Driftwood - Black Forest (cheese) speedrun in

I did my 2:01 run a few days back that I was pretty satisfied with, but even at the time I knew there was potential for a big skip that could take this way lower. It took me quite a while to grind out the skip and get a succesful attempt to prove to myself that it was even possible. After getting it, initially I was content with just the confirmation of its possibility and was happy to move on to other tracks, due to the difficulty of the rest of the course and the low chance of being able to finish a run after getting the first big skip at the beginning. However, when I started doing full game speedruns, I found an alternative strat for the ending, that was both easier and faster than the quarterpipe launch I did in my 2:01 that ended a vast majority of attempts, so I now knew that it was feasible for me to finish a good run after grinding out the skip. When I started doing attempts, I was able to get a succesful quarter pipe launch skip on average every 20-30 minutes. The difficulty here is not just to build up enough speed and hit the right angle and distance, but also that most of the time, you clip through the floor when attempting to land due to the extreme speed you have crashing down from the heavens, that happens about 80% of the time. The reminaing 19.5%, you splatter on the floor. Given this is at the beginning of the run, this isn't the worst thing in the world to grind out, but it does give you comparatively very few attempts at executing the rest of the track, which makes it much more difficult to optimize many of its remaining sections. This run was okay, but I reckon at least a sub 1:40 is possible here. The skip landing I got wasn't the best. I actually landed outside of the track and was lucky enough to clip back through the fence, a first one for me, but this left me with not a ton of speed for the upcoming stretch of straight road. Another particularly bad spot was the dirt u-turn at 1:21. This turn is deceptively difficult and I've had my fair share of problems with it in the past, but I lost a lot more speed here than I needed to and I was struggling hard against sliding out or crashing against the fence. I think my 2:01 run is definitely a better showcase of good movement, but this run has the strats

Game version: 0.7.0-h1 early access

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