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 Posted: Sep 27, 2006 1:56 pm Post subject: JD webb discovery channel stunt **ON NOW** |
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| Quote: | | Redmond, WA – JD Webb, the 2004 Wake Awards "On Point" award winner, is set to make his national television debut on the Discovery Channel's new show "Stunt Junkies." Webb will attempt a 70-foot, ramp-to-ramp gap over the fountain at Lake Eola in downtown Orlando on September 30 in front of the "Junkies" cameras and an estimated crowd of a couple thousand. The fountain, which celebrates it's 50th anniversary this year, rises some 30 feet off the blue waters of Lake Eola and has become an icon of the city. To honor the stunt, Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer will present JD with a key to the city and will declare September 30 JD Webb day. Look for full coverage of the stunt at wakeboardingmag.com and in the Jan/Feb issue and stay tuned to the "Stunt Junkies" Web site to find out when the episode will air. |
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Wakebrad
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| Posted: Sep 27, 2006 2:10 pm Post subject: |
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ramp to ramp? That sounds more dangerous than landing on the water.
Key to the city sounds like a bit of an over-kill.
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| Posted: Sep 27, 2006 2:48 pm Post subject: |
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| it will probably be something pretty similar to what rusty and danny do in butter effect |
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| Posted: Sep 27, 2006 3:00 pm Post subject: |
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JD webb day? parks definitely deserves his own day before JD webb.
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| Posted: Sep 27, 2006 3:04 pm Post subject: |
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| LakeIolaLuke wrote: | | JD webb day? parks definitely deserves his own day before JD webb. |
DUDE! TRUE DAT!!! Parx R00LS!!!!!
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| Posted: Sep 27, 2006 3:12 pm Post subject: |
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LakeIolaLuke, yep....and the key to the city is a bit of overkill as well...like Wakebrad said.
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| Posted: Sep 27, 2006 3:42 pm Post subject: |
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Oh man, i think Webb has bittin of a piece to big to swallow.
Tons of props if he trys and fail and way more if he dose it!
Good luck JD.
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| Posted: Sep 27, 2006 3:47 pm Post subject: |
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I'm stoked for him, idk y all you guys are hatin so much. would you attempt it?
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| Posted: Sep 27, 2006 5:17 pm Post subject: |
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| thats sick. cant wait to see it! |
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| Posted: Sep 27, 2006 5:18 pm Post subject: |
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Lol key to the city, jd webb day, for going on Tv? well i wish him luck lol but that is kinda outrageous
anyway it seems like a pretty cool stunt |
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| Posted: Sep 27, 2006 5:31 pm Post subject: |
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i checked out the stunt junkies web site and didn't see anything
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| Posted: Sep 27, 2006 5:34 pm Post subject: |
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| this will be sweet..wut time does it air on t.v.? wut channel again? |
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| Posted: Sep 27, 2006 5:38 pm Post subject: |
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| ramp to water would hurt like hell. |
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| Posted: Sep 27, 2006 8:07 pm Post subject: |
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30 feet in the air to anything sounds like it would hurt like hell to me...
GO JD!
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| Posted: Sep 27, 2006 8:20 pm Post subject: |
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werd, more coverage for JD, he hasnt gotten alot of that lately.
and all yall who have conflicting views, quit hatin, if someone want to give me a key to the city for anything id take it and hope that people would be stoked rather than say whatever im doing is unworthy of that.
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| Posted: Sep 28, 2006 2:48 am Post subject: |
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key to the city of orlando present to a wakeboarder? geez way to go orlando. 
Here are reason why other people have been presented a key to a city:
| Quote: | | Mayor Crosby with the “Key to the City” Award in recognition of his contribution to the promotion and support of the City of Tucson through the Tucson-Roscommon Sister Cities. |
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1980: Given to Saddam Hussein, because of contributions to several local Detroit Catholic Churches, in particular a $170,000 donation to a church that was in heavy debt.
