@@mennograafmans1595 a smaller coaster channel, eltororyan, went to Japan and discusses them and is looking to go to Europe. His videos are pretty good.
He mentioned basically every single roller coaster in Las Vegas except for canyon blaster at the adventuredome. Which is one of the most painful rides I’ve ever been on! It’s probably because i am only 5’4.
Roar is so rough! I rode it twice thinking I could get airtime. Nope just my leg workout for the next few days. I had to brace myself with my legs and engage my abs to hold myself steady. Same on Wild One.
Watching this make me realize I'm on the wrong channel since i didn't understand half the terminology. However i greatly enjoyed the video. Keep up the great work. You give me a glimpse of what the world of Rollercoaster enthusiasts looks like.
My niece dragged me on Predator last Sunday (I usually refuse to go on that) only if we rode near the front of the train, and I was surprised how good it ran and actually had airtime on it, also the New section of Titan track was glass smooth! Now if Six Flags does the rest of the coaster with Titan track, it would be a great coaster again.
Skyrush restraints seriously suck. No, they do not hurt every single time. My first painful experience started fine. I didn't think anything was wrong at the station. By the time we got to the top of drop hill I knew this was going to be painful. This was at night, so I didn't know when the next turn was coming. Every motion simply increased the pain and reduced my blood flow. When the ride ended I stumbled off the ride because my entire right leg was completely numb. I am not exaggerating. The ride staff did not blink either, so I believe this is way more common than it should ever be.
cant be worse than goliaths walabi holland megacoaster latbar, its the metal seatbelt latches, inbetween, but the latbar, hydrolic just locks, being pushed cheked at the station by staff.
I'm glad you mentioned the wooden coasters at Holiday World! They are awesome coasters for a park like that but you will get a little bruised experiencing the fun on a couple of them.
I must’ve ridden Scream on a real good day. I rode front row and it’s in my top 30. Everybody I talk to seems to hate the ride but I personally thought it was one of the better B&M’s I’ve ridden, especially because of the amazing zero g roll.
Coaster Limits i agree, i ride scream on every visit to six flags and imo it’s getting better every time, it’s very smooth, i love all the b&m’s at magic mountain, but riddler is getting rough, still a good ride though
I would say the most painful ride I’ve been on by B&M is Vortex at Carowinds. That was a god awful ride. I didn’t like Riddler’s Revenge either, but Georgia Scorcher is the best stand up imo.
In 1988, at a mere 4 years old, I rode Shockwave at (Six Flags Over Texas) for the first time (back in the 80s the height restrictions were rarely, if ever, adhered to. Additionally, my mom was made to pay an adult ticket for me, which she later argued had made me eligible to ride). It was my first coaster and the one that made me fall in love! A short two years later (1990) I rode the Texas Giant. Nearly died. I was so small -in age and size- that the lap bar didn't even touch my legs. After the first drop while ascending the second hill, I went airborne, literally. Had my mom not quickly reacted and jerked me down, Lord knows what might have happened. Turns out, the rest of the ride was more likely to kill me from a neck-breaking whiplash than my superman trick...talk about painful. I've not rode it since it was re-done.
I laughed when I saw Steel Eel in the intro! I just rode that a couple days ago and agree with what you said about it -- even though I find the rough valleying to be a bit more bothersome than you seem to. And it seemed to happen after every hill when I rode it! Each time I rode it, though, I rode towards the back, so that very well may have been an influence towards my experience. The coaster DOES have good airtime, though! That first drop, especially, is surprisingly good!!
I’ve gotta say, comet is one of the smoothest “classic” woodies out there. It’s super smooth and you get a LOT of airtime on the hills. Great coaster for enthusiasts young and old. Try to catch a night ride, it’s spectacular!!!
My most painful moments: -marathoning Millennium Force in heavy rain at night. Looked amazing going up the lift hill against the lights of the ride and then it felt like being stung by 1000 bees the rest of the ride. Still did it four times though. -riding Steel Vengeance behind a lady with really long hair and getting whipped in the face the entire ride -on the Beast when we entered the last tunnel for the first time and that turn comes, my friend’s head smashed into my shoulder. I now brace myself every time we start tearing down that hill.
Well, some things you do to yourself! You can't go that fast in the rain and not have it hurt! I did one ride like that on Magnum and could barely open my eyes. My most memorable was waiting for first car on Millennium and getting on around sunset when all the Lake Erie bugs start swarming. It wasn't painful...suspiciously so....until we exited the ride and I had to pick numerous pieces of bug guts off my partners face. We went this last weekend and I was SO ok with wearing a mask! The first time I rode the beast, I was young and probably around 4 foot. I was trying to be brave and hold my hands up when we hit the helixes and I smashed my cheek right into the side of the train and got some light whiplash and a good headache before declaring it THE BEST!
When you ride Hades 360 get the front 2 rows. 3 and 4 are ok. Anything behind that is excruciatingly painful. I rode in row six and was crying afterwards because of how much back pain I had, and I'm a healthy 18 year old. It took me a solid minute to be able to even walk off the platform
I haven't found many others who feel this way, but my most painful experience from B&M is the bottom of pretzel rolls. I love flying coasters in almost every other way, but at the bottom of the pretzel roll I always get this dull pain from getting flattened by the positive Gs.
