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Can someone explain to me the physics of how those ski jumpers

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Can someone explain to me the physics of how those ski jumpers can plummet 400 goddamn feet and not shatter their legs into a thousand tiny bits upon landing?
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They have quite some forward speed and they land on a downward hill, so if you look at it from the reference frame of the ski jumper, the ground is not approaching all that fast.
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>>9095202
they're not landing on a horizontal surface, anon. the slope they land on is quite steep, so most of the energy from the freefall gets turned into downward motion instead of shattering their legs
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>>9095243
>they're not landing on a horizontal surface

Some of them are

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTR_peND6_mfJoyt5xEjJRLH7u77BshNw
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>>9095202
By taking on a certain body position they make their bodies act a bit like an airfoil, exchanging vertical velocity for horizontal velocity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVaev8pal-M#t=3m6s
Terminal velocity isn't a fixed value. It depends on the drag characteristics of the falling body. Ski jumpers try to maximize their lift induced drag.
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They land on the back of the skis, and the skis flex to absorb some of the impact
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Also they're landing on snow which is a bit yielding and helps absorb the impact, even though it's a bit packed on the ramp
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>>9095262
none of those were landing on completely flat ground, they all hit in the elbow
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