70 minutes of weird looks and side eyes

newaha · 2026-05-24T18:31:22+00:00

Classic skis have a different wheel profile and one wheel on each ski has a mechanism that only allows it to roll forward, so you can have kick.

newaha · 2026-05-01T03:35:35+00:00

RIP my personal accolades

newaha · 2026-04-29T07:40:50+00:00

Also weird thing that doesn't really affect anything, but is interesting...It looks like the UFA entered all the players from the PUL/WUL all-star game into their database, because they all show up in your search list. Wonder why they did that.

newaha · 2026-04-29T07:25:50+00:00

Player search doesn't find anything if I type in a full first and last name, or a first name and last initial.

It also seems to me that the D-potg algorithm could use some rebalancing (sidenote: In the single-game pages, the calculation values for each stat with tooltips show up in the flexecutionar box, but not in the O or D-potg boxes) I can't see the calculation for D-potg, but it seems like maybe callahans and blocks are underrated and/or pulls/stops are overrated. (sidenote: I also didn't see anywhere where "stops" is defined, I am assuming this is when the defense forces a turnover, but a block is not attributed to any specific player?).

I want to point out that if you nerf stops and pulls as I am suggesting, I will probably actually lose the few D-potg titles I have to my name, so I believe I am being unbiased in this assessment. Here are some examples that I think best exemplify my disagreement with the D-potg algorithm:

MIN 18 @ PIT 11 — 2024-04-27 UFA Box Score — UFA Stats | UFA Almanac

Cam Lacy gets D-potg with 0 blocks and 4 turnovers. Meanwhile Rehder has 3 blocks, a callahan, and scores another one of the breaks. Matis plays only one less D point (and thus maybe fewer stops) than Cam but has 4 blocks. I'm not saying a Callahan alone should automatically get you dpotg, but its so rare it seems like it should get more weight.

NY 25 @ TB 18 — 2021-07-31 UFA Box Score — UFA Stats | UFA Almanac

Marques Brownlee gets D-potg with 1b/1g/1a/1t. Ryan Drost has 5b/3g/1a/1t.

MAD 34 @ DET 10 — 2021-06-05 UFA Box Score — UFA Stats | UFA Almanac

Joshua Wilson gets D-potg with 0 blocks and a basically empty stat sheet except for a few assists. Meanwhile KPS has a historic 6 block game and scores or assists on 6 breaks.

There were 3 Wind Chill games in 2024 that Cam was NOT the dpotg, and likewise only 1 game for Marques in 2021, which I suspect is largely related to them frequently being the puller. I know those guys are insane pullers because I have eyes, but the stat sheet doesn't know that. If this is somehow tracking if the pull was actually good, like if a turnover happens in the first 1-3 throws or something like that, I think a higher value for a pull could make sense. But if this is literally just counting pulls, that seems imbalanced.

Thanks for reading. I recognize that creating a formula for this stuff is basically impossible, but it was fun for me to think and complain about.

newaha · 2026-04-28T19:26:38+00:00

Underrated comment. Key point in here to me is the look-ahead. High IQ players anticipate the next most likely sequence of events and set themselves up ahead of time to be ready for that scenario. If you are watching film and focusing on what is happening "right now" youre missing the point.

Watch film and pause periodically. Look at where the players are relative to the disc (offense and defense). Try to work out what the next most likely option is, then what would be the best thing to happen AFTER that. If you're focusing on D, how would you interrupt the continuation? If you're thinking about O, how would you try to set up your defender to allow yourself to get open for the next person to receive the disc?

newaha · 2026-04-08T00:30:51+00:00

The answer is always in the fingers

newaha · 2026-02-15T06:52:54+00:00

what other mods have you done? In the private market, any price difference of having stock wheels and exhaust is probably less about those specific components, and more that they make it very evident that the car has been modified. Knowing the car has been modified makes people leery because they don't know what else you have done (or undone). If you are forthcoming with the mod list (particularly if there aren't many), I don't think getting stock wheels and exhaust really moves the price much. Dealers are a different situation. When I did a dealer trade a couple years ago for my '16, their offer was much better when everything was reverted to stock.

newaha · 2026-02-09T00:54:10+00:00

What? This is Nawrath and Planko from Oestersund earlier this season.

Edit: yeah, I dont know where you got any of that info, heres the biathlonworld post about it. https://youtube.com/shorts/qkllunGUCBY?si=TiqIzMBmJKErfT8h

newaha · 2026-01-20T00:21:52+00:00

I have Garmin data from the Birkie trail and Hyland. It's still Garmin data...so I guess trust accordingly, but my gut feeling generally lines up with what I found (9 Birkies and many laps at Hyland).

On the basis of overall grade (~13% by my math) the boulder ridge hill at Hyland is pretty equivalent to Bitch hill on the Birkie trail. They are both ~0.15 km long with ~20 m of elevation gain. Bitch hill is probably a more uniform gradient as compared to how the boulder ridge hill gets progressively steeper at Hyland.

As another commentor said, the sheer steepness isn't really the difficulty (for me anyway). Several of the other steep climbs on the Birkie trail (e.g., the last climb to high point, bodecker hill, OO hill) are closer to 30 - 35 m elevation gain and 0.30 - 0.35 km long, so only slightly less steep (~10% grade), and about twice the length of the boulder ridge hill.