I have chronic migraines, so being able to ride the roller coasters with head banging and STILL have fun is a blessing. Those head banging add little to nothing since I already have my head aching prior, so I learned to simply enjoy the rides even if my head is about to explode. This will trigger a bunch of enthusiasts, but i had fun at my one ride at the Manhattan express in Vegas (or whatever it is called).
My first go on Rip Ride Rocket was one of my most painful coaster experiences ever. My daughter loved it and forced me to go again. Then I discovered the trick is to force my head forwards and anticipate the turns and I quite enjoyed it from then on...
Yeah Silverwood has both the old arror corkscrew prototype from Knotts and the aftershock boomerang from vecoma. I actually found aftershock smooth compared to corkscrew banging my head
I will forever believe Magnum is the most painful Arrow. No where else in the world can you ride a rollercoaster that feels like you are constantly traveling over speed bumps
Major props for so enthusiastically endorsing a fellow coaster content creator. Recently discovered his work and it is indeed excellent. Great video overall as always, Airtime Thrills. I agreed with much of your analysis. For those looking to check out okaycoasters for the first time should look up his video on Iron Gwazi. It will get you freaking siked for Busch Gardens Tampa as a whole.
Great American Scream Machine may be rough it but it will always be one of my favorites. I never found it too rough to bear, but the experience with the buzz bars was honestly insane with a ride that unpredictable. The former cyclone trains really don't do it justice
For Gravity Group, it is by long and far Hades 360, but i bet your ride in it made that fact known. It is quite imfamous for how rough that ride is. Light trains, long high speed sections, and terrible matinence make it the perfect storm. In fact it gets so bad in the tunnel I have a theory they keep it rough in there to earn it's name, makes that tunnel feel like the god itself is shaking the train as you run through that pitch black, deafeningly loud tunnel
I’m very surprised on how rough you find Roar. It definitely shakes a bit, but I find it still a great ride and hop on a couple times every visit (SFA is my home park)
Just rode The Scream machine at SFOG for the first time in eighteen years last weekend. It is borderline unrideable in the back right now. I literally have bruises from it. Took three rides on it (front, back, middle). I remember crying in line for it when I first rode it as a four year old in 1982, because it was massive and I was scared. I remember crying in line for it at 42 years old last weekend for my third ride through because I knew it was going to hurt me more, lol. I hope by all that is good they retrack that thing completely for it's 50-year in 2023. P.S. Honorable mention to Blue Hawk in it's former life as Ninja before they put the new trains on it several years ago. It USED to be the roughest ride in the park and that is saying something considering it was next door to the Scream Machine. Now it is an absolute joy to ride over and over.
If Mean Streak isnt on here as atleast a cliffnote I will riot. Had a migrane after riding that thing and coasters people call *rough I generally find to be fine.
For Maurer, a very rough back-row ride on Spinball Whizzer; at Alton Towers, on July 3rd, left me with a bit of unexpected pain in my upper-legs and lower-stomach!
I agree that the restraints on Gatekeeper can make it hard to breathe, especially when trying to take a deep breath. Magnum's lap bars were painful on the thighs when going over the bunny hops, though I didn't notice that so much last year when they put extra padding on the bars. The pretzel turn, however, shook my head so much I got a headache. And when I rode the Vortex at Kings Island, going down the first drop my head got slammed into the restraint so hard I had an intermittent headache for the rest of the day, so I don't even remember much else about my visit (other than a vague recollection of riding Son of Beast when it still had the loop). Not surprisingly, I wasn't sad to see Vortex go.
Interesting, Scream at SFMM was very smooth for me when I was there in 2018; really loved that ride for being a parking lot coaster. Figured you might’ve gone with one of the stand-ups as roughest for B&M
I was terrified of coasters for most of my life and only started riding them a few years ago. Skyrush was my fifth ever coaster and it nearly put me off of coasters immediately after getting back into them. Glad to know I wasn't being a pissbaby and it actually does suck to others too lmao
Most painful coaster I have been on: Flight of the Hippogriff at Universal Studios Hollywood (manufactured by MACK Rides) Reason: the same reason Airtime Thrills gave to Knotts' Coast Rider- THOSE DAMN SHIN GAURDS!
I just went to holiday world this week, and the legend I thought was really smooth! It was running really fast, it was HAULING into the breaks, and I think it got a new trains or something and it was really smooth.
maybe an honorable mention for arrow could be the matterhorn. I know it's the oldest arrow and it's a great ride but in the back row it REALLY bangs you up
Scream Machine at Six Flags Georgia, you ain't lying! Most painful coaster I've ever rode, no other comes close to the agony felt on this vintage coaster
Riddlers Revenge and Rougarou are my top most painful, brain-rattling, shake-n-ache experiences ever. I don't even remember the second half of Riddlers Revenge because I was busy protecting face/ears.
The first rollercoaster I ever rode was the Legand at Holidayworld.... thought I would never want to ride one again until I was drug onto the Raven, thats the one that made me realize my love for rollercoasters.