January 31, 2006: Awarded by Mayor Kwame M. Kilpatrick to Detroit native Jerome "The Bus" Bettis, days before his Super Bowl win. |
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| Posted: Sep 28, 2006 2:53 am Post subject: |
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August 4, 2004: Nestor Sulpico, a Filipino-American taxi driver, was awarded the Key to the City in recognition of his honesty after returning a bag containing black pearls worth $70,000 USD that had been left in his cab.
September 25, 2005: New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg gave the Dalai Lama the Key to the City, calling him "a moral beacon to millions around the world, with a clear and constant voice for human rights."
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| Posted: Sep 28, 2006 4:59 am Post subject: |
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| So we tune into Discovery channel for JD Webb's death? sweet. |
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| Posted: Sep 28, 2006 6:23 pm Post subject: |
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Robert Harp, only if your gonna pull your glock on him in the middle of the jump. other than that i think he'll do it.
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| Posted: Sep 28, 2006 6:39 pm Post subject: |
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jd webb day!  |
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| Posted: Sep 28, 2006 7:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Props to JD Webb. I think he's awesome. Plus, he grew up near me, so rock on. |
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| Posted: Sep 28, 2006 7:38 pm Post subject: |
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| city key is a bit much......but go JD |
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WakeBoarder44
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| Posted: Sep 28, 2006 9:01 pm Post subject: |
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I also think a ramp to ramp jump is the way to do it
Landing on the water will be to hard
But a city key and a JD Web day?!
How big that 'lake' around that fountain?
Cool to see a wakeboat there too....
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| Posted: Sep 28, 2006 9:38 pm Post subject: |
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you guys are way too hung up on the whole "key to the city" thing and "jd webb day." trust me, school will be open on jd webb day. it's really not that big of a deal.
back to the stunt...i'd say ramp-to-ramp will be easier.
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| Posted: Sep 28, 2006 9:46 pm Post subject: |
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I haven't heard anything about this and I even live here.
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| Posted: Sep 28, 2006 10:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Dragonlady8 wrote: | | I haven't heard anything about this and I even live here. |
They're keeping it a secret from you, they even sent me a packet about it...  I've said too much. I must go now. 
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Alright just read the story today.
What: Stunt Junkies jump over Lake Eola Fountain, featuring JD Webb.
When: 10 a.m. Saturday; autograph session at noon.
Where: Lake Eola Park, downtown Orlando.
How much: Free.
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http://www.orlandosentinel.com/features/orl-eolawake06sep29,0,2630656.story?coll=orl-shopping-headlines
Path to glory? About 70 feet
Wakeboarder will attempt jump over Lake Eola Fountain Saturday
Eric Michael
Sentinel Staff Writer
September 29, 2006
It's a Wednesday morning on Lake Gum, and JD Webb is ready to go the distance -- again.
This time it will be 35 feet, measured by a contractor's tape tied between two ramps floating just off the professional wakeboarder's backyard. Never mind that the launch ramp is 15 feet tall and pointing skyward at a ridiculously steep angle. Or that the distance will grow wider and wider as the morning progresses. This is only practice after all.
BA-WHUMP!
Webb, 19, hits the launch ramp at more than 20 mph, sliding up the incline in a tight crouch. On the shore of the lake in rural northeast Polk County, a small group of friends hooting encouragement hushes as he reaches the apex.
With a slight pop from his legs, Webb is flying 25 feet above the water, his left hand flung to the side like a bull rider midbuck. The other clutches the tow rope, his lifeline to reach the landing ramp bobbing in the distance.
"The thing is," Webb will say later, "when you're heading up the ramp, you really can't see the down [ramp]. When I finally see it, all I'm thinking is, 'I need to land on that, or it's really going to hurt.' "
Thirty-five feet might as well be a hundred when you're hurtling through the air. And it's only half the distance he needs to survive the biggest challenge of his life.
Will he bring cake?
JD Webb has a special 50th birthday present for the Lake Eola Fountain.
At 10 a.m. Saturday, he will try to jump over that Orlando landmark on his wakeboard, an unheard-of feat that will be filmed for the Discovery Channel series Stunt Junkies.
