rollerdude said:It's so ridiculous how so many people automatically think the ride sucks just because it has over the shoulder restraints. Who cares? Look how good Maverick is, and it has the same restraints. The only reason they use them on their coasters is because of the brakes. Ok, you may hit your head in a turn. You should've been ready for the turn and braced yourself.
That's easy to say if you're one of the people who doesn't have airtime killed by those restraints. My shoulders touch the harness, so whenever there is airtime, I don't feel it because my body is trapped both at lap and shoulder.
What happens instead is that my shoulders take all the pressure of the airtime on those unpadded restraints, and only my head moves upwards, being tugged from my body by the neck by the forces.
Imagine lying down, having somebody put their feet on your shoulders then grabbing your head and pulling on it - this is what the OTSR do to me.
Yeah, maybe I should learn to suck up the pain, neck damage and learn to ride the coaster - but I'd rather spend the day on Dominator where it's comfortable and fun every ride no matter if I learned to ride it or not