If we’re gonna talk about Premier Rides I wanna mention the gutpunching cramped rides that were Flight of Fear and Backlot Stunt Coaster. Flight of Fear hurt me the most because I couldn’t brace myself at all for what was coming, I had to trust that the Premier Rides Gods would give me a good ride. But oh man, when I say I felt that pain walking over to Orion, I felt that pain. That was a one and done for me. As for Backlot Stunt Coaster, the only pain I really felt was on the first turn up the spiral, but I can brace for it. I rode it twice and my only real problem with it was that I don’t like how cramped those cars are, or the weird lapbar with foot slot restraint.
B&M: Vortex (Carowinds) CCI: Hoosier Hurricane (Indiana Beach) Arrow: Corkscrew (Cedar Point)- Yeah it's small but it is quite painful. Togo: Manhattan Express Vekoma: T3 (WORST COASTER)- try sitting on the break run for 10 minutes. It was HORRIBLE!!!! Gerstlauer: Mystery Mine Coast Rider was a great choice. Intamin: Green Lantern (Close second for Worst coaster)
I’d say American Eagle is the perfect amount of roughness. The 3 roughest I’ve ever ridden were all at Cedar Point: Mean Streak (duh), Magnum (major thigh bruising), and Maverick (idk why but I got stapled in so hard that I was in pain for what should’ve been a good ride. It was sad and I think I need to go back and reride).
It may just be me because I have a knee that doesn't like to bend too much, but in general the most painful coasters for me are the ones without enough legroom in them. That said, some of the roughest rides I've been on: - Matterhorn Bobsleds (Disneyland, Arrow): Better than it used to be since it got retracked not too long ago, but it'll still rough you up pretty good. - Klondike Gold Rusher (Wild Waves, Zamperla): When I looked this one up I thought it was 20 years older than it actually is. - Cannibal (Lagoon, one-off built in house): Mostly fine, but the Lagoon Roll element caused my knee to cramp up really badly for some reason. I also rode Manhattan Express a long time ago, but probably suppressed that memory.
I actually don't find Magnum or American Eagle to be that bad, especially the more I ride them. X-Flight restraints totally kill the ride - I like the layout better than Gatekeeper but the vest tightening on X-Flight puts it well below Gatekeeper for me.
I really thought I was the only one with that issue considering I barely weigh anything. I love the ride itself but the restraints prevent me from wanting to ride it ever. I just don't ride it lol
i gotta say, riding outlaw run when it opened was like a dream. but now that more time has passed.. when i went last summer, i got a huge headache from it. it sucks, because that's my home park, and i LOVE outlaw run
At minimum its like half a dozen times a day😂😂😂 i swear 90% of the time i approach the entrance they are closing off the line. Sometimes it breaks down multiple times before I can even get on. Still worth the wait though. That launch and drop are awesome.
Firebird at Six Flags America is B&Ms first coaster and it has some pretty bad head banging. The transition from standup to floorless didn’t help it , unfortunately.. I felt great same way about Rougarou at Cedar Point.
I remember the most painful woodie for me personally, one which left me in serious pain for quite a while afterwards. I was dating a new girlfriend who lived much closer to Six Flag Great America than I did. On one of our very first dates, we ended up back at her house late, after her mom had gone to bed. We started fooling around on the living room couch when we heard footsteps on the stairs and quickly shifted to “Hmm just sitting here focused on watching TV. Oh hi Mom.” position. It was a school night for her and I had to leave (we went to different schools.) That’s the story of my most painful woodie ever. And the sad thing is we never even went to any roller coaster parks. 😫🤕😉
If the coasters are giving you headaches, it’s probably due to heat exhaustion/dehydration and diet more so than the rides themselves. Especially if you experience these headaches during the summer. An example for me is this past year when I went to my home park, SFOG. I went once during 4th of July week and once during fright fest. During 4th of July week, Atlanta was seeing record temps and in addition to this, I was not eating clean at all. I left with the most massive headache, and I only lasted for a handful of hours at the park. In contrast, when I went to Frightfest, the temperatures were much cooler, and I had been eating relatively clean and was drinking a lot of water daily. When I left the park I still had plenty of energy and I stayed from about noon to night. I don’t know what your diet is or how much you’re staying hydrated, but during the summers, I tend to break my days up. If I’m at let’s say, Carowinds, I’ll hit up rides in the morning, maybe hit up the water park for a couple of hours around noon and then head back to the hotel to get some rest and get a good meal in. Once that’s done, I return to the park (I have a platinum pass) around evening when the temperature has gone down a bit and enjoy the rest of the night riding rides. If I am feeling a headache, I’ll pop a couple of ibuprofen pills after I eat and that usually does the trick.
I haven’t been to many amusement parks outside of six flags over Georgia, disneyworld, and Dollywood and some fair rides, but the toughest ride I have ever been on is the Ninja first time I rode I just got a headache,another year I rode it my head hurt so bad I started puking, and top it off I went on the scream machine because my sister wanted to, never did either one of those again
I was at Six Flags St. Louis for a special event when The Boss opened. As we were walking off our first ride on Boss for the day a voice in the crowd said "They should tear down this piece of crap. This space would be a great location for a coaster." The Boss was crap on Day One and it has only gotten worse with time. Also, Outlaw Run was great before the accident on The New Texas Giant. I did Outlaw Run maybe a week before and then two weeks after the incident. They changed the first locking position of the lap bar so it was lower than what it was before the New Texas Giant accident. When Fred Grubb; the boss of RMC, personally staples you into your seat and crushes your balls..... you know things have gotten serious.
