The Fall That Changed Everything
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- Опубликовано: 26 мар 2024
- Coming into the last turn of snowboard cross' 2006 olympic debut, world champion Lindsey Jacobellis was set to win the event by a landslide. But then one split-second fall, charged by joy, changed everything.
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If you would like to learn more, I highly recommend Lindsey's Autobiography, Unforgiving: Lessons from the Fall
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Never have I ever given a damn about snowboard cross but you tell a story in a way that makes me feel like I’ve been a fan for decades
I've always check out Snow and Ski cross, easily one of my favourite events, especially when they have 6 racer heats 😅
Yes it’s a great event!
@@sarahdore7884 I'm Canadian so I actually prefer these Olympics as opposed to the Summer games too
here's another story about snowboard cross once upon a time there was a self entitled athlete with a full Burton ride and X games cross promotion setting her up for a life of lucrative product endorsements under the guise of female empowerment, who decided to be crass and self-serving instead of humble and focused on her own athletic skills and it cost her not much at all in the end because a money maker is a money maker
Not a very inspiring story as it turns out
FlameIsLucky never misses
Saw this live. I remember the announcer's voice clearly. "That is not the face of someone who has just won a silver medal. That is the face of someone who has just lost a gold medal."
I had no idea she got it back, and never gave up. Thank you for this.
NO One ever wins a silver.
@@scottcollings7946 Absolute hogwash-- shows you know nothing about Olympic sport. Often the silver and bronze winners are as happy or happier than the gold medalist, especially if they weren't favored or struggled on their way there.
I'll give a concrete example of this. In 2018 Anna Veith won silver in Women's Super-G; she was beaten for gold by the smallest possible margin (0.01 seconds) by Ester Ledecka, who everyone assumed was a snowboarder who was just moonlighting in skiing. Yet she still posted on her instagram that the silver was "as good as gold" to her.
You might think that this was sour grapes or coping. You would be wrong. Anna already had a gold medal from 2014, plus two overall season titles in alpine skiing and numerous World Cup wins. But she had also had a horrible knee injury a few years prior and spent over a year in rehab. To be able to fight back from that all the way to second place in the world was an incredible accomplishment, she knew it, and she rightly felt hugely proud. It wasn't about who won on that particular day-- a bug landing on Ester's goggles could have changed the outcome. It was about the fight she showed to get there at all.
@@scottcollings7946 Of course they do. It depends on the expectations one sets for themselves.
@scottcollings7946 that is the most bs thing ive heard in a while
@@banana4577 lol agreed what a load of garbage
I actually started crying in the end. She made a dumb mistake as a 20 year old. Heck, I made dumber. But she picked her self up time after time and endured all the hate for 16 years to win it all. She just kept going. nothing but respect
A mistake that literally only hurt her. What right does anyone have to tear someone down who has not harmed anyone. It's so messed up. I'm glad she made it eventually, but all the trauma she endured for years, it's so messed up.
The dumb mistake was she was having fun. I like that she continued and was able to accomplish her goal, because it likely made her evolve as a person. But winning the gold medal and coming in first is just a construct of a competitive society that values achievements over being better people in the long run.
We didn’t come this far, just to come this far.
The people mocking her act like they've never made a mistake in their lives. This woman is a hero as far as I'm concerned, she endured all that humiliation for *_YEARS_* and kept on going until she won the gold. She never gave up, and I have nothing but respect for her.
I don't even see it as a mistake. It only is in the eyes of competition.
She was just having fun.
I quit competition sports when I was a kid, because people made it not fun, but about winning, even if it meant being ruthless and mean if people didn't do what was expected.
We're not mocking her because we are perfect. We are mocking her because she royally screwed up on her own accord.
When you screw up, you get called out for it. It's irrelevant what anyone else's mistake history is.
Accountability exists. We held her accountable, and she learned from it. If the world had said, "eh, nobody's perfect so let's just ignore this" she may have never been determined enough to right that wrong.
@@neaituppi7306 competition sports are what the name says. You compete to win.
@@B3Band that's why i bully all the weak and nerdy kids in my school... i'm just HolDinG tHeM AcCoUntAbLe so that they have the motivation to workout and look after their body... i'm actually a good person, just like you.
Yeah shes pretty inspiring
This isn't a deep dive into snowboarding or even into athletes. This is a full on study of human nature and our shared hubris and, more importantly I think, our shared resiliency. 10/10.
