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  1. 09-01-2005, 07:13 AM #1
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    Height of Hucks

    Here's an exercise I'd love a few of you guys to conduct for me this season.

    Take a bunch of decent skiers and line them up above a huckable cliff/rock band. Get them to jump off and measure the distance from lip of cliff to impact with a length of rope. Tag the distance on the rope with duct tape, and mark the tape with the skier's initials. Then ask them how far they think they've jumped.

    Once you've done this measure the rope at your leisure and publish the results. It'd be fascinating to see how we estimate the height of a huck.
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    Do you get bonus distance if you hit it switch and ride into the road?

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  3. 09-01-2005, 07:33 AM #3
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    That's just not scientific.
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    What about bonus distance it it's under a lift and you yell "Hey everybody, watch me beater over this cliff".
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    " No way, that rope shrunk. See, right there, all tape is all shrunken up too. I know that's a forty footer. Twenty three feet my ass!"
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    That huck was 30,40, no 50ft high.

    Just like the male anatomy measurement.
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    According to someone on this board (I don't remember who) you can only measure the vertical of the exposed rock. You may fly 250 vertical feet through the air, but if there's only 5 ft of exposed rock, you just hucked 5ft.
    Last edited by crashnburn'd; 09-01-2005 at 07:56 AM. Reason: clarification
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    What about doing it on old straight skis? Bonus?
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  9. 09-01-2005, 07:54 AM #9
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    Quote Originally Posted by crashnburn'd
    According to someone on this board (I don't remember who) you can only measure the vertical of the exposed rock. You may fly 250 feet through the air, but if there's only 5 ft of exposed rock, you just hucked 5ft.
    Agreed.

    Height and distance are two seperate measurements.
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    How bout bonus points if your on the east coast on really shitty snow with no real landing area?
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    Quote Originally Posted by truth
    Agreed.

    Height and distance are two seperate measurements.
    see my clarification above...
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    Bonus points and East Coast shouldn't be in the same sentence.
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    Quote Originally Posted by trainnvain
    Bonus points and East Coast shouldn't be in the same sentence.
    how about bonus points for nekkid and 20 below?
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    Quote Originally Posted by truth
    Agreed.

    Height and distance are two seperate measurements.
    Okay then, bust some of that trigonometry shit out. Work out the pure vert as well as the total distance. We love stats.
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    Quote Originally Posted by trainnvain
    Bonus points and East Coast shouldn't be in the same sentence.

    http://www.meatheadfilms.com/webvide...risticeweb.mov

    I dont know I think this guys gets points.
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    If points are awarded for a shameless lack of commitment to landing on your feet, then yes, he's up to his nuts in points.
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    Quote Originally Posted by bad_roo
    Okay then, bust some of that trigonometry shit out. Work out the pure vert as well as the total distance. We love stats.
    For vert, one could take altimeter readings at takeoff and landing. On second thought, alitmeters probably aren't accurate enough.

    Measuring the horizontal seems more difficult (levitate or tunnel). On the other hand, one could estimate angle of tape strung from takeoff to landing (inclinometer). WIth hypotenuse and angle, we're good to go (via said trigonometry shite).
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    All I know Is that it looks a hell of a lot bigger when your on top of it.
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    Whilst we're getting all mathematical, how about an index that calculates height of huck and angle of landing to illustrate the thump factor?
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    Quote Originally Posted by crashnburn'd
    According to someone on this board (I don't remember who) you can only measure the vertical of the exposed rock. You may fly 250 vertical feet through the air, but if there's only 5 ft of exposed rock, you just hucked 5ft.
    You can huck many things. Trees... ice walls... rocks... cliffs... cornices...

    There's no rock in a cornice... if you huck 50ft off a cornice with no rock, is that 0ft huck?

    Nope... you hucked 250ft... you hucked a 5ft rock. Both valid statements.
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    A²+B²= Thump²? Who wuuda thunk?
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    slope angle greatly influences said thump factor.

    Maybe a GPS mesurement to do away with all of this stoopid math talk.
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  24. 09-01-2005, 09:03 AM #24
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    Huck heights and distances are usually only slightly more exaggerated than slope angle assessments. "Holy shit I can't believe I just dropped that 30 footer onto a 55 degree face" translation 12 footer to 32 degree slope.
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  25. 09-01-2005, 09:13 AM #25
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    Unless we're talking truly ginormous hucks, the consumer GPS that folks are likely to have with them wouldn't be accurate enough.
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