For Gerstlauer, the back row of Saw the Ride in Thorpe Park has some kind of weird whiplash happening on the last immelmann that really banged my head. Shame, cause the rest of the ride was fantastic, but I had to take a sit for a minute before moving on
I still make Thigh Crush my #1 priority at Hershey. My legs get a bit wobbly after the ride, but I personally think it's worth it, lol. Roughest ride experience for me was a Pinfari Zyklon ZL42 coaster, the Python at Playland's Castaway Cove. Looks basic when you're off the ride, but the loops were so tight that I felt like my ears would bleed from banging my head on the shoulder restraints so much. And the worst part is, while it's no longer at Playland, it was just moved to a different park. Should've demolished that thing; it's going to be a rough ride for anyone who wants that credit. :(
The roughest coaster is my emotional roller coaster
Too real
I felt that
Oof
Dang bro sniff
RIP
"Let's talk about another smooth steel manufacturer; Gerstlauer"
*Laughs in Saw - The Ride at Thorpe Park, UK*
I want some of these coasterchannels to go to Europe and Asia for a change. Some variation would be interesting.
@@mennograafmans1595 a smaller coaster channel, eltororyan, went to Japan and discusses them and is looking to go to Europe. His videos are pretty good.
And the back row seats on the Smiler 😅 I had a bruised ear after my first ride, but thankfully it seems to be getting better with age
Dont forget speed and the smiler
@@whimsicalclouds bruised ears are a staple of riding The Smiler 😂
He mentioned basically every single roller coaster in Las Vegas except for canyon blaster at the adventuredome. Which is one of the most painful rides I’ve ever been on! It’s probably because i am only 5’4.
I think Canyon Blaster is actually pretty good! And wild
How'd Canyon Blaster cause pain? Bad day probably 😅
Airtime Thrills Yeah and I already had a headache going from the second Loop to the turn hurt
I liked it although it gave me a headache
Canyon Blaster was my first loop coaster and I think I went on it 10 times in a row lol
"Let's talk about more painful woodies."
... sorry I spat my beer.
That didn't sound right...
SAME
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Excuse me, this is a family show!
😄
Gets to GCI: "Well, it's got to be Wildcat...unless he says Roar...yup, there ya go."
Roar is so rough! I rode it twice thinking I could get airtime. Nope just my leg workout for the next few days. I had to brace myself with my legs and engage my abs to hold myself steady. Same on Wild One.
Roar is a joke when Wild One is right there.
SiebayRoo true.
Roar was fine for me....
Watching this make me realize I'm on the wrong channel since i didn't understand half the terminology. However i greatly enjoyed the video. Keep up the great work. You give me a glimpse of what the world of Rollercoaster enthusiasts looks like.
Dear Cedar Fair: please replace Time Warp with literally anything else.
A weed filled gravel plot would be preferable to time warp
I think you would consider Manhattan Express to be better than Time Warp.
They should replace it for las vegas big apple 🍎 coaster! Lol. Who agrees with me
I would take a new age Vekoma
TIME WARP 2
My niece dragged me on Predator last Sunday (I usually refuse to go on that) only if we rode near the front of the train, and I was surprised how good it ran and actually had airtime on it, also the New section of Titan track was glass smooth! Now if Six Flags does the rest of the coaster with Titan track, it would be a great coaster again.
Me: sees what he has as the most painful intamin
Also Me: *unintelligible screaming*
Skyrush Fanboy exactly. Isn't even bad. Nice name. I agree with that statement
So you want a Shoulder restraint?
Skyrush restraints seriously suck. No, they do not hurt every single time.
My first painful experience started fine. I didn't think anything was wrong at the station. By the time we got to the top of drop hill I knew this was going to be painful. This was at night, so I didn't know when the next turn was coming. Every motion simply increased the pain and reduced my blood flow. When the ride ended I stumbled off the ride because my entire right leg was completely numb.
I am not exaggerating. The ride staff did not blink either, so I believe this is way more common than it should ever be.
@PureAwkwardness No. That would kill the airtime on Skyrush.
cant be worse than goliaths walabi holland megacoaster latbar, its the metal seatbelt latches, inbetween, but the latbar, hydrolic just locks, being pushed cheked at the station by staff.
I think vortex at Carowinds is the toughest B&M
I'm glad you mentioned the wooden coasters at Holiday World! They are awesome coasters for a park like that but you will get a little bruised experiencing the fun on a couple of them.
When the video started playing I looked at who made it, I swear it said airtime thrills
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Man, The Legend is so painful that it feels good to me. I literally couldn't breathe towards the end and I wanna do it again lmao.
I must’ve ridden Scream on a real good day. I rode front row and it’s in my top 30. Everybody I talk to seems to hate the ride but I personally thought it was one of the better B&M’s I’ve ridden, especially because of the amazing zero g roll.
I agree. We love scream. I didn't find it rough at all.
Coaster Limits i agree, i ride scream on every visit to six flags and imo it’s getting better every time, it’s very smooth, i love all the b&m’s at magic mountain, but riddler is getting rough, still a good ride though
I would say the most painful ride I’ve been on by B&M is Vortex at Carowinds. That was a god awful ride. I didn’t like Riddler’s Revenge either, but Georgia Scorcher is the best stand up imo.
