It's time to terrify my production team. 

I wish you guys good luck and hope to see more of you when you come back! Have a good break!

Hopefully not a terribly long break! I absolutely love this channel!

Love the channel so many good videos i love the board games with tomska and meeting beardyman the most

Merry Christmas, enjoy your break

I love you Tom

well... they seem to be the ones also kinda running tom's other channel... and the Deadline is coming... so maybe...

@@PrograError deadline? please elaborate!

@@PrograError Deadline? :o

@@aliakeel Main Channel is moving to irregular uploads

@@psyched91 he has a video out on this - he won’t be giving out regular uploads every Monday - it’s kinda stressful to do what he has done

Tom Scott is going mad with power.

"I am here at the newest circle of hell and my crew has arrived a bit earlier"

What is terror?

The bobsledder is a really good explainer. Also notice that he says bobsled while Tom says bobsleigh.

@@nedludd7622must be a regional difference, like color/colour

tom scott plus squared???

@@mercurialinterference6931 Tom Scott++

@@Loo0Lzz The next programming language

@@fejfo6559 that's what the RU-vid algorithm is programmed in

@@Loo0Lzz And then Tom Scott#

The best experiences are the ones with that little element of danger!!

If I were to go down an extremely dangerous extreme sports track, he's exactly the person I would want on my side.

"Do accidents happen often?" *long pause* -"No"

@@adrianbik3366 you forgot the super assuring ehhhhhhhhhhh

Like a waterslide only 4x faster.

For me, that made it sound more fun lmao

It does if you're used to Autobahn speeds ;-)

@@ralfbaechle Autobahn speeds, but with the curve radius of a left turn at an intersection...

Honestly once they mentioned the speed it started to look like *more* fun to me.

That was a sad day 😞

what happened? Olympic death?

@@PrograError fatal training crash on the opening day of the Olympics 2010

@@PrograError Crashed and hit one of the blue pillars near the end of the track during Luge run. Still remember that video.

A horrible day, Whistler does not forget, RIP.

Tom is just gradually becoming the BBC at it's peak.

@@Erin-ks4jp it's a shame the BBC isn't the BBC at its peak.

@@Erin-ks4jpsoon he is going to turn into doctor who 😂

Yes it does, you're right 👍

@@Erin-ks4jp but less transphobic, thankfully

Not surprisingly, most Australian ski (or bobsled) bums come from states where it snows a lot. So it's strange to see one from a place where it never snows.

Wow. If I were Tom's crew doing the research for that, I would've flaked out right after reading that.

I clocked it too and had to look him up!

I thought I was making up that slight accent, since I’m not even Australian.

Yep, noticed it as well

well... the roof is a measurement of sorts... it's hella quick... it's blur...

it legitimately made me motion ill. what a great perspective!

Imagine if it were VR footage.

Look like its speed up the footage ^^

afx in the open, good to see

"Congratulations on the medical reason" is the best possible way to phrase that.

in a way it is also just sweet sweet payback. the team haze given Tom some very odd things to do this year. now they can experience it the fullest.

Parasocial moment

"Tom Scott's Midlife Crisis" might have been a better title for the series.

TOM SCOTS MIDLIFE CRISIS 🤣

@@sirBrouwer "the team haze given" -- Was that an intentional typo? It calls to mind "hazing" :)

Stand up for the production team!

You can appreciate whatever you wanna appreciate.

I don't know, can we?

There's nothing like an overused catch phrase on Christmas morning..

Cattle mindset

Rhyme, not ride.

Fun fact: the programmed hang time on The Griffin, a vertical drop coaster at Busch Gardens Williamsburg, is just long enough to be perfectly timed for this chant

MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY

I rented that VHS so many times as a kid! :D

Some people say you know we cant believe - Tom Scott he has a bobsled team

The thing that makes it sound so ominous to me is the period at the end

Hear HEAR! Thank you, Tom, I've been watching since the eager beginnings! You have one of the best channels on the RU-vid Sir!

They should be scared, it was so fast that an athlete died on it in 2010

@@srpacific Starting further down not only skips the hardest part of the track, it also makes them go a bit slower at any given point since they’ve had less time to accelerate.

50-50

What I only just realised is that the break possibly is exactly for the reason that one of the women is pregnant So we can expect a long wait :/

Also, me too!

Chris Joel is such an enigma that he may as well be an Olympic-level bobsledder with no one knowing.

@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 I truly believe the man's a genuine time lord and that Henricus was his actual life story from back when he lived in "Caesar era Rome"

His name is Christopher Spring, Australian-Canadian born in Aus but is on the Canadian team. Don't think you could be more bang on mate

Chris Spring is an Australian and so is Heath Spence - Both work in Canada, both have competed in IBSF competitions... but Chris did it for Canada and Heath for Australia

@@DanArnets1492 Makes sense! TY for the information

@@123tobiiboii123 I wondered why I could hear him dip into Aussie!

