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Than_Bogan last won the day on November 10 2023

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  • Home Ski Site
    Natick
  • Real Name
    Nathaniel "Than" Bogan
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    Denali
  • State
    MA
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    1 @ 34/-39
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  1. @Horton I definitely think that is the best method for success later in the season. I did that for many years. These days my spring routine is to run, jump, and work core strength with "my" high jumpers and pole vaulters, and then somewhere around June just jump into the slalom course and see what I can do. It's not as effective as the "serious" way, but it's more effective than you might guess, as some of the muscle patterns are similar.
  2. @GloersenSafe-T!! Genius name.
  3. @tru-jackGood idea. But I'm gonna be surprised if people end up wanting a nub at the end. Baseball bats and hockey sticks are swung, and the centrifugal force then tries to pull it out of your hand. I don't see anything analagous in slalom handle usage.
  4. I love this idea and would volunteer as a Beta Tester. (And I mean a real tester -- I guarantee to send a LOT of detailed feedback!) I see obvious safety advantages, but I would also caution against assuming a strict safety upgrade. There are ways a T could get a hold where a triangle almost never would, such as between your legs or under your arm pit. I strongly suspect this is a better risk profile than what we have now, but new ideas always have unforeseen consequences.
  5. COOL! I can easily imagine some weird alignment issues as it should be easier to rotate. But once accustomed, I wonder if it would result in way fewer misgrabs!? There is nothing at the end to get fingers around AND if you grab too close to center, the rope actually guides your hand to the handle (I would think?).
  6. Fair price for a great hull.
  7. TWBC is probably my favorite "TV program" these days. Annoying that there aren't any at this time of year! But I don't really watch anything live. I need more control of where my entertainment fits into my day.
  8. Very impressive, but also Guinness seems to be asleep at the wheel. How could they miss Lucille?
  9. You left out the option of "I know what I could improve, but I'm probably not going to try that hard to improve it." I guess that sorta falls under the "fun" option, but that sounds like totally ignoring results.
  10. Could three middle schoolers jump on top of these boxes without destroying them? I ask this only because ... it is almost certain to happen! This box will be at a field that is heavily used and mostly unsupervised. I don't expect a ton of malicious activity, but a LOT of thoughtless actions...
  11. Hoping some of you have a favorite storage box that is truly weather-proof, STURDY & DURABLE (unlike the craptastic resin boxes I've tried so far), and lockable. This won't actually be to store slalom skis, but that's about the right size. Maybe could get away with a little smaller -- maybe down to about 4' of interior length. Naturally, I prefer not to spend a fortune, but I need something that will actually last in an outdoor public space!
  12. @vtmecheng Although interesting, I think you're kinda putting the cart before the horse. There's a fair chance that resonant frequencies don't mean Jack about ski performance or breakdown. My "goal" here is what it often is: Fail quickly. If we can do something kinda easy that suggests that resonant frequencies aren't very correlated to anything, then we can move on. Only if they start to show some promise (or convince me that a simple test is fundamentally flawed), would I be interested in more complex test methodologies.
  13. I mentioned in another thread that it might be possible to measure the resonant frequency of a ski and (if so) that it might be somehow meaningful in detecting material degradation ("sk breakdown"). I still have no evidence for the second part of that, but today I conducted a simple experiment that suggested a ski does have a fairly consistent resonant frequency that is not very challenging to measure. I used my iPad's Fine Tuner app, and I grabbed an old Goode 9900 that had no bindings on it. Then I just held it in various places with one hand and smacked it in various ways with the other hand. The frequency measured was shockingly consistent at 115-116 Hz. To be expected, there were also occasional readings of half or double (58 or 230), which is how resonance works and, if anything, makes a stronger argument that I'm actually measuring an inherent property of the ski. Mildly interesting. If anybody has an iPad or iPhone, get the free Finer Tuner app and then grab some skis without bindings on them and see if we discover anything. (Most likely we won't, of course, but useless experiments sometime lead to better ones in the future!)
  14. Riffing off something @DW mentioned, has anyone tried to measure a resonant frequency? For some 3D printers, the actual recommended method to test belt tension is to pluck it like a guitar string and use a tuning app to get the right frequency. I wouldn't be very surprised if the resonant frequency of a new ski is different from an older one (of the same model), but I'm not sure how to measure that!
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