I found it super smooth. Surprised to see it on here
@@coreygrimes9166 ridder overrated asf ive been on it 3 times its pure trash my legs hurt after riding it and then i cant walk for the rest of the day
In 1988, at a mere 4 years old, I rode Shockwave at (Six Flags Over Texas) for the first time (back in the 80s the height restrictions were rarely, if ever, adhered to. Additionally, my mom was made to pay an adult ticket for me, which she later argued had made me eligible to ride). It was my first coaster and the one that made me fall in love! A short two years later (1990) I rode the Texas Giant. Nearly died. I was so small -in age and size- that the lap bar didn't even touch my legs. After the first drop while ascending the second hill, I went airborne, literally. Had my mom not quickly reacted and jerked me down, Lord knows what might have happened. Turns out, the rest of the ride was more likely to kill me from a neck-breaking whiplash than my superman trick...talk about painful. I've not rode it since it was re-done.
Vekoma: you now what they say about our coasters
“It’s all fun and pain”
I immediately thought of Taylor getting thrown into the trash can by mr Vekoma lol
@@SkyrushFanboy lmao same
Unless it’s Expedition Everest
@@Howlingburd19 yep
I laughed when I saw Steel Eel in the intro! I just rode that a couple days ago and agree with what you said about it -- even though I find the rough valleying to be a bit more bothersome than you seem to. And it seemed to happen after every hill when I rode it! Each time I rode it, though, I rode towards the back, so that very well may have been an influence towards my experience.
The coaster DOES have good airtime, though! That first drop, especially, is surprisingly good!!
I’ve gotta say, comet is one of the smoothest “classic” woodies out there. It’s super smooth and you get a LOT of airtime on the hills. Great coaster for enthusiasts young and old. Try to catch a night ride, it’s spectacular!!!
My most painful moments:
-marathoning Millennium Force in heavy rain at night. Looked amazing going up the lift hill against the lights of the ride and then it felt like being stung by 1000 bees the rest of the ride. Still did it four times though.
-riding Steel Vengeance behind a lady with really long hair and getting whipped in the face the entire ride
-on the Beast when we entered the last tunnel for the first time and that turn comes, my friend’s head smashed into my shoulder. I now brace myself every time we start tearing down that hill.
I rode Millennium Force in a violent thunderstorm (our train was the last one out) and holy hell did it hurt
I rode I305 in the pouring rain and my face was bright red afterwards, it hurt so freaking bad 😂
Well, some things you do to yourself! You can't go that fast in the rain and not have it hurt! I did one ride like that on Magnum and could barely open my eyes. My most memorable was waiting for first car on Millennium and getting on around sunset when all the Lake Erie bugs start swarming. It wasn't painful...suspiciously so....until we exited the ride and I had to pick numerous pieces of bug guts off my partners face. We went this last weekend and I was SO ok with wearing a mask!
The first time I rode the beast, I was young and probably around 4 foot. I was trying to be brave and hold my hands up when we hit the helixes and I smashed my cheek right into the side of the train and got some light whiplash and a good headache before declaring it THE BEST!
I rode top thrill dragster when it was drizzling, and I regret that. I still don’t know how it was opened during that.
I rode Millennium Force back in 2018, and flew right into a swarm of gnats. I went from screaming "woo hoo" to spitting and gagging.
When you ride Hades 360 get the front 2 rows. 3 and 4 are ok. Anything behind that is excruciatingly painful. I rode in row six and was crying afterwards because of how much back pain I had, and I'm a healthy 18 year old. It took me a solid minute to be able to even walk off the platform
I haven't found many others who feel this way, but my most painful experience from B&M is the bottom of pretzel rolls. I love flying coasters in almost every other way, but at the bottom of the pretzel roll I always get this dull pain from getting flattened by the positive Gs.
I'm sitting and watching this and waiting for Intamin and I was like, "It's gonna be Skyrush" and surprise surprise I was right.
I have chronic migraines, so being able to ride the roller coasters with head banging and STILL have fun is a blessing. Those head banging add little to nothing since I already have my head aching prior, so I learned to simply enjoy the rides even if my head is about to explode. This will trigger a bunch of enthusiasts, but i had fun at my one ride at the Manhattan express in Vegas (or whatever it is called).
okaycoaster + Airtime Thrills for a full video would be the collab of the century
TheRandom ikr
“Thighcrush”
Yep that pretty much sums it up
My first go on Rip Ride Rocket was one of my most painful coaster experiences ever. My daughter loved it and forced me to go again. Then I discovered the trick is to force my head forwards and anticipate the turns and I quite enjoyed it from then on...
That's what I'm sayin
I got all happy when you mentioned Morgan 🤣 I’m from Minnesota and it’s really cool how their first rollercoaster is Wild Thing in Valleyfair! ❤
Aww, I was so sure you were gonna open with “Why do we ride Coaster’s, just to suffer?”
