How many miles of rail has Tom Wallisch hit in his life?

John18_6

John18_6

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Take a wild guess, there's no official answer.

+Karma if you can back up your answer by mathing it out on paper and posting a pic of your solution.

Let's guess Tom started hitting rails around 2000, which means roughly 20 years of rails. If he skis an average of 90 days a winter over those 20 years. Hits an an average rail of length (30ft for Tom) 100 times a day.

Thats 100 rail hits * 30ft * (1mile/5280ft) * 90 days * 20 years. Which gives us 1022.7 miles of rail that Tom has hit in his lifetime.

That's my ballpark guess.
 
Around the earth twice or approximately the circumference of joe mama

**This post was edited on Nov 25th 2019 at 12:52:55pm
 
Nice! I think you're a bit high with an average of 100 rails per day though.

Okay next... how much airtime has Candide racked up?

Probably about 4-5 years

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14080542:TheMailMan said:
Nice! I think you're a bit high with an average of 100 rails per day though.

Okay next... how much airtime has Candide racked up?

Probably about 4-5 years

**This post was edited on Nov 25th 2019 at 12:55:47pm
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It all equals out in the long run considering how many rails he's hit that have to be over 100 feet long
 
14080542:TheMailMan said:
Nice! I think you're a bit high with an average of 100 rails per day though.

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100 a day is high, but I’m thinking about all the urban shoots and days hiking rails. Even if the avg is like 50 our total is still over 500 miles
 
Alright gotta do some maths here

So:

Tom has been doing rails for 20 years. We will say the average length is approximately 25ft. Based on the length of LJ's attempt edit for realski I would say that a successful full rail-slide occurs approximately 85% of the time when skiing urban and 95% of the time when skiing park (These are conservative numbers). So we will assign completion coeffeicents of .85 for street and .95 for park. Now lets consider the outliers. Lets say 3 times a year he is working on something crazy like his world record attempt. This means around 100 tries on something 80ft or more (I'm gonna say 80 ft to make the math easy and not include coefficients). This will need to be accounted for. In a normal week I'm gonna assume 6 days a week on average. Make that a 30 laps a day on average with 6 rail features hit on average. Now lets setup this equation.

So: (20years)*(312days per year)*(30 laps per day)= 187,000 laps over his career

Then: (187,000 laps)*(6 features per laps)= 1,122,000 features hit

Thus: (1,122,000 features hit) * (25 ft feature length)=28,050,000 feet of rails hit

Then: (28,050,000 ft of rails hit) *( .85)* (.95)=22,650,375 ft of rails hit

Also: (100 tries) *(80ft) *(3 times a year)= 24,000 ft of outlier shit

Finally: (28,074,000 ft)/(5,260ft per mile)=5,337 miles of rails slid over 20 years.

Disclaimer: I am really bad at math

Thank you to: [tag=38820]@eheath[/tag] for helping me decide on toms numbers

Expect edits to math when I am much more sober

Ps: High numbers but this is tom walnuts we're talking about and the heath agreed

PSs: Days skied per year is probably too high

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**This post was edited on Nov 26th 2019 at 1:09:48am
 
14080942:Lonely said:
Alright gotta do some maths here

So:

Tom has been doing rails for 20 years. We will say the average length is approximately 25ft. Based on the length of LJ's attempt edit for realski I would say that a successful full rail-slide occurs approximately 85% of the time when skiing urban and 95% of the time when skiing park (These are conservative numbers). So we will assign completion coeffeicents of .85 for street and .95 for park. Now lets consider the outliers. Lets say 3 times a year he is working on something crazy like his world record attempt. This means around 100 tries on something 80ft or more (I'm gonna say 80 ft to make the math easy and not include coefficients). This will need to be accounted for. In a normal week I'm gonna assume 6 days a week on average. Make that a 30 laps a day on average with 6 rail features hit on average. Now lets setup this equation.

So: (20years)*(312days per year)*(30 laps per day)= 187,000 laps over his career

Then: (187,000 laps)*(6 features per laps)= 1,122,000 features hit

Thus: (1,122,000 features hit) * (25 ft feature length)=28,050,000 feet of rails hit

Then: (28,050,000 ft of rails hit) *( .85)* (.95)=22,650,375 ft of rails hit

Also: (100 tries) *(80ft) *(3 times a year)= 24,000 ft of outlier shit

Finally: (28,074,000 ft)/(5,260ft per mile)=5,337 miles of rails slid over 20 years.

