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A single ski line going down in deepish snow against a dark blue sky background
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From Shogun to Powder

This ski trip actually began in 1980 while I was still in grade school. The original airing of the original Shogun (the day I’m writing this it was announced that the star of that mini-series Richard Chamberlain has passed away) really caught my attention and indeed fascination. This led to me some years later purchasing the book Shogun by James Clavell and reading it and it was very riveting – I do recall finishing the second half of the book in one weekend – only getting out of bed for the most basic of life necessities! […]

Save the knee! Drawing of the knee!
Health, Fitness, and Nutrition

Save the Knee!

Easy Kneesy When us skiers hear the word joint, what do we think? No, not weed! The joints I most often hear about when it comes to skiing are the hip and knee joints. Both […]

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Free Body Diagram-- a foucalt pendulum
Skiing

Free Body Diagram

This entry is part [part not set] of 1 in the series Physics

What we are looking at is a simple free body diagram. Free body diagrams are used by those studying the physics of a situation to understand and visualize the forces at play in the situation […]

Skiing to Maintain Our Health
Health, Fitness, and Nutrition

Skiing to Maintain Our Health.

Most often when we talk about downhill skiing and health we talk about injuries. However, skiers know downhill skiing is an active sport; this may surprise some, after all most of the energy harnessed in […]

The Monumental Wipeout
Skiing

The Monumental Wipeout

We have seen them and probably lived through them. No one ever wants to wipe out monumentally or otherwise, but of course — it happens. I typically have one monumental wipeout per year. Rarely do […]

The Sharp Edge today focuses on Northstar's Statement on the Shred Mom Incident
The Sharp Edge

Riding the Snow? Wear a Helmet!

Mind you, I was not skiing on a hot run, I was not skiing tremendously fast, I was not skiing in trees, I did not collide with another person or an object, I simply fell and created a falling object zone and that falling object fell on my head. I am glad I was wearing my helmt. […]

The Sharp Edge

Ski Smaller

We all know the cliché go big or go home but when it comes to skiing it is not always possible or even desirable to go big. The choice many of us have is ski […]

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