duffjr wrote on 09/12/05 at 01:04:52:actually, no one ever mentioned pipe hitting as nbt.
Simon did, when I told him I did that. Because it's a technique about cutting a part of the race (some sand) without slowing down. It was not clearly mentionned in the Non-NBT site rules, but it enters the description of one of the rules, which says, roughly, that a technique to pass on sand, gras,, etc, without slowing down is not considered Non-NBT.
As for the time it saves... I don't know about anyone else, but before I did NBT on MC1 (cutting on corners 1 and 4), I was using regular boosts after corner 1 (build from corner 5 of previous lap), and that's all. Sometimes when trying to cut too much on corners, I was hitting the pipe unintentionnally on corner 2, and learned about that strategy. My Non-NBT f-lap was around 11"87 with boost in the beginning of the lap and the rest, normal Non-NBT. By learning about the pipe-hitting that doesn't slow down, I tried it, and eventually improved my f-lap by around "10 to 11"78 (rest of lap Non-NBT). Explain that. Maybe the lap was just really great and I would have had a new f-lap even without the pipe hitting (I do remember the lap was great). But I doubt I would have beaten my f-lap by several hundredths. By the way, I never did pipe cutting yet.
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