jrmagic
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Everyone at the summit should do a Chinese tuna speed downhill. ThAt would be quite the site lol
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When have you hit "Tuna Speed"?
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snowmonster
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Once in 1987, I hit 88 mph and woke up in 2014. Was that tuna speed?
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Wavewheeler
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I was riding the lift at Hunter with these 2 guys and one of them was checking his phone and saying "Last run was 66.7 mph, I think that earned an Instagram".
Bode Miller almost hit Tunaspeed in the DH.
LiquidFeet
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Note: the maximum speeds of Sailfish, Striped Marlin, Swordfish and Wahoo all exceed those of the tuna.
http://www.speedofanimals.com/animals/bluefin_tuna
http://www.speedofanimals.com/animals/bluefin_tuna
WahooSpeed (TM)
MadMadWorld
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What the heck do they mean by "feels like" speed? I can imagine it might feel like a Marlin is going much faster if you get speared by it.
bdfreetuna
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Yeah well I heard the snow was kind of soft in Sochi. Warm weather patterns.
If Bode was skiing at Berkshire East or Mt Sunapee he probably could have hit TunaSpeed(TM).
LiquidFeet
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I kept fishing around on that site until I found the explanation. If the specified creature were to have your height and weight (which you can enter at the top of the page), and if it were traveling at its documented maximum speed, it would "feel like" the quoted speed. They are trying to tell you what it would feel like for you if you travelled at that speed, but it's so convoluted that it ends up not making any sense.
jrmagic
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I always felt that dog years or cat years were nonsensical but compared to this they are pretty concrete.
Twism86
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On a particularly icy day last year at Mt Snow the Mt Snow app said I hit 52 MPH. I dont believe it because my shorts were still clean....
VTKilarney
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I thought that I had hit Tuna Speed after my last day out until I realized that I left my ski run app in track mode during the drive home.
from_the_NEK
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Saturday at Burke I hit "helmet sucking vortex" fast on Lower Willoughby. I wonder how fast that is? (I figure it was somewhere just below 60mph).
Tin
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Twism86
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Seeing as I just joined the forum today, I have no clue whats going on...... Like that guy who unexpectedly walks into the orgy and doesnt know if he should just go along with it or back away slowly....
mountainjam
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Hit this high speed going straight-out down the right side of Lynx at Sunapee midweek:
from_the_NEK
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Twism86 - to get educated, read this thread. http://forums.alpinezone.com/showth...ingish-and-now-I-can-prove-my-speed?highlight=
bdfreetuna
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Most people are posting some low-ass speeds up in here trying to claim tunaspeed.
But this looks legit. Also Sunapee is a known mountain where high speed is easy to achieve.
Nicely done. Since my previous 74mph speed was deemed impossible by the majority of the forum-- and I'd rather not stake my reputation on the accuracy of a smartphone app -- I think you might have just posted the new speed to beat.
MadMadWorld
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55 degree slope at Sunapee....yup dead on!
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