The Freeride Idea Contest 2015

Today I was watching eurosport the free ride events. I saw people clearing up huge jumps and thenlanding on the slope and continuing on powder snow with huge power pressing the back of the skiis to the snow to stay up.The idea is to support the legs decrease the amount of shock to the knees which eventually cause deformation in joints and cause injuries in the ligaments. To support this and decrease the amount of energy just to stay up right after a jump I propose sacks around the knee joints and the legs to fill up with some sort fo a reactive viscoelastic fluid when you land and support the back of the knee joint in the leg thereby forming an exoskeleton muscle type of support to overcome the big forces easily.

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Very nice thinking! Uros Obradovic

This a very interesting idea. The bags on the knees is a promising thought. After large jumps my knees tend to get sore. Another way that would improve the suit would to have tendon bands. Which would not only help with your knees but provide stability when landing. Natedogg

Yes that would be definitaley a good enhancement on the overall concept. A good biomechanical study of where to exactly supply the bands on the suit would be needed to supply the stability aspect. myth