Johnny Law

love those graphics, super sick setup

Do you think he could be specifically attacking the 90-120hz range ? Gary Foss from Boeing and a K2 guy did a vibration study for SEM awhile back. Long study but they concluded the 90-120hz range had specific influence on a skis top speed for some reason. They also concluded torsional stiffness in the shovel is of utmost importance but this dude isn't increasing torsional stiffness above that which already exists with metal laminates. Thus I can only conclude he's 1. Full of shit 2. D3o has a greater loss factor than metals or 3. Something about D3o specifically attacks the 90-120hz range. The later would be the most interesting because you could maybe make super light super damp skis. There is a company in Indiana that makes a standoff dampner used in making aircraft cabins quieter. It's a bunch of graphite sheets with standoff spacers. I can see that kind of shit working but I'm not sold on D3o.

The only "new" thing he's doing is using D3o. D3o is used in protection equipment, it's a non-Newtonian dilatant fluid. A snowboarder in England developed it for use in protective gear. Non-Newtonian fluids are fluids those in which stress tensors do not flow from every point linearly aka they do weird shit. Newton, the dude not the cookie said this is how shit works and he was mostly right however the weird shit that breaks his rules in fluid dynamics are called non-newtonian fluids. D3o is a dilatant fluid or more simply a shear thickening fluid, it's viscosity increases when shear forces are applied aka it gets harder when you hit it. Corn Starch in water is a classic example of this kind of non-newtonian, paint is a common counter example. This dude is using the D30 gel in the core of the ski to provide dampening, basically as you ski faster and the shear forces on the ski rise so the gel because harder more stiff. When your getting mach looney on a groomer the small vibrations cause additional muscle use than if their were no vibrations. Bike people proved this with power meters thus if the ski is stiffer theoretically less vibrations, less muscle use better longer skiing. Seems interesting but kind of gimiacky, most people getting mach looney are probably on pretty stiff skis already and stiffness and dampness don't work this way, I mean we all know stiffer things transfer more energy. Dampness is vibrations and vibrations are amplitude, (magnitude of oscillation, how fast the bent ski returns to normal) frequency (number of oscillations) and decay (how fast the vibration goes away ). Decay is loss factor or how much of that energy in each oscillation is lost as heat. JL clearly your off your meds what the fuck does this all mean. To make a ski stiff you often add metal laminates, this increases the mass and adds another loss factor. Increased mass decreases amplitude and frequency (more shit = harder to move) however making the ski stiffer decreases the amplitude but increases the frequency because stiffer materials transfer more energy. Additionally metal laminates are often aluminum (often marketed as titanial) and titanium, titanal is not titanium it's an aluminum alloy developed by Austria Metall AG. You take 6000 series aircraft aluminum and add titanium and zirconium, this makes the grains smaller and more refined which reduces Elongation at break or how much you can fuck with a material before it cracks. Both aluminum and titanium have shit loss factors. What the fuck does this all mean ? Stiffer skis don't mean more damp, heavier skis certainly go ride an old pair of Chubbs, this dude isn't necessarily making a more damp ski unless the loss factor of D3o is much higher than titanium and aluminum or in English his magic fluid shit probably doesn't do what he thinks it does.

Denton's got some goods, WNEP card would maybe work for you. If you come to Blue I got a day ticket for you. Blue is 1hr 45min away we'll show you a good time. Lewisburg is near Bucknell, not as dead center PA as state college but pretty close for all the PASR peeps that aren't familar with central PA.

Did anyone have ski club in jr and high school ? A dude a couple years older than me conned his mom into creating a ski club in the Exeter school district that was probably the closest thing we had to a town hill. A town hill is a state of mind rather than a place, a community thats connected by skiing. His mom was weird, she fed all the raccoons behind her house and had two separate rabies scares but it actually worked out because she was a terrible club leader so everyone just did what they wanted. Every trip more than a couple kids broke something and one kid went four consecutive years breaking his collar bone on the first night. We started at Doe and them moved on to Blue during highschool, it was essentially the same kids the entire time and sometime in highschool he convinced his mom to do a VT trip. We got loaded on super cheap Vodka which is awesome when your 15 and the second year I hooked up with this insane but super slutty chick from Central Catholic. I got her on the upswing when she was just discovering that she was a whore so crabs averted. After the two years of complete mayhem the club VT trip was abandoned due the actions of myself and others yet those trips are some of my favorite memories from that time in life. Young, dumb and untouchable, we did endless retard teenage boy shit with zero consequences. The blue crew has kinda a town hill thing going on except were too spread out, though the core if you will all lives pretty close. Town hill kinda doesn't work in PA because alot of the time if your that serious about skiing you move.

Yeah there are lots of options, you may be able to get the stock liners in a different size though shop contact can really help or there are lots of other alternatives to intuition. http://www.untracked.com/p4659c3b113lr-Froogle-15_full_tilt_intuition_pro_ski_boot_liners.html#chsku325574 http://www.zipfit.com/ http://www.sidassport.com/en/our-products/winter-sports/pu-transfoam-liners-91-2.html

I'm not as anti-DV as one might think, the terrain is a little low angle but they are exceptionally good at doing what it is they do. My mother fucking loves the place.....I get what they are doing here DV wants a golf course and houses in the drainage northeast from Clayton at Brighton. It would be easy then to string a lift from top of Empire to near Clayton which makes those houses alot more valuable. Brighton too....talk about a lynchpin I just don't like how skiing has become marketing and real estate 24/7, I had the best day ever skiing at solly and I'm not sure why the fuck they just can't let it be.

