Great jump.Last July, Danny Way Danny Way (born April 15, 1974 in Portland, Oregon) is a professional skateboarder. He rode for Powell Peralta in the late 1980s. He was featured, with Chet Thomas, in very short segment in the Powell video "Public Domain. rolled into the record books. He became the first person to leap across the Great Wall of China ... on a skateboard! Way began his wall-jumping roll from the top of a towering J-shaped ramp. "The higher up he is, the more gravitational grav·i·ta·tion n. 1. Physics a. The natural phenomenon of attraction between physical objects with mass or energy. b. The act or process of moving under the influence of this attraction. 2. potential energy (stored energy due to height) he'll have," says Louis Bloomfield, a physicist at the University of Virginia. When Way descended, that stored energy converted into energy of motion, of kinetic kinetic /ki·net·ic/ (ki-net´ik) pertaining to or producing motion. ki·net·ic adj. Of, relating to, or produced by motion. kinetic pertaining to or producing motion. energy--and max speed. Why the need for speed? When Way blasted blast·ed adj. 1. Used as an intensive: I hate these blasted flies. 2. Slang Drunk or intoxicated. 3. Blighted, withered, or shriveled. off the ramp and up into the air, gravity pulled him downward. With more upward speed he could fight gravity's tug longer to gain big air. Way also needed forward speed to cross the 21 meter (70 foot)-wide wall. That's why his takeoff ramp sloped gradually up toward the wall. The gentle angle shot him both upward and forward onto a ramp on the other side. This daredevil even managed a spin while airborne. |
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