Arrow and Vekoma: *Nervous sweats*
Yeah Silverwood has both the old arror corkscrew prototype from Knotts and the aftershock boomerang from vecoma. I actually found aftershock smooth compared to corkscrew banging my head
I will forever believe Magnum is the most painful Arrow. No where else in the world can you ride a rollercoaster that feels like you are constantly traveling over speed bumps
Yeah, it’s not very good
It’s 50/50 for me.
15:03 I ABSOLUTELY LOST IT when he said "Skyline."
Major props for so enthusiastically endorsing a fellow coaster content creator. Recently discovered his work and it is indeed excellent. Great video overall as always, Airtime Thrills. I agreed with much of your analysis. For those looking to check out okaycoasters for the first time should look up his video on Iron Gwazi. It will get you freaking siked for Busch Gardens Tampa as a whole.
Great American Scream Machine may be rough it but it will always be one of my favorites. I never found it too rough to bear, but the experience with the buzz bars was honestly insane with a ride that unpredictable. The former cyclone trains really don't do it justice
For Gravity Group, it is by long and far Hades 360, but i bet your ride in it made that fact known. It is quite imfamous for how rough that ride is. Light trains, long high speed sections, and terrible matinence make it the perfect storm. In fact it gets so bad in the tunnel I have a theory they keep it rough in there to earn it's name, makes that tunnel feel like the god itself is shaking the train as you run through that pitch black, deafeningly loud tunnel
I’m very surprised on how rough you find Roar. It definitely shakes a bit, but I find it still a great ride and hop on a couple times every visit (SFA is my home park)
Just rode The Scream machine at SFOG for the first time in eighteen years last weekend. It is borderline unrideable in the back right now. I literally have bruises from it. Took three rides on it (front, back, middle). I remember crying in line for it when I first rode it as a four year old in 1982, because it was massive and I was scared. I remember crying in line for it at 42 years old last weekend for my third ride through because I knew it was going to hurt me more, lol. I hope by all that is good they retrack that thing completely for it's 50-year in 2023.
P.S. Honorable mention to Blue Hawk in it's former life as Ninja before they put the new trains on it several years ago. It USED to be the roughest ride in the park and that is saying something considering it was next door to the Scream Machine. Now it is an absolute joy to ride over and over.
When you mention Dinn
Me now getting flashbacks to their most painful coaster
I’m guessing Mean Streak (before becoming Steel Vengeance)
@@Metalhead_Coaster_Fan or Texas Giant towards the end of life
Traindude70 Trust me. You haven’t felt true pain until you ride Predator. That thing has given me substantial bruises
Schmippy Scrahahooie Predator: Ride of Pain
Nah the most painful arrow coaster is every arrow coaster
If Mean Streak isnt on here as atleast a cliffnote I will riot.
Had a migrane after riding that thing and coasters people call *rough I generally find to be fine.
I definitely think Predator is wayyy worse than Mean Streak. My 2016 Mean Streak ride was bumpy but not painful
I agree spider I live near cedar point and been riding the mean streak since it came out back in the day it was always a bumpy and rough ride
For Maurer, a very rough back-row ride on Spinball Whizzer; at Alton Towers, on July 3rd, left me with a bit of unexpected pain in my upper-legs and lower-stomach!
OkayCoasters is amazing! His content is unbelievable considering he had under 10k subs!
Nevada resident here, I love that 3 out of our 4 adult coasters in the entire state were on this list 😂
This is what happens when your coaster boom comes in the 90s lol
@@AirtimeThrills lol true but even then, El Loco, our newest coaster (2014) just didn’t really stand a chance compared to other s&s coasters.
Yes I’ve been watching okay coasters. Seriously underrated
When I heard the music and "Why do we ride roller coasters?" My first thought to respond with is "JUST TO SUFFER????"
0:19 Dude I was literally about to comment, "dang this sounds like an OkayCoasters video" lol
I agree that the restraints on Gatekeeper can make it hard to breathe, especially when trying to take a deep breath. Magnum's lap bars were painful on the thighs when going over the bunny hops, though I didn't notice that so much last year when they put extra padding on the bars. The pretzel turn, however, shook my head so much I got a headache. And when I rode the Vortex at Kings Island, going down the first drop my head got slammed into the restraint so hard I had an intermittent headache for the rest of the day, so I don't even remember much else about my visit (other than a vague recollection of riding Son of Beast when it still had the loop). Not surprisingly, I wasn't sad to see Vortex go.
Interesting, Scream at SFMM was very smooth for me when I was there in 2018; really loved that ride for being a parking lot coaster. Figured you might’ve gone with one of the stand-ups as roughest for B&M
Scream can be hit or miss, probably depending on the seat
One of my top five Coaster channels on the whole of TH-cam thanks for the great content my friend.
I swear you have the best series to ever exist!
I was terrified of coasters for most of my life and only started riding them a few years ago. Skyrush was my fifth ever coaster and it nearly put me off of coasters immediately after getting back into them. Glad to know I wasn't being a pissbaby and it actually does suck to others too lmao
Most painful coaster I have been on: Flight of the Hippogriff at Universal Studios Hollywood (manufactured by MACK Rides)
Reason: the same reason Airtime Thrills gave to Knotts' Coast Rider- THOSE DAMN SHIN GAURDS!
I just went to holiday world this week, and the legend I thought was really smooth! It was running really fast, it was HAULING into the breaks, and I think it got a new trains or something and it was really smooth.
