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The devices they are telling you to turn off are those that *you*, the searchers, are carrying. Those may be transmitting with relatively high power and are close to the receiver - eg a mobile phone, 100mW, 50cm from the receiver. It’s still unlikely to interfere much, but it’s 4 or 5 orders of magnitude more field strength at the receiver than a Bluetooth device buried with the victim.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| turbosmurf wrote: |
| The devices they are telling you to turn off are those that *you*, the searchers, are carrying. Those may be transmitting with relatively high power and are close to the receiver - eg a mobile phone, 100mW, 50cm from the receiver. It’s still unlikely to interfere much, but it’s 4 or 5 orders of magnitude more field strength at the receiver than a Bluetooth device buried with the victim. |
yes yes - well said
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just looking at the ski IQ and the 8 turns it uses to determine this. Oddly it gives every turn a skiIQ but the best 8 isn't the average of this, or even from the highest 8 consecutive turns. does anyone know how this is calculated?
it seems a bit odd to use the same terminology for two different measures.
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Done dude 
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@KenX, ha. Hope you got the reference!
I was really not hitting my best turns. All week I was hitting 137, 138 etc….my previous best was 140. I had Carv on training mode working on getting lower to the snow. Finally I hit 140 and I kept working on it and last day I hit 143 twice and 142 twice. Was so happy! Matched last year and beat it! Great feeling.
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@PisteOffice, nice, what specific drills were you doing? Aiming for more edge angle?
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@kitenski, so, I jus used the training mode and had the bongs and dings to tell me if I got it right. Just kept trying to level up.
Using the tips it gave me on the lift to try and increase edge angle.
I’m going again in March and will keep working on edge angle and then weight release. Hopefully get those metrics higher and improve my score a few points. My aim this season was to beat my previous by - few points. My new target is 145. Need good conditions though.
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| PisteOffice wrote: |
@KenX, ha. Hope you got the reference!
Careful, I could "Mark it zero!!!" |
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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@KenX, over the line!
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How do I add photos to a comment?
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You know it makes sense.
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@PisteOffice, use a photo hosting service, I use Flickr, and copy the link within for forum/bb code to upload your photos on Snowheads
https://www.flickr.com/
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Poster: A snowHead
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I was in ADH last week and had a bit of a mediocre one, with the new algo my level had dropped from 137 to 131 and I didn't get beyond 131 this trip. I'm carrying a bit of hip tightness from a big block of trail running races so that is my excuse! Although I didn't get a higher score I was regularly hitting 128-131 on most carving runs so I guess the new algo is being more consistent, or I am.
One thing I did notice about the new algo is that to get a good score you need to be consistent across all the metrics. I think in the past you could excellent in one or two metrics and fool the algo into getting a higher score than you actually deserve. Anyone who had their score of last year revised downwards (like me from 137 to 131) was subject to this.
Off to Tignes again in March so will see if I can restore my honour there. Goal for this season was to get back to 137 but I've realised there is a lot of fundamental stuff I need to work on to get there. Some of that is starting in the gym to get my hip mobility restored for running, skiing and cycling, too tight at the moment.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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after a couple of days in the 130-132 range I hit my new high score of 133 the other day. The fresh snow since then has hampered any progress and skiing whilst it was snowing on Sunday I set a personal record for the lowest high score in a day, 99, couldn't even get over a 100!
Had a fall the other day and bruised my ribs, just to bash my ego even further whilst I was lying in the snow Carv gave me a score for the run, it didn't set any records 
Has anyone used the "advanced coaching" function yet? I can't get on with the normal coaching so will give that a try soon.
It's interesting how it has picked up changes in my skiing, after a couple of lessons where my instructors had me focusing on getting weight forward and having more of a body & edge angle my scores for a couple of the carving skills jumped up quite dramatically. No new highs core though, if the conditions hadn't worsened maybe I'd have been able to put things together and my skiIQ would have improved, who knows.
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@swskier, fantastic result!!!
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Wow!
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Amazing numbers
On a side node, the segment page is visually nice from a UI perspective - but I wish it would all fit on one page of a smart phone screen!
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Well done swskier, nice to move up a level. What was your turn radius btw?
