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Old 02-13-2010, 03:54 PM   #37
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Originally Posted by Top Shelf View Post
just watching ski jumping on tsn right now and am wondering wtf all the little dark objects are where the guys land? they look like little green bushes?
I think it's something like that. The reason they have them is to give the jumpers some perspective of the landing zone, otherwise, all they'd see is one big patch of white with no reference points to judge their distance to the ground and/or the angle of the hill.
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