Lucky break for slopestyle women

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aerobiee

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So it looks like Kelly Sildaru won't be competing in Dew tour slope. from her Facebook page:

"Due to my low weight I´m not having enough speed for the second jump. Even straight air tend to be a little short. So, I will not be competing at this year´s Dew Tour. Still I have a chance to practise and hang out with my friends."

Feels like a real shame to me, it would have been a welcome boost of progression in women's skiing when she won.
 
13258074:A.Emond said:
Inb4 shes keeping skiing at its roots
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Not true. She throws switch 10s and is ruining women's skiing. She is anti-progressing the sport. I'm glad she's not competing so we can see more 540 mutes
 
13258092:jackdonovan said:
wut
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Filming with Lafa synonymous with "keeping skiing at its roots" which was the post right above my post. That the explanation of my joke that could possibly be taken literally.
 
Seems like she'd still have a shot at a podium even if she skipped the jump and tossed something off the knuckle.
 
13258307:[tk said:
]There goes my fantasy
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Trading is still open bud. I just went and took her off my roster.

I guess we are just going to have to wait a bit longer for her domination at the pro level.
 
13258120:kshaughn said:
Not true. She throws switch 10s and is ruining women's skiing. She is anti-progressing the sport. I'm glad she's not competing so we can see more 540 mutes
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I hope thats sarcasm...
 
Devin Logan is probably out with a shoulder injury too,even though she qualified for slope finals, will be interesting to see the podium
 
13258953:Troy. said:
GREAT RESPONSE. REALL CONTRIBUTED A LOT TO THIS THREAD. THANKS FRIEND. 10/10
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GREAT RESPONSE. REALL CONTRIBUTED A LOT TO THIS THREAD. THANKS FRIEND. 10/10
 
sounds like she's scared to me. if weight was a problem she could just wear a weight belt or a backpack or something. poor excuse.
 
I thought weight had nothing to do with it? I could see the argument for longer skis though- but my physics knowledge is fairly limited.
 
Tough to fly halfway across the globe to bow out, but I'm not sure she had much to be gained by competing and risking coming up short and the prospect of an injury. You gotta respect the maturity in the decision. I'm sure she wanted to go out against all of them and win. If she's boostin as much as she can and barely clearing the knuckle that's sort of all the info she probably needed. If you can't get to that second line on a straight air?

Windless, bluebird day so couldn't ask for better conditions, but there's always another comp, right?
 
There's just no way around the fact that heavier objects go downhill faster.

Bummer. Sildaru will be putting the boys to shame in the next few years.
 
13259231:unknowndeath said:
sounds like she's scared to me. if weight was a problem she could just wear a weight belt or a backpack or something. poor excuse.
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Adding lead isn't like adding muscle. It would fuck with her in the air rotation wise even if she's hitting the jumps faster.
 
13259231:unknowndeath said:
sounds like she's scared to me. if weight was a problem she could just wear a weight belt or a backpack or something. poor excuse.
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13259241:Poikenz said:
I thought weight had nothing to do with it? I could see the argument for longer skis though- but my physics knowledge is fairly limited.
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sounds like you're still in high school and dont understand physics
 
13259999:EvanMeyer said:
sounds like you're still in high school and dont understand physics
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More like I haven't taken physics since high school and I don't really remember anything about inertia or how mass impacts velocity/ acceleration when friction is involved. All I remember is a lot of questions about crates.
 
13260255:Poikenz said:
More like I haven't taken physics since high school and I don't really remember anything about inertia or how mass impacts velocity/ acceleration when friction is involved. All I remember is a lot of questions about crates.
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Force = mass * gravity
 
13260355:SladeSki said:
Force = mass * gravity
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13259241:Poikenz said:
I thought weight had nothing to do with it? I could see the argument for longer skis though- but my physics knowledge is fairly limited.
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velocity = mass*acceleration...

The primary acceleration forces would be gravity and any skier-induced forces (skating). But mass is very important.
 
13260431:ben_southworth said:
velocity = mass*acceleration...

The primary acceleration forces would be gravity and any skier-induced forces (skating). But mass is very important.
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Lol. Meant force = mass*acceleration.

Problem for her remains the same.
 
Your weight is helping you not loose so much speed to friction and drag, no? And wouldn't a light person would have a lower terminal velocity. Maybe if she wore a racer suit she'd overcome some drag?

inb4 skiers in 2025 wear racer suits to get as much speed as possible for throwing penta flips.
 
13260476:DrZoidberg said:
Your weight is helping you not loose so much speed to friction and drag, no? And wouldn't a light person would have a lower terminal velocity. Maybe if she wore a racer suit she'd overcome some drag?

inb4 skiers in 2025 wear racer suits to get as much speed as possible for throwing penta flips.
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Friction yes, drag kind of (indirectly because a person's mass is generally correlated to their surface area). But these forces are still dominated by the gravitational force and skier skating, so the net effect of her (lack of) mass is less speed.

inb4 skiers start bulking to get as much speed as possible for pentaflips.
 
13260355:SladeSki said:
Force = mass * gravity
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Okay judging by the above I guess I should have expanded on this extremely simplified statement.

The force that I'm talking about is weight. Force (weight) = m * g. Weight has a direction towards the center of the Earth and, due to the slope of the ski hill, this causes 'forward' movement.

As far as inertia goes.. inertia is an object's ability to resist acceleration (in our case friction.. acceleration in the negative direction). The greater inertia of a heavier person causes friction to play less of a role in slowing them down. This makes them go faster on a ski hill.
 
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