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Where does the phrase "dead sailors" come from when referring to someone clinging on to their bike for dear life when doing a jump in no control at all?
Also, has anyone got any "dead sailors" picturs?
(please don't put any actual pictures of dead sailors on) 🙂
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tis, to be very stiff, rigid, upright while jumping.
a dead sailor, once they leave the lip of the jump, freezes solid until the bike lands again.
not being dead sailor involves being more fluid, moving the bike around in the air, if not doing a trick, tucking it up to jump higher, generaly being more dynamic.
as i understand it
Dead sailor - picture burial at sea, when the body slides off the board as its tipped into the sea
...straight arms / legs / back - "frozen as you fly"
aha - any pics then? (of the non-neilforrow variety, which is wrong anyway 'cos only one sailor died in the Pendleton sinking, therefore it's not technically a picture of dead sailor[u][b]s[/u][/b] anyway)
😀
Watch me jumping, you'll see a dead sailor! Can't stop doing it either because every time I try to loosen up I crash, reinforcing the problem!
Isn't it about the captain going down with the ship, rigidly saluting as he goes under?
Worth punching it in to you tube for this little beauty
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minute 17 in[/url] ... not a great example but you get the idea.
Cynic - Yep - Picture the captain bolt upright saluting...though not too many salutes going on as they fly through the air 🙂
Death grip.
Another one for you.
Dead sailors are the bits in the loo that don't flush, round here
dead sailor means hitting a jump to do a trick then not pulling one off
while hitting a jump, is the last time i would want to be pulling one off.....
LOL! (igmc)
death grip is not covering the brakes.