to “not moving” in an instant, that is the part that causes damage.
As you can see from ski jumpers, they are jumping from “very fast” to “pretty fast”.
They do not come to a sudden stop, which would usually cause a damaging impact, they slow down gradually because of the angle of the jump/ramp.
They land on a hill with a very steep slope, like going down one of those chute style water slides…
It’s not Fall damage because they ski in winter. It’s Winter Damage. Remember “the agony of defeat” from the intro to ABC wild world of sports.
I mean it’s the same concept as an airplane landing. It doesn’t fly straight at the fuckin ground lol, it lands at an angle. Same thing applies to ski jumpers; the angle at which they land allows them to gradually change their speed and direction without injury.
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