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Is it a board? Is it a ski?
I don't know what to call it. A hybrid, a mongrel, a crossbreed, a chimera, or maybe just an abombernation.
The ideas behind it are in the thread of suggestions for Fin & Sean's Excellent Adventures video series, or whatever they're calling it.
This is a way of testing the concept without building anything special. The board has a 17cm waist, and with the bindings where they are the outermost parts of the boots are just within the footprint of the board. Carpet carving, it flicks from edge to edge quickly, and body angulation is easy on either edge.
Snow's all melting here, just as my Achilles tendon is starting to get strong enough to start to really do stuff. Right calf muscles are still weak and wasted but recovering. 6 weeks out of my brace and serious hill climbs out of the saddle on the road bike are just becoming possible.
Hope it snows wherever you are soon.
Postscript: Nov 17th 2013: It's an in-line snowboard.
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Looks like a great concept for a terrifying fun park ride if you could get the engineering right! The whip round as the chairs make the turn would be wicked!
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Lots of people have herniated discs, but don't necessarily have symptoms related to them.
The views at right angles to the one you've shown, at the level of each of the discs, will show more about the degree of nerve root compression that may, or may not, be present.
As always, the MRI findings need to be correlated with the findings on physical examination by your doctor.
Wait till Thursday for your doc's opinion before getting too excited/upset/selling all your snowboards!
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Sad we lost but no doubt that Oracle finally worked out how to sail their boat, and it's foil automated stabilisation system, faster than Team NZ. The faster boat won.
For me it's been extraordinary to see the culmination of ideas I first saw as a teenager in a book called "The 40 Knot Sailboat". Aero-hydrofoils now sail competitively round a race course.
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To finish first, first you must finish.
One race to go, and anything could happen. There have been enough surprises so far to know that the result is far from guaranteed.
Two amazing boats.
Two incredibly skilled crews.
Changes of fortune.
Spithill's race deferment looks like it saved their bacon now.
19 races.
And it all comes down to the very last race, the very last throw of the dice.
Whoever wins tomorrow, no dishonour to the loser, and all credit to the winner.
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Not sure how this is all going to end, but it's one hell of a contest! This is going to be an Americas Cup event that yachties will talk about for years.
Yeah, somethings clicked on board Oracle, they have made significant performance gains.
I'm starting to wonder if this is going to go to 8-8, and then ..............
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Glad to hear someone has been showing how to really carve on Turoa this year. Bet the Oxess turned a few heads outside the cafe's.
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8-1. Match point.
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The America's Cup is coming down to the pointy end. It could all be over in one more day.
The USA is in danger of having its' butt whipped by Team New Zealand, which the Canadians here might enjoy savouring. Current score in the first to win 9 races is 7-1 favouring the New Zealanders.
But all the engineers here will be salivating at the design and technology on show.
76 foot long catamarans, 7 tons each, wing sails, hydrofoiling upwind and downwind and even through the tacks, dicing, passing, and match racing at speeds of up to 45 knots.
Race 10 has been called the most exciting race ever in the America's Cup, where the lead changed 4 times in less than 35 minutes of racing.
After USA struggled in the first few races upwind, they seem now to have found another gear, and now the cats are very evenly matched.
A range of TV sites are carrying coverage.
http://tvnz.co.nz/americas-cup-2013/s2013-eprace-10-video-5584972
http://www.redbull.com/en/stories/1331611546542/video-34th-america-s-cup-story-of-races-9-10
It ain't over till its' over. The Americans could still come back and win this. A major capsize or gear failure could doom the Kiwi challenge.
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Had a strange moment on Friday, talking with one of the surgeons at work in the change room at the end of the day, comparing notes on our respective Achilles injuries, and it turns out he's a hard booter! I've worked with him off and on for 10+ years and this was a complete surprise.
He had an open repair for his Achilles and had developed a hypertrophic scar, i.e. the scar is raised, broad and firm. It now gets significantly irritated and raw after more than 2-3 days riding and he hasn't as yet found a way to prevent this occurring. I think he's had to move back to soft boots on an alpine board because of the issue.
Keloid is more common in people with darker pigmented skin, less common in pinkish pale Caucasians. Your previous scar experience may give you some clues as to how you may respond. If in doubt ask your surgeon.
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Today was my second day out of my "moon boot"/functional ankle brace, which I have been walking in for the last 6 weeks. Actually it's my second day out of my second moon boot, after I wore the first one out. Saw my supervising orthopaedic surgeon today (non-operative, early weight bearing treatment plan) and well healed up. Plan for the next 4-6 weeks is no specific strengthening exercises, just use the foot in my high heeled sports shoes (approx. 3cm temporary riser under heel of each show) then after that start physiotherapy for strengthening.
