Math + Skiing = Good Grades

BMskier

BMskier

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okay so i was in math class today. i was wrecking everyone becasue we were doing geometry and trig and circles. so it was all this angle shit and i was just doing all this mental math amazing...well thats what everyone throught.

actually it was because of skiing.

90+90=180

90 onto a box + 90 while on the box = switch up

thats the simple stuff.

then we get into the big spins. so my teacher was asking how many time you have to go around the circle to get 2 rotations. instantly i was like 720.

same goes for 3 rotations= 1080

1.5 rotations = 540

2.5 = 900

doesnt this seem simple now.

then we got into the technical stuff like 270 degrees and all the spins in and out of the boxes.

so, basically if you know your spins for skiing then you are set in math for a good portion of it.

does this geometry easiness hapen to anyone else?
 
are you in 8'th grade? i thought that stuff was common sense, although having been skiing does make it a little easier b/c you think about it, but its not that hard haha
 
my math teacher asked if anyone could do a 360 so i stood up on the desk and did a 3 off of it...

he laughed...

it was stomped
 
We went over some of this in trig when we just started getting into it and it did suprisely help some and yah @Emopoppins people are like "wtfed" when i can count super high by 90s its so funny
 
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i stated trig in the thread posting...does that sound like 8th grade? could someone please help this guy and let him know when advanced trig sets in?
 
ummm pretty sure this is common sense
when i learned about circles and triangles in 4th grade my slight knowledge of skiing put me above the other students and earned me several stickers, but pretty sure it's irrelevant once one passes the 5th grade, by then most kids know that 90+90=180 (not switchup, that's not a number) and that once around a circle is 360 so therefore just add 180 for every half circle and 90 for every quarter circle. so yeah, unless you go to a special school this is irrelevant
 
whenever im in math and i need to know rotations and stuff when we do angles and shit i instantly think skiing!
 
i actually used skiing for a physics presentation my senior year. me and my buddy showed the class the trailer to teddy bear crisis, then we calculated the speed necessary to clear the halfpipe gap, and the hangtime, it was pretty cool to see a direct newschool skiing application for physics
 
that is actually interesting, basic geometry is just retarded easy, it is all stuff that people should know before they get out of gradeschool.
 
haha, so yesterday at the mountain, billy did a 3 pie/ 2 on to a pretzel out on the down rail, followed by a switch 4 pie on the booter.
 
Yeah dude, I noticed this too just this week when were doing trig and angle degrees and radians... escpecially when it got to high numbers like 1260, 1440, 1620 the number of rotations just came naturally to me while everyone else had to count. Also if it wasn't for skiing I wouldn't be familiar with 270, 630, and 810s. I laffed!
 
so can I use skiing to solve matrix's? because if there was a way it would really help me out.
 
this helped me in physics with like friction and collisions and shit last semester, but i failed out of that class anyways
 
second year university math + skiing = Bad Grades

Don't take multi vector variable calculus shit... Just shoot yourself instead, its easier.
 
Often i'll relate things back to skiing or a ski shop with university assignments - things like inventory management/supply chain stuff - It helps to clear things up when the actual focus is on something stupid like a hypothetical cardboard box distributor or something
 
i did that too. it was a picture of jacob going huge off that hip at june mnt that they hit for war. i calculated the speed he needed to reach that height and how long he was in the air and what not
 
Well some people would have trouble adding 270 and 540 as fast as you can being a skier and knowing already that it is 810 just because you know how spinning works with skiing...I noticed that I would get it faster than most...
 
i dunno when during skiing you would add 540 and 270 but i guess it helps we are familar with the degrees
 
Haha I guess you wouldn't...my bad I'm way too high haha but 270 and 270 would make kids who don't ski think at least a little but I know almost instantly...
 
i heard 4pi9 was coming to our mountain this year?

and the rotations are really easy, and they help a lot in math
 
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