QUOTE(ZLZEBUB @ Mar 31 2008, 10:20 PM)

because you know how fast without me havin ta guess and endoing first to fing out it needs to be 50.....just like when people ask me how fast do you go to cross a fast flowing wide river.....i tell em cross at the rapids at NO LESS THAN 50.....i don't say just hit it.....its a feeling i get
forget it
I see your point but if i said ok go hit that ramp at 40 and u will be fine, u still wont. Theres way more to it then speed, u need to preload and adjust the pitch of your sled in the air. Also the slightest change in acceleration or decel. will afftect how u come off the lip. My buddy jumped that same distance dead stopped from 30 ft before the ramp...theres a million differnt ways to jump it.
Water your speed can be whatever, u could go alot faster or slower and be fine. With that ramp...too slow=hospital, too fast likely a broken back. So if someone said hit it no less then 40 u may come off at 43mph overshoot and break your back. If you can't look at it and figure it out for yourself u have no business hitting a ramp. I would show up do some speed check passes beside the ramp then based on that decide what feels right.
If someone told u to hit it at exactly 30mph how would u even be able to make sure ur goin that speed while concentrating on lining up the ramp properly and preloading etc etc. Theres sooo many variables.