“That’s the price you gotta pay for good ejector,” he says right after complaining about how Skyrush’s ejector hurts
The slight discomfort from the RMC OTSR doesnt compare to the thigh crushing
maybe an honorable mention for arrow could be the matterhorn. I know it's the oldest arrow and it's a great ride but in the back row it REALLY bangs you up
I want Skyrush to get B&M clamshells
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I want buzzbars lol
Best thing ever!!!!!
@@florianmartin75 damn bro u got a death wish
I never thought Vortex at King's Island was uncomfortable. Used to ride it nonstop when there was no line. Was one of my favorites back in the day.
Steel eel at sea world from Morgan is one of my favorites
I don't know who manufactured it, but the Grizzly at Kings Dominion is a real neck breaker.
Just got my ride in. 4 days later and I've still got a kink in my neck and left shoulder
Taft Broadcasting Conpany built. No idea wtf they are
omg yes!!!! Roughest rollercoaster I have been on.
no wonder it’s rough, it was made by a damn broadcasting company
Intamin: I can be your angle (El Toro) or yuor Devil (Skyrush). God I despise Skyrush, my only personal one and done modern Intamin.
Scream Machine at Six Flags Georgia, you ain't lying! Most painful coaster I've ever rode, no other comes close to the agony felt on this vintage coaster
Vekoma's most painful coaster has to be Thunder Coaster in Tusenfryd, Norway. Like for real. It's a torture device made of wood!
Riddlers Revenge and Rougarou are my top most painful, brain-rattling, shake-n-ache experiences ever.
I don't even remember the second half of Riddlers Revenge because I was busy protecting face/ears.
(B&M comes up) "He's going to say Scream at SFMM isn't he?" (he says Scream at SFMM) "Nailed it."
The first rollercoaster I ever rode was the Legand at Holidayworld.... thought I would never want to ride one again until I was drug onto the Raven, thats the one that made me realize my love for rollercoasters.
2020: these are so painful
2025: top ten most painful rollercoasters number 1 iron gwazi
If we’re gonna talk about Premier Rides I wanna mention the gutpunching cramped rides that were Flight of Fear and Backlot Stunt Coaster. Flight of Fear hurt me the most because I couldn’t brace myself at all for what was coming, I had to trust that the Premier Rides Gods would give me a good ride. But oh man, when I say I felt that pain walking over to Orion, I felt that pain. That was a one and done for me. As for Backlot Stunt Coaster, the only pain I really felt was on the first turn up the spiral, but I can brace for it. I rode it twice and my only real problem with it was that I don’t like how cramped those cars are, or the weird lapbar with foot slot restraint.
B&M: Vortex (Carowinds)
CCI: Hoosier Hurricane (Indiana Beach)
Arrow: Corkscrew (Cedar Point)- Yeah it's small but it is quite painful.
Togo: Manhattan Express
Vekoma: T3 (WORST COASTER)- try sitting on the break run for 10 minutes. It was HORRIBLE!!!!
Gerstlauer: Mystery Mine
Coast Rider was a great choice.
Intamin: Green Lantern (Close second for Worst coaster)
Solid list
Alan Trotter RIP Hoosier Hurricane!
I’d say American Eagle is the perfect amount of roughness. The 3 roughest I’ve ever ridden were all at Cedar Point: Mean Streak (duh), Magnum (major thigh bruising), and Maverick (idk why but I got stapled in so hard that I was in pain for what should’ve been a good ride. It was sad and I think I need to go back and reride).
It may just be me because I have a knee that doesn't like to bend too much, but in general the most painful coasters for me are the ones without enough legroom in them. That said, some of the roughest rides I've been on:
- Matterhorn Bobsleds (Disneyland, Arrow): Better than it used to be since it got retracked not too long ago, but it'll still rough you up pretty good.
- Klondike Gold Rusher (Wild Waves, Zamperla): When I looked this one up I thought it was 20 years older than it actually is.
- Cannibal (Lagoon, one-off built in house): Mostly fine, but the Lagoon Roll element caused my knee to cramp up really badly for some reason.
I also rode Manhattan Express a long time ago, but probably suppressed that memory.
Anaconda at Kings Dominion can get pretty nasty with those constant loops as well. Great video!
Gave me a pounding headache.🤕🤬
Okaycoasters & Airtime together?!? Damn man, the two GOATS, I'd love to catch a coaster train with you two maniacs sometime! 👍🤘🎢
Mamba is pretty smooth, except there’s a hard lateral right before the final brake run.
Imo Thunderhead and Rip Ride Rocket are both incredibly smooth!
I actually don't find Magnum or American Eagle to be that bad, especially the more I ride them. X-Flight restraints totally kill the ride - I like the layout better than Gatekeeper but the vest tightening on X-Flight puts it well below Gatekeeper for me.
I really thought I was the only one with that issue considering I barely weigh anything. I love the ride itself but the restraints prevent me from wanting to ride it ever. I just don't ride it lol
i gotta say, riding outlaw run when it opened was like a dream. but now that more time has passed.. when i went last summer, i got a huge headache from it. it sucks, because that's my home park, and i LOVE outlaw run
Ka breaks down every other millisecond
At minimum its like half a dozen times a day😂😂😂 i swear 90% of the time i approach the entrance they are closing off the line. Sometimes it breaks down multiple times before I can even get on. Still worth the wait though. That launch and drop are awesome.
