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* The MegaRamp
MegaRamp is a commercial series of sports events, created by professional
skateboarder and entrepreneur, Danny Way[1]
MegaRamp focuses on a combined discipline of skateboarding and BMX called Big Air[2]and vert. The inaugural MegaRamp event was held in the summer
of 2004 in Los Angeles, CA United States (US) at the X Games[3] The MegaRamp events are held annually in US,South Africa[4],
South America[5], and Europe[6].Participants compete to win prize
money. The "MegaRamp" itself is constructed of metal scaffold with a wood surface and topped with skatelite
* HISTORY
MegaRamp became popular in mainstream professional competition after being skated by Danny Way in The King of Skate event. Yet another full scale MegaRamp was constructed at Point X camp, with footage first unveiled in The DC skate video. In 2005, Danny Way used a similar ramp again to jump the Great Wall of China [7] and became the first person to jump the wall without the help of a motor vehicle and land successfully. Not only that, today Danny Way pulled off the jump o the Great Wall of China five times in front of a crowd of Chinese dignitaries and officials, along with his family and friends and thousands of locals.
* STRUCTURE
The most common "MegaRamp"[8] setup uses a sequence of three sections; a roll-in, a gap jump, and Vert quarter-pipe. The roll-in section consists of a single or multiple roll-ins that drop from 27m (90ft). The purpose of the roll-in is for the athletes to be able to gain the speed needed to tackle the other sections of the ramp. The second section can be a gap jump, or a quarter pipe.
Gap jumps range in distance from 15.2m (50ft) to 21m (70ft) between the launch and landing sections. The athletes clear the distance between the launch and landing sections by sailing through the air above the gap, and onto a landing section, which is sloped to decrease the landing impact.
The third section is almost invariably a quarter pipe. The quarter pipes can be 5.4m (18ft) to 7.6m (25ft) in height and serve as either a speed break, or as another launch point from which the athlete glides vertically into the air off the top lip of the ramp, before landing on the quarter pipe transition again.
There are two permanent structures; one that resides in Vista, California in the backyard of Skateboarding pro, Bob Burnquist and the second, is in Tehachapi, California at Training facility Woodward West [9].
* MEGARAMP WORLD RECORDS
NEEDS WORK
Lyn-Z Adams Hawkins was the first and is still, the only female to skate The MegaRamp in 2004. The youngest skateboarder to attempt The MegaRamp run was Taylor Smith. He completed it unharmed at age 11 in 2007. In New York City, June 12, 2008, Kevin Robinson broke the Freestyle BMX air world record, setting the new benchmark height at 8.1m (27ft) on a roll-in/quarter pipe MegaRamp setup. Danny Way holds several world records in skateboarding. He invented the Mega Ramp, a massive skateboarding ramp first seen in the DC Video. In that video, Danny Way breaks the records for longest jump and highest air off of a ramp. Then, in the 2004 X Games, at the Big Air competition that uses a similar Mega Ramp, Danny Way broke his own record for distance and set the current record of 79 feet. The height record is 23.5 feet. In 2005, Danny Way used a similar ramp again to jump the Great Wall of China and became the first person to jump the wall without the help of a motor vehicle and land successfully. Not only that, today Danny Way pulled off the jump o the Great Wall of China five times in front of a crowd of Chinese dignitaries and officials, along with his family and friends and thousands of locals.
Overview MegaRamp league* Rail James, ASA Triples ( air in square), Megarampa, Freestyle Zurich, maloof money cup, x games
Refrences:
1.Danny Way <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Way>
2.Big air <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_air>
3.X Games <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Games>
4.South Africa <http://megaramp.com/2011/09/29/mini-megaramp-at-maloof-money-cup-south-africa/
5.South Amercia <http://www.allisports.com/alli/skate/video/best-megaramp-rio-2012
6.Europe <http://megaramp.com/2011/08/22/freestyle-ch-kicks-off-megaramp-movement-in-europe/
7.Structure <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/03/sports/othersports/03xgames.html?_r=0
8.Woodward West<http://www.woodwardwest.com/action-sports/skateboarding/skateboard-facilities/2050-megaramp.html