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Unless the yoke will be a camp stove you're probably right.

He almost certainly doesn't ride a link. Sponsored riders have agreements with their brands that prevent them from running a link. We have had less prominent racers ask us if we would help them out with a link only to come back a bit later letting us know they got told no.

The other thing I find with the terrain around Washington and other parts of the PNW is the roots are a fairly unique type of small bump where the impact frequency is super high but also super low amplitude. Then you have the high speed hucks that are always a single impact and very high amplitude. Balancing those two can be tricky and a fair bit of progression helps the shock stay active on the super high frequency stuff while not slapping bottom on the hucks. Like you said, areas like that in the SW have lots of impacts that...

You do realize you've described the current V10 right?

There's definitely not a one size fits all for kinematics. For an average rider making it harder to bottom out might make it so they never use the last 10mm of travel or have to run excessive amounts of sag. For a more aggressive rider the kinematics that work for the average rider lead to over springing the bike and running less sag, slapping bottom often and hard, or running an excessively stiff damping tune. Finding a bike with a leverage curve that gets you the balance of spring rate and damping that you want is important. I don't think...