Sergeant Politeness Posted May 16, 2016 Share Posted May 16, 2016 Tom Meents: Making physics his nice lady since 1993 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Outlawed Posted May 16, 2016 Share Posted May 16, 2016 >>save triggered 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bkelly Posted May 16, 2016 Share Posted May 16, 2016 Looks like BJ Johnson won his first racing trophy in Salinas. And Kelvin Ramar made it to the finals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midwestmonster Posted May 16, 2016 Share Posted May 16, 2016 It wasn't a save, because the body did touch the ground. It was still spectacular. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Double.D ッ Posted May 16, 2016 Share Posted May 16, 2016 13 minutes ago, midwestmonster said: It wasn't a save, because the body did touch the ground. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bkelly Posted May 17, 2016 Share Posted May 17, 2016 Buddy will run the black and blue Razin Kane body from 2012 for the summer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elias Posted May 17, 2016 Share Posted May 17, 2016 (edited) On 5/16/2016 at 10:04 PM, Mark Colineri said: Different angle but sooooooooon is it me or is there a big hole/dip in the ground Edited May 17, 2016 by Jon Cannon Don't quote images and videos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edy Posted May 17, 2016 Share Posted May 17, 2016 Looks like Monster Jam is doing another Japan Show, this time, at Nissan Stadium in Yokohama. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tylinater Posted May 17, 2016 Share Posted May 17, 2016 19 hours ago, Double.D said: This poo never happened on 4chan. BTW, whose idea was it to make the seahawks truck and for what reason? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Outlawed Posted May 17, 2016 Share Posted May 17, 2016 Loathed to use the term "vintage" but Meents rolled back the clock with his full run Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Dough Posted May 17, 2016 Share Posted May 17, 2016 As much as I don't want to stir a conversation that's most likely been worn out a million times, what I consider to be a save is when the truck is brought back under clear control of the driver So something like Tom's save in Salinas would be considered a save, while something like this, even though the body stayed off the ground, would be a lucky bounce Is there not an official definition? Because there should be one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hornetguy97 Posted May 17, 2016 Share Posted May 17, 2016 Lets make one, Save /sāv/ - To put a truck in a precarious position, on which the driver manuvers the truck in order to minimize the damage done. The truck must be able to continue afterwards. The driver must use skill to return truck to all four wheels (or number of wheels remaining on truck before precarious position was in current state, i.e. 3 wheels). Body damage is allowed as long as a tire is touching the perfomance area at all times. If any part of truck other than tire is touching the ground and the driver no longer has control of what happens, does not classify as a save. If no tire is touching the the performance area, truck can not be rolled onto its roof. In sentence- Neil Elliot in Anaheim 2015 had two great saves. Tom Meents in Baltimore 2013 had an epic sidewall dont, that resulted in the truck rolling and returning to wheels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Outlawed Posted May 18, 2016 Share Posted May 18, 2016 Snooty sounding response inbound...For monster trucks I have always looked to the dictionary to properly define actions. The definition of "save" implies to "keep safe or rescue from harm or danger". What defines harm or danger is subject for debate, is it when the truck rolls? Sustains damage? When the body touches the ground? I would like to think that the term save should imply that the driver is or has maintained control and keeps the truck for rotating more then 180 degrees on a given axis. Anything past that should be labelled as a recovery (definition of recovery being "the act or process of returning to a normal state after a period of difficult") as once a truck rotated 180 degrees it is basically up to the law of motion and whatever bounce the truck happens to take.With that said I do not look at what Tom did in Salinas as a save but that does not detract from the fact that it was awesome. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackMProductions Posted May 18, 2016 Share Posted May 18, 2016 Ah yes, the good old fashioned "save vs recovery" discussion. Knew I'd run into it when checking back here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazyboy335 Posted May 18, 2016 Share Posted May 18, 2016 We've been having the same damn discussion since 2011. It's a save if you don't trigger the RII, how about that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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