Feels stupid to say but I nearly cried watching this. Great video. Love the music choice as well.
Glad it's not just me.
okay phew yeah we're all in on this together. story was told so well I really felt that when she finally won. brought a couple tears to my eyes 🥲@@DraidenTheGoat
Why would it feel stupid. Its human to cry, its completely normal and natural. I also cried on this video!
I felt the same exact confusion when tears starting balling up in my eyes
Hello everyone else who isn't currently misty eyed.
I remember my dad showing me the 2006 fall the next morning when I woke up for school. He used it as a teaching point: never celebrate before you've actually accomplished something. "Don't grab your board" has become our version of "don't count your eggs before the hatch"
It's, ' don't count your chickens before they hatch'
“Don’t grab your board. SSX this is not. You are not Elise Riggs or Zoe Payne!” My extended version #SSXBestGameEver
Lyndsey provided the world with multiple teachable moments. “It ain’t over ‘til it’s over” (2006), and “It ain’t over ‘til it’s over” (2022).
@@yvonnesanders4308”never count eggs, it’s too risky” as my dad used to say
It's a brutal reality about professional sports. You can have an amazing career with tons of accomplishments, but if you make one incredibly stupid mistake while in the spotlight, it becomes all you're remembered for.
Lindsey Jacobellis and Bill Buckner are probably the best examples of this.
Sven Kramer is another one. He is a long track speedskater who won the 5000 meters at 3 different Olympics (2010, 2014, 2018), has 22 individual World titles, and 10 European titles. He is remembered as one of the best speedskaters to ever walk the earth he still holds many records.
Yet if you ask people who don't watch speedskating often all they know him for is the wrong lane change during the 10000 meters at the 2010 Olympics, which caused him to be disqualified and lose the gold medal. He had won the previous three world championships on the 10k and at the time the five fastest times ever skated were his.
He would continue to win much more after that, including the 10000 meters at the 2016 and 2017 world championships, but he never managed to win the 10k at the Olympics.
In softball and baseball, there’s a phenomenon called the yips. Essentially, it’s when trying to throw the ball, something the athlete has been doing for years, becomes next to impossible and they either spike it to the dirt or throw it too high. It’s 100% mental and once the yips start, all a player is thinking about is “don’t do it again.” Which then makes them do it again, and the cycle continues.
This is the snowboarding equivalent to the yips. It sucks that one mistake cost her so much, and all of her falls were being caused by her brain constantly reminding her about the one that started it all and how she can’t do it again. As the saying goes, sports are only a small percentage physical, and a large percentage mental
my experience is that this happens when we start thinking about our actions in words.
the trick to overcoming this, which I've always described as "tilt" is to perform a mini meditation and like, reset.
stop thinking in English, relax your chest and stomach and just go forwards with what you want to happen
Im pretty sure there are some elite gymnasts who couldn't do a simple move because of stuff like this
it’s a thing in basically all sports
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yips?wprov=sfti1#In_golf
Except she only did it at the Olympics in a big way. So, I think it was something physical she also did wrong only at the Olympics.
Same thing occurs in archery and has a specific name called target panic. I believe the bows have a randomized release trigger or something similar to reduce this effect but I am only surface level aware of it.
I feel like it should also be noted that Lindsey has won 31 world cups and 2 crystal globes (season championships, for those not up on winter-sport-ese). 31 world cup wins is a massive number, especially for an athlete who only competes in a single discipline (it's easiER, though still incredibly rare, to win that many races in alpine, ski jumping, or cross-country skiing, where you might start 25 events a season instead of 10), and the inherent randomness of snowboard cross makes it more impressive still.
And she's still competing! You'd think that she would have taken the opportunity, after 2022, to essentially ride off into the sunset, but she just genuinely loves racing so much that that wasn't enough for her. She won bronze at 2023 Worlds and, although she didn't have a great season in 2024, closed out with a second place in the World Cup finals.
Truly a unique athlete. It might well be said to her, to quote Tolkien:
"There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."
Also having a double ACL surgery is NO JOKE. I had one, and that was a huge setback for my snowboarding. I can still feel it 10 years after.
you just made me cry over a sport i will never care about again, great job.
Knew this story already, but really enjoy your presentation and ‘thesis’ in this video.
Also, fun fact for anyone reading this, Jacobellis became a two time Olympic Gold Medalist that year as well. Won mixed gender cross with Nick Baumgartner, probably my favorite sports story that year was that race for the two of them.
