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Math + Skiing = Good Grades

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BMskier
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okay so i was in math class today. i was wrecking everyone becasue we were doing geometry and trig and circles. so it was all this angle shit and i was just doing all this mental math amazing...well thats what everyone throught.

actually it was because of skiing.

90+90=180

90 onto a box + 90 while on the box = switch up

thats the simple stuff.

then we get into the big spins. so my teacher was asking how many time you have to go around the circle to get 2 rotations. instantly i was like 720.

same goes for 3 rotations= 1080

1.5 rotations = 540

2.5 = 900

doesnt this seem simple now.

then we got into the technical stuff like 270 degrees  and all the spins in and out of the boxes.

so, basically if you know your spins for skiing then you are set in math for a good portion of it.

does this geometry easiness hapen to anyone else?
May 8 2008 8:02PM
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BEARS.
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maybe its cause spin counts are based off math?
May 8 2008 8:04PM
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1080ski
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are you in 8'th grade? i thought that stuff was common sense, although having been skiing does make it a little easier b/c you think about it, but its not that hard haha
May 8 2008 8:05PM
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Mooose...
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my math teacher asked if anyone could do a 360 so i stood up on the desk and did a 3 off of it...
he laughed...
it was stomped
May 8 2008 8:10PM
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skiminnesota
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same here..

haha
May 8 2008 8:10PM
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emopoppins
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people find it amazing i can count by 90's to 1080 its quit odd.
May 8 2008 8:13PM
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BootySpunk.
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We went over some of this in trig when we just started getting into it and it did suprisely help some and yah @Emopoppins people are like "wtfed" when i can count super high by 90s its so funny
May 8 2008 8:20PM
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Bigwoods
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No grab? That adds mad street cred.
May 8 2008 8:34PM
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BULLSEMEN
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90 on to a box + 90 does not = a switch up
May 8 2008 8:39PM
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skiminnesota
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[img]http://img321.imageshack.us/img321/635/pooh20owned2qm.jpg[/img]
May 8 2008 8:46PM
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comeatmebro
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yeah we had to do some stuff like this for polar coordinates and i tore it up.
May 8 2008 9:06PM
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skiminnesota
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[img]img321.imageshack.us/img321/635/pooh20owned2qm.jpg[/img]
May 8 2008 9:08PM
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proZach
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yea you must be like 12. you don't even have to think about that shit, its just second nature.
May 8 2008 9:08PM
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BMskier
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i stated trig in the thread posting...does that sound like 8th grade? could someone please help this guy and let him know when advanced trig sets in?
May 8 2008 9:12PM
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no_steeze
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ummm pretty sure this is common sense
when i learned about circles and triangles in 4th grade my slight knowledge of skiing put me above the other students and earned me several stickers, but pretty sure it's irrelevant once one passes the 5th grade, by then most kids know that 90+90=180 (not switchup, that's not a number) and that once around a circle is 360 so therefore just add 180 for every half circle and 90 for every quarter circle. so yeah, unless you go to a special school this is irrelevant
May 8 2008 9:14PM
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bigolrig
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i just got a papercut.
May 8 2008 9:18PM
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SushiMan
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its the truth. It helps sooo much sometimes
May 8 2008 9:19PM
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asapCferg
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whenever im in math and i  need to know rotations and stuff when we do angles and shit i instantly think skiing!
May 8 2008 9:20PM
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R-Bertsch
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i actually used skiing for a physics presentation my senior year. me and my buddy showed the class the trailer to teddy bear crisis, then we calculated the speed necessary to clear the halfpipe gap, and the hangtime, it was pretty cool to see a direct newschool skiing application for physics
May 8 2008 9:32PM
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UNREAL
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hahaha yeah
May 8 2008 9:34PM
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Mr.LemonPie
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that is actually interesting, basic geometry is just retarded easy, it is all stuff that people should know before they get out of gradeschool.
May 8 2008 9:43PM
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TerminatorX
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advanced trig starts in 8th grade.