Disclaimer: I am really bad at math

Thank you to: [tag=38820]@eheath[/tag] for helping me decide on toms numbers

Expect edits to math when I am much more sober

Ps: High numbers but this is tom walnuts we're talking about and the heath agreed

PSs: Days skied per year is probably too high

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312 days per year on average over 20 years? you're mad.

Recovery days, travelling days, holidays, shoulder seasons, (between northern and southern winters)....Plus you gotta take his acl recovery into account where he probably skied 10 days in that year.

It's probably more like 200 days, maybe not even that much. Plus, he doesn't ski park solely.

Your math is fine, but your reasoning is bonkers
 
14080994:TheMailMan said:
312 days per year on average over 20 years? you're mad.

Recovery days, travelling days, holidays, shoulder seasons, (between northern and southern winters)....Plus you gotta take his acl recovery into account where he probably skied 10 days in that year.

It's probably more like 200 days, maybe not even that much. Plus, he doesn't ski park solely.

Your math is fine, but your reasoning is bonkers
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312 days is alot
 
14080942:Lonely said:
Alright gotta do some maths here

So:

Tom has been doing rails for 20 years. We will say the average length is approximately 25ft. Based on the length of LJ's attempt edit for realski I would say that a successful full rail-slide occurs approximately 85% of the time when skiing urban and 95% of the time when skiing park (These are conservative numbers). So we will assign completion coeffeicents of .85 for street and .95 for park. Now lets consider the outliers. Lets say 3 times a year he is working on something crazy like his world record attempt. This means around 100 tries on something 80ft or more (I'm gonna say 80 ft to make the math easy and not include coefficients). This will need to be accounted for. In a normal week I'm gonna assume 6 days a week on average. Make that a 30 laps a day on average with 6 rail features hit on average. Now lets setup this equation.

So: (20years)*(312days per year)*(30 laps per day)= 187,000 laps over his career

Then: (187,000 laps)*(6 features per laps)= 1,122,000 features hit

Thus: (1,122,000 features hit) * (25 ft feature length)=28,050,000 feet of rails hit

Then: (28,050,000 ft of rails hit) *( .85)* (.95)=22,650,375 ft of rails hit

Also: (100 tries) *(80ft) *(3 times a year)= 24,000 ft of outlier shit

Finally: (28,074,000 ft)/(5,260ft per mile)=5,337 miles of rails slid over 20 years.

Disclaimer: I am really bad at math

Thank you to: [tag=38820]@eheath[/tag] for helping me decide on toms numbers

Expect edits to math when I am much more sober

Ps: High numbers but this is tom walnuts we're talking about and the heath agreed

PSs: Days skied per year is probably too high

**This post was edited on Nov 26th 2019 at 1:05:45am

**This post was edited on Nov 26th 2019 at 1:07:06am

**This post was edited on Nov 26th 2019 at 1:09:48am
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Let go with 180 days, based off the threads reaction to this maths.

Then we can take 180/312= 0.577

Take this ratio and multiply by distance of rails calculated

0.577(5337)= 3079

So using the basic math from Lonely but adjusting for days skied, we get that Tom has skied 3079 miles of rails in his life.
 
14080942:Lonely said:
Alright gotta do some maths here

So:

Tom has been doing rails for 20 years. We will say the average length is approximately 25ft. Based on the length of LJ's attempt edit for realski I would say that a successful full rail-slide occurs approximately 85% of the time when skiing urban and 95% of the time when skiing park (These are conservative numbers). So we will assign completion coeffeicents of .85 for street and .95 for park. Now lets consider the outliers. Lets say 3 times a year he is working on something crazy like his world record attempt. This means around 100 tries on something 80ft or more (I'm gonna say 80 ft to make the math easy and not include coefficients). This will need to be accounted for. In a normal week I'm gonna assume 6 days a week on average. Make that a 30 laps a day on average with 6 rail features hit on average. Now lets setup this equation.

