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YellowPants
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For those of you that don't have the luxury of reading 'Ski Canada', I thought I'd share some of the interesting facts from a recent article I found.

- Typical speeds were consistent at ski areas across the US with an average speed of 43kph (standard deviation of 11.2kph) and maximum speed of 83.7 kph
- 84% of skiers and boarders were in excess of 31.7kph and 16% in excess of 54.2
- Skiers go an average of 5.6kph faster than boarders
- Those with helmets go faster than those without
- Males go 6.4kph faster than females
- People, on the whole, underestimate their speed. This difference increases as speed increases.
- It took little effort to get three digits (107kph) on slow, spring snow




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Oct 21 2004 2:15PM
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CTD
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offtrail, no you dont, french blows. i hate foreign language. and i think everyone should all speak one language (english or not). it slows everything down haveing to translate, and besides, i mean, it isnt hard to get anywhere in the world now, and if everyone spoke the same language it would open a lot up.





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Oct 22 2004 2:43PM
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ski_Crystal
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oh,, and being american f'ed me up. i don't know anything about anything except for what goes on here. it kind of sucks how uneducated americans are


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Oct 22 2004 2:43PM
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Smithy
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agreed. american highschools are faaaar behind that of the european equivalent. and who's to say we should all speak english? why not spanish or french?

i feel ashamed of your american ignorance, east .. whatever






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Oct 22 2004 2:48PM
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punk_rider
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just for east-coast: je pense qu'il est nécessaire que chaque peuple puisse parler un language propre. En effet, il est culturellement enrichissant de pouvoir s'exprimer dans des langues permettant un éventail élargi de retranscription d'émotions, de sentiments, ...
il est clair quoiqu'il en soit que les européens ont inventé sle ski et que pour cela chacun d'entre nous leur doit respect. de plus, je ski beaucoup plus vite et avec une maîtrise bien supérieure à la votre.
Veuillez agréer, Madame, Monsieur, l'expression de mes amicales salutations.

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Oct 22 2004 2:56PM
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Smithy
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BAAAAAAAAAH!






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Oct 22 2004 3:00PM
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Smithy
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he has a point. ya know.






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Oct 22 2004 3:03PM
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eastAR5
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d'accord mais pourquoi c'est en kph? wtf je detest le metric system, parce que c'est gay. Je ne pas comprede ca.





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Oct 22 2004 3:05PM
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punk_rider
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et, bien, a mon sens, le système métrique est plus répandu car plus précis. Ainsi, imaginez-vous commander des skis auprès du vendeur en inches et en pouces? Cela semblerait plutot étrange. Après tout, cela est une question culturelle. En effet, les anglais conduisent bien à droite, ce qui, pour 90% des habitants de cette planète, semble une hérésie. Je crains cependant que dans un monde de commerce, le système le plus fréquent et usité l'emporte à la fin. Ainsi, déjà les skis sont mesurés en mètres. Je vous suggère donc à tous de garder en tête la table de conversion, sur les meusres autant que pour la monnaie par exemple.
Cela ne représente qu'une brève réflexion personnelle qui ne saurait engager que ma modeste personne.
Toujours est-il qu'il est incontestable que je suis le plus rapide skieur de cette galaxie

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Oct 22 2004 3:14PM
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Smithy
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the metric system is easier in all honesty. its just that americans have grown up without the metric system and therefore theyre not used to it and dont want to change. im sorry you hate the metric system.

anyway, back to the original point of this thread.
i love that feeling when i do a figure 11 down a groomer... balls to the walls... and i hit a roll and fly a couple of dozen feet in teh air.

when i was in winter park, my friends and i used to go bowling for spores... line up switch, figure elevan down a groomer and scare the living shit out of texans.






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Oct 22 2004 3:16PM
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Smithy
Posts: 1887 - Karma: 12
you cocky bastard! hahaha






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Oct 22 2004 3:18PM
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eastAR5
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j'ai eu un 100% pour mon quiz de francais aujourd'hui





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Oct 22 2004 3:28PM
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Smithy
Posts: 1887 - Karma: 12
c'est bien pour toi!






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Oct 22 2004 3:30PM
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Smithy
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Me, mon français est tres mauvais, mais je fais semblant de parler le français. j'aime tromper des gens dans la pensée que je peux parler le francais.

ok im done now.






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Oct 22 2004 3:31PM
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punk_rider
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^i can tell all people on NS smithy speaks great fench

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Oct 22 2004 3:39PM
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freeze717
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damn now i want to get a speed gun to go skiing with
Oct 22 2004 4:06PM
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twix_182
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yea i wish that us americans just did metric, cause now we do both metric and american and it sucks. metric is easier also casue it is all in tens. american is like 12 inches to a foot 5280(or sumthing like that) feet to a mile. just more complicated


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Oct 22 2004 4:10PM
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thecoyote
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To convert roughly km-miles divide by 8 times by 5.....to convert miles-km divide by 5 times by 8. Super easy.
And try to learn another language, its fun to be able to speak with someone else without using english, and it also improves your intelligence because you have to think about something you normally dont, talking. And if you make a profound effort to learn someone elses language they are more likely to respect you when you visit thier country.
Oct 22 2004 4:29PM
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SnowCoast
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To whoever said that english should be the only language, it wouldn't happen. It pretty much erases foreign culture (from the non-English speaking countries), which no country would ever do.
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Oct 22 2004 4:33PM
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mathers
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the reason the average male goes faster than the average female is because of weight/momentum, where the average chick is leik 120-140, guys are big and fat and leik 200 pounds, so momentum is on their side
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Oct 22 2004 5:44PM
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poor@$$skibum
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i'm not sure about how fast i was going, but i bombed from the top of rondesvouz mtn at jackson and once i hit a little flat section before hannah i crashed big time. lost both skis and poles and hit my head quite hard. i'd figure it was in the 50-60 range but can't back that up.


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Oct 22 2004 6:00PM
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sconnyFC
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for anyone who cares what punk_rider said. here it is.

And well, through my experience, the metric system is more precise. Thus, can you imagine ordering skis from the salesman in inches and in feet? That would seem strange. After all, this is a cultural question. ( didn't understand this sentence) I fear nevertheless that in the commerce world, the system more frequent and commonly-used takes presidence. Thus, already, skis are measured in meters. I suggest y'all keep in mind to count it in conversion, on the measures as much as for the change for example. This represents only a brief personal opinion, so don't think i am saying i am right just like saying that i am the undisputable quickest skier of this galaxy






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Oct 22 2004 7:03PM
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sconnyFC
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Donc me permettre de réfuter cette opinion. Qui vraiment soigne ? tout ce que je sais c'est que j'aime que mes skis pour le parc pour aient été juste au-dessus de mes sourcils. Et pour la montagne, juste au-dessus de ma tête. A-t-il d'importance la longueur exacte du ski ? A moins que bien sûr vous les commandez de de l'internet ?






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