Dude needs to keep his death wish to himself and maybe use some safety gear when he’s on camera.
Like, he’s good; really good. But being good and being sensible are not exclusive.
Unpopular opinion, I get it. I never understood free climbers, especially when I was playing outside (I was raised gymbo with no wish to be mangled and no illusions about my normie skill, and one of those things makes me need to see a safety line on that kid). Downvote away because apparently that’s cool.
I’ve got a hard time glorifying potentially deadly sports. Hang on, I know the next comment is gonna be about something like F1 racing or something, but even F1 goes to great lengths to protect the drivers as much as reasonably possible. It’d be like going back to car racing in open air, no crashworthiness, no helmet, no HALO, etc. to compare to free climbing like this. This guy dies and people will idolize someone playing with suicide. Don’t particularly care if he dies doing it for himself, but the attention he gets could be done without.
I think I get it. As a discipline, as an art. Its a test of nerves as much as skill. He deserves whatever happens to him, but i still respect the hell out of him
Nah, F1 has come a long way from back in the day, and really done a lot for driver safety over the years. I’ve been following it since shortly after Jules Bianchi died, and the only time I thought “Holy shit, I’ve just seen someone die on live TV!” was Romain Grosjean’s crash, which he ultimately came away from with relatively minor injuries.
I think the motorsport equivalent would be something like the Isle of Man TT, or the motorcycle races at the Macau Grand Prix, where the approach to safety seems to mostly remain “Hey, don’t hit any of those stone/concrete barriers while going as fast as humanly possible, but if you do, there’s a doctor somewhere around, maybe they’ll get to you in time.”
Both of those events are, in all honesty, insane that they’re allowed to continue as is. The Macau GP seems somewhat better in terms of sheer death count, but despite being interested in motorsport generally, I don’t think I could ever make a holiday out of attending either one. I just don’t want to go somewhere that has a very real possibility of someone dying an avoidable death because “Ah, fucking health and safety have taken all the excitement out of racing, but we’re the real deal and hit stone walls at 200mph when we fuck up.”
Nah, as in there’s no reason for anyone to bring up F1 as a comparison, for the reasons you listed, and plenty of other safety improvements.
I don’t think you understood what I wrote or the context it was written.
I understood what you said fine, but you sure needed me to spell it out for you that I was agreeing with your point regarding most forms of racing these days, so maybe cool it on these comments until you work on your own reading comprehension and grasp of context yourself, there.
Oh, this guy.
Dude needs to keep his death wish to himself and maybe use some safety gear when he’s on camera.
Like, he’s good; really good. But being good and being sensible are not exclusive.
Unpopular opinion, I get it. I never understood free climbers, especially when I was playing outside (I was raised gymbo with no wish to be mangled and no illusions about my normie skill, and one of those things makes me need to see a safety line on that kid). Downvote away because apparently that’s cool.
I’ve got a hard time glorifying potentially deadly sports. Hang on, I know the next comment is gonna be about something like F1 racing or something, but even F1 goes to great lengths to protect the drivers as much as reasonably possible. It’d be like going back to car racing in open air, no crashworthiness, no helmet, no HALO, etc. to compare to free climbing like this. This guy dies and people will idolize someone playing with suicide. Don’t particularly care if he dies doing it for himself, but the attention he gets could be done without.
I think I get it. As a discipline, as an art. Its a test of nerves as much as skill. He deserves whatever happens to him, but i still respect the hell out of him
Nah, F1 has come a long way from back in the day, and really done a lot for driver safety over the years. I’ve been following it since shortly after Jules Bianchi died, and the only time I thought “Holy shit, I’ve just seen someone die on live TV!” was Romain Grosjean’s crash, which he ultimately came away from with relatively minor injuries.
I think the motorsport equivalent would be something like the Isle of Man TT, or the motorcycle races at the Macau Grand Prix, where the approach to safety seems to mostly remain “Hey, don’t hit any of those stone/concrete barriers while going as fast as humanly possible, but if you do, there’s a doctor somewhere around, maybe they’ll get to you in time.”
Both of those events are, in all honesty, insane that they’re allowed to continue as is. The Macau GP seems somewhat better in terms of sheer death count, but despite being interested in motorsport generally, I don’t think I could ever make a holiday out of attending either one. I just don’t want to go somewhere that has a very real possibility of someone dying an avoidable death because “Ah, fucking health and safety have taken all the excitement out of racing, but we’re the real deal and hit stone walls at 200mph when we fuck up.”
“Nah”?
“Nah” what?
I don’t think you understood what I wrote or the context it was written.
Nah, as in there’s no reason for anyone to bring up F1 as a comparison, for the reasons you listed, and plenty of other safety improvements.
I understood what you said fine, but you sure needed me to spell it out for you that I was agreeing with your point regarding most forms of racing these days, so maybe cool it on these comments until you work on your own reading comprehension and grasp of context yourself, there.