JohnE Posted March 28, 2019 Report Share Posted March 28, 2019 So my riding buddy & I were musing on how many turns we make in a "day". One day when he was riding by himself, he had nothing better to occupy his mind so he started counting how many turns he made on a run. He was doing the same run over & over and was surprised on the consistency of the number of turns he made (40). He & I ride almost exactly the same way. This is one of the shorter runs that we do on a regular basis but when lapping this run, we tend to make 4 - 5 runs per hour. Before we got serious about carving, we would tend to skid a lot of turns. However now we carve or attempt to carve every turn. This demands a lot more stamina than skidding. We normally start at 9 AM and end at 1 PM (4 hours straight). So, if I assume that we make 4 runs per hour for 4 hours that is 16 runs. 16 x 40 = 640 turns. 640 turns per "day". Has anyone else done a similar count? If so, how does this stack up? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Ace* Posted March 29, 2019 Report Share Posted March 29, 2019 I feel like on my Thias Skwal Easy Jungle I make 40 turns per pitch! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf Posted March 29, 2019 Report Share Posted March 29, 2019 It would be interesting to work out how you're doing versus the theoretical turn radius of the board. For example, a board tipped up at 60 degrees from horizontal, with the edge pressed evenly into the surface, creates a theoretical arc with about half the sidecut radius of the board (ignoring variable sidecut, contact variations due to torsional flex, etc., etc.). So if you complete each turn as a full 180 degree arc, you can work out how many turns would fit into a given length of run. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnE Posted March 29, 2019 Author Report Share Posted March 29, 2019 4 minutes ago, Wolf said: It would be interesting to work out how you're doing versus the theoretical turn radius of the board. For example, a board tipped up at 60 degrees from horizontal, with the edge pressed evenly into the surface, creates a theoretical arc with about half the sidecut radius of the board (ignoring variable sidecut, contact variations due to torsional flex, etc., etc.). So if you complete each turn as a full 180 degree arc, you can work out how many turns would fit into a given length of run. That sounds even more obsessed than counting the number of turns each run! However, I get your point. It should be possible to calculate the number of full turns possible for a given board and knowing the fall line length of the run. The number of possible full turns should be about the fall line length divided by twice the SCR. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnE Posted March 29, 2019 Author Report Share Posted March 29, 2019 So, this intrigued me more: At Loveland, Lift #8 looks to be about 3600 feet long (based on Google Maps). Chet's Run is nearly parallel to the lift. 3600 feet/40 turns = 90 feet per turn. If one assumes that the turns are full half-circles, the radius of this circle would be 45 feet. 45 feet = 13.7 meters (approximately the SCR of the my board). Turns that are more than 180 degrees would require more turns. Turns that are less than 180 degrees would require fewer. Maybe the average of all turns in a run approaches the SCR of the board? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barryj Posted March 29, 2019 Report Share Posted March 29, 2019 Man! You guys got Way Too Much Time on you hands! I too also count turns but at a much simpler application..... I only count the number of turns between towers on specific sections of a particular trail. So at a casual carving pace if get 4 turns between towers I'll start working hard to really tighten up my turns up to doubling or better the number of turns between towers......that will really increase your carving skill and get you a workout if you working for every last turn! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnE Posted March 29, 2019 Author Report Share Posted March 29, 2019 22 minutes ago, barryj said: Man! You guys got Way Too Much Time on you hands! Probably so! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowrider Posted March 29, 2019 Report Share Posted March 29, 2019 We suffer from a severe shortage of therapists in Canada as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beckmann AG Posted March 30, 2019 Report Share Posted March 30, 2019 On 3/28/2019 at 1:17 PM, JohnE said: How many turns? Twenty... Thirty, (cross-referenced). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b0ardski Posted March 30, 2019 Report Share Posted March 30, 2019 your not helping Leon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b0ardski Posted March 30, 2019 Report Share Posted March 30, 2019 I've done 30 turns down b chute where some skiers only do 2-3 they might beat me to the bottom but I will have traveled thrice as far Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beckmann AG Posted March 30, 2019 Report Share Posted March 30, 2019 (edited) 18 minutes ago, b0ardski said: your not helping Leon Leon? What do you mean, ' I'm not helping' ? Edited March 30, 2019 by Beckmann AG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b0ardski Posted March 30, 2019 Report Share Posted March 30, 2019 how many did it take for Rachel? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
softbootsurfer Posted March 30, 2019 Report Share Posted March 30, 2019 remember thinking Milk 2 miles down the front, x = 4square x parabolic ( ? x what= c over d user Y x velocity ) x 10 then my Mind exploded... 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Stevens Posted March 30, 2019 Report Share Posted March 30, 2019 all of them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pokkis Posted March 30, 2019 Report Share Posted March 30, 2019 On 3/28/2019 at 7:17 PM, JohnE said: 640 turns per "day". Has anyone else done a similar count? If so, how does this stack up? For me that does no sense. I calculated few times turns, in Myrkdalen we made 60 turns per run, and one run takes bout 15-20 minutes, and on my local hill i get such numbers that i would multiply that 640 with quite high number. If you ride like 40-60KM per day i would say that one gets easily 2k+ turns per day if you are not in surfing mood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corey Posted March 30, 2019 Report Share Posted March 30, 2019 I made 13 turns in this little section: No idea how that translates to a whole day. 2 hours ago, Rob Stevens said: all of them ^^ This. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
softbootsurfer Posted March 30, 2019 Report Share Posted March 30, 2019 OK 35 years, at least 50,000 miles...at 135 turns per mile average, that is 6,750,000 turns Uh...yea, that's a lot of Turns 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnE Posted April 2, 2019 Author Report Share Posted April 2, 2019 On 3/30/2019 at 10:46 AM, Corey said: I made 13 turns in this little section: No idea how that translates to a whole day. ^^ This. On Google Maps, that pitch appears to be about 1/7 of the entire run - back down to the queue of Chet's Dream (including the flat section in the valley). If you were to continue to make that type of turn for the entire run, that would be about 91 turns. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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