Skiing should be done in radians

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doing it in degrees makes no sense. The math sucks to do the addition.

once you got used to doing it in radians and "thought" that way, it would be much better

like a switch double cork 1260 would just be a switch dub cork 7. easy, you just take the number of spins and multiply by two.

even rails would just just as easy.

announcers couldn't possibly fuck this up.

Feb 13 2014 8:06PM

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Toaster-Tony

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This really is the age of the future spin huh?

Feb 13 2014 8:11PM

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Holte

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rails would be easy??? 1.5 radians on? Or 3pi/2 on?

I want whatever you're smoking bro.

Feb 13 2014 8:15PM

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Wolfgang.

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You would have to include pi to keep it as accurate as possible. You don't want to be a couple degrees off like the slope announcers.

Feb 13 2014 8:19PM

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DIX~

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My favorite trick this olympics was definitely Goeppers -3/2 to misty 7/2 off the rainbow

Feb 13 2014 8:24PM

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Hahahhaah this is the greatest idea I've heard all day, 2π/3 on, pretzel 2π/3 out is a great trick.

Feb 13 2014 8:27PM

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Pitolairas

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WRONG.

Switch double 1260 would be "cos(pi) double 7pi"

Feb 13 2014 8:27PM

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DIX~

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u wot m8

Feb 13 2014 8:28PM

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djensen

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But you have to say pi because it's better that way. I can tell my friends to do a 2 and they'll know I mean 2pi and then they'll go do a 360.

Feb 13 2014 8:37PM

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someone failed trigonometry

Feb 13 2014 9:02PM

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Wut

Feb 13 2014 9:15PM

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chicken

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we don't always say "360". people call them "three's" and "7's" etc.

I could say that was an awesome 4π but saying "four" would get the message across.

the least amount of syllables most people use for like a 270 is "two-sev". so "three-half" is the same amount of effort to say. "5-half" is easier to say than 450. Where it reall would be better though is in the big tricks. I dunno what the fuck a triple cork 10 would be without adding, but but I know that it's three flips and 5 spins.

even numbers take you back to the direction you took off , odd numbers switch you from normal to switch or vice versa.

the only reason this sounds crazy is because you know what a 7 is without thinking at all. that would quickly happen if we switched to radians. Radians for skiing is like the metric system. It just makes sense, but people who can't vizualize a kilometre will never want it.

Feb 13 2014 9:52PM

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Radians..... I hate you trig......

Feb 13 2014 9:57PM

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instead of using cork/ misty / bio to describe what axis your spinning on we should use 3D vectors to describe the rotational velocity. A skier would be traveling down the Y axis positive to negative so a left Lincoln loop would be defined by the vector a backflip would be and a left cork would be doubles would be 2 so a double back would be add this with radians to measure spins and that would make a 2pi radians for a double cork 180

Feb 13 2014 9:58PM

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steezburgereddie

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fuck your radians

Feb 13 2014 10:09PM

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KingGeedorah

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Trying to get a cork 4pi blunt tomorrow, wish me luck.

Feb 14 2014 12:58AM

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Guess someone's getting his dick sucked

Feb 14 2014 1:00AM

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Why should we stop there? Let's just describe every trick using matrices to describe the rotations. We wouldn't need announcers, we could just have them pop up on your tv in the bottom corner while watching the olympics. We'd also be able to mathematically tell the difference between bio and misty or rodeo and flatspin.

I'm going to get back to studying for my lin alg mid term now...

Feb 14 2014 2:43AM

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Pitolairas

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Check again m8

Feb 14 2014 9:16AM

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John18_6

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It should be done in seconds (subdivision of degrees). 1 degrees = 3600 arc seconds. A 360 would be 1,296,000 arc seconds.

Feb 14 2014 9:36AM

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Stose

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Looks like someone just started trig. And also this thread is a repost

Feb 14 2014 9:47AM

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Iraq_Lobster

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I have no idea what is going on because im a little boy still in geometry

Feb 14 2014 9:55AM

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airplaneface

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If they used pi in the rail sections I would start to get hungry while watching.

5pi/4 pretzel 3pi/4

Makes me want some Pretzel Pie

Feb 14 2014 10:32AM

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Skibumsmith

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when I'm skiing my position as a function of time is so steezy.

Feb 14 2014 11:36AM

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airplaneface

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But what happens if you differentiate?

Feb 14 2014 12:10PM

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10...nuffsaid

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Naw. Pi is the dumbest constant anyone has ever used. You need to use tau. It's 2pi and makes radians so much easier. So...

For jumps:

360 = tau
540 = tau + pi (or a "tp")
720 = 2tau (or a "2")
900 = 2tau + pi (a "2 tp")
1080 = 3tau (or a "3")
etc.

For rails:

270 = 3/4 tau
450 = 1 and 1/4 tau (or a "1 and 4")

Negative values for counterclockwise (the "old" leftside) and positive for clockwise.

Revolution complete. (Pun intended)

Feb 14 2014 12:18PM

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Toaster-Tony

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Getting creative = differentiating

Feb 14 2014 1:00PM

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Skibumsmith

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