So: (20years)*(312days per year)*(30 laps per day)= 187,000 laps over his career

Then: (187,000 laps)*(6 features per laps)= 1,122,000 features hit

Thus: (1,122,000 features hit) * (25 ft feature length)=28,050,000 feet of rails hit

Then: (28,050,000 ft of rails hit) *( .85)* (.95)=22,650,375 ft of rails hit

Also: (100 tries) *(80ft) *(3 times a year)= 24,000 ft of outlier shit

Finally: (28,074,000 ft)/(5,260ft per mile)=5,337 miles of rails slid over 20 years.

Disclaimer: I am really bad at math

Thank you to: [tag=38820]@eheath[/tag] for helping me decide on toms numbers

Expect edits to math when I am much more sober

Ps: High numbers but this is tom walnuts we're talking about and the heath agreed

PSs: Days skied per year is probably too high

**This post was edited on Nov 26th 2019 at 1:05:45am

**This post was edited on Nov 26th 2019 at 1:07:06am

**This post was edited on Nov 26th 2019 at 1:09:48am
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Gonna fix my numbers here. Definitely overlooked some stuff last night as other members pointed out.

Lets say 130 days a season instead, with one injury every 5 years preventing Tom from skiing for 40 days ( just pulling that number out of nowhere really)

That would make the total miles skied in his career:

(20 Years)* (130 Days Per Year)= 2,600 days skied total

(4 injuries over career)* (40 day average recovery)= 160 days out for injuries (at least)

(2,600 Total) - (160 days out)= 2,440 days skied

(2,440 days skied) *(30 laps)* (6 features)=403,200 features hit

(25ft feature length)* (403,200 Features)= 10,080,000 ft hit

(10,080,000 ft hit) * (.85) *(.95)=8,139,600 ft successful

(8,139,600 ft successful)/ (5260 ft/mile)=1,547 miles slid

Add in his crazier long stuff of 4.5 miles and our final answer is.......

Approximately 1,551 Miles of rail slid in Toms career- a much more realistic answer
 
He also holds the world record for the longest railslide on skis so if we are counting all his attempts on that then we need to add a couple hundred feet to the calculations
 
If we’re looking at actual ski on rail contact then we probably need to account for the fact that if he spins on to the rail then that will probably account for at least 5% of the rail which he’s essentially missed. Additionally when hitting kinked rails he’s likely gapping parts which probably wants factoring in as well, maybe say 60% of his rail hits have been kinked and on average he’s gapped 10% of these (feel like twall is more likely to do tech swaps / spins off than big disasters)
 
topic:john18061806 said:
Take a wild guess, there's no official answer.

+Karma if you can back up your answer by mathing it out on paper and posting a pic of your solution.

Let's guess Tom started hitting rails around 2000, which means roughly 20 years of rails. If he skis an average of 90 days a winter over those 20 years. Hits an an average rail of length (30ft for Tom) 100 times a day.

Thats 100 rail hits * 30ft * (1mile/5280ft) * 90 days * 20 years. Which gives us 1022.7 miles of rail that Tom has hit in his lifetime.

That's my ballpark guess.
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did you include the World Record variance ?
 
14081046:Lonely said:
Gonna fix my numbers here. Definitely overlooked some stuff last night as other members pointed out.

Lets say 130 days a season instead, with one injury every 5 years preventing Tom from skiing for 40 days ( just pulling that number out of nowhere really)

That would make the total miles skied in his career:

(20 Years)* (130 Days Per Year)= 2,600 days skied total

(4 injuries over career)* (40 day average recovery)= 160 days out for injuries (at least)

(2,600 Total) - (160 days out)= 2,440 days skied

(2,440 days skied) *(30 laps)* (6 features)=403,200 features hit

(25ft feature length)* (403,200 Features)= 10,080,000 ft hit

(10,080,000 ft hit) * (.85) *(.95)=8,139,600 ft successful

(8,139,600 ft successful)/ (5260 ft/mile)=1,547 miles slid

Add in his crazier long stuff of 4.5 miles and our final answer is.......

Approximately 1,551 Miles of rail slid in Toms career- a much more realistic answer
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It should also be pointed out that 10 year old todd probably wasn’t getting anywhere near 130 days a season, and even if he was, he probably wasn’t getting 30 laps on six features in his early days.
 
This reminds me of some old ads that Salomon ran in the mid 00s. They would have a shot of Keri Herman or someone else on their team and it would say like '1289650 total degrees rotation' or '69420 metres of rail slid' or '240 minutes total air time' and so forth
 
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