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| richb67 wrote: |
just looking at the ski IQ and the 8 turns it uses to determine this. Oddly it gives every turn a skiIQ but the best 8 isn't the average of this, or even from the highest 8 consecutive turns. does anyone know how this is calculated?
it seems a bit odd to use the same terminology for two different measures. |
They use some black magic for it! There was a Carv response in Facebook the other day with that exact question and Carv takes all of the submetrics somehow across all the 8 turns to calculate a new combined score, possibly taking into account a linkage between turns etc. The answer was far from clear and you couldn't draw conclusions other than consistency is key and not being one sided, which is something I mostly certainly see in my results.
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@KenX, can you please add me in with Ski IQ 145 please ?
Has anybody spotted that as of 20th Jan 26 the new highest Ski IQ is from George Flynn in Jackson Hole at 182 !!! He has a number of turns hitting 186, 187 and 191 ... very impressive. I think the 3.3g force and 31dg pitch will have something to do with such a high score.
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@doddsie, Thanks. Turn radius was 8.1m and corridor says 9.3m. They're a FIS SL ski so a 12m radius ski.
@jed ellerby, I noticed that when I was looking earlier. I've almost cracked the top 500. I'm there for carving only, but get knocked down 20 places when you consider all disciplines.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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It would be really cool for if CARV and FIS had some sort of link up to have sensors on athletes during competition. Initially post race but maybe eventually in real time. I doubt most top level competitors would want the faff of having to have sensors on their boots, but adding additional data to sports coverage is the way all sports are going.
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@swskier, Next step might be to try and get that number down, to up the g force score.
@jed ellerby, Since it snowed everywhere, there has been a noticable improvement in the scores. A certain Liz Lemley got a 179 in Alpe d'Huez yestarday, thinking it must have been the Mighty Lizard preparing for the Olympics, getting the best ever female CARV IQ.
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You know it makes sense.
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Yeh I see she was in moguls at 148tpm. I did my best shorts last week at 144 and that was barely half that turn rate !
I've managed to move from 60-70% portion of turn carved to 100% carved on turns now which feels like a huge step, but it's barely moved the needle it terms of Ski IQ. I expected it to make a notable impact but all it's done has improved consistency ... so hard to get that Ski IQ up!
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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@doddsie, biggest area I'm seeing for me to improve at the moment is to improve the weight release. It's something I've been thinking about, but there's so little time when you're on the SL skis, the next thing you know you're already in the new turn. I'll get out on X9s over the weekend and see what comes of it.
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@jed ellerby, thanks for the explanation
@swskier, congrats, the only downside is now all your targets are compared to people who score 170-180!
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@jed ellerby, sorted!!!
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I think I wont be skiing this year anymore due to injury, anyone knows if it possible to use my carv on another phone If I give it my friend?
I guess I can put the question differently, If I lost my phone, how do I get it working on a new phone:)
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@ed48, if it’s a lost phone you just sign in on your new phone.
If you want to lend the hardware to someone, you can and they need to subscribe to get their own account. Unless you want them to use yours and ruin your stats. 
If your friend wants £40 off, let me know and I’ll send you a referral.
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Cool, thanks
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James the Last kindly lent me his Carve today.
I'm proud of my ski IQ 98 snowplough, but my question is: can I even call myself a skier if I'm not hitting 100 in a Powerplough?
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Thank you @PisteOffice,
98 wasn't my top score by a long stretch but I was really taken by the fact that it gave me a score for my powerplough. It was a schuss all the way blue track that I only remember maybe snowploughing to a stop at the very end so I'm not sure I understand why it clocked my turns as a snowplough. Maybe I also checked my speed passing a group of 5 year olds - I can't remember.
There is no shame in deploying a snowplough from time to time though!
Anyway, back to Carve... I used to be a very good skier but took a 27 year break and just getting back into it. So modern equipment and ski styles are a complete mystery to me. I found the couple of hours I had on Carve really useful to help get my head around what I should be doing on turns to make me look less like I'm skiing the 80s (an actual comment about my ski style this week).
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FAQ
this evening I noticed it's now ticked up to 5 so lets see what happens over the next few days. Having a tool to measure the change is very useful.