If he lands the jump of about 70 feet safely, Webb will join a select group of action-sports athletes who have performed outrageous acts for that TV program, from skateboarding into the Grand Canyon with a parachute to jumping a motorcycle over the spinning blades of four helicopters.
On the line for Webb is national attention, a five-figure paycheck from Discovery and a key to the city presented by Mayor Buddy Dyer.
"It's more for the exposure than anything, for myself and the sport," says Webb. Plus, "I thought it was cool to get the key to the city -- I was pumped on that."
And so is the mayor, whose son is an "avid" wake-sports enthusiast. Dyer calls the stunt "a natural fit" to celebrate the fountain's birthday, although it actually doesn't turn 50 until next fall.
The early observance "is great exposure for Orlando and the sport," Dyer says.
"I had planned on jumping it myself," he jokes, "but if JD is willing to do that, it takes me off the hook."
'He's the man'
Webb is no stranger to dangerous midair situations. The Pro Wakeboard Tour's 2004 Rookie of the Year cheats gravity for a living.
"JD is ready to hit the prime of his career," says Ryan Lamos, team manager for Hyperlite Wakeboards, Webb's main sponsor.
Lamos dreamed up the Eola stunt. And according to him, Webb is a natural choice because of his ability on sliders, in which riders slide over elevated obstacles, and his personality.
"He's real comfortable in front of the cameras."
Adam Mensick, Webb's friend and competitor, agrees: "If there's any guy who can do it -- he's the man."
"[Wakeboarding's] just something that I love to do, plain and simple," says Webb. But he adds, "You also gotta look at it as a job . . . make sure you're always pushing the sport."
And Saturday's stunt will definitely be pushing limits. The fountain is no ordinary wakeboard obstacle. And the jump is no ordinary trick.
Challenge for ramp builder
A ramp-to-ramp jump is unprecedented in the world of wakeboarding, even without a towering green fountain looming in between.
The very thought of it has ramp builder Ryan Davis, "lying awake at night."
"It's the biggest gap ever done on a wakeboard," says Davis, whose action-sports-event company, Step Up Productions, built the $12,000 rigs.
"There are so many factors to consider: anchoring, crosswinds," he says. "And everything's floating. It's a real process to get it all dialed in."
So when city officials told him they were unsure just how wide and tall the fountain is , Davis rented a swan pedal boat on three occasions to take measurements and depth readings, "just to be sure."
The setup he devised employs two ramps: a "kicker" designed to launch Webb the 35 vertical feet necessary to clear the fountain and its plume, and a "down ramp," 30 feet in length, to give Webb a suitable landing target.
"It's the biggest thing that I've ever done," says Webb.
And the margin of error?
"No idea."
'Gotta have faith'
THWACK!
Webb lands the 35-foot practice jump hard, midway down the sloping platform, maintains his balance and rides away clean, exhaling through puffed cheeks.
Halfway there.
"Let's go to 40," he shouts to Davis, who is fine-tuning the ramp setup.
For the next two hours, Webb tries gaps of 40 and 50 feet, making six of the nine jumps successfully. Three times, he goes down hard. Once he almost overshoots the down ramp, smacking the water backward.
Crashes such as this might erode the confidence of some, but Webb is pragmatic.
"Mentally, you've just gotta have faith in yourself that you can do it," he says. His mother, Susan, who witnessed his first failed jump and retired inside to "clean his windows," shares that game plan: "I just pray a lot."
Does JD consider himself a lucky man?
He knocks his knuckles on the wood frame of the ramp and shrugs. "So far," he says.
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| Wake On My Mind wrote: | | Tons of props if he trys and fail |
You can tell him that at his funeral.
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| Posted: Sep 29, 2006 2:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Man thats soo sweet. That fountain is HUGE! Good luck JD! |
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| Posted: Sep 30, 2006 10:09 am Post subject: |
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| Wow, just checked out some of the other stunts on stunt junkies, dang they go big, the bike to helicoper grind was pretty sick |
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my god that's huge
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