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When have you hit "Tuna Speed"?
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MadMadWorld
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CoolMike
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Terminal velocity of a human in free fall is about 120 MPH. Presumably with tucking and a speed suit you can hit 125-130 MPH.
Without a good strong tailwind or some sort of rocket propulsion system 156 seems unlikely. :flag:
My best speeds are around 40 MPH and it feels fast to me. When you hit a small crest in the hill you are air born for a reasonable amount of time. This is on a snowboard however, which I am think is slower than a good fast skier with long skis. i have not yet gone fast just for the sake of breaking a personal record. Perhaps someday the conditions will be just right and I'll go for it. I have fallen at ~40mph and its not very fun because of how much ground you cover before you can stop yourself safely.
Without a good strong tailwind or some sort of rocket propulsion system 156 seems unlikely. :flag:
My best speeds are around 40 MPH and it feels fast to me. When you hit a small crest in the hill you are air born for a reasonable amount of time. This is on a snowboard however, which I am think is slower than a good fast skier with long skis. i have not yet gone fast just for the sake of breaking a personal record. Perhaps someday the conditions will be just right and I'll go for it. I have fallen at ~40mph and its not very fun because of how much ground you cover before you can stop yourself safely.
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skiNEwhere
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It's been done. There are other videos around if you look for it.
https://eurosport.yahoo.com/video/italian-origone-breaks-speed-skiing-060945126.html
156mph is just a speck in the rear view mirror of Tuna Speed.
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Ski Tracks LIES to you about your speed.
Dickc
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Maybe we should have a "Ski Tracks" thread solely for the purpose of posting the most outrageous screen shots from the app?
tree_skier
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I had a good laugh last year when one of my ski team kids swore he hit 40 mph running across the parking lot because his phone app said that was his speed
Cannonball
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According to Ski Tracks I can throw my phone at 47MPH. No future for me in MLB. And now I need a new phone....
Ragman
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It is so cool that phones have these apps now that can tell you your speed. Back in my day of skiing you could only guess how fast you were going. I felt like I reached speeds of 50mph but it was probably more like 25. lol.
BenedictGomez
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Can they though? I see such ridiculous stuff posted here from each and every one of them I could never trust it.
If it tells you you're skiing 65mph and you're obviously not, how do you trust it when it tells you you're skiing at 15mph (even if that might seem reasonable)? Maybe it's my background, but if an instrument for calculation can be proven wrong even once, it's enough for me to not use it.
Edd
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Essentially correct. You can't trust any of this stuff.
BeefyBoy50
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I've seen numerous false results from ski tracks, mainly in situations where I ski with a friend side-by-side down a run and then his speed will be 15 miles an hour less than mine. It's just not accurate. I use it only for the map view which is cool. Alpine Replay, or I guess Trace Snow as it is now called, is more accurate for speeds and data like that. I would expect it to be because it has leaderboards so they want to prevent as many glitches as possible.
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I am pretty consistent.
So you max out at a true 35 mph on the average run? Sounds about right.
Puck it
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Cannonball
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Navionics has a promo running for free download from now till Nov 2nd (app usually runs ~$10). Being primarily a marine navigation company they might be the best suited to measure TUNA speed!! https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/navionics-ski/id739067626?mt=8
MadMadWorld
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He's slow as hell
Not Sure
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Don't all these ski App's run off cell tower?
Would a plug in recevier be more accurate?
http://www.amazon.com/Bad-Elf-1000-...&sr=8-1&keywords=bad+elf+gps+receiver+i+phone
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