But, and this is the big advantage I see for an early weightbearing approach, the muscles in my buttock, thigh, and foot are all well maintained, and I have not lost nearly as much muscle in the calf as they would normally have expected. When I walk in my shoes, the only joint that feels unstable is the ankle because the muscles that work it are 8 weeks out of practice.
Yesterday, I gently climbed back on my mountain bike for a short ride on the flat quiet roads around the coast of the peninsula I live on, planning on going slowly and using all the gears to control the pressure put on the Achilles tendon. The sun was out, the wind was light, yachts out on the harbour, a small swell breaking on the rocky shore. Well, 35km and a couple of hours later I made my way back to where I'd parked my car (did I mention I've been able to drive with the boot on) and loaded the bike back onto the carry bar. Leg muscles and ankle joint gently exercised, no Achilles tendon pain, & log-cabin fever cured. That felt so good! I don't think I would have been able to even contemplate that if I hadn't continued to use the leg while in the brace. Now concentrating on walking slowly and carefully with as normal a gait as possible and already noticing improvements in smoothness and range of motion.
I am being very careful to avoid loss of balance as even slight off moments clearly generate extra stress in the healing tendon that I can feel. But at the same time the sooner I can train my brain, nerves and leg muscles to be normal again, the better.
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Not mine, I was slightly higher up the slope when I was shooting.
Just gone through the 2013 SES Picture Gallery. So many great memories, so many wonderful people. The picture of Liam dwarfed by his new Donek at the end of Day 1 was a moment many of us saw and enjoyed, while the image of John hard at work with his video editing speaks of all the stuff that goes on behind the scenes by all kinds of people to make SES a great event.
There are links to other galleries in other threads in this section, in particular Riceball's (Steve Recsky) beautiful photographs.
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We wouldn't want anyone to get ideas for SES, would we?
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https://bomberonline.3dcartstores.com/SES_ep_63-1.html
Dates are on the event page Barry. Sorry I won't see you there, I'm out injured currently and will be still completing my rehab in Feb 2014.
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..... Not oure how its going to feel after I can actually feel the ankle but I have a whole lot of oxy to manage the pain.
Watch the oxycodone, don't get hooked, it has very high addiction potential.
From a psychological point of view oral morphine tabs are a bit like oatmeal and oxycodone is like chocolate!
Assuming you're not allergic, and that none of these are contraindicated for you, as a general principle use acetaminophen as the foundation for your pain relief, then add something like ibuprofen or naprosyn (NSAID) on top. Only then go to the oxycodone if you need it. You may well need to for the first day or so.
Glad to hear the surgery has gone well. Surgical complications including DVT/PE can occur quite some time after surgery. Our local orthopods have had a nasty recent run of DVTs in their patients after Achilles tears.
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Hi Kelvin,
With modern surgical antisepsis and prophylactic antibiotics the likelihood of that incredibly bad outcome is incredibly low, but this is the point, not impossible.
Risk is a funny thing to get your head round before the "throw of the dice". If a patient gets through their surgery without problems that's great! If you are the unlucky guy who collects the worst possible outcome, you don't get 0.001% dead, you get 100% dead. Complications are like a lottery prize you don't want to win, and if you do win them you can't say "No, thanks.".
At this point in time, prior to your surgery, you have two possible paths in front of you. Once your anesthesiologist puts you under, and your surgeon picks up the knife you are committed to the surgery path, and whatever consequences flow from that, both good and bad. Same if you go down the non-operative path, there are consequences that flow from that decision. The key to making that informed decision is you understanding the balance of benefits and risks on each path. Helping you come to that decision is the job of your doctors, but it helps if you ask a few intelligent questions to keep them on their game!
Best of luck!
Alan
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http://www.aaos.org/research/guidelines/atrguideline.asp
Depending how familiar you are with medical terminology, or evidence based reviews, you may find this American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons Guideline on Achilles Tendon Rupture helpful. The recommendations are where to go looking for some relatively simple statements to balance any gung-ho surgeon with a mortgage to pay.
I'm currently 4 weeks into conservative management of my almost completely ruptured Right Achilles (regular stance). There were only a very few intact fibres but the rupture was shown on ultrasound to be about 7.5cm above the calcaneum (heel bone) so closer to the calf muscle and so with a better blood supply. The decision was mine. I'm aged 54, and normally fit and active and also a medical doctor (anesthesiologist) but in New Zealand where orthopedic surgeons don't always recommend you have an operation to treat Achilles tendon rupture. I've gone for early weightbearing, so by 3 weeks post injury I was back at work, wearing a functional brace/"moon boot" which immobilises my ankle but allows me to walk about without crutches.
If I was in my 20s or 30s, and aiming for absolute peak athletic acceleration performance, then I would probably have gone for surgical repair. However, operations can have complications, and I still remember the young weightlifter from my Critical Care training in the 1980s who had his leg amputated above the knee after developing infection after an open Achilles tendon repair. He almost lost his life.
