How Do Rollercoasters Work?

How Do Rollercoasters Work?

Update: 2025-10-10
Share

Description

In this episode, I’m talking about hanging upside down.
Screaming, laughing, wondering how on earth this thing is still holding me without breaking.
A day at a theme park turns into a look into design, danger, and trust.
I explore how machines built for fear are actually monuments to precision, and why riding them feels so good.
It’s a story about motion, gravity, and control disguised as chaos.

✨ EPISODE TRANSCRIPT, ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/posts/140895765

🧠 Today We Learn:
Vocabulary: Theme Parks & Rollercoasters, Engineering, Physics, & Mechanics, Emotions & Sensations
Grammar: Inversion for Emphasis, With-Phrase Compression, Contrastive Concessive Clauses with "while" and "whereas"

🐣 Too difficult? Search:
“Beginner English with James” (beginner)
“Slow English with James” (intermediate)

Comments 
00:00
00:00
x

0.5x

0.8x

1.0x

1.25x

1.5x

2.0x

3.0x

Sleep Timer

Off

End of Episode

5 Minutes

10 Minutes

15 Minutes

30 Minutes

45 Minutes

60 Minutes

120 Minutes

How Do Rollercoasters Work?

How Do Rollercoasters Work?

James Bradley English