What I find remarkable about that is that Nick was the OLDER of the two of them. Crazy that both managed to have such long careers in such a violent, crash-filled sport.
Agreed! Two great races!
Nick is our home town hero! I did not know the Jacobellis story until now. This makes the dual win so much more special!
one of the best documentary makers on youtube. seriously slept on
Eh. Not one of the best but definitely high tier.
its my personal take but yeah for sure. A to S tier@@btowngolfr812
@@btowngolfr812 i couldn't help but be annoyed that the video was structured around the 5 stages of grief. which has been debunked thoroughly, including by the author of it himself. the 5 stages was supposed to be for supporting someone go through grief. and there's not necessarily just 5 stages, since everyone processes grief differently. and finally, it was never meant to be in order.
@@longebane”has been debunked” 🤓👆
You haven't seen much then lol
The only thing left to add to these videos is closed captions. This video was so good, it damn near moved me to tears. Holy shit.
Yes please, I'd like closed captions too
@@dothedo3667i see closed captions now
@@ebetg4191Yeah, the auto-generated captions are available, what I meant was subtitles added by the uploader, should've said that instead probably.
If this was a few years ago, community captions were an option and people other than the uploader could've added it themselves... Sad that the option isn't available anymore.
@@yndihaldaAuto-generated captions are sure hit or miss,aren’t they.
@@zorakj stg theyre getting worse somehow lmao
I've zero interest in sports, and I'd never heard of Lindsey Jacobellis- accidental contact with a touchscreen bought me here- but I'm so glad I didn't hit the back button. In any arena, a tale of true grit is always an inspiration, and the perceptive way you told this one moved me to tears. Outstanding job.
I followed this story from 2006 to 2014, but I had no idea the story continued! Lindsay Jacobellis is one of the greatest sports stories and careers in athletics history. I was ELATED to see that ending, I had no idea that’s what happened!!! Thank you so much for making this video. It’ll be remembered for a long time, if only by me.
I don't follow snow cross but even I remember that crash...what I didn't know was every single event to follow.
.. incredible story and very well told
Your comment was well written and impactfu (as much as a short comment can be lol) so thank you for writing it. It was the perfect way to cap off the experience of watching the video.
i recognize her face and i don't know anything about this sport! ^^ im amazed it was such a big thing
Thanks for creating a respectful account of the best boardcross champion ever. Lindsey has received far too much derision and criticism. She deserves a salute! Her book, "Lessons From The Fall," is a one-of-a-kind account of an athlete's inner experience with life and competition. Loved it.
"it will seem as if a thing has happened in just the wrong way, at just the wrong time, for all the wrong reasons, that it cant possibly be happening to you" dude what a line
The entire ending was absolutely beautifully done. Shit almost made me cry 😭
Nothing more snowboard than showboating on the 2nd to last jump. Absolute legend! Not said ironically, she was the greatest.
lol not even close.
@@brettadams6734 how was she not the greatest female snowboarder in these races?
God damn, yea i cried during the final race, amazing video, youre one of my fav RUclipsrs, keep doing what you do
This was excellently made, I have never watched SBX before but I was fully invested. What a story. Your topics are amazing, I loved the Yuto doc as well. good shit dude
She's a beauty and she demonstrated she's made of patience and resilience.Long journey with a happy ending at last.
I watched that fall live. Watched her cycle after cycle. I didn't see her win but heard when she became Olympic Champion. I was soo happy to see her finally get her Gold medal in 2022
the disappointment was immeasurable and her day was ruined.
As someone who grew up racing snowboard cross, it’s always awesome to see it highlighted in videos, especially such high-quality ones like this. Well done!
Sir I’ve never watched snowboard in my life, i couldn’t tell a single name of an athlete in that sport- but this gave me chills. Congrats on the video, you really know what you’re doing 🙏🏻
This made me cry - thank you for making it.
I actually teared up watching this woman I had never heard of smile and laugh to herself as her massive character arc came to its resting place. What an accomplishment, what a human-being, and what an exceptionally well edited and told story! Thank you both.
This was beautiful, this made me cry. Thank you. I remember watching both of fall and the gold when they happened.
People barrage her with insults as if they are perfect, as if they haven’t made dumber, they’ve even made worse at older ages.
She didn’t give a shit, she proved all of them wrong and showed that she COULD do something about while most of the people insulting her didn’t even try, this incredible.