An orthopedic colleague of mine tells me that if he took samples from my Achilles it would look normal about 5 months after injury, but that it would take 10 months or so before I had full mechanical strength. Soft tissue injuries heal slowly, and I plan to take my rehab carefully and properly so I get good return of function.
To illustrate the soft tissue versus bone thing, I smashed a finger at Highlands just before SES this year. I had the fragments put back together on 20th February with 3 small scews. The fracture was healed in 6 weeks, but I'm still working the hand every day nearly 6 months later to regain absolutely full use of it because of the soft tissue injury and swelling associated with the fracture and surgery.
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The issues I had noticed, mostly section index pages not registering new posts on threads, seems to have resolved.
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Bryan,
If you can't figure out how you did it, you probably didn't. The Forum application has been acting up for a week or more, with a whole lot of subtle oddities occurring, not just obvious things like posts being deleted.
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?.........., it's a time space continuum conundrum
Eddies in the time space continuum, temporarily located at Moscow's airport. Kieran, maybe we should ask Mr Snowden?
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Dream fodder.
NZild with English subtitles.
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"Yeah, right" laid back NZ slang for "I DO NOT believe you!!!" or more off colour words to that effect.
Used to good effect as the tag line for a local brewery (Tui) ad campaign that has run for several years, hence leeho730's picture.
As in "I did not have sex with that woman" Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky. "Yeah, right"
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FIS & USASA Rules: Bindings on a Snowboard.
Have been reading the competition rules in relation to hand protection for other reasons.
Found out that these two organisations say that the bindings on a snowboard -
USASA:
151.01 Snowboard
A snowboard is equipment, which permits gliding on all snow conditions. The bindings must be affixed in a sideways manner on the longitudinal axis of the board. The boots cannot overlap each other.
FIS:
2090.2 Bindings
The bindings must be fixed diagonally on the long axis of the board. The boots cannot overlap each other.
2090.2.1 Plate Systems that connect both bindings are not allowed in SBX (individual plate systems are allowed on each binding)
2090.3 Retention devices, leashes
Safety leashes are optional unless required by the organiser or the ski area.
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From the array of binding setups, in pipe, SBX, GS & Slalom etc. it seems that just about any angle is OK, as long as the binding is not aligned exactly along the long axis of the board, and the boots do not overlap along the long axis of the board.
And now I can see why Fin is not going to sell any Boiler Plates to SBX riders for competition use.
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https://usasa.org/images/stories/rulebook/2013_USASA_Rulebook.pdf
Rule 151 covers equipment:
Hand held devices to aid with propulsion or balance are not allowed except for adaptive riders.
151.04 Forbidden Equipment
Equipment that is worn or used for the purpose of balance, increased weight, or other improper physically enhancing purposes, is strictly forbidden. This rule may be waived for the Adaptive Class.
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The way it's written to my reading leaves the admissibility of hand armour open to interpretation.
http://www.fis-ski.com/data/document/sb_fis_icr-12-snowboard-final_edited.pdf
FIS much clearer and unambiguous.
2090.4 Balance and Speed control
The competitors are not allowed to wear anything on the hands besides gloves or to use any kind of devices to additionally support their balance, reduce or accelerate their speed, like poles or sticks etc.
Wintersteiger insert kit
in Carving Central
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http://www.worden.fr/boutique-worden-snowboard-multi-inserts-9-mm-les-10-unites-,111624.html
I've bought a number of insert packs from this company in France over the Net with no problems. I used them to put new inserts into four 4x4 mounted boards to create UPM pattern mounts for my own design isocline plates back in 2010-2011.
Accurately aligned drilling is the key to this task. It's something you want to practice on an old board before you drill a hole in something really expensive.
My understanding of metal board construction is that the binding insert holes are pre drilled in the metal plate during construction. Adding new inserts to metal boards is a very bad idea, and likely to lead to board failure. If in doubt ask Sean Martin (Donek on Bomber).
The Worden sourced inserts are pre P-Tex'd, but the bottoms are not entirely flat. The board will need to be base ground once the new inserts are in place.
My memory is that the inserts fit a 9mm hole in the top of the board, and a 16mm hole in the P-Tex base.
I used a drill press to drill the initial 3mm guide holes in the top of the board.
Then I free hand drilled the 16mm hole just through the P-Tex base using the brace bit.
Then I free hand used a 16mm 90 degree countersink bit to create the taper to the accomodate the insert. I couldn't source a 110 degree countersink bit to exactly match the insert angle.
I then used the drill press to drill a 9mm hole finally from the top.
Used epoxy to hold it all in place. Aim to leave the insert P-Tex slightly above the base surface so that the base grind will leave you with a nice smooth surface