Here’s a sampling of what we do during the summer time.
If you look at the beginning of the video, from left to right, it’s me, Lane, Brad and Jeremy. I suppose I could do some explaining about what goes on up at the track, but I know that you’ve already gone to the video by now. 
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IVE JUST WATCHED THE VIDEO AGAIN,TO THE RIGHT OF YOU LOT GOING UP THE TRACK,THERES A BIG FALL HAS ANYONE EVER FELL DOWN IT.
if anyone else knows the answer please feel free,
takecare xxxx
ha…ok, as its from the American dictionary, you spell it your way, we’ll spell it the correct way..;) Bobsledding it is…:)
Thanks for your explanation, Don. I have seen a bodsledding on tv once and I have notice the things you said in your post.
Yikes. 400 lbs!!! I see why it takes 4 or 5 people to push that thing. That bobsled probably weighs more than ya’ll combine weight. I would be tired to after pushing that 400 lb thing 20-25 times, but let’s put it this way Don. It would be worth all that practice once you and your team make to the Olympics.
We’ll probably do that about 20 – 25 times during a session; considering that the sled weighs (oh I don’t know) 400 lbs, you get really tired fast.
The white chute to the left of the push track is the bobrun. What you see there is turn 14. There are 15 turns on the Park City track.
They way they score bobsledding is by your finish time. Technically, the start doesn’t score you any points; however, the faster you can push it off and get in, the faster your down time is going to be. Typically, the start time has a conversion rate of 3 to 1. That’s to say that if you take off a second on your start time, you are going to be about 3 seconds faster on you finish (or down) time.
Yeah, we can use that sled during the winter as well. Just need to take the wheels of and put the blades on.
sp — bobsled bobsledding bobsleigh.
I think that’s all of ‘em
I think Don gets the adventurous side from his father. I think his father would be ok with it. He’s done some dangerous stuff himself when he was younger. Bobsledding looks soo dangerous. One bad move and everything can go wrong.
Bobsledding looks interesting. I remembered that movie, Jane. I remebered when Cool Running came out in 93 or 94. I wasn’t really interested in the movie, but they doing the same thing Don showed us in the video. Getting ready for the Olympics.
We hope you and your team goes to Vancouver.
me to mama, its a far to dangerous sport for me,
DON im so surprised your parents let you do this,i would’nt if you were my son.i would be so scared that something dreadful would happen,but they must know what are doing,
Does the score you get (at the Olympics) factor in how fast you all get positioned into/in back of the bobsled, or is it just about your speed?
Still looks kind of insane to me…but it’s growing on me, just a little. If you guys do get to the Olympics, I’m probably going to be hiding my face the entire time you’re running down the track. Sorry. Just the Mama in me!
C.
it looks like to me you train on a rail way track, is that right.
When you trian in winter ,you have the snow right,
When you train is summer do you still have the same bobsled. Or do you have to have a differant one.
By the way, my spell check keeps picking up the word bobsledding. It wants to make it two separate words(bob sledding) or bob sleighing. Maybe its correct in the American dictionary.
That looks like great fun. Robins question was my question too…how many times do you have to practise that run? and when do you know when it feels right? Hope you can show us more of these practise videos over the next year or so.
My son used to have a favourite film called ‘Cool Runnings’ when he was a kid. Its a funny (and also emotional) film based on the first Jamaican bobsledding team to enter the Winter Olympics. I think we had to sit and watch that film a hundred times (well it feels like it anyway…ha) It’s a good film for you to watch when you get a couple of hours to yourself.
That looks like a ton of concentration, 20 seconds of fun, and a ton of hard work.
How many times during a practice / training session will you guys drag the sled back up the hill and push it back down?
I would hate to see the road rash if one of you didn’t get into the sled. Woudn’t that trip everyone else up too?
Thanks for sharing, now I have even more curiosity about bobsledding. Good thing you have a year to educate us. =)
I’m trying to get a little understanding of bobsleeding. So I’m guessing you’re the first one to go in and then everybody else follows after a certain amount of time trying to push it or gaining speed. Right?
What happened at the end. It looked like ya’ll stopped.
Thanks for sharing this clip, Don.