We were in Whistler in 2011. There was a common saying "Whistler is the highest Australian mountain." It seemed that everyone working around town had aussie accents! It seems to be a must-do stop on the gap year travel list.

I haven't done any bungie jumping or skydiving, but i can confirm that bobsledding is brutal, even the touristy bobsled taxi version. Proper race bobsled run must be absolutely insane.

How is 300kph on a bike wasn't scary???

@@kiradotee it's still scary, but bobsledding is next level

300km/h on a bike requires an explanation.

@@boarbot7829 sounds like those crazy people that go straight down a mountain with there mountain bike. And with straight I mean a near wall.

you can imagine why

Considering that Tom tends to lose sensation in his hands when he's freaked out, he's probably used to it by now.

Yes, a little bit of irony when it comes to giving the safety briefing with that background (both figuratively and literally).

ᵗʰᵃⁿᵏˢ ᶠᵒʳ ʸᵒᵘʳ ᶠᵉᵉᵈᵇᵃᶜᵏ♥️. ᵏⁱⁿᵈˡʸ ʷʳⁱᵗᵉ ᵐᵉ ᵒⁿ ʷʰᵃᵗˢᵃᵖᵖ☛⟊➀➇➂➁➂ꉻ➃➂➃➄➅

I agree, it's very addictive channel and admittedly I prefer this than the main channel

The chant is most likely copyrighted, so they may not be able to show it in the final video if they did do it.

hard agee, its like old mellow unus annus :3

It’s always nice to see other Unus Annus fans!

🥀

found the IRS agent...

@@PrograError i am not, **wink**

You totally have found them out.

@@safe-keeper1042 shhh

Looks to me like the same track used in the film!

Lordy

Permanent

Sports were a mistake.

@@richcran7975 Sadly, there's only so much padding can do. The only realistic way you can stop these long-term issues with head injuries over time is to just not do those sports in the first place. Plus it isn't just the obvious ones like pro wrestling (where you're literally trained to take bumps on your back as tom showed) or american football, but auto racing, bobsleigh like you see in this video, association football, rallying, BMX, even submission-focused martial arts like BJJ still show athletes who get cte later in their lives. The more we research these long-term mental health conditions the more we're realizing, depressingly, that many of the seemingly innocent sports that exist all lead people down these awful conditions later in life.

@Rich Cran Won't help, the padding would be needed inside your head. As your brain is not in a fixed place inside it. So padding on the outside does reduce it, but there will always be some bonking on the inside

OK, for that you win teh internetz today.

Tom Scott: The Musical

You have similar experiences available in all of the ¿dozen? professional ice tubes around the World There is one in every recent Olympic venue (Whistler, Sochi, Pyeongchang and Yanqing), one in many older Olympic venues (Salt Lake City, Nagano, La Plagne, Lake Placid and Calgary), 2 originally meant to train commies (Altenberg and Sigulda), 3 more in Germany out of pure obsession (Winterberg, Oberhof and Konigssee) and the granddad of them all in Sankt Moritz, which is the only one that isn't made of concrete and way too many refrigeration tubes

@@DanArnets1492 The Königssee one would probably be the easiest for me to reach, but the track was destroyed in a landslide earlier this year, which is a shame. Innsbruck could work as well though.

WHY ISNT ANYONE TALKING ABOUT THE COLOURED SUBTITLES

@@chiheb1234 everyone got used to them, this channel has been using it for a while already

That's why he wasn't in the back!

4-5 wasn't it?

3-4 _g,_ which is still quite a lot to someone who passed out at 3.6 _g_ before.

His acceleration tolerance has clearly improved quite a bit.

Between a stunt plane and wrestling, he's gotten a few Gs thrown at him.

Is that Nodar Kumaritashvili (Georgia), who died in 2010 just before the Vancouver Games?

@@noahtalksmoney most likely. Lost control on a practice run, was launched from the track and struck an unsheilded support column if memory serves. Not sure if it could have been prevented, or if padding support structures is standard for such bobsled runs, and the Whistler track was deficient in some way.

Kumartashvili was a luger; an accident like his would not occur in a bobsled. Plus, the track infrastructure has since been adapted to prevent this, and Tom's team took a lower start point so were going below maximum speed.

@@michaeldayman682 Wikipedia isn't necessarily the best source, but it's good for getting a quick overview... According to the wiki page on Nodar Kumaritashvili, the lugers on the track were reaching about ten miles an hour faster than the track had been rated for, which was a contributing factor. He left the track at a bend and struck a support pole; despite immediately receiving CPR and mouth-to-mouth, he had sustained serious injury and died in hospital. An incredibly sad story.

Don’t forget the time he (Tom) asked to get set on fire.

@@ragnkja Oh, right! Tom Scott *was* on fire! I guess all we need for him is to be in bed, with bacon, and/or harassed by bees!