eXtreme Sports Physics

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Popular Science magazine has another column featuring my views on some aspects of extreme sports physics. They asked me why record speeds r...

I've had a lot of folks ask me about the parts of my FMX backflip calculation that I claimed were too hard to show in Blogspot. Specifi...

Snow sports are a blast. I prefer snowboarding, but I would never miss out on a toboggan ride or a turn on one of those old fashioned snow s...

More holiday gift ideas for eXtreme sports addicts. (In case you missed it, I posted five other ideas a little bit ago in eXtreme Sports Phy...

When snowboarding's living legend Terje Haakonsen launched off of the big quarterpipe at The Arctic Challenge last March, he sailed 9...

The holiday season is rapidly approaching. It won't be long before your folks will start asking what you want this year, and you're ...

A few magazines have written about some of the posts in this blog. You can read about my quad backflip limit calculation in a story by Core...

Bigger wheels are faster on rough surfaces, as I pointed out in my last post , because more of the forces that they experience as they roll ...

Many extreme sports rely on wheels of one type or another, including skateboarding, mountain boarding , inline skating, street luge , BMX a...

For those surfers, skaters, free climbers and other summertime athletes who are sadly watching the season change, and for the ice climbers, ...

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(Oops, I made a calculation error. It turns out that moguls should form at much shallower slopes than I initially estimated. See the Mathy B...

As a continuation of my last post , I thought I'd do a few calculations to figure out just how fast a snowboarder should be able to go. ...

I love the magazine Popular Science , but nobody's perfect, and this time PopSci slipped up. In an otherwise excellent article by John M...

The Delaware coast has great skimboarding beaches. They're so good, in fact, that the 2007 East Coast skimboarding championships were h...