JS7 Was Mind Blowing! Manual an On-Off into a Dragon's Back
This dragons back IMO, would be ideal to bring back to SX, compared to previous ones that have steep whoops and sharp backsides, seeing this one here, reminds me of what happened in FMX when we went from landings of death to giant downramps that fit the height and power of our bikes.
There’s a couple points I want to make, the first, is how rolled each whoop is, second, the point I think Feld and the track builders can take away- the more dirt you have, the safer you can make the jumps.
In the beginning days of FMX, we jumped the craziest, razor backed, gopher pile landings, and if you weren’t hungover or high, you’d be nervous as hell to jump, let alone, think about doing tricks.
When promoters stopped hoarding all the profits to themselves, and we got more dirt, jumps were bigger, landings were safe, air time was increased and what do you know, the sport began to blossom, tricks evolved like never before because we felt safer.
I will bet a $1,000 that if the timing sections were bigger, corners built up, landings had big decks, the racing would improve, racing would get better and we could bring back obstacles like dragons backs and quads amongst others.