We Went Head First Down an Olympic Bobsleigh Track

The female Belgian Olympian was SOOO SWEET to them and SO encouraging. The way she was like rubbing their backs to comfort them.

Never realised how dangerous this sport is. Huge respect to you guys and especially to Kim.

This video was an absolute blast to watch. Amazing job guys

I love these videos just so much for putting our athletes in the spotlight. Sometimes I feel like Belgium and Flanders don't support their pro-athletes enough. I had never heard of Kim or most of the athletes you guys team up with in your videos. But they're always so nice. Following so many on Instagram cause of you guys. Kim is the latest :)

Ok. So I watched the movie and Your runs. Actually I am that Polish guy who was slower couple hundreds milliseconds ;) First at all big thumbs up for Your courage. Skeleton is real full-extreme, sport. I has probably the best adrenaline to risk ratio. You already knew that it isn't as dangerous as it looks like, it only sometimes hurts :) Your coach, Kim told the truth that Sigulda is very difficult track. To be honest, for some athletes it is the most demanding track on the world (some people claims that Altenberg is even harder, but it depends on opinion). Firstly: The only hard thing when You start from Junior (as we were) is 15th curve. This very long right curve after very long straight. To get right line You should take it early - I mean You should be towards the left band when approaching it. Immediately after You're on the curve You must gently push left shoulder, to not allow going too high and afer about one second release left shoulder, and then steer right shoulder not to drop too low. You should keep right shoulder almost to the end of the curve. After You will see the exit from the curve, I'd even say a straight after the exit (before 15th and 16th) You release the right shoulder and gently press the left shoulder to go from the curve. If You will do something wrong, You risk a capsize. The rest before is quite easy. Just keep in the middle, maybe middle - early. This is a theory. Arno did this really good! I'm not joking! His line was.... What I can say. Almost perfect! Exit from 14th was very good, without bouncing from the track bands. Straight very good. I'm not sure it he did this on purpose or this happened instantaneously, but he steered towards the left in the right moment before 15th. He entered 15th early, so this was also correct. He had perfect exit from 15th! The only complain would be that he entered 16th (kreizel) too late. He bounced from the curve few times and had a bounce from the band just before finish line. As for first run this was perfect!!! My congratulations. So then Rob :) Until 14th everything was also good. Maybe You was a little bit too late on 14th, but this wasn't a big deal. So then. On the straight between 14th and 15th You started to slide sideways. I see it clearly on the footage. Then You've bounced from track bands few times and unfortunately You were way too late on 15th. Thankfully You didn't crashed after the 15th. but You had a ping-pong bouncing from bands :) As You see the straight between 15th and 16th is uphill and this is where You wasted Your runtime. You were too slow on the kreizel, I think that You see that You bounced from the curve few times, what slowed You even more. So now an explanation what really was wrong:: I was looking at You on the finish line along with the Spanish coach who gave You instructions. You have a balance towards the aft (back) of the sled, because You kept Your head too high. In almost all cases this ends with sliding sideways. I know that this is very counter intuitive, but You really don't need to look as far as You are sliding :) You should memorize and feel the track. Everything here happens freaking fast. You don't need to look and think. You need to just do it :) One word about the Ice and the Speed. Skeleton sled needs to run at certain speed to be controllable. If You are slow, like just after the start there is nothing You can do, because the sled is completely unresponsive to Your steering. On the first day of my camp (few days before Your runs) we have almost 80km/h from the Junior, but then each day the track started to be slower and slower. The second day of my camp, my teammate has also 80km/h, but two curves higher than Junior start. At the end, few days after You were done with Your training the track was so slow, than sleds from the top were slower than 100km/h (!!!!). More than 20km/h slower than normal. Previous season Team Great Britain had almost 90km/h from the Junior and I had like 81km/h or 82km/h -- I don't remember. I mean that track conditions sometimes changes a lot, so sometimes it is hard to compare Your runtimes from one day to another. One word about the sled itself and steering. You were steering on old, stiff Davenport sleds (Davenport is a last name of a guy from Canada who were producing them). It is old equipment, but it is very good for beginners. It is very hard and stiff. It doesn't react to steering a lot and very fast - I mean that You need to push Your shoulders really hard, to have a response and go up or down on the curve. In this case it is very good and expected as You don't really know what to do :) In comparison my sled is very soft and very floppy. It was done by the guy from Winterberg in Germany. It demands perfect calm during the run and very precise and delicate steering . To be honest if You will try my sled I'm sure that both of You will crash after 15th :) I have what I have, because this is what I was able to buy for reasonable money (equipment is very expensive), but soft sled is very hard at the beginning I'm on. It is really a mental game and pain endurance xD

I love your videos because the professional Belgian athletes you meet are always fun but serious, enthusiastic, caring and friendly (and you two are so crazy...)

Just the thing i needed after a hard day at work. A crazy new video of the boys! Keep it going guys all 3 of you. Much love!

I just found this channel the other day and have been binging it since. Mad respect to the both of you and it's actually pretty incredible how good yall are at most of the things yall try. Big fan here!

Never seen your YouTube account before but for some reason this was recommended and I have to comment and say you guys will remember these kinds of things forever. Keep doing things that scare you. You’ll live a fulfilling life. You don’t want to be the person who is old and close to the end of their lives wishing they did more stuff. Much love and respect from California. 🙌🏼

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Amai, first video on the edge of my seat. Arno you are a machine - Rob it is good to see that you start to see the dangers - Milan you made us feel the speed and with the asscam we could feel the impacts against the walls. Great Job & thank you Kim

Thrilled that I stumbled across this channel. These guys are hilarious in the most authentic way. Best of luck homies.

As a fan from Latvia who loves watching your videos and is a fan for you for a long time, it made me super happy and thrilled to see you come to our beautiful country and experience one of our national winter sports where we have very great success!!!🇧🇪🇱🇻Thank you so much!!!🤩Hope you enjoyed your time in Latvia!😃

Kreeg deze video random in mn google feed, na een minuut kijken zat ik vast tot het einde. Heerlijke video. Kim ook geweldig. Vanuit Nederland weer een fan erbij! Ik ga nu ff wat Rob videos bingen 👌🏽

they put so much effort in their video's, I absolutly adore their vids!

The content you make is so amazing! Both inside and outside Belgium. Very underrated.

This has got to be one of the most balsy vids you guys made! Much respect! Love you both! Greetz from Menen, W-Vl

one of the common threads of all the real athletes on this video channel, Olympic champions, is their kindness and sincerity in helping ordinary people who want to try their sport. salute!

Really great video guys, love seeing people try new crazy sports!

13:02 Kim trying to calm Rob down with a gentle back rub 🤗

This is so fun to watch. You guys have such a wonderful vibe!! Subscribed. The Olympian is so kind and fun👍