Okay, gotta school a whole bunch of you on luge and ice tube sports in general · Modern ice tubes are incredibly expensive structures designed by a combination of former and active ice tube athletes (from bobsleigh, luge and skeleton) plus top-level engineers. For example, the ice tube built for the 2018 Winter Olympic Games cost more than 100 million dollars. In other words, if you crash it's mostly your fault so, you know, GET GOOD or get out of the tube. · Less than 5% of the competitors in the 2021 Luge Worlds failed to finish all of their runs. The actual fail rate is even lower if you take into account how most lugers completed all of their 4-5 competitive runs. · Yes, you steer the sled. If you pay attention the video you can see the sled moving left-right on the straights. You can also steer the sled with your body weight in skeleton (the face-down face-first version of this) and in bobsleigh you mostly move around by steering with the movable blades (shifting your body weight pays a role but it's not the dominant one). · Ice tube sports are tremendously expensive, it's not a hobby sport, you don't do it for fun outside maybe taking an open one-week course. Most of the ice tube athletes grew up very close to an ice tube or a relative was an athlete before them. All modern ice tubes offer 2 to 4 different starting points so inexperienced athletes can start their career with a shorter slower run. · 2-men sled competitions exist nowadays as a "legacy event". It made sense 80-90 years ago when the courses were a lot flatter and 2 people together could go a lot faster than someone going solo. The FIL is trying to have 2-women sled competitions at the World Championships soon and also have them for the 2026 Olympic Games.

You win some you luge some

I'm no Luge driver, but the chicane section seem intentionally evil to me.

I cant be the only one who laughed my ass off when i saw 0:50 slow motion.

The designers of those turns are evil, they knew it was gonna be crazy... LOL

The Broom and the Fan brought me here XD

Much respect for anyone who does this. They are all a bit nuts, lol

looks like they're all crashing in the same corner.

That whole double thing is just nuts Who thought of that ?

Can't blame anyone who crashes on this chicane. By far the hardest I've been one back when I was still doing luge.

Most winter sports are considered wealthy people's games (Skiing, Snowboarding, etc...) But this takes the cake.

0:52 - First thing that popped in my mind was 'that's not how you drive the sledge, but ok' 😂

0:52 made me laugh so hard

You gotta be fearless to do this at all let alone at the highest level. My respect to all the athletes out there

This is more exciting then watching who wins.

"Wow! What happened, Alex?" "Yeah, they crashed." "Thanks, Alex."

These people have balls of steel.

All sports make sense to me.. then their is this one

this was in your recommendation✅

Damn same spot every time

"she's lost contact with her sled" she's fallen off mate

A jomboy breakdown would be so perfect. Especially of he ad-libbed over when they cut to the coaches freaking out

Bro, then sliding face down kills me

That first one was funny af I’m ngl 🤣

Halfway through the video, I was hoping someone would make it to the finish line safely. I forgot I clicked on the video to watch people crash...

That one particular section had more crashes than others. Design flaw?

"Did you see the winter Olympics? Neither did I " Billy Connolly

So basically you just slide on your face lol

When too many cars crash on the same place ... maybe the problem is not the drivers, maybe its the road!

We just gonna speed past the fact the first guy slid like a quarter mile on his fuckin face

4:10 couldn’t help it 😂😂😂 One sec you’re luging, the next you’re rowing a boat

The world’s most epic faceplant. That first guy was PLANKING down the course on his face lol

In my opinion, if there's a part of the track that all athletes make mistakes then the problem is with the track not the athletes

6:48 They were SO close I feel the frustration through the screen

Not even 45 seconds in and I haven’t laughed this hard in a long time, the hell? Did not expect that.

Idk why this video feel like it’s from 2008

This got to be the funniest and weirdest winter sport 😂

The average trackmania player

Who’s here from joe bartolozi tiktok

A bump can ruin your race in Luge Nürburgring Nordschleife: am I a joke to you?

The first guy did half the course in full faceplant mode. Tongue on the ice and everything.

I find it hilarious when they just slide on their face 😭

Really enjoyed the lady commentary, very entertaining.

Surprised this dangerous sport is still a thing these days

you would think that after multiple people fail on the same part of the same track, that they would lessen there critique and show at least some thought about maybe the track being the mistake or at least showing concern that its clearly a very difficult part and needs top level skill to get past.

2:59 Dammit, I'm finishing this with or without the human....

One of the craziest sports I've ever seen.