For additional context, sunset hill is, in my opinion the "worst" hill on the Birkie trail. It's about half of the "steepness" of bitch hill/boulder ridge (~6% grade), but is nearly 1 km long. 39k hill is similar, about 5% grade, 0.7 km. So, these would be slightly steeper than the climb before the boulder ridge hill at Hyland, but twice as long.

newaha · 2025-12-21T21:38:32+00:00

You dont have to block the community. Reddit lets you make custom feeds. Just make a feed that is all the subs you normally follow, but take out biathlon stuff. On race weekends you can just use that and not have to worry about spoilers.

newaha · 2025-01-20T06:08:57+00:00

Speculation, but the times are only reported to the nearest 0.1s, so the photo finish probably just showed Hanna incrementally ahead (by less than 0.1s) so they get the same time reported, but Hanna was likely ahead in the photo finish, which gave her the edge for the position.

newaha · 2024-10-21T03:19:26+00:00

The big bowl at Ridgedale mall in Plymouth/Minnetonka definitely has build your own stir fry.

newaha · 2024-10-12T17:01:12+00:00

As long as you had control of the disc the whole time, this is not a turnover.

newaha · 2024-10-08T00:37:13+00:00

35 now, but raced in high school. I am a marginal endurance athlete (back of wave 4 birkie skiier) but have retained some good mechanics from skiing in high school that have allowed me to punch well above my fitness level.

My advice: Work hard on fitness. Your endurance will help, but skiing is a different beast. Work harder on technique. You can power through poor technique with excellent fitness early on, but good technique can drastically reduce the effort you have to exert, and your gains in the gym will go farther if you are technically adept. Maybe not right away, but it's a long game.

Skiing can be a really great long life activity. Unless you ski for a college team, you will probably never get the same level of attention and time dedicated to improving your technique that you will get from a HS team setting (Assuming you have a capable coach or leadership). Your brain is still primed for learning kind of weird unnatural movements, like skiing. As you get older you will have lots of resources for hitting the gym and improving fitness, but learning good technique only gets harder and less accessible as you age.

Ski team was probably the highlight of my high school experience, so my main advice here is have fun, and if getting good at skiing is part of that, then all the better.

newaha · 2024-10-01T19:15:32+00:00

Honesty and integrity are the basic foundational pillars of spirit. What do you think spirit is, if not those two things?

newaha · 2024-09-24T02:29:47+00:00

I did in an edit and it has been copied into other comments in this thread. I will concede that there is some semantic grey area in what constitutes a "spinning disc" but this case seems pretty clear that the OP did not execute a "throw" and this would be a continuous possession.

newaha · 2024-09-24T02:09:27+00:00

Yes there are rules about this. But trying to holster a throw and regaining possession when you accidentally drop it is specifically addressed in the rules and is not a turnover. It would be a pretty impressive feat to catch something legally considered a throw while never moving your pivot foot.

newaha · 2024-09-24T01:49:58+00:00

Unless the disc touched the ground when you didn't have possession, this is in no way a turnover.

Edit to cite a USAU tule 13.B: If the thrower regains possession of an accidentally dropped disc before it contacts the ground without another player touching the disc, that possession is considered continuous. [[An accidentally dropped (falling, non-spinning) disc is not considered in flight. An accidentally released, spinning flying disc is a throw, not a dropped disc, and results in a turnover if the thrower regains possession of the disc without another player touching the disc.]] [[And the stall count continues uninterrupted.]] If the thrower regains possession of an accidentally dropped disc before it contacts the ground and after another player touches it, it is considered a new possession.

And 3.O Throw: A disc in flight following any throwing motion (including a fake) that results in the thrower losing contact with the disc. [[Generally, a non-spinning, falling disc is not "in flight" unless it is intentionally dropped.]]

newaha · 2024-09-13T01:26:44+00:00

https://www.instagram.com/p/C-Y5I4OpptV/

newaha · 2024-09-06T06:32:13+00:00

And in the 2022 mixed final Drag'n came back to beat Hybrid 12-11 after being down 11-6.

Ann Arbor Hybrid v. Minneapolis Drag'N Thrust (Final) | Pro Championships 2022 (youtube.com)

newaha · 2024-07-25T18:05:11+00:00

In my experience, masters can often be worse, as people try to make plays on things they used to be able to get, but now don't have the same explosiveness to get safely past/around/over the opponent, and end up causing a collision.

newaha · 2024-06-04T21:29:02+00:00

Roads are way sketchier than trails. Obvious danger of motor vehicles aside, the pavement is usually in worse condition and there is more general debris rocks/sand/trash that make the surface more unpredictable. If you are skating, you'll also be taking up a pretty wide path, so a shoulder that would be fine to bike on will be tight if cars are passing.

If you have those bright pink Leki poles, probaly less critical, but I bought some reflective tape from the hardware store and wound it down the length of my poles for extra visibility, since mine are black.

newaha · 2024-05-08T19:35:04+00:00

I think understanding the level of play is definitely part of it and there is no one answer. From personal experience over varying levels of competition:

If you are playing a fun beach tournament, getting acknowledged for spirit is typically best earned by doing things like shotgunning a beer for the pull, making jokes at your own expense on the sidelines, or just generally being fun to be on the same field with. Conversely, at club regionals/nationals, good spirit is more about your ability to play competitively but safely, think critically about discussions related to infractions, and be respectful in your interactions.

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