You have to respect this 11-year-old kid that hits his first jump in the park at Kirkwood with just the right amount of swagger. His proud father informs us that he walked away just fine, and hopefully this doesn’t discourage him from riding the park. And think of it this way, if his skis and stayed on through the flip, it would have been a pretty amazing first jump.

You assume the worst when you hear “ski jump mishap.” In front of his hometown crowd, Japanese jumper Daiko Ito slipped off the bar at the top of the jump and helplessly clawed at the ramp on his way down. Someone stopped him before flying off the end, but the bad news for him is that the jump counted. It might go down as the worst in history. And on top of that, it cost him a chance to place at the ski jump World Cup.

A fourth grade girl psyches herself up for her first ski jump. I guarantee I’d sound more like a third grade girl on my first ski jump. In a couple days she’ll be asking to go down this jump backwards.

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