Ooooh I remember Great American Scream Machine. That one hurt!
Gerstlauer: the smiler cos it literally tears your limbs off
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I work at holiday world, they finally fixed the legend, replaced a bunch of track last offseason and its now smoother than the voyage.
being a 5'5 male, getting in and out of Riddler's Revenge was a hellhole
same lol i got stuck
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Nice pfp
Also the original Gwazi was a pretty rough GCI before it closed at Busch Gardens Tamp
So glad to see someone else who doesn’t like scream
I have ridden alot of rides but for some weird reason I always feel sick after riding scream.
Firebird at Six Flags America is B&Ms first coaster and it has some pretty bad head banging. The transition from standup to floorless didn’t help it , unfortunately.. I felt great same way about Rougarou at Cedar Point.
Lightning Rod was REALLY rough in 2019!!
ahhh, my very first ever coaster made this list ;) Great American Scream Machine. Rode once, never again.
Every POV of Predator looks like a friggin’ earthquake
Whenever I think of CCI, I think of Excalibur at Funtown Splashtown in Maine. One of the best coasters I've ever been on.
I remember the most painful woodie for me personally, one which left me in serious pain for quite a while afterwards. I was dating a new girlfriend who lived much closer to Six Flag Great America than I did. On one of our very first dates, we ended up back at her house late, after her mom had gone to bed. We started fooling around on the living room couch when we heard footsteps on the stairs and quickly shifted to “Hmm just sitting here focused on watching TV. Oh hi Mom.” position. It was a school night for her and I had to leave (we went to different schools.)
That’s the story of my most painful woodie ever. And the sad thing is we never even went to any roller coaster parks. 😫🤕😉
If the coasters are giving you headaches, it’s probably due to heat exhaustion/dehydration and diet more so than the rides themselves. Especially if you experience these headaches during the summer.
An example for me is this past year when I went to my home park, SFOG. I went once during 4th of July week and once during fright fest.
During 4th of July week, Atlanta was seeing record temps and in addition to this, I was not eating clean at all. I left with the most massive headache, and I only lasted for a handful of hours at the park.
In contrast, when I went to Frightfest, the temperatures were much cooler, and I had been eating relatively clean and was drinking a lot of water daily. When I left the park I still had plenty of energy and I stayed from about noon to night.
I don’t know what your diet is or how much you’re staying hydrated, but during the summers, I tend to break my days up. If I’m at let’s say, Carowinds, I’ll hit up rides in the morning, maybe hit up the water park for a couple of hours around noon and then head back to the hotel to get some rest and get a good meal in. Once that’s done, I return to the park (I have a platinum pass) around evening when the temperature has gone down a bit and enjoy the rest of the night riding rides. If I am feeling a headache, I’ll pop a couple of ibuprofen pills after I eat and that usually does the trick.
Please also make a smoothest coaster from each manufactuer video, that should be nice
Love seeing okaycoasters at the beginning. One of my favorite coaster you tubers
"When I get back to Canada's Wonderland this summer" Yeah.... about that...
I haven’t been to many amusement parks outside of six flags over Georgia, disneyworld, and Dollywood and some fair rides, but the toughest ride I have ever been on is the Ninja first time I rode I just got a headache,another year I rode it my head hurt so bad I started puking, and top it off I went on the scream machine because my sister wanted to, never did either one of those again
Honorable defunct mention: Hercules 🤣
Or, HURT YOUR KNEES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That was a terrible ride
Rip Vortex. I had lots of good, painful memories on that ride!
Just subscribed! I have had emotional roller coaster rides only very few times in my life.
Makes sense seeing Scream Machine on this list as old as it is. Fun fact that it uses the trains from the Georgia Cyclone.
I was at Six Flags St. Louis for a special event when The Boss opened. As we were walking off our first ride on Boss for the day a voice in the crowd said "They should tear down this piece of crap. This space would be a great location for a coaster."
The Boss was crap on Day One and it has only gotten worse with time.
Also, Outlaw Run was great before the accident on The New Texas Giant. I did Outlaw Run maybe a week before and then two weeks after the incident. They changed the first locking position of the lap bar so it was lower than what it was before the New Texas Giant accident. When Fred Grubb; the boss of RMC, personally staples you into your seat and crushes your balls..... you know things have gotten serious.
For Gerstlauer, the back row of Saw the Ride in Thorpe Park has some kind of weird whiplash happening on the last immelmann that really banged my head. Shame, cause the rest of the ride was fantastic, but I had to take a sit for a minute before moving on
I still make Thigh Crush my #1 priority at Hershey. My legs get a bit wobbly after the ride, but I personally think it's worth it, lol.
Roughest ride experience for me was a Pinfari Zyklon ZL42 coaster, the Python at Playland's Castaway Cove. Looks basic when you're off the ride, but the loops were so tight that I felt like my ears would bleed from banging my head on the shoulder restraints so much. And the worst part is, while it's no longer at Playland, it was just moved to a different park. Should've demolished that thing; it's going to be a rough ride for anyone who wants that credit. :(