She didn't give a shit? What are you talking about? Watch the video
@@redblue5140 i think what they meant is that she stopped giving a shit and then went all in.
What a great documentary about a great champion. We were all delighted when Tanja Frieden won gold in Torino 2006. We knew that it was all because the styling of Jacobellis' last jump. But who knew what that 2nd place meant for the next 16 years of her career. That win in Peking was awesome and whole Switzerland was cheering for her in that final run. Bravo Lindsey Jacobellis. She is a role model to all young athletes who fail, to not give up, to keep believing, to leave the World outside and to continue doing the hard work and following the dreams!
that was so beautiful, brought me to tears. after having a difficult few weeks, this really gave me a different perspective. lindsey is genuinely a fighter, thank you for this video ❤
I just found your channel yesterday, watched all the videos, and now I can't even begin to explain how excited I am to watch this.
This is EmpLemon-type quality. Good job.
Fantastic video. I'm glad this showed up on my homepage! I've always felt immense sympathy for Olympic athletes and the tremendous pressure they're put under.
Great Doc. Lindsey is they greatest sbx womans athlete of all time. She still continues to win world cups to this day.
I love videos that can take something I wouldn’t have known or cared about and make them into a gripping, beautiful story. You are going to be insanely popular one day, and I hope that day is soon.
This might be one of the best things I’ve seen on RUclips, got goosebumps watching - great work!
Ineffably moving, this piece will live on and change lives
i have never paid attention to much of snowboarding, and i cannot emphasize how beautiful this video was. wonderfully paced, perfect music. amazing video
Thank you so much for this video, I literally teared up at the end. Great content
A bit shorter this time but still your documentaries allways give me goosebumps. Your style of editing and storytelling is so recognizable but still so diverse. And you allways choose the right stories. Love it.
Recognize the strength of character it took for Lindsey to push through such adversities. A lesser person would have given up. I have mad respect for her competitive spirit.
Amazing video, incredibly emotional. Thank you!
Your content is unbelievably underrated this had me feeling type of emotions I can't even describe
absolutely fantastic documentary!!
Keep these up, they're incredible watches on subjects I don't care for, but grow to during the video
wow, this had me emotional. great work, thanks
Seeing all th8s back to back... This poor woman
SUCH an incredible video. Cried at the end, really something special you've made here. This is just a genuine sports documentary you could see competing for an short film Academy Award. Very amazing story that you captured perfectly. Thank you!!
Absolutely incredible thank you so much!
This video is AMAZING, absolutely wonderful story telling and narrative with tons of emotional moments (I was close to tearing up). Really hope this video gets even more recognition
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who got emotional at the end over a sport I never cared about before. Great video, and what an incredible journey she went on. I can't imagine how awful those first few years were and how people just wouldn't let it go. She was practically a kid. People can be so heartless.
I'm really glad things worked out for her in the end, not everyone can be as strong as her. And she opened the door to allowing athletes to know they still have value and the ability to win even after what most call their prime and basically demand they retire. Very inspiring.
This is one of the best RUclips videos I think I’ve ever seen. Simply amazing. Great story, great lesson, and outstanding heart-warming and hopeful content. I hope everyone knows that, if you work hard enough, you can reclaim your narrative.
Your amazing storytelling made me tear up for an athlete I've never heard of in a sport I didn't know existed 20 minutes ago. Well done, Lindsey and FlameIsLucky!
This video was fantastic, the pacing, the story telling, all kept me on the edge of my seat. For some reason watching the olympics has always made me cry but I was crying throughout this whole video. Something about the power of the human spirit and the incredible feats of athleticism just makes me feel a sense of awe.
Fantastic work man. All your videos are bangers.
Your content is so good bro ❤❤
Always a pleasure to see you upload
What a phenomenal video. I’ve always been a fan of the Olympics but to hear the trials and tribulations of jacobellis told through this video, has made me fall in love with the games even more.
Thanks for the video. Great watch
Seriously incredible video, one of the best pieces of storytelling on this site
Almost had me in tears at the end, amazingly made
genuinely amazing video, hope this goes viral
Never cared about anything in the snowboarding world. But after your chess and smash video....buddy I will consume all of your content 4life
this was really great… thank you for chronicling her story
This is some of the best documentary content on the platform, keep on :)
(Love the Haikyuu OST :D)
you honestly make some of the best documentaries on youtube great work bro
Fantastic video as always. Keep up the great work!
