Arms Up!

[RagingBullDude13]

I was wondering what everyone does regarding coaster riding. Do you put your arms up on them, or don't you? I do on most. The only two at SFGAm I don't hold my arms up on are Demon and Iron Wolf. The reason is because even with my arms down, I take a beating...so having them up would just make it worse. I held them up on TTD and it was amazing! How does everyone else look at this?

[DejaVuGurl1203]

I put my arms up on every coaster. I don't care how much headbanging there is, I still put them up because I'm used to it.

[coasterguy]

I went hands up on TTD as well.

[CoasterDave316]

Usually I will do hands up, but if I end up having multiple re-rides on a coaster I get lazy and don't put my hands up on every ride.

There's certain parts of some rides I brace myself for or don't bother holding my arms up for. During Eagle's big helix I usually keep my arms down and during Iron Wolf's corkscrew I heavily brace myself so I don't smack my head.

[RagingBullDude13]

Same with me, I don't put them up at Eagle's helices either, it's a waste. Did you put them up for X? What was it like?

[SfGaMownz]

I put mine up when I was on X . The sky-dive first drop is one of the coolest elemets on a ride, that I have personally experienced. I usually keep my hands upon most rides.

[Timmy179]

I do believe most of us would put our hands up...

[CoasterDave316]

Yes, I put my hands up on X. Theres no other way to ride a coaster the first time then with your hands up. X is a insane ride, I can't compare it to any other Rollercoaster I have ever rode. It's just plain awesome. (and a tad bit rough the closer to the back you get)

[RagingBullDude13]

V2 is a hell of a lot better going hands up. On the back brake, you feel like you're going to splash into the water down there. It increases excitement to the ride! It adds fuel to the fire.

[goldmember]

I go hands up on everything. But like CD316, I sometime don't bother. If I have been on it a lot of times before, I won't bother and alot of times I just screw around and have fun.

[SFGA 11]

TTD is amazing with your hands up. At the launch the force of it smacked my hands back to my seat. Its an amzing experience.

[da rcman2001]

I keep my arms up on allmost all rides. Sometimes I wont put my arms up on a looping coaster because it doesn't enhance the ride.

[Aero737]

Sombody may have to correct me on this, but I heard that it is a law in Ohio to keep your hands on the restraint on a rollercoaster (or at least for employees). This law comes from the insurance companies who insist that riders ride coasters according to the manufacture's specifications (Hence why we have seatbelts in cars). So in big amusement parks in Ohio, the ridetesters always (or should) always keep their arms on the restraints. Or maybe this is all false.

[Do I Know You]

Whether or not I'm wearing cargo pants. If I am wearing them, I raise my arms like...I'm sliding down a laundry chute or something. If I'm not, I put one arm up, and the other one in my pocket to make sure my damn phone doesn't damn fall out of my damn pocket. Damn.

[Aero737]

Ha! I lost a bunch of change and my cellphone got out of my pocket on raging bull. Luckly the cellphone never got out of the seat. I think it all gets rattled loose on the lift hill and floats out during the ride.

[usdjock01]

Every coaster I go on its arms up I think its just a reaction now. Arms up on TTD is so cool since your up for a while, havnt been on X yet but ill be going to magic mountain this summer and my arms will be up.

[EVOed8]

Yeah, I don't know where I put my hands. The only thing I know is that they sure ain't down!

[TwistedSTEEL666]

all the time, my arms are UP for all SFGAm Coasters except the painful ones, IE: Demon and Iron Wolf.
But I don't put them down to the illiusion of a 'hand chopper' when U are about to go through a tunnel, IE: Raging Bull, I just keep em' up and i'm fine.

P.S. I also put my legs out, like on RB and the Inverties for extra fun................

[twixmix0303]

I always keep my arms up for the armchoppers. Like on Viper, I'm usually the only one on the train with my arms up. Has anyone heard of someone who put their their arms out sideways on Viper when it first opened and they got cut off?

[Adix]

Cut off? Heh.. worst that'd happen is a broken hand and big lawsuit... it'd be very hard to lose any body parts on that ride.

[holydumb26]

I dont think that happend considering that they have to design the ride so that excact thing dosent happen ; ). There is a safety margin that they have to be beyond to bulid a coaster. Take Dueling Dragons they bulit it so it looks just like your gonna hit but you dont. There always has to be a certian distance between the rider and the supports and or track. But I could be wrong ; )

[goldmember]

I heard something about some guy losing his finger or something like that but I'm not sure that it actually happened.

[TwistedSTEEL666]

There's probely(sp?) is a margin of saftey between the riders and track/supports, think about it, when your arms are up, and U don't get yr' arms chopped off, and U think u are, U notice there's at least 5-10 ft. between U and the support/track that U just went under/over.

[SonOfBeast06]

I put my arms up on most non-loopers. On the looping coasters I usually just hang on.

The exception to this was Son of Beast this past summer. Figuring that it did not have any OTSR and only one single loop, I went for it. I held my hands up through drenching (pain!!) rain going 74 MPH . That was an experience that I am likely to never forget.

[Mikey Pop]

I usually put my hands up on every coaster. If you think about it, it is kinda strange, but sooo fun!