Your a pretty serious skier and that means alot of hours in the boots. Ditch both liners and go with a after market like intuition - https://intuitionliners.com/the-liners/ Take the time to get the liners dialed and then sit back and enjoy. If you go see a boot guy it will cost 2x as much and that ain't rocket science like shell work.

Ughhh....Solly is a classic, sick lines all over the place......One Wasatch, that's really what skiing needs more marketing bullshit.

A war will do that to a place.......they hold the record for the longest siege in modern warfare...

Next Olympics.....Palmerton....can put the athlete's village on the asbestos quarry....

wow just wow we gotta talk about your shitting man if I didn't know better I'd think your an anorexic model or maybe a wrestler trying to make weight.....

Bad fucking ass, makes me want to score some peyote........Jet stream all out of sorts.....

ahhaha I forgot about that one, I was thinking this

You can always see AS's boot guy if you can't get them worked out. He's very good. It really ties the room together

If you actually go somewhere it snows, like alot of snow, the best car is one in which you don't care if you dent it up. Lotta old ass Camry's and shit with big dents and rust in the NEK. Old fucking pickups that belch diesel......best snow vehicle ever is a Hyundai Accent with snow tires...truth...

Nice dude, you even got them in the right size. I rode them at the end of April, groomers only and they rip. I even gave them a little mogul action and they were fine and everyone knows I don't like moguls. They are very quick for a big ski, little bit of roll and you can get them dancing quick. Damp but not dead, I rode the previous lineup, I can't remember all the names but it was the motorhead series and they were too torsionally soft. When you got them cranking they didn't hold as well as the Cyclic which is impressive considering its all fiberglass reinforcement. Light, versatile, playfull medium radius ski and the graphics are cool. I like my shit bright, like offensive bright but it's like women at the bar, Candy in the tube top who loves tequila rocking turtleneck cleavage is fun but the tight number, understated, really sleek package..... she's the catch, like a james bond gf....your skis are pussy galore...

I've been lucky enough to spend a day with their lineup that last couple years (no spur sadly) All there skis are aggressive, big sweepers, a more approachable and friendly ski that is a step below the B104, m103, OG LP's. Really fun, you can really put the hammer down but they don't require alot of attention at slower speeds and you can lazy leg them without them putting you on your ass.

Gonna stock the snow making ponds, gonna be killer flounder fishing.

Nice dude they have a killer lineup.

^ Sickbird ! Welcome to a brand new adventure... Titty sparkles in a box

Ice dude, Antarctic ice is like crazy crazy high and most of the Northern passages never opened this year. Cold, all the great lakes are under their seasonal avg temps. Atlantic multidecadal oscillation is in the first stage of negative if you believe in the AMO. AMO not to be confused with the NAO or AO also called the polar vortex is this idea that surface sea temps oscillate roughly every 10 years between warmer and colder patterns. We have been in a warm or positive phase since about 2000 but this years probably starts the negative or colder phase. That sounds good right, we all like cold air, the problem is it doesn't snow in PA if it's cold. The vast vast majority of PA snow events are around the freezing mark. Cold air is more dense than warm air and super cold air makes it tough for the warm air to penetrate. GW says the NE should be snowier and colder, a mother fuck ton of cold air seems to be around and this summer was generally pretty cool. My gut says lots of cold air but not alot of snow. I think if they want to be open in mid late Nov that's possible but that decision is often based on lots of other things than weather. Last year was pretty rare, memory says we went basically Jan-Mar without a thaw. That's pretty fucking weird, also we should have gotten alot more snow than we did. Mid Atlantic was rocking the snow dome pretty hard last year, lots of dry slotting and we ended up with a good amount of snow on the ground. Snow is very very tricky though, 100mi makes a world of difference and that's super short term 24/48hr stuff. Also from a skier's perspective it needs to come at the right time. Blue slayage went down because you got near perfect snowfall, a bunch of super wet heavy base shit and then a couple of lighter dumps on top. It could certainly snow more but in the opposite order or all super light which could result in more snow on the ground when you tally it up at the end of the year but no bowl slayage. Basically that's alot of words to say nobody fucking knows but it seems like there will be plenty of cold air around.

I own 4 pairs of armada's and I hate that ski. Its a medium radius ski that wants to go fast but isn't stiff enough. Wait for Justo though he has better thoughts.

Start of season is like back to school, you can't let them see you in last year's shit LOL haahah I hung out with alot of actual rich people this weekend, always good to know were you stand. My wife disagrees and I really like her though to be fair I generally do and she just forgives me later.

I was told I should get the divorce papers ready if another bike or pair of skis shows up before January.....I'm sure I'll buy some jackets and what not, I'm dangerously low of outerwear....