just wait until you have to learn radians. skiing wont help you there
May 8 2008 9:50PM
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e.will
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fuck radians, degrees ftw! pi is overrated. lolz nerd humorrrr
May 8 2008 9:54PM
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roussillon
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I started counting spins in radian when we learned that at school
May 8 2008 9:55PM
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KravtZ
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haha same here i pwned my math class with that shit today
May 8 2008 10:01PM
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fillup
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what are you in? thats super simple
May 8 2008 10:03PM
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rhcp
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You must be in the dumb math class.  Seriously.
May 8 2008 10:06PM
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49566738265
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Addition is so hot right now.
May 8 2008 10:07PM
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TerminatorX
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haha, so yesterday at the mountain, billy did a 3 pie/ 2 on to a pretzel out on the down rail, followed by a switch 4 pie on the booter. 
May 8 2008 10:15PM
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TerminatorX
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wow. i just spelled pi wrong twice
May 8 2008 10:16PM
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Mooose...
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Damn son, i completely forgot.
its alright though... pencil steeze is hot.
May 8 2008 10:17PM
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babujib
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9th grade is when we did advanced trig
May 8 2008 10:18PM
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fnstoked
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Yeah dude, I noticed this too just this week when were doing trig and angle degrees and radians... escpecially when it got to high numbers like 1260, 1440, 1620 the number of rotations just came naturally to me while everyone else had to count. Also if it wasn't for skiing I wouldn't be familiar with 270, 630, and 810s. I laffed!
May 8 2008 10:19PM
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golf
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so can I use skiing to solve matrix's? because if there was a way it would really help me out.
May 8 2008 10:25PM
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samwise
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you can use a calculator to solve matrices...
May 8 2008 11:23PM
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nkinsman10
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this helped me in physics with like friction and collisions and shit last semester, but i failed out of that class anyways
May 8 2008 11:30PM
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Ski303
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it was 6th for me
May 9 2008 12:38AM
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St.Steezy
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second year university math + skiing = Bad Grades

Don't take multi vector variable calculus shit... Just shoot yourself instead, its easier.
May 9 2008 3:21AM
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Silence
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Often i'll relate things back to skiing or a ski shop with university assignments - things like inventory management/supply chain stuff - It helps to clear things up when the actual focus is on something stupid like a hypothetical cardboard box distributor or something
May 9 2008 3:46AM
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dave44
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"90 onto a box + 90 while on the box = switch up"


*sigh*


May 9 2008 7:12AM
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sol.
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sounds like an easy class.  but thats sick. i love talking about skiing in school.
May 9 2008 1:49PM
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b-kul
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yeah calculators are super helpful for solving matrices (not matrixs).
May 9 2008 5:56PM
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chicken
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haha i did a 5pi mute and a 3pi/2 pi 5pi/2

May 9 2008 6:10PM
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T.Spliff
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i did that too.  it was a picture of jacob going huge off that hip at june mnt that they hit for war.   i calculated the speed he needed to reach that height and how long he was in the air and what not
May 9 2008 6:29PM
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*freeskierpj*
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Well some people would have trouble adding 270 and 540 as fast as you can being a skier and knowing already that it is 810 just because you know how spinning works with skiing...I noticed that I would get it faster than most...
May 9 2008 6:35PM
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T.Spliff
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i dunno when during skiing you would add 540 and 270 but i guess it helps we are familar with the degrees
May 9 2008 6:41PM
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chimp
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duh du da
May 9 2008 7:12PM
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*freeskierpj*
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Haha I guess you wouldn't...my bad I'm way too high haha but 270 and 270 would make kids who don't ski think at least a little but I know almost instantly...
May 9 2008 8:02PM
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andrew.
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i heard 4pi9 was coming to our mountain this year?
and the rotations are really easy, and they help a lot in math
May 9 2008 10:39PM
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4-Front
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measuring spins in radians... SO HOT RIGHT NOW!


May 9 2008 10:44PM
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BMskier
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it just works....

May 11 2008 9:14PM
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