I watched this live with my Dad when I was like 8 years old. The shock in how it ended was incredible. I haven’t seen or thought about this since then and the second the video started I remembered exactly what happened. Pure nostalgia.
Flame what you do is amazing, I don't know how, but every fucking time you move me to tears and I fucking love that.
I'm in fucking love with what you do, you showcase others greatness so well I can just hope you realize how great your work is too.
Great video essay! Video Essays are one of my favorite categories on youtube and this work is one of the best I've seen.
So glad i found this video. What an incredible story! Teared up for her at the end. You have done a fantastic job telling this story that i had never heard of.
Oh you are a diamond in the rough. So refreshing and a privilege to listen and watch such a great and so humanly relatable documentaries. They are all filled with compassion and you make it so personal for everyone. Each story you tell, all of us have felt the same feelings. The winnings and the losses in our lives. The subjects you pick are extremely unique. So enjoyable.
Keep doing THIS!! You will be in the millions before you know it.
Phenomenal documentary. The pacing was absolutely perfect
amazing, best videos ever! Never stop
such a wonderful piece, amazing work
What a great video! I discovered your channel as a climbing fan for the piece you did on the Mawem brothers, but I'm glad to still be getting recommended your content even though I know nothing about snowboarding.
I'm a runner, I shouldn't even be here, but I'm so glad I am. That story is absolutely phenominal.
Every once in a while I find a video like this that just makes my jaw drop. The narrative is gripping and the editing is superb.
4 years between each competition is torture
I actually cried multiple times watching this. Amazing video, what an inspiring story.
What a beautiful documentary of an amazing comeback story! ☺
A single moment of arrogance can be very costly. While I often find these kinds of finishes quite amusing I'm happy for her that there was a good ending. Thanks for telling such a great story.
Arrogance feels the wrong word. She was a snowboarder, showboating is what we did back then, especially in the early days. Although I wasn't in her league, I've been an international athlete and I'm sure I would have done the same.
@@sportysbusiness fr? what is ur name I wanna look you up!
Great video about not letting one mistake define a legacy
Immediately subscribed, amazing video, storytelling, editing, everything!!
Incredibly well made video, nicely done!
I don't have time to finish this right now, but the first five minutes have made it clear you've created another masterpiece-this time on non-esports! You deserve soooo many more subs.
Edit: Watched it, and it was everything I could have hoped for. I hate sports, and you made me cry over snowboarding. That's true skill.
This reminded me why I fell in love with the Olympics in the first place. It truly shows off the best humanity has to offer, not just in terms of athletic achievement. Thank you
I get goosebumps at the end of all your videos, fantastic story telling and a great watch
So basically what I’m discovering is that humans love a tragic ending, cutting down tall poppies and revelling in it, punishing defeat when victory seems assured, forcing someone to dwell in failure - basically being cruel. We are such a wonderful species.
Meh… not all humans are that delusional. This isn’t tragic it’s just snowboard racing.
How is the ending tragic?
It is inherent to our species to love overcoming adversity, we eventually discover that we fight against ourselves, or rather, a part that's within us. But if you win this fight, you lose. So you heal that part, integrate it, achieve balance and this manifests externally as a story of hardship, thorny journey, but with a happy ending. Gold in the end is a cherry on the cake, it's the perfect story. She achieved her goal at a much more ripe age. Also, let's not forget she's "The most decorated female snowboard cross athlete of all time, she dominated the sport for almost two decades as a five-time World Champion and ten-time X Games champion." So Olympics was just a pretty much an arbitrary goal. There's many athletes that dominate the World stage, but don't win Olympics and that doesn't mean they aren't the best...
@@johnfontenot8569 its an olympic sport, the pressure of the whole nation is on you. You may think its just "snowboarding" but these events are very very notorious for being extremely harsh, because youre representing your nation. look up the south korean ice skater yuna kim.
You must be fun at parties.
Its really awsome and weird together that you cover such much diffrent topics. I am from the chess bubble but watched all your videos ^^ Weird only 24 min lol
Awesome work dude. Keep it up
Well done …both you and Lindsay!😊
This is awesome
Flame bro ur making the best videos ever, keep it up
This was beautifully inspiring. Thank you so much!
Incredible video. As always :)
So glad Ricker was able to come back and bring home gold at home in 2010.
So not the point here! Wow.