The female commentator is the most nervous sounding person.

everyone lost control in the same place

that shicane was destroying people

What I learned from this: section before chicane is too fast and that chicane is either too tight or unnecessary

If you ever get a chance to go for a ride on a bobsled track like I did TAKE IT! It is one of the most trilling things you could ever do with your pants on.

Is it just me or there's something seriously wrong with that unusual chicane. Both single & double luges went off at basically the same location....just saying! 🤔

That corner is nasty! Wow!

First guy forgot which side is up

everyone seems to crash in the same spot everytime

3:07 -ish... it's reassuring to know that they teach you how to crash a luge while staying safe (seriously!), because you could be seriously hurt if you don't know what to do during a wipeout. I remember when I played wheelchair basketball and at the first practice every season, our coaches taught us how to fall out of our wheelchairs safely if we took a fall on the court.

0:51 "I forgot how to sled"

Sled said it’s my turn 😂

"No Jimmy, there's only room for one on the sled." Jimmy: "I'll just lay right on top of you :)"

My son trained in the early 90s at Lake Placid before new location. He also did natabon ( spelt wrong) luge in U P Michigan. That was the first form of luge. No banked curves but wooden walls at each turn just like hockey. Each curve you had to adjust your body and sled. Can't explain the position but other lagers would try and break by putting there foot out and hitting sides but would damage ankle. Way more physical but slower speed but need more skills. My xwife and daughter and I were volunteering at track in -50 degree temps and we loved it

Today I learned that Luge had doubles...

I understand ice tubes are incredible expensive to build. But you can build something wrong? With growth of the sport, maybe the speed they run now doesn't work with the old track?

The Agony of Defeat Long jump Ski Crash in NY IS STILL, the greatest wipe out of a Man without Machine diaster of SPORTS. STILL,,,, and always be, mannn what a sight of aweeee.

do they use the same track for bobsled competition?

comments are so recent lol

Y’all notice how they crashed in the same place every time

Mid 90s and my son was trying to get on development team in lake placid. While racing in I believe nynex event that included employees but not at start point for them. After going through the s bends just entering the first huge banked curve. He banged something and ended up in the air and swung the sled resetting himself and landed on sled on track and kept going. We were there and thought he would crash. It never bothered him except it was a slow time..

I can’t imagine laying on top of another man on a sled not big enough for either of us and hurling ourselves down a ice hill.

That track looked brutal

Мне одному кажется что всему виной конченый трек? Они все практически в одном и том же месте покалечились. Я не знаю кто этот трек делал но делать зигзаг на прямой линии было плохой идеей.

Is learning to crash safely part of luge training or is it just something you roll with when it happens?

It’s just a little chicane, how hard could it be?

Ice and people don't mix whereas ice and vodka do.

the first one hahahahah damn he was sliding with his face

Does crashing cause any damage to the tube that requires repairs before it’s to be used again?

I can’t believe they have a chicane, 200 ft long, @110km/h on ICE! How the hell did anyone make it through??? Fs…..did they??

HOW did those 2 get back on

literally 100 percent of the crashes was in the same section lol. remove the god damn section lol

Ziemlich glatt da...🤗🤗🤗

The ones talking about the female commentator, she sounds like an ex competitor turned color commentator who's not a professional but provides real life experience based commentary

Bro, how fast are they going?? Also y r there spikes at the front of the Russian sled??

I'm asking myself when we will see 2 people do skeleton.

What is a 'kellstein" mentioned around 3:15?

how do u train for this sport?

algorithm trippin

Sorry but who designed that raceway???

Spending years and years and years practicing for this moment. Then the whole world is watching that moment, and it all falls apart. So heartbreaking.

I’ll never forget that one in Vancouver

This sport lookes like it's tons of fun, but also something that's super dangerous if things go really badly... then again, it's a sport where you hit speeds that rival that of motorsports, danger is to be expected. Anyway, is there a reason why these people retain their sledding-pose even when face down? I assume having your limbs tugged in is better to protect them from injury, but seeing people slide down the tube facedown without raising their arms to protect the head or face looks scary. But it's a baller sport ngl.

Damn they are crushed in the same track, i mean like same spot.

I wonder if you get burned from the friction even if you're wearing kevlar.

pretty funny that it was mostly the exact same spot

Why so everyone here rn 😂

The commentator doesn’t sound sure about anything she saying

I like this track😂😮

офигенный спорт. вот бы так прокатиться))

6:21 incredible recovery

almost all crashed at the same spot

What did they think to put 2 guys together ? One steers to the left, and the other to the right? One has the circuit plans and tells the driver about it like a rally ? Or they are